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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1924
Page
2
Early morning the post office received two packages containing blanks for the adjusted compensation. The Legion and the Vets committee will soon be busy filling them out. A special meeting is called for this evening at the Legion home with Chairman Kuech to distribute blanks and instructions.
Public volunteers in the city and vicinity have increased the Dunlap Fund to assist County Detective J. M. Dunlap with his personal loss from a recent explosion. Today’s donations include Frank Navarra five dollars T. M. Shaffer five dollars Lawrence County Enforcement conference ten dollars E. I. Grace five dollars George Rigby fifty dollars Weash five dollars Robert Whitla five dollars Mrs. J. M. Bright two dollars C. L. Hanna five dollars and the Lions Club fifty dollars.
New Castle Quota Welb members will join Youngstown Quota Club at Wickliffe Manor House Youngstown for a joint dinner. The meeting aims to discuss the international work of the club for underprivileged girls. New Castle members depart from the American Legion home on Worth Jefferson Street by automobile.
The Five and Ten Cent Store of P. Pacurar at 24 Liberty Street was entered last night. Between $35 and $40 in change was stolen after a rear window was broken. The thief is thought to have known the owner’s hiding place.
Victor Tysenski of 410 Denver Avenue was arrested last night on a charge of keeping a dis orderly house. He received a $10 fine this morning from the mayor for possessing a small amount of cash at his home.
The page lists film showings including Mary Pickford in Ro sita and Douglas Fairbanks Jr in Stephen Steps Out with Theodore Roberts. Harold Lloyd stars in Haunted Spooks and Pathe Comedy news previews accompany the listings.
News Reel offers fun from the press with a review of the Penn Marion Davies feature Little Old New York. The segment showcases clips and commentary highlighting Davies performance and the film's era charm.
In a fiery keynote, Senator Harrison denounces Republican leadership over costs and policy. He faults the Harding Coolidge era for graft and war-time expenditures while urging return to honest public service and tariff reform amid cries of economy. The piece contrasts Democratic critique with calls for accountability and a rebalanced foreign policy.
The opening session features Cardinal Hayes blessing the assembly as 12,000 delegates fill Madison Square Garden. Senator Pat Harrison is named temporary chairman amid volleys of applause and a parade of state banners. Madame Anna Case leads the audience in patriotic song as Harrison blasts the Coolidge administration and Republican scandals. The crowd roars at Wilson references and the session closes with unity calls and the band playing Over There.
Beauties and Druschkis present a floral extravaganza with pink roses and spectrum-hued blooms. A standout Isabelle Hybrid Tea Rose entered by Mrs. Allan Urmson features fluted petals and a pink peach tint with a poppy-like center. Mrs. A. C. Hoyt debuts Spanish Iris bulbs, while peonies in white pink and red rise from baskets. Carnegie Steel backs the exhibit with a lush conservatory background of fuchsias ferns and palms.
Miss Marion Williams aged 16 left the Margaret Henry Home after church last Sunday. She and a brother reportedly traveled to Cleveland and then on to a sister’s home in Alabama.
A man returning from work stops to pick a bright red rose from the Moravia street sidewalk and pins it in his coat lapel. A sign painted on the adjacent walk reads She Line 10c. The scene captures a quiet moment outside the Moravia street shoe shine parlor.
On Mahoning Avenue a motor truck displays the name Gen Holling on its side prompting an old timer to remark that Gen Holling is new to him though many generals have been seen. In Mercer Street Harper Dick tests a race horse drawing a crowd. A fire breaks out at Billy Glenn’s South Mill Street business when a lit match ignites trash in the heater.
H. reports seeing a black man pulling a sled with a chunk of ice tied to it on Federal street in Youngstown while a flivver speeds through town bearing painted city names and the slogan See America First on the rear.
A woman on English Avenue was assaulted and her home broken into via a kitchen window with an axe. The thief stole small cash, two gold coins, and a five dollar bill, cut electric wiring, and ransacked drawers and cupboards before leaving. Officers Steiner and Syling investigated.
The article chronicles intraparty strife as McAdoo and Smith face harsh attacks from governors and lawyers. Neff denounces McAdoo as oily while Doheny accuses him of desertion. Smith battles wetness and Catholic stigma. Ralston gains as Indiana backs him with Tom Taggart’s help in a chaotic two man lead to a brawl like convention.
