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Newspaper

New Castle News

Location

New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jun 18, 1924

Page

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Names Of $1 Sponsors Of Potato Club Here

Eighty one sponsors have been secured for the Lawrence County Boys and Girls Potato Club with seed assigned and activity beginning. P K Stevenson invites sponsors to visit patches to foster good relations between rural residents and sponsors. A list shows sponsor and club member with addresses, including J A Altschuler Lucille Shaeffer New Castle and W G Ayers Vance Shaffer New Castle R D 6 near Princeton.

Lawrence County Boys and Girls Potato Club P. K. Stevenson Board of Trade J. A. Altschuler Lucille Shaeffer New Castle R. D Princeton W. G. Ayers Vance Shaffer New Castle R. D B. F. Butler George John Ellwood City Energy Harold Bleakley Zeurial John R D Brown William Stickle Rose Point Harry Bell Margaret Glasser Portersville W. T. Butz Clarence Glasser

Beauty Queen Chosen by Indians From College Campus

Miss Dorothy McBirney of the Creek tribe wins the beauty queen title at a North American Indians convention in Tulsa. Daughter of James M. McBirney, president of the National Bank of Commerce, Tulsa, she is a Wellesley graduate and dresses in moccasins on occasions. Indians arrive in limousines about as often as on ponies.

TEPEE Central Press Tulsa Okla Dorothy McBirney James M. McBirney The National Bank of Commerce Wellesley

United States Weather Sees Iceberg Zone Link

The weather pattern cooling and wet spells may trace to an iceberg zone near Newfoundland. Editors note unusual cool and warm periods prompt theories of a changing climate. IS presents interviews with US Weather Bureau chief forecaster Charles L. Mitchell and Smithsonian lab director Dr. C G Abbot forthcoming.

Newfoundland International News Service Charles L. Mitchell United States Weather Bureau C. G. Abbot Smithsonian Institution Washington

Payroll Bandits Hold Up Street Car In Northwestern Pa

Five armed men held up an interurban street car near Indiana Pa and escaped with 28000 dollars in Russell Coal payroll. An airplane from Bellefonte aided the search as police and residents spread a wide manhunt across Cambria County. A guard and paymaster were forced to surrender, a passenger was shot in the chest, and the robbers fled toward Ebensburg with the money.

International News Service Indiana Pennsylvania Russell Coal Company Clymer Bellefonte Cambria County Alexander Caldwell Coal Company George Askey Caldwell Askey A. Kneras Ebensburg

Formal Opening of New Wampum Bank Building

The First National Bank of Wampum plans a formal opening on Saturday June 21 at the Main and Church streets corner. W H Grove announces a ceremony with candy flowers or cigars for patrons depending on age and gender. The brick Indiana limestone trimmed structure features Gothic hints a copper marquee and two story layout with banking rooms directors vaults and a storeroom.

Wampum Bank First National Bank of Wampum W. H. Grove Church Streets W. H. Philips F. M

McAdoo Faces Field as Convention Battle Looms

McAdoo leads with strong organization and large delegate bloc as the campaign readies for Madison Square Garden debate on platform and rules. Opponents rally, seeking to blunt his momentum and shape convention machinery.

McAdoo Madison Square Garden

Four Nurses Graduate From New Castle Hospital Training

The Nurses Training School of New Castle Hospital held graduation exercises at the Opera House with a large audience. Rev Fr R D Wilkey Judge Plummer Emery and Dr James M Blackwood spoke on Fidelity To Duty. Judge Emery awarded diplomas to four graduates including Martha.

Nurses Training School New Castle Hospital Opera House R. D. Wilkey St. Agatha’s Church Ellwood City Ss. Plummer Emery James M. Blackwood Fr. Wilkey Emery Martha

The City Calls Yet I Long for the Green Quiet

Arthur Memeter recalls prefering a verdant, carefree escape beyond the city with a sleepy stream, daisies nodding, and cowbells in the grass, while noting the day’s toil and the lure of urban life despite a warm eighty three degree day.

