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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1916
Page
8
A fragment highlights critique of easy money schemes. contrasts with practical help like pressing pants or tuning a piano for a sick baby. The line mocks taking advice from those who fail to succeed themselves.
Frank Hill of Beaver Falls was found in the Mahoning River near Pittsburg and Lake Erie station. Tony Natale rescued him after entering the water and Officer Frank Jones helped bring him ashore. Hill, dazed and with over $30 on him, was taken to the city jail and questioned about his actions.
Nine year old Tony Zipatelli of Montgomery Avenue found a five dollar bill belonging to his mother and disappeared. Officer Jones searched for the boy but he had not returned home by last evening.
Officer Frank M. Jones shot two stray dogs yesterday amid resident complaints. One dog fell at the corner of Wabash Avenue and Lafayette Street, the other on East Cherry Street.
Mr and Mrs W C Patterson of North Cedar Street have returned home from a two weeks automobile trip and visit in Scranton Pennsylvania with Mr and Mrs Oscar Lipp of Petersburg in the Lipp machine and report a most pleasant and enjoyable time.
Mabel Taliaferro, famed for Polly of the Circus and Spring Time, headlines the Crescent theatre today as the Poor Artist in a clever Broadway cast. Adv. It
John Roe of West Pittsburg injured a finger on his left hand while at work in the Baltimore and Ohio shops at New Castle Junction. A local physician dressed the wound.
Victor Patterson of North Cedar Street suffered a severe sprain in a leg while running along Front Street on the Westside Sunday night to catch a street car. He was unable to work yesterday.
The official board of the Mahoning M. E. Church met last evening to conduct routine business and discuss plans affecting the church’s work and operations.
The Pennsylvania pay year arrived this morning and road crews receive their semi monthly pay today while shop workers will be paid tomorrow.
The first organ grinder and his monkey of the season were seen in the Seventh ward today drawing a large crowd of spectators and curious onlookers.
Dentists urge proper brushing with bristles upright and hyclorite rinse. Use a few drops in water to reach crevices, kill germs, and freshen breath. Hyglorite touted as a pure antiseptic available from General Laboratories in Madison, Wis.
The C. T. F. Kensington will be entertained Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. J. F. Edmunds on North Liberty Street.
Local residents list visitors and illnesses in Sharpsville and nearby towns. Names include Mrs. E B Jones Mrs. A D Voss Mrs. B Simpson and many others visiting relatives or reporting travel from Pittsburg Canton Poland Baltimore and Ohio lines and Erie. Several residents are ill or at home with family updates and short vacations noted.
NEW WILMINGTON Pa June 20 A group of local youths chaperoned by Misses Dorcas Schoeller and Mary Douthett has formed the season’s first camping party. They camp on the Neshannock near Volant with participants Miss Gladys Rose Hazel Ramsey Ethel Pitzer Lois Pettitt Sarah Iligo Marguerite Douthett Richard Brandon Roy Conway George Falkman Victor Minteer Hugh Hart and Thomas Johnston.
Bids for Market Street and Neshannock Avenue paving yielded one bid slightly below the chosen contractor. Citizens protest the higher bid, planning unspecified action, though officials say work should proceed and not be slowed.
The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian church will meet in the church parlor on Wednesday for an all day session. The Women's Missionary society will meet Thursday afternoon in the church parlors with Mrs Buckwalter leading and topics by Mrs James Smith and Mrs W Phillips. Rev M B Riley gave a strong speech Sunday evening at the Methodist church criticizing the church's condition. A large audience attended.
Sunday service devoted to the Sabbath school with an interesting program expected to draw a large attendance.
Chicago June 20. A wife with blackened eyes and bruised face and body substantiates that her husband beat her in a contest or for a prize to win drinks. Police are investigating the incident and the husband has not been charged yet.
Mrs Frances Bokorme testified before Judge Labuy about a wife beating contest among three married men who drank as stakes. The wife said the winner earned liquor by beating his wife, and the officer corroborated that such contests were known locally. The judge ordered the husband to abstain from liquor for a year and post a substantial bond to keep the peace.
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