It was learned today that the Ellis charity circus automobile will be presented to Charles BE Langley of 16 Broadway Masury Ohio.
Premier Ramsay MacDonald promised that any German attack on France would bring England to France's aid. Premier Edouard Herriot said a defensive pact would bind England France and Belgium in such an event, per Independence Belge.
Mercer County District Attorney Rickard will speak at the annual I O O F and Rebekah lodges picnic at Jackson Park on July 24. A two-member committee from each lodge leads the event with plans for games, athletic events, and a tug of war between eastern and western Mercer lodges.
Three American round the world planes will depart Rangoon India at daylight tomorrow for Akyab and Calcutta. Navy dispatches confirm the plan as U.S. fliers begin the leg toward Calcutta from Rangoon.
President Coolidge sent a message of congratulations to Lieut Russell M Maughan after he completed a dawn to dusk flight across the continent. The president called the feat an American pride and a real advance in practical aviation.
SLIPPERY ROCK Pa June 24 A Jamestown man Robert Hayes driving a near new Buick roadster en route from Slippery Rock to Jamestown struck a pile of sand on the road after seeing what he thought was a white light The timber in the pile pierced the radiator and the car careened off the road narrowly missing a 25 foot embankment Hayes was unhurt but the car was badly damaged and not worth bringing home.
Miss Margaret Sankey, supervisor of music in Philadelphia public schools for a year, returns to Wallace avenue for summer vacation. She has sung as contralto soloist at Arch Street Presbyterian Church where Dr. Clarence E. McCartney is pastor. Dr McCartney was recently made moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America.
Wallace Shibler of State street suffered a severe leg injury while swimming. He is confined to his home.
Funeral services for Thomas J. Price were held Monday evening at 8 30 at his son Reese Price’s home 609 East Long Avenue. Reverend R Frank Jones assisted by Reverend Edward Blews led the rites. The body was later taken to the home of his daughter Mrs David Haskins in Youngstown Ohio for services and burial at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Funeral services for John Atkinson were held Monday June 23 at 2 30 p m from his home 414 North Liberty street Rev Daniel C Schnebly of Mahoning Presbyterian Church officiated Vocal selections were by Margaret Guy Leora Brettell and Clara Neal Pallbearers included nephews Jesse C Atkinson Canton Ohio Jesse C Cornelius New Wilmington Pa Earl M Cornelius William C Atkinson Jesse C Dufford and Leal B Calvin Interment followed at Greenwood cemetery Catherine Davis Dies. Rites in Gardner Home
Funeral services for Raymond F. Cramer, who died Saturday at Fort Slocum New York, will be from the home of his parents Mr and Mrs George Cramer 214 Pearson Street. The News stated the funeral was today but remains will not arrive until Wednesday and the services will be held the following day.
The United States will not be officially represented at the European conference on the Dawes reparation plan. The White House announced the government may send an unofficial observer. Secretary Hughes and General Dawes will not attend.
Mrs. P. K. Stevenson departed for Chicago to attend the funeral Wednesday of her aunt, Mrs. Frank Bradford Rockwood, who died at Elmhurst Illinois, June 23.
The Frances Willard WCTU met at Mrs. McAllister’s Highland avenue home with Mrs. McClaren presiding. A donation report listed 89 bouquets and various items while plans for a July tureen dinner at Mrs. Campbell’s Ray street were announced.
Mercer Pa June 24. The largest class of aliens to take a preliminary naturalization test is to be examined at the prothonotary's office from today through June 27. Paul G Werner of the U S Bureau of Immigration in Pittsburgh conducts the test. About 150 applicants are to be tested. The results will determine eligibility for the September naturalization court. Those who pass will be admitted to citizenship in September. those who fail may study during the interim.
In Beaver Falls Pennsylvania on June 24 John Kramer 60 a stable boss for a transfer company was found dead in his bed with a bullet wound and a revolver in his hand. Friends broke into his room and believe he died during an early morning thunderstorm as others in the house did not hear a shot.
Mrs. Clyde McFerron and her 12 year old son Jack escaped injury after a collision in New Brighton. Mrs McFerron sustained a broken arm while Jack was bruised. James Hayden a Negro minister from Georgia who drove the other vehicle was arrested on reckless driving charges.
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