Belgian Balloon Belgica Wins Bennett Cup

Lieut. Ernest De Muyter piloting the Belgian balloon Belgica reportedly wins the James Gordon Bennett cup for a third time and lands safely near Edinburgh Scotland. Unofficial tallies place De Muyter ahead of rivals, with La Porte aboard Ville De Bordeaux close behind after the coast landing near Brighton.

Ernest de Muyter International News Service Brussels Lieut de Muyter Edinburgh Scotland Belgica Belgium Belgium Aeronaut Frenchman Laporte Bordeaux Brighton England

Fascists patrol Rome as Matteotti case widens and cabinet faces shifts

In Rome black shirted fascists patrol streets while police search for more Matteotti kidnapping accomplices. Government discusses possible Mussolini cabinet revisions and Finzi denies financing anti Socialist media. A trunk tied to the crime is found, with bloodstained knife and cloth fragments.

International News Service Rome Giacomo Matteotti Signor Finzi Giornale D'Italia Mussolini Acerbe Victor Emanuel Matteotti

Weather calm predicted as US nears normal patterns

Washington dispatch reports forecaster Charles L. Mitchel saying the current rare weather will ease, ushering a return to normal. East of the Rockies saw cool spring and rains delaying crops. west of the range, heat and dry spells persisted with daily 100 degree readings in the Southwest. Iceberg influence linked to Atlantic chill.

Roland Krebs International News Service Wright I. N. Cos Washington United States Charles L. Mitchel Mitchell Rocky Mountains Southwest Kansas Texas Oklahoma New Foundland Grand Banks Atlantic Rea

Ellwood Man Loses Automobiles In Local Theft

A 1923 Chevrolet touring car owned by Joe Soeolowski of 700 Sixth Street Ellwood City was stolen last night from a highway near Cascade Park. The Pennsylvania license number is 706-189. Police were notified by the owner.

Joe Soeolowski Sixth Street Ellwood City Cascade Park Pennsylvania

Marriage Licenses List From Local Clerk

The record lists marriage licenses issued for couples including Plummer I Anderson and Marie A Swan of Ellwood City. Harold Barth and Mae Wendt of New Castle. Walter G Fox of Pittsburgh and Rose V Morrow. plus many others from New Castle and surrounding areas like Wampum Rochester Youngstown and Ellwood City.

Anne A. Keeler New Castle David C. Young Esther L. Shannon Ira K. Logan Rochester Sara J. Blair Paul A. Welsh Anna H. Kent Mike Lensisin Antoniane Marcinek Anthony Berry Youngstown Pearl James Clarence Ward Rachael L. Laury

Sara Heinz House Purchases Two County Farms

Lawrence county announces the sale of the Weingartner homestead and the Gemmill farm to the Sara Heinz House of Pittsburgh. The Y M C A Y W C A community center will remodel the site between Wurtemburg and Rose Point on Slippery Rock Creek for a new summer camp, with work starting soon.

Lawrence County Weingartner Gemmill Slippery Rock Township Sara Heinz Wurtemburg Rose Point Slippery Rock Creek

Shenango Valley Nursing School Grads Receive Diplomas

Miss Mary E. Davies Miss Mildred M. B McClelland and Miss Isabel Snyder received diplomas from Shenango Valley hospital Nursing Training School in a June 17 ceremony at the Y W C A. Rev C G Jordan spoke on service and heroine roles. Dr H E Zerner advised on nursing’s origins and future. The Emery Orchestra provided music and John P Lockhart presided.

