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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1917
Page
16
The New Castle News lists offices at Corner Sycamore Street and Apple Way with editors and officers including G Treadwell as president and treasurer. Subscriptions are 10 cents weekly or $5 yearly by mail, with a county-wide appeal for public interest matters. It is entered as Second Class Master in New Castle Pennsylvania and uses the International News Service.
All checks money orders drafts and communications should be addressed to News Company New Castle and not to any individual.
A New Castle editorial urges local high school girls to continue folding surgical bandages for the Red Cross, praising Mrs. Henderson's $5,000 gift and the volunteers’ patriotism. The piece contrasts youth’s idealism with older workers and lauds leadership over monetary value.
The speaker condemns employers who favor workers over thirty-one or not subject to the draft, arguing such policies penalize the key age group of twenty-one to thirty-one and harm national progress. He urges equal employment regardless of military call-and-response, praising workers who answer the call to arms.
The speaker urges employers to keep faith with young workers and send the best to fight. He argues shops should compete to supply the front with manpower, noting millions cannot go and urging employers to give young men work and chance now that they registered. He warns against making it a disgrace to be called to the colors.
A nostalgic verse recalls a mother guiding a child to dreamland and elfland in a tranquil, dreamlike journey. The poem blends maternal imagery with images of timeless hills and crystal streams, inviting shared slumber and distant memories.
A Lawrence County letter urges car owners to volunteer autos for emergencies in the district. Readers should cut out the coupon in the paper and mail it to Hiram G. Miller, chairman of the Department of Motors and Motor Trucks, Public Safety, with vehicle details.
A collage of light verse and social notes on fashion, autos, Red Cross quotas, weather, and home front life. It mixes fashion lines with patriotic humor, war-era tweaks on daily life, and letters from Fort Sam Houston, plus local notes on cabbage, prisoners, and farms.
Ten Rotary club teams backing the fight to equip a YMCA unit for service in France met with the citizens' committee in the Y building. Plans were made to raise the remaining $6700 to reach a $10,000 fund and crews will scour the city and county next week. They will begin Monday with subscription papers and aim for complete success.
A string of quips and observations covers fashion, fire brigades, friendship, daylight, a Western lecturer, snuff laws, English sparrows, foreign soil history, a remaining Kaiser, New Castle parking rules, and jabs at carnival exhibit ethics.
The text lists individuals including T. James, M. E. Remley, Wesley Mann, Dominic Toth, Andrew Thompson, W. W. Payne of the city, Frank Denome of Ellwood City, and Andrew Robertson of Wampum as related parties.
The Good Times club in Wampum is assembling comfort kits for soldiers and sailors, inviting community material support while continuing to sew themselves. The club meets at Mrs. William Grinen's home next Thursday evening. The borough council approved the Main Street paving ordinance with Attorney James Rhodes present.
At the McAnlis school house on July 4 the annual family reunion will be held. All friends and neighbors are invited to attend and bring baskets.
Mr and Mrs E H Hunter attended the funeral for Thelma G Hunter infant niece of E H Hunter of Beaver Falls. The child died from burns after falling into a bucket of hot water left on the kitchen floor by her grandmother while scrubbing.
Frank Ferrante visited Pittsburg yesterday. Miss May Carpenter and nephew Robert Carpenter left for Bedford county. Clarence Staph and James Brady motored to North Sewickley. Weitz of Wampum and Nathaniel Yoho were in Ellwood City. Elizabeth Grundy visited Louise Love in Monaca. Mrs. Howard Douglass and daughter Mary attended Elizabeth West funeral in New Castle. The McKims and others toured Ellwood City and Slippery Rock area. several residents were in New Castle Friday.
Regent theatre features Alice Brady in The Divorce Game. Dome presents Billy West in Dough Nuts and Mrs. Vernon Castle in Patria. Star theatre screens Womanhood with Alice Joyce and Harry Morey. Nixon theatre shows Banks O Blue Ridge with Bessie Barriscale plus army life scenes and Dora the Universal Recruiting Girl lectures. Col Frances Ferari’s Shows perform on South Mill Street near Lawrence Laundry.
The Edward E. Hileman company reports strong sales despite wartime conditions. They have sold a Jordan seven passenger car to Ralph Sankbiel and multiple Davis cars to C. O. Brown, C. J. Baker, and John.
Wallace Bryan of Hookstown Pa re-enlisted in the regular army after serving as a first class gunner in artillery and torpedo. A Pittsburg letter quotes his willingness to go where needed and notes his prior employment as a policeman at the Midland Steel plant.
Judge Emery will hold a short session of court Monday morning at 10 o'clock to hear motions and petitions.
The Rotary club of New Castle Pa holds its weekly luncheon at 12:15 P M Monday June 25 1917 at the Rotary Room Y M C A Building Visitors are welcome Edgar E Seavy and Jos S Rice delegates to the international Rotary convention in session at Atlanta furnish the entertainment Rotarily yours E E Seavy Secretary
Youngstown O dated June 23 reports 461 577 raised for the Red Cross war relief fund from a noon meeting. Committees share shows 253 024 5 reported yesterday and Youngstown's allotment of the 100 million fund is 250 000. Local industries and executives contribute generously.
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