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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1926
Page
11
Mis son officials announce the annual picnic at Cascade Walk on Thursday June 24. Mrs. Howard McGill and Mrs. E. J. Berquist head the committees as 250 women are urged to assist and 25 to 230 men to help with food prep and serving by noon.
Uniontown Pa June 22 A man states he was forced into marriage by a prospective brother in law who allegedly threatened to use dynamite, leading to a court granting a divorce on grounds of coercion.
A man was granted a divorce from Mary Shoaf after he said the wife refused to live with him following their marriage. He claimed the bride’s family pressured the union and her brother vowed to dynamite the Shoaf home if he refused. At marriage time he was 51 and she 43.
Jacksonville on June 22 police sought Lena Mc Murray a 41 year old woman charged with fatally shooting Adolphus Ward a local letter carrier. Ward had told police he was shot by a gunman amid a bootlegging feud and later confessed to luring the suspect away from her husband while he worked as a rural postman. Ward died at a local hospital and his body was to be sent to Macon Georgia for interment.
Dubois Pa June 22 Superintendent H L Bishop of the Allegheny National Forest calls reports of 1,500,000 dollars in losses from recent fires in Allegheny National Park absurd estimating total losses at about 25,000 dollars. About 20,000 acres burned including 8,000 at Loleta with 3,000 federal land and 5,000 private property and 12,000 at Hunter Run with 4,000 government owned.
A druggist offers a tiny bottle of Freezone to remove hard corns and foot calluses. The product claims to lift the corn and stop pain quickly without soreness, using a drop that targets the corn between toes or on the foot.
Three boys and a man were killed in auto accidents in twenty four hours. Louis Pasteur tops a list as world’s most distinguished individual chosen by six thousand school children in Augusta Maine. In Bedford Pennsylvania George H Johnston ends a foodless walk to New York begun June first. In Atlantic City Elizabeth White awards seven thousand dollars in gold to Marlborough Blenheim Hotel staff after marrying Dr Daniel J McCarthy of Philadelphia. In New York the police chaplain Dr Robert Pierce resigns after being accused of ridiculing the department.
Portland receives a multi ton consignment of German World War relics including cannons muskets machine guns sabres and gas masks from the Raritan Ordnance Reserve Depot. The first Oregon allotment covers shipping to cities for display with Astoria receiving a 250-millimeter Hungari an mortar gun destined for Redmond and a 70-millimeter piece also on the list.
Mothers and children are urged to gather at the City Mission on 17 South Mercer Street by 10 a.m. Thursday June 24 for a free ride to the park. The park is reserved until 5 30 p.m. for the event with free rides after a noon dinner, except the gorge ride.
Six distinguished foreign scholars will reside at Yale University next fall to work with Yale Graduate School faculty. The names include Pasquini of Rome Hiller Cracow Wolf Heidelberg Bergerson Oslo Lehmann Freiburg and Watson Edinburgh with Professor Chep from Shanghai College directing special bacteriology research in 1927.
Emanuel Coleman, 29, of Baltimore, was captured after a large pursuit by scores of locals in Mason Town. He had been robbing Ezra Margolis store when surprised by the proprietor. hundreds of dollars in goods were being prepared for removal. Coleman hid under a nearby house and was arrested an hour later.
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