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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1918
Page
4
Special notice lists office, editors, officers, and subscription rates for The News Co. of New Castle Pennsylvania. It notes telephones, publication schedule, circulation terms, and announces wire service affiliation with International News Service. It directs payments to the News Co. in New Castle and emphasizes official public-interest submissions.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger opinion links crime leniency with murder rates, noting few death penalties in the U S and contrasting England. It urges New Castle readers to consider nursing as national service, highlighting Red Cross needs and the push for 30 000 nurses to serve at home and abroad.
County residents are urged by John A. McKee to continue strict food economy amid submarine disruption of coast sugar shipments. New limits restore 2 and 5 pound rules with 25 pound canning purchases, signed for and used for canning, aiming to safeguard supplies. The public is expected to comply without complaint.
The piece urges conservative recipes and explains sugar use will be regulated gradually. It stresses no action will stop people from stocking fruits and calls for voluntary compliance as a duty of good citizenship.
Reports from France praise American troops for fearless fighting and eagerness to win. French officers suggest Americans could not do better even if they were gods. The article notes American morale, determination, and the foe’s four years of exhaustion, with moral advantage on the American side.
During the Third Liberty Loan campaign a New York newspaper carried an advertisement promoting defense and financing efforts. The spot reflects wartime mobilization and public support for Liberty Bond drives.
The speech appeals to readers to honor the dead and suffering in Europe and to act by saving and purchasing War Savings Stamps. It condemns indifference, calling such apathy a Hun at heart, urging patriotic sacrifice and support for the war effort.
About 10 000 lots will be cultivated in Montreal and surrounding districts this summer, five times as many as were cultivated last year, signaling a major expansion in local agricultural activity.
A dated wartime column mixes incendiary calls for executions with satire on profiteers and anti German sentiment. It references Corporal commands, measures against spies, food shortages, taxation, drafts, and home-front humor about official warnings and daily life during conflict. It invokes Capt. George Steunenberg and various U.S. homefront figures and events.
A collection of humorous vignettes and wartime observations spans Prohibition gritty town life to labor debates. Notes on a dry town, honeymoon car trades, Wilson and Gompers talks, and government ownership frame a satirical survey. The O K bakery in Bentleyville closes under food administration. bacon prices sting.
The annual convention of the National Association of Credit Men opens a three day session in Chicago today to discuss greater government financial backing. Indiana Democrats begin their state convention in Indianapolis today to nominate nominees for November offices with Vice President Thomas R. Marshall as temporary chairman and keynote speaker.
Dr Thomas F Kane arrives to take office as president of the University of North Dakota with a strong record in education and college administration. A native of Indiana he trained at DePauw University and Johns Hopkins, taught Latin at Olivet College, then led Olivet and later the University of Washington, and in 1913 was elected president of the National Association of State Universities.
Highlights include Lord William Campbell’s 1775 South Carolina governorship, Napoleon defeated at Water loo, Maine governor Bodwell’s birth, Wittgenstein’s death, 1861 Texas war debts act, 1866 Prussian Italian war, Juliet Corson’s NYC death, 1915 Austro German advance in Galicia, Moltke’s 1916 death, and related events across centuries.
Haiti severed diplomatic relations with Germany. President Wilson welcomed the Belgian commission to the United States. Food Administrator Hoover announced his food conservation program.
Carmel Myers stars in A Broadway Scandal at the Coliseum. Mary Garden appears in The Splendid Sinner at the Dome. Roy Stewart Nixon leads The Red aired Cupid. Charles Richman features in Over There at the Star. Regent presents The Blindness of Divorce.
The New Jersey resort town of Long Branch will vote today on the liquor license question under the local option law. Governor Samuel V. Stewart proclaims today a Good Roads day in Montana. A Canadian temperance convention meets in Ottawa. The National Leather and Shoe Manufacturers’ Association holds its annual convention in Pittsburg. Milwaukee hosts the National Association of Civil Service Commissioners meeting. Dr. Thomas F. Kane to be installed as University of North Dakota president. Harvard Class Day curtailed due to wartime conditions and seniors shortage.
One of England’s largest veterinary hospitals is now run entirely by women. Baltimore becomes the first southern city with women street car conductors. Princess Mary of England gains a practical education in cookery and housework. Miss Grace L. Emanuels of Perth Amboy is appointed deputy U.S. marshal. Newark retailers hire women drivers. Kansas advances measures to protect women workers in wartime. Most U.S. poultry and egg output is produced by women managed flocks. Florence Etheridge of Miami Oklahoma is named probate attorney for the Indian bureau. Russian noblewomen reportedly selling newspapers in streets.
At New Castle's Neshannock river site known as Bills Bathing Beach a trio with an Irish terrier entered Sunday and soap lathered the dog before dipping him in the clear waters. The zoo of bathers caused delight to the dog and disappointment to those concerned with chemical content.
Rear Admiral McGowan urges households to adopt the navy practice of the clean plate to cut waste and save money. He cites navy meals on transports as affordable examples and explains eye versus stomach appetite to avoid overeating.
The Netherlands produced coal at negligible levels earlier but saw a yearly rise, reaching 3,019,000 metric tons in 1917.
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