Decrease In Accidents Prompts Safety Signs
A local safety initiative aims to reduce traffic accidents by installing new warning signs. Officials emphasize driver caution and enforcement patrols to cut incidents and injuries in the coming months.
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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1925
Page
29
Highway Department to Aid Railroads In Safety Upgrades
Harrisburg announces an executive ruling allowing the state highway department to share with railroads the cost of warning lights at railroad grade crossings. The wigwag or horizontal flashing signals will be activated by track circuits and placed about 500 feet from the crossing to improve protection, marking a move toward uniform safety standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Harrisburg
Public Service Commission
State Highway Department
Railroads and Highway Department
Zemo Skin Tonic Claims Clear Healthy Skin
An advertisement touts Zemo as a clean antiseptic liquid that removes pimples blackheads blotches eczema and ringworm to produce clear skin. It offers trial bottles priced at 35 cents and a large size of one dollar with accompanying Zemo Soap at 25 cents available at all druggists.
Highway warning signals at crossings urged in joint rule
A railroad train driven warning system will automatically alert motorists as trains approach crossings by electric circuits on the train. If crossings are blocked within 500 feet, yellow warning lights will indicate danger. The rule aims to aid visibility around curves and high ground, though installations are voluntary and invite railroad highway department cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway Department
Testimony Taken By Telephone In Uniontown Trial
In Fayette county Pennsylvania testimony was taken by telephone for the first time in court history. The witness Richard Barton testified remotely after returning from Uniontown hospital. He testified in the manslaughter case against Clinton Winston over the death of Edith Pegg struck by a speeding car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
Fayette County
Clinton Winston
Edith Pegg
Richard Barton
Commonwealth
Winston
George Whyel
Medical Student Falls Into Shaft in Ohio Warehouse
EAST LIVERPOOL O June 24 Wayne Farmer 25 Steubenville stepped into a 15 foot elevator shaft while assisting in installing an automatic safety gate at the Sturgis warehouse. He suffered a skull fracture and is believed fatally injured. He is a second year medical student employed by the elevator company during summer vacation. this marks a third similar accident at the site in four months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Liverpool
Wayne Farmer
Steubenville
Sturgis
Farmer
Blank cartridge ends boy's life in Clearfield
John Hawk Jr aged 10 of Curwensville died in Clearfield hospital from lockjaw after being burned by a blank cartridge pistol while practicing for the Fourth of July celebration. The incident occurred this morning and prompted a local memorial of the events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clearfield
John Hawk, Jr
Curwensville
Preaching at Hermon and church activities this week
Mt Hermon reports next Sunday services at half past ten with Sunday school after. Pastor Rev Howarth leads. News notes: J B Boak of New Castle visiting Viola Boak. McCracken family called on Samuel Kildoo. James Munnell returns from New Wilmington. Foster McEwen family visits J A Boak. Samuel Kildoo visits sister Caroline Hunt while Rev John Moore of New York visits. Arctic sea drift ice covers about two thirds of the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hermon
Howarth
J. B. Boak
New Castle
Viola Boak
Milton McCracken
Samuel Kildoo
James Munnell
Wm. McCormick
New Wilmington
Foster McEwen
J. A. Boak
Caroline Hunt
John Moore
New York
Visit Our New Soda Fountain
Visit Our New Soda Fountain were Made for us by Robt. M. Green & Sons of Philadelphia and refrigerated by Frigidaire coils and compressors. It is the last word in Soda Fountain sanitation and means that the Ice Cream will always be served in that Just Right condition. Mr. Joseph Gallagher now has charge of our fountain service and you may have your favorite flavor Ice Cream Soda or Coke at the same reasonable prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robt. M. Green & Sons
Philadelphia
Joseph Gallagher
Schraff’s Chocolate Shops
New York City
Dewberry’s Keeps Old Tire Prices Amid Market Rise
