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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1909
Page
8
Stock reduction offers special prices on ladies muslin drawers this week. 39c plain muslin drawers, 89c hemstitched ruffle drawers, and 98c longcloth drawers. Isabella drawers, 98c. refined longcloth with lace details, $1.39 for higher end reg 1.75 to 2.00 values.
The New Rengo Belt Corset promises a superior abdomen reducer and spacious fit for stout figures. Made of heavy white coutil with steel supports, four elastic garters, lace trimming, and priced at 2.00 for sizes 41 and 43.
The Cascade Amusement company leads Pennsylvania in meeting the new moving picture act requirements. Acme Theatre on South Mill Street will be remodeled by Saturday, with plans to redo the other two later after a constitutionality test. Moviemen oppose the act’s burdens, arguing cages and aisles threaten safety and business.
The advertisement claims teething children suffer diarrhoea that can be controlled by Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It advises giving the prescribed dose after each bowel movement and then castor oil to cleanse the system, stating the treatment is safe and sure.
Henry Kirkland Morse a Mahoning county pioneer and Poland Ohio resident died at home Sunday age 87. He served as postmaster and spent 12 years in milling before turning to farming. He leaves wife and three children. Funeral Wednesday with burial in Poland cemetery. He was widely known in the county and vicinity.
Dominic Miller, 30, of Struthers, was struck by lightning Sunday evening. The bolt entered his home via a wire clothes line and left outlines of a tree on his chest and thigh where the wire was attached. He had only recently arrived in this country.
Dr Harvey Sims Jordan of San Diego California, who visited friends here and at Mrs Carl Forkums in Youngstown, departed Monday evening for his home.
City council grants a franchise for a new rail line running from Cleveland to Youngstown. Mr and Mrs W McCord of Wellsville are visiting friends in the area.
Oil drilling activity explodes around Sharpsville with two productive wells near the McMurray and Dr Lee farms. Sharpsville businessmen secure large leases as crews pour in from Butler and Oil City. interest grows as more wells are expected and land battles continue around Justice Humm and nearby properties.
Vera Sipe works in the shell house at the powder plant while neighbors and relatives gather for weekend visits. The column lists numerous residents from New Castle to Hillsville visiting relatives, plus a broken tool theft report and casual remarks about rooting at baseball games and a vague coaching rumor.
Independent tin mills plan to expand capacity while the American Tin Plate company presses for open shop gains. Wage scales and union membership are hotly debated as the United States Steel corp contemplates broader moves. Some independents fear pricier tin and reduced demand will pressure jobs even as production climbs.
The general shops of the Bessemer and Lake Erie at Greenville ran ten hours a day yesterday, affecting 800 men.
An old ad extols rub a lac as a quick drying cleaner to keep up with a fast paced world. It uses a gimmicky moral about a man’s last dollar and vanishing wealth to promote the product. The tone is promotional and fictional.
The advertisement denounces yellow soaps made from cheap grease and rosin with caustic to soil linens. It contrasts the rancid products with Easy Task soap, claiming it to be pure white and effective against dirt while protecting fabrics.
The Shenango Press Committee argues that shifting union mills to open shop and cutting nonunion wages would reduce living standards. They note tin workers have faced 18 percent and 6 percent wage cuts in six years and question whether living costs have fallen. They warn of driving workers to steellike all-week schedules.
Miss Margaret Callreed Wards of Napa California won the gold medal for the most perfect physique among girls under 17 in a world contest judged by the New York Physical Culture society. Bernard McFadden praised her strength endurance outdoor life riding horseback and leadership in school drills and county institute demonstrations.
The New Castle district of the Erie conference of the Methodist Episcopal church began Monday at Sharon Methodist Episcopal Church. Temporary chairman L H Eddleblut led, with C B McKinley as secretary treasurer. Thirty five ministers were invited, but only thirteen attended. This morning four local ministers were examined for admission to the Erie conference.
Zelienople reports more than two miles of streets being paved this summer and a strong building boom with about fifty structures either under way or planned. The Specialty Company's plant destroyed by fire is being rebuilt.
Washington county Republican committee approves a local option measure with printed ballots for the June primary showing For local option and against local option. Candidates for representative or senator pledge to honor the primary result and vote in Harrisburg accordingly. The committee re organized with Richard G. Miller as chairman Edwin R. Cummings secretary and George B. Lockhart treasurer.
At Grace M E church in the Fifth ward a cellar is dug beneath the building A vein of fine sand was struck and the sand taken out will pay for the excavation and improvements A cement basement will be prepared for use as classrooms and other purposes
A county line advertisement offers hundreds of bushels of cherries as the finest grown. Orders are invited for delivery to the home in first-class style. James Whippo listed with Bell phone 330 J 26715.
Alderman C C Rigby Max Faulk and H Kulkin faced counter charges of assault and battery but settled the dispute. Miss Grace Ray and Mary Clark returned to their homes in Shar on after visiting friends locally.
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