Shenango Valley Hospital Mary E. Davies New Castle Mildred M. B. McClelland Harlansburg Isabel Snyder C. G. Jordan Emery Orchestra Sam Lewis Lewis Zerner H. E. Zerner Lydia A. McKinney John P. Lockhart Shenango Valley Hospital Board Lithgow Emery Orchesra C. M. Smail Fred S. Emery Melodie Friml Hospital Board The American Legion Vandersloot Emery WcTu

McAdoo speaks to Seventh Ward crowd during stop

Former U S Treasury secretary William Gibbs McAdoo spoke to several hundred as his train paused at New Castle at 9 45 p m Tuesday June 17 He pledged to root out special interests and promised fair democracy if nominated He noted 562 delegates pledged to him and argued McAdoo could win the West despite opposition from Glass Underwood Davis and Ralston.

McAdoo Seventh Ward William Gibbs McAdoo United States Treasury United States Railroads Eleanor Mary Faith New Castle Baltimore & Ohio Jefferson Mr. McAdoo Ellwood City Bruce Sterling Uniontown Fayette County Connellsville

Lost Child Returned Home After Overnight Wander

A three year old girl, Catherine Bystriski of 1110 South Jefferson, wandered from home last night while her mother was away. The child was found by Mrs. Prosser of 620 Waldo Street and taken to the Welfare house on Reynolds and South Jefferson. Officers Harper and Augustine, with Miss Cora Ritchie, returned her to her home.

Catherine Bystriski South Jefferson Street American Sheet and Tin Plate Company Reynolds and South Jefferson Streets Prosser Waldo Street Harper and Augustine Cora Ritchie Welfare House

Deaths in Edenburg and Warren area listed

The record notes the deaths of Mrs. Sarah J. Westcott Kincaid 78 of Edenburg Pa Michael Muntfield 51 of Warren Pa Mrs S A Camp of Brooklyn N Y and Mrs Francesca Fierim 63 of 12 Cunningham Avenue all reported in the local obituary notices.

Sarah J. Westcott Kincaid Edenburg Michael Muntfild Warren S. A. Camp Brooklyn N. Y Francesca Fierim Cunningham Avenue

Ohio Supreme Court Judge Wanamaker Dies by Suicide

Judge R M Wanamaker of the Ohio Supreme Court leaped from a fourth floor hospital window today. He was 58 and had been a patient since June 12 with a nervous breakdown. The death occurred in Columbus and was instantaneous.

International News Service Columbus R. M. Wanamaker Ohio Supreme Court

Will Press Charge Of Murder Against Harrisburg Doctor

Harrisburg district attorney says he will press murder charges against Dr Cornelius Dailey despite the coroner's jury failing to fix responsibility for Anna Manbeck's death. Dailey, wounded at the scene, lies hospitalized pending a preliminary hearing.

Will Harrisburg International Anna Manbeck Cornelius Dailey Fox Today Dailey Manbeck

News Snapshots From Sweyersville and Nearby Areas

Digest of local and regional incidents including a fatal cesspool accident in Sweyersville where Antanartis 40 drowned, a Pittsburgh girl Ellen Brabst age four killed by a streetcar, a missing Pittsburgh student Anna Thompson 15 feared to be a foul play case, and multiple arrests for cruelty to animals, dangerous driving, and assaults.

Anna Thompson Pittsburgh

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Potato Club Dorothy M'Birney Caster Police of Northwestern Penn Sylvania Gang of Five George R. Holmes New York P. Emery Arthur Memeter Laporte Inet Ellwood Saraheinz Shenango Valley Jordan DR. Zerner J. Harvey McCarthy Los Angeles Cali John S. Cohen Georgia H. A. Cotton Thomas Stork Santa Barbara Calif California Mr. McCarthy Hiram Johnson Coolidge Johnson West Judge Wanamaker Fox Sweyersville Antanartis Ellen Brabst Leah Cobb Marion Emporium, Pa Pinchot Frank Dorman Paul Stonework East Youngstown W. G. Finnie Struthers Antonio Buzzeto Farrell Works American Sheet & Tin Plate Company Frank Simpson Andrew Hook Hook
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