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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1917
Page
18
An advertisement urges readers to save strength for spring and summer using Shredded Wheat Biscuit as a food tonic. It claims the biscuits provide energy with minimal digestion tax, contain all nutrients of whole wheat with bran, and two biscuits with milk form a cheap meal. Made at Niagara Falls New York.
Two Bell Telephone trained units form the Signal Reserve corps to provide wire radio and telegraph support. Company B of the First Battalion leaves Pittsburg for Camp Long Branch New Jersey. Lieutenants Repp and Glaspey of the First Telegraph battalion accompanied General Pershing to Europe and are now in France. It is unknown when the battalion sails for the front.
Washington street hall reached full capacity for Salvation Army Children’s Day last evening. Captain Ada Vischer led the service with several altar responses and a final feature titled Cigarette funeral where seven boys symbolically buried the cigarette in a casket. Tonight Adj. Harry Byers of Pittsburg will attend as Junior and Senior soldiers are sworn in.
In Pittsburg on June 18 the Diocesan Holy Name society voted to skip the fall parade. Instead, special services will be held October 14 across all Roman Catholic churches in the Pittsburgh diocese for prayers seeking a swift war end. Delegates met with J. P. Sullivan presiding and Monsignor Martin Ryan addressing the gathering. A letter from Bishop Regis Canevin approved the change.
John Kloton a 35 year old Hungarian laborer at the America Sintering plant Hubbard Street Youngstown Ohio is critically injured with a fractured skull and may die. He was found Saturday in the brick house unconscious with head injuries from a heavy brick as county authorities investigate and seek the assailant.
New York's school of street cleaning has resulted in greatly improving the efficiency of the street workers.
Ice-Mint corn remover spurs high drugstore demand as a Japanese-made remedy that removes corn roots painlessly. The product claims to shrink the corn so it can be lifted out with fingers, and warns against cutting or paring to avoid infection.
New York authorities plan a large crusade against white slavers following Ruth Cruger's murder. They seek Cocchi's extradition from Italy and aim to rescue dozens of missing girls believed kidnapped for sex trafficking. District Attorney Swann appeals to speed up return amid wartime alliance.
Geneva reports Raymond Swoboda, a Hungarian native born Schmidt, arrested by Zurich police, identified as a spy for the Central powers. The system allegedly extended to France and America, with further arrests anticipated. Swoboda was once held by Paris in 1915 on suspicions tied to the La Touraine fire and claimed U.S. citizenship at that time.
L W Bigelow, 76, of Weatogue Connecticut, pursued the long trade of selling tinware as his lifelong business.
Washington reports a rise in National Guard strength with 13 976 enlisted and 316 officers added not in federal service. May 1 totals reached 4 462 officers and 108 631 men, while June 10 showed 4 778 officers and 12 607 men active in various states. Ohio leads June recruiting with 2 345, followed by Pennsylvania 1 393 and Illinois 1 092. Regular army enlistments yesterday added 1 080, bringing since April 1 to 116 517.
Detroit June 18 A police sergeant is asked to babysit a two year old by a tenant left in a country party plan The patrolman William Cable declines saying he has rescued dogs climbed trees and caught canaries but will not sit on the floor playing with another's child.
GROVE CITY Pa June 18 a recruiting office opened in the VanEman block to enlist men for Company MM Sixteenth regiment. The unit needs 40 volunteers to reach war strength ready for field in July. Enlistments are for the duration of the war.
A Dennison Texas letter extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female troubles. Mrs G O Lowery reports relief from nervous symptoms dizziness hot flashes and headaches after using the product and urges others to seek free advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
The reform school near Huntingdon Pennsylvania will hold exhibitions of industrial departments and close the term on Thursday June 28 with shows at 2 and 7 30 p m Invitations are extended by T B Patton general superintendent to all interested in the institution to attend and view the work presented to the public.
A fictional exchange links Browning to a phrase about acting rising with inspiration. The line contrasts moving spirits with a ghost walking, echoing theatrical superstition in a witty dialogue.
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