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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1926
Page
15
Workmen install a cement driveway and sidewalk at the Margaret Henry Children's Home, making Friendship Street the main entrance and encircling the building. The project shifts the playground to the southwest and redefines access widths from 18 to 14 feet.
The grounds are relocated to a hillside site offering larger space for play. Teeter-totters and swings are rapidly being installed as part of the new playground area.
Sa botage flared in a wage strike of Chinese workers at Japanese owned cotton mills in Shanghai on June 24. Strikers seized and burned the Na gai Wata Kaishi mill causing 4609 dollars in damage. Police and guards were repelled, 25 blazes started, arrests followed after a gunless clash. Women silk filament workers rioted, throwing stones at police, with officials fearing wider spread.
Judge Henninger of Butler county arrived at noon Wednesday to preside in No. 2 court. The first trial involved W. Wilbur Barnett charged with fraudulent conversion on two counts brought by sisters Mrs Hazel Kingston and Mrs John Nolan. A motion to quash the indictments was sustained, and the judge granted it, while evidence showed the defendant was paying the legacy sum as fast as possible.
Patsy Ciello faced forgery and false pretense charges in Butler county court. A sealed verdict opened this morning found Ciello guilty as indicted for selling two shares of Steel stock at the Peoples Savings and Trust Company using the name John Sentella. Caesar Gallo prosecuted, presenting Ciello at the bank and covering the stock proceeds.
An enthusiastic mother recalls a rapid labor lasting 25 minutes with her last child and credits the use of Mother’s Friend easing the process as she anticipates the next birth.
Mexico City reports 62 Chinese were arrested in a raid on an opium den at Tia Juana. Officers seized opium morphine and heroin and governor Abelardo Rodriguez said they would be held until the federal decision on their disposition and recommended expulsion as pernicious foreigners.
A government decree published in Lisbon on June 24 makes death the penalty for espionage sedition rebellion pil lage or treason. The decree comes from the new administration forged after a sequence of coup d etats.
In Butler County Pennsylvania Judge John R. Henninger charged the jury in what was called the first case of its kind in the county and likely the state. BE C Shira of Parker Township faced a misfeasance charge for failing to maintain township highways. The jury acquitted Shira and taxed costs to Floyd A Vogt, the complainant and brother of Constable George Vogt.
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