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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1917
Page
3
An old advertisement praises Shredded Wheat Biscuit as a tonic for spring and summer. It claims the biscuits supply all needed nutrients with minimal digestion tax and notes two biscuits with milk form a nourishing, low-cost meal made at Niagara Falls New York.
Two Signal Corps units prepare for active field service with Bell Telephone system veterans among their ranks. First battalion Signal Reserve corps departs Pittsburgh for Long Branch and Fort Castle camps. Company D based in Philadelphia and Company I in Pittsburgh lead two firms of telephone engineers. Organized to support wire, radio and telegraph operations, the Signal Reserve corps numbers 25 companies drawn from Bell organizations nationwide. Chief engineer Ighn J. Carty of American Telephone & Telegraph serves as ranking officer.
The passage notes telegraph companies in the Signal corps handling telephone and telegraph work. Lieutenants Repp and Glaspey traveled with General Pershing to Europe and are in France. The text discusses the shifting use from telegraph to telephone in army communications.
The Salvation Army hall on Washington street was filled for Children’s Day last evening led by Captain Adam Vischer. A featured finale, the “Cigarette funeral,” showed seven boys placing cigarettes in a casket and disposing of them to symbolize ridding youth of the danger. The program included prayers, duets, dialogues, recitations, violin solos, and songs by the Jackson children. Adj arcy Byers of Pittsburg will attend tonight when the Junior and Senior soldiers are sworn in.
Pittsburg Va June 18. The Holy Name Society will not hold a fall parade this year. Instead special services will be held Sunday October 14 in all Roman Catholic churches of the Pittsburg diocese with prayers for a speedy war end. Seventy five delegates met in Senad hall Craig street and heard J P Sullivan preside. Monsignor Martin Ryan of St Prigins Church spoke and a letter from Bishop Regis Canevin approving the change was read.
In Youngstown on June 18 G Jabr Klotan a Hungarian 35 lies in City Hospital with a fractured skull and grave injuries after being struck by a heavy brick at the America Sintering plant in Hubard. County authorities are investigating but no suspect has been named yet. The injured man was found unconscious in the brick house on the premises.
The report notes improvised work at a New York school of sire ving Pan Teeulel Ling Pheeffin 1 ATs.
Druggists report high demand for the new corn remover product. Advertised benefits include quick relief from soreness and corn removal with a fast acting formula. Consumers are urged to try the remedy for relief and to buy from local drugstores.
Police plan a nationwide drive aided by reform groups to crack down on white slavers after Ruth Cruger was found murdered in Alfred Cocchi’s shop. They seek Cocchi’s extradition from Bologna and may link Cordil to other unsolved ripper murders in New York.
Washington reports 13 976 National Guard members not in federal service in June figures from the War Department militia bureau. May 1 totals show 4 462 officers and 103 631 men, with June 10 figures at 4 774 officers and 12 607 men from Arkansas New York and Texas awaiting reports. Aggregate Guard strength nears 225 000, with Ohio 2 345 and California 7 208 among leading states. regular army enlistments yesterday reach 1 980.
GHNEVA Switzerland June 18 Raymond Ruff Swo Doda was arrested by Zurich police and identified by Labau police as a Hungarian motive named Schmidt. Police say his RPY system extended through France to America and anticipate further arrests. Svoboda was held in Paris in 1915 over a fire aboard La Touraine with an American passport, later revealing an alias Gachind and German reserve officer status. In October 1a he was expelled from France. Lake Wigelow Conn. phiéves p eding tinnace.
DETROIT June 18 A police sergeant gets a call about a two year old boy left with tenants by a baby’s nurse. Patrolman William Cable refuses to babysit describing past duties and quitting with a humorous exit as the baby’s caretaker problem ends.
GROVD CITY fa June 18 a recruiting office was opened today in the Vaabmas block to enlist men for Company M Six teenth regiment. The company needs 40 men to take the field in July at war strength. Enlistments will be for the war only.
A Texas letter from Mrs G O Lowery of Denison details relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes nervousness dizziness heat flashes and headaches improving with continued use and encourages others to seek free advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Reform School exercises tied to an industrial departments exhibit and term end will be held at the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory in Huntingdon. The source shows garbled quotation fragments from Browning's Magazine, mentioning actors and a misrendered line about the spirit and the host.
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