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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1932
Page
7
Chicago reports a sixty year old widow and a 30 year old auto salesman forming a lasting marriage. They credit shared interests, steady study of marriage factors, and mutual effort as the basis of happiness. They emphasize unity of intellect transcending age and foresee continued harmony.
W Ridgley Hammond 53 of Baltimore Md is hospitalized in Mercy after being accidentally locked in Blair courthouse Hollidaysburg during a meeting He leaped from a window when unable to find the watchman and suffered a fractured right arm.
A June report notes frequent personal messages on city hall phones with workers reporting about forty one of every hundred calls carrying domestic chatter. The piece highlights the clash between official duties and personal interruptions in municipal communications.
A report to the city telephone engineer G Metcalf notes 41 percent of city hall calls are personal and cost the city about 1800 dollars monthly, highlighting inefficiency in the system.
Mrs H G Bogret of Akron Colorado challenged the state auditing board over withheld funds for the Washington bicentennial. She had earlier advanced several hundred dollars toward the project and demanded 400 dollars after the attorney general ruled the appropriation illegal.
Fugitives Lloyd Denton and Lloyd Bough, who escaped from Harrodsburg jail on April 23 and fled the state in a stolen car, sent a postcard to Jailer Will Beckum appearing to say they are safe and employed in Chicago. The note names "Red" Anderson and mentions good jobs, conveying a courteous but defiant tone from the runaways.
Formal announcement of the betrothal of Dr. James Rowland Angell president of Yale University to Mrs. Katherine Cramer Woodman of Ardmore Pa widow. Mrs Woodman has six children and is at her summer home Great Diamond Island Casco Bay Me near Portland. Angell's first wife died in June 1931. Mrs Woodman is the former Katherine S Cramer of Charlotte NC widow of Paul Woodman who died in summer 1930.
In St Louis on June 29 observers at the National Patent and Industrial Exposition showcased practical, time saving devices. Foot operated mouse trap, dual sided cleaning window, and tieless shoe laces illustrated a wave of combination gadgets. Also on display were multi function units like an ironing board pantry nook chair ladder and a crib swing scales set. A lawn mower convertible to a vacuum cleaner drew interest along with a versatile vacuum sweeper and floor waxer capable of other tasks.
In Mansfield England 102 year old Mrs Ann Stawall eager for her first aeroplane flight at an aviation display. She asked Sir Alan Cobham to take her up and wished to perform a loop the loop, seeking to be the oldest woman air passenger aboard the three engine airliner.
A landings mishap at Mansfield flying meet left one wheel under and a wing-tip dug into the ground. All passengers including Mrs. Stansall escaped unharmed.
In Opelika Alabama on June 29 Sheriff W B Jones of Lee county was struck to death while attempting to arrest a Black man who had caused fatal harm to his wife and wounded two others. The slayer was fatally hurt soon after by a posse.
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt urged University Club women in Utica New York to use their privileges by participating in civic life and voting. She contrasted modern security at home with pioneer hardship and urged ongoing involvement with elected representatives.
W G Kendall, silver fox farm manager in Carroll Indiana, drafted a female alley cat to raise a week old motherless fox cub. When the cub's mother died the cat with kittens became its adoptive dam. Kendall kept one of the kittens while the fox mothered the remaining cub in amicable fashion.
The Sharon Kiwanis luncheon features William R. Pitts discussing why war is futile and how interdependence, international cooperation, and constructive machinery are needed to outlaw war and sustain peace. The talk prompts an open forum and future community events.
Miss Helen Davis, training nurse at Butler hospital, is home on vacation. Mr and Mrs Goodwell and family of near Sharon visited the Austin McClymonds family. Cecil Patterson visited in Pittsburgh. Austa McDanel and children called in New Castle. Harmony Baptist convention attendees from Lower Zion District included several families led by Mr and Mrs McDanel, Mr and Mrs Curry, H D McClymonds, T Westhoven, Oran Brandon and Florence, Gladys Stickel, Gladys Patterson and Margaret Jean Humphrey.
In Paris on June 29 the new fancy called the football dance gains popularity in smart halls. Dancers perform a toe-waltz inside a marked square with a colored balloon, flicking the ball to keep it within the area, with the best flickers judged the top dancers.
Maquoketa Iowa June 29 Poor prices for farm products push farmers to hunt wolves to collect the bounty. Fish and game commission says wolves are being killed in wholesale quantities for pay. Wolves have been scarce for years but the current drive could wipe them out entirely.
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