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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1923
Page
16
A Philadelphia woman hosts a divorce party to celebrate a decree ending her marriage. Mrs. Adelaide Phipps McCarthy, 24, plans the event next Wednesday with cards sent after learning of the decree. She says she is happy and will marry again next month.
A Boy Scout camp at Muddy Creek Falls will open Monday morning with a large contingent of scouts forming the first party and staying for an initial period.
A week period saw extensive improvements at the camp with manual labor and camping grounds updated to flat class condition. The recreation building was remodeled, a kitchen and range added, radio installed, swimming pool completed, and the athletic field rolled. Scouts will sleep in regular army style tents.
Boy Scout Troop No 12 chaired by Scout master Robert J Dobbs met at Headquarters with twelve scouts. Camp plans were finalized and several will attend scout camp for swimming baseball athletic events tests and tent sleeping. After the meeting the group hiked to the Horse Pit for swimming instruction and returned to the city at nine.
A scientist notes that the average man’s heart generates about one three thousandth of a volt per beat and cites a newly invented sensor capable of measuring such faint electrical signals.
Rotary Boy Scout Troop No. 2 met at North Street Junior High with 13 scouts one visitor and Assistant Scoutmaster Ben Wise present The meeting opened with flag ceremony a short program and discussion of the radio at Bar Scout camp Mr Wise awarded forestry badges and handed out Guide to Forestry pamphlets A field meet with Grove City and Scout camp were discussed with many boys registering for a two week period though most will attend camp
The regular meeting will be held with Ren Wise agreeing to lead through the summer. The session concluded with a prayer.
The article argues home making is the prime civilizational measure and a universal instinct. It links shelter to nourishment, asserts homes reflect a nation’s life, and claims ownership fosters efficiency, faith, hope, and love, enriching memory and guiding human progress through time.
Article by L. W. Browzell in Nature Magazine May notes horse chestnuts are now common in America though native to northern Greece. Introduced mid eighteenth century from Europe where cultivated since mid sixteenth century. Peaks in mid June for shade and ornament. autumn nuts tempt boys though are useless and dry up.
The article traces the horse chestnut’s medicinal use for fevers rheumatism and whooping cough through bark oil and decoction while noting folk beliefs about carrying the nut. It explains name origins linking leaves and horse imagery and observes New Castle’s decline of the tree due to short life and autumn litter as many trees are cut down and not replanted.
The passage defines fear as spiritual weakness and links it to nervous weakness in a lady. It argues spiritual strength comes from right morals, like physical strength from right living, and claims a keen sense of righteousness defeats opponents despite inferior numbers.
The Wakefield Blur reports the Good Health society will not meet Tuesday evening due to many members being indisposed or unavailable. The note cites illness and other withdrawals as the reason for the cancellation.
Buck Kirby notes a shift toward milder belief as adults embrace religion less painfully than in his boyhood. The Topeka Capital reports Kirby’s observation on changing religious attitudes.
A humorous piece contrasts a waitress with a poet and mocks promises by a Chinese woman about attending a meeting. It riffs on roles and surrender to domestic duties, while noting dresses and fashion as social tags.
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