Dewberry’s advertises old Brunswick tire prices while market prices have jumped about 20 percent in the last month. It touts 10,000 mile guaranteed cords and lists several tire sizes with their special prices. A full line of truck tires, balloon casings, and inner tubes is offered at the same low figures, urging buyers to act before the 20 percent advance takes effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewberry’s
President Coolidge Arrives at Swampscott Summer Home
The special train bearing President and Mrs. Coolidge from Washington reached West Peabody at 4:30 AM. After a short layover, the party proceeded to Salem where automobiles awaited to transport them to the summer White House at Swampscott, marking the president’s Massachusetts vacation start.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
President Coolidge
Swampscott
Bulletin International News Service
West Peabody
Mass
Coolidge
Washington
North Shore
Massachusetts
Salem
White House
Thousands Homeless In Australian Flood
In Forbes New South Wales near Sydney, nearly half the town’s population was left homeless by floods. Dispatches report about 1,500 people were driven from their homes as high water overwhelmed the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Sydney
Forbes
Here
Dispatches
Punxsutawney Man Dies In Fall Over Bank Escape
JEANETTE Pa June 24 An attempt to escape from police ended when a man fell over a bank railing and died. Officers pursued him after a reported disturbance, but the exact sequence and identity were not disclosed in the brief received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Punxsutawney Man
Jeanette, Pa
Punxsutawney Glass Worker Falls to Death at Dead Man's Cut
August Hippcehen, 25, a Punxsutawney glass worker, was killed last night when he fell 50 feet over an embankment at Dead Man's Cut near the local Pennsylvania Railroad station. He fractured his skull and broke his neck after an argument with local men prompted police to intervene. Hippcehen landed on the railroad tracks below.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Hippcehen
Punxsutawney
Dead Man's Cut
Hippchen
American Window Glass Company
Hippehen
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dish Washing Liked By Only Five Of Eighty Girls
Belm ont county farm club girls dislike dish washing per a questionnaire by Miss Hulda Horst state club leader. Five of eighty girls replied favorably. The piece notes this finding amid a report on farm club activities at St Clairsville Ohio dated June 24. Some ice fields of Greenland are described as a mile and a half thick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Clairsville
Belmont County
Hulda Horst
Greenland
Gold seekers invade Canada wilderness
Vancouver June 24 reports say hundreds of prospectors rush into the Cassiar Dease Lake area after two trapper's rich gold strike last summer. With ice gone from the Stikine river the rush accelerates, aided by veteran boatmen like Sid Barrington. The Cassiar field, long a BC mining site, draws Fur trade outfitting towns Wrangell Telegraph Creek into a winter crowd as motor trucks replace shoe leather routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
B. C
Hugh Ford
Bill Grady
Dease Lake
Cassiar
Wrangell
Telegraph Creek
Stikine River
Sid Barrington
Klondike
British Columbia
Loan Sharks Go After Veterans
War veterans were warned today by officials that illegal loan sharks target veterans seeking quick cash. Authorities urged vigilance, outlining common tactics such as high interest, hidden fees, and threats, and advised reporting any suspicious lending practices to police or veteran affairs offices.
Inseparable Twins Die By Starvation In Chicken Coop
Charles and William Thomas, 50 year old twins and wealthy college graduates, made a death pact after financial losses and crawled into a Willard State Hospital chicken coop to starve themselves. They stayed several days before discovery, remaining a double enigma to onlookers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teneva
N. Y
Charles
William Thomas
Willard State Hospital
Remarkable Coordination Among Physicians Described
Physicians are described as the most remarkable case of coordination in thought and action observed, showing acute distress when separated and each unconsciously follows the other’s every move.
Painter Fred March Secures Downtown Building Contract
Fred March announces he has won the contract to paint downtown buildings owned by Fred Bowles Genkingers the Foltz heirs and the Woods heirs. An ancient belief attributes turquoise with power to influence the human mind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred March
Fred Bowles
Genkingers
The
Foltz Heirs
the Woods Heirs
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