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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1916
Page
8
New Castle Paper Mill expands on Neshanock avenue extension with two new boilers storage chests and other improvements. Work to start soon and require a plant shutdown for five to six weeks to meet rising paper demand.
Nearly four thousand people gathered at Cascade Park for the Knights of Pythias memorial service. Norval A. Daugherty, grand master at arms of Pennsylvania, gave a keynote on Pythian Brotherhood, with addresses by Mrs. Jennie Kiser and Rev. C S Joshua. Cascade Orchestra and Emmanuel Baptist Choir led musical tributes. several lodge groups represented from Western Star 160 to Pytian Sisters 37.
The St. Andrew's chapel service featured Rt. Rev. Rogers Israel bishop of Erie with a large attendance. The Rev. R G Roscamp read prayers and Bishop Israel preached on The New Birth. Eight candidates received confirmation as the 25 member choir performed well.
No substitute has ever been devised that gives quick painless results. It soothes heals and painlessly removes callouses bunions warts and corns in twenty four hours. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed with a 25 cent bottle. Sold by druggists everywhere.
A Sunday morning service at Trinity Episcopal Church featured Bishop Rogers Israel preaching and confirming a class of 14 members while also receiving one more. Names included Liam H. Evans Harry Ayers Mrs EB Ayers and Miss Bessie Evans with solo by William H. Evans.
A millionaire hotel man recalls how cutting an old rubber doormat into oyster shapes on April 1 and serving them with egg and breaded crumbs saved his business from bankruptcy. One bar patron tried them, spread the word, and crowds followed, boosting his saloon into popularity.
Professor R M Wenley of the University of Michigan reports experiments that challenge the idea that sleep is caused by reduced brain blood flow. He notes brain volume rises as one sleeps and falls when awake, hands and feet enlarge during sleep, and arterial pulse dilation from brain increases with brain volume, especially when the subject is propped up.
At Grindelwald daily noon crowds watch a herd of twenty chamois traverse the Mettenberg rocks in Indian file. The herd leader guards the line with the king of the group 20 yards ahead, while avalanches often shape the chamois feeding pattern as they descend at dawn and return after danger passes.
A Florida opinion mocks hogs as the most intelligent domesticated animal and recalls a long battle for human rights against them. The piece notes hogs roamed streets and gardens until state law granted equality, citing a Palatka incident where a porter chased a sow with pigs from a car steps.
A tense exchange reveals distrust as a woman denounces a man as treacherous and lacking honor while confirming a dinner with him, and a companion notes their prior closeness. The dialogue hints at underlying loyalties and fragile trust among the trio.
A mother cautions her daughter about scratching a doll to avoid spoiling it. The girl questions the rule and suggests scratching the head, prompting a mild parental reminder about care and consequence. The exchange reveals a domestic moment emphasizing prudence with possessions.
A rector notices only one alms dish for a large congregation and sends a rustic to fetch a second dish. The rustic, following the rector’s comic instruction to move it along both aisles, returns with a full dish and whispers that none will have any biscuits. No order to empty the dish was given.
J. L. Shine recalls a Dundee Advertiser anecdote about a landlady who explains why eight sausages shrink to five after cooking. Shine confronts her with a blunt question about missing links, and she answers with a calm, innocent smile that sausages always do shrink in cooking.
A popular Ontario girl leaves town for the far west. Her masculine friends gather to provide violets roses magazines chocolates and comforts expected by the modern girl. The brother tips the porter and promises the other half of a torn bill as payment for safe passage to destination.
A quick quip frames a late judge’s passing as a joke about his early bar admission and a fond regard for liquor. The exchange notes a life in the law ending with a reputation for good liquor and the irony of a judge’s death.
In a comic exchange a couple misreads a New York Marathon item. Mrs Hollowutt argues a runner “swallowed a sponge” while the husband notes the article never states that. They debate how one could throw up a sponge without swallowing it.
An aged Native American man named Much Bad Luck, living near Dayton Washington, ordered a casket nearly a year earlier. He returned after his son died to request a burial in “American fashion,” but his pennies could not cover the silver mounts. The undertaker kept the casket reserved until funds arrived, and the old man departed to earn money. The son is buried in a hillside grave near Dayton, and the plan now is to exhume the body and place it in the expensive casket.
Madame Bouquet in St. Julien near Chalon sur Saone each attended church and heard a Joan of Arc sermon. She locked herself in a derelict chapel and set a funeral pyre alight with inflammable spirits. Rescued but died shortly after in frightful agony.
Germany expands subsidies to automobile owners: a fixed 2242 dollar payment for eligible vehicles five years after purchase, with ownership pledged to hand over to the military when needed. Subsidy ends if the car leaves the empire, and a separate indemnity is set by military appraisers for wartime use.
A Spanish adventurer returning from the Americas reportedly gave away 600000 dollars in alms at his Barcela na marriage. Another man in Madrid stood in a window and tossed silver coins into the crowd until two barrels were emptied.
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