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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1935
Page
4
A breezy column returns to New Castle with travel bits from Mexico City. Rambling vignettes mix satire on rent, saloons, cars, and culture, plus quips about soldiers, churches, and newspapers, ending with the idea that G men outsell gangsters as heroes.
Central Press summarizes Henry George's axioms for taxation and the Single Tax doctrine as opposed by President Roosevelt. It outlines four criteria for light, fair, and certain taxes and argues land value taxation can expand production while avoiding harm to wages or capital. It notes the danger of monopoly taxes and the concept of unearned increment.
A resilience essay urges the healthy mind to forgive past mistakes and avoid self pity. It counsels closing the door on painful memories, forgetting useless regret, and pressing toward a future of wiser living.
A debate rages over licensing antique dealers as second-hand merchants. The author argues junk today becomes treasure tomorrow, defending dealers’ status while mocking the idea of lower fees and while lampooning burdensome licensing costs.
A civic reflection on Public Friends who volunteer for local work, accept community roles, support home-town causes, attend meetings, offer improvements, buy locally, and praise the town’s institutions and progress. The piece highlights many such supporters in New Castle.
The article notes a dearth of highly skilled workers in Massachusetts and New England due to limited apprenticeships during economic slack. It highlights difficulties for six months in filling skilled machine trades, the aging workforce, and the need for trained entrants to meet anticipated industrial revival and equipment demand.
The piece critiques accuracy in reporting figures and dates. It warns that misquoted money amounts and dates frustrate readers and speakers who value precision. It urges careful listening and restraint from repeating numbers unless confident in their correctness.
A narrator sits with Peter, a poor man with time and woods knowledge, as Peter tells tales while fishing. The poem contrasts wealth with simple pleasures found in nature and companionship, ending with a reflection on how riches of experience beat mere wealth.
A devotional note cites Proverbs 20 5 warning that a flatterer to his neighbor spreads a net for his feet. The verse emphasizes hidden motives and the danger of deception in spoken praise.
A humor piece describes an optician selling glasses for two dollars, a dollar paid, and a gag about doubled sight. It then jokes that travelers return home with less change. The column laments Mexican whiskey made from century plants as a hindrance to progress and longevity.
The piece notes six thousand Americans traveling to a Rotary convention in Mexico and contrasts lax baggage inspections at the border with stricter checks on the return journey through Laredo. A quip about a wife asking love and a husband jokingly responding adds a comic frame.
A brewery truck was stolen in McKeesport recently. The incident drew attention for its conspicuous nature, as the vehicle stood out in the area.
A collector confronts a parishioner offering a box of funds, insisting the money is for missions. The parishioner refuses to donate, prompting the collector to urge him to take something from the box for the heathen.
A collection of light anecdotes and witticisms touching daily life politics and culture. Observations range from a dog barking at a paper boy to marriage rings engraved simply From Henry to Clara and social foibles about Mexico and Americanism. Each item delivers a quick ironic twist.
On the last day of school a McPherson, Kansas boy brought home his report card. He was proud yet his father’s reaction turned grim as he read the lines English poor language weak mathematics fair.
After nineteen nights aboard a pullman drawing room the Rotarians used over 350 pullman cars as sleeping quarters in Mexico. One park area was nicknamed Pull man City and peddlers were barred from the city for visitors safety. The story also notes a cat's protective act toward its young from a violin factory.
Rutland Vermont resident Charles W. H. Coan recalls a chain letter craze. He calculates that if 1,270,932,914,164 people sent ten cents, a $127 billion fund would form, postage would total $25 trillion, and mailed letters end to end would reach earth to the sun, prompting satire on government budgeting.
Readers see a grim choice described for workers as job offers at three dollars a week promise survival while refusals cut relief, underscoring harsh conditions in Sweatshops and policy tensions in state discussions.
June 28 entries recall Alexander the Great’s death at 33 and Henry VIII’s ascent to Defender of the Faith, plus the 1778 Battle of Monmouth where Molly Pitcher earned a sergeant’s rank after heroically aiding an artillery piece.
A fragmented compilation lists notable natives and figures including William G. H. Finch Ern est Boyd Oley Speaks Otis Skinner and Pauline Moran. It argues common misbeliefs about the smallest independent state Vatican City and misattributions about The Star Spangled Banner and Godeys Lady's Book highlighting name changes and publication history in early American periodicals.
Gavrilo Princip, the Bosnian Serb student who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo on June 28 1914, did not face execution and died of tuberculosis in bed. The act set off a global conflict with immense military and civilian casualties.
On June 28, 1929 a landmark in television history occurred as color television was demonstrated using American flag flowers and a watermelon as subjects highlighting early experimental imagery and progress in the medium.
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