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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1908
Page
4
A 1907 editorial argues repealing loose law and adopting local option as the cure for liquor license issues. It urges Prohibitionists to join the broader effort, criticizing past sporadic campaigns and calling for united, sane action.
A three day Cascade bill delivers bright vaudeville with Martha Weis the liliputian star drawing strong crowds and a ladies and children reception planned after Wednesday’s show. Acts include LeRoy Charlotte Leslie Eva Thatcher and Jack and Clara Roof plus Lyman H Howe moving pictures and animal life reels with dramatic fire rescue and global life scenes.
Judge Galbreath ruled the Brooks license act constitutional affecting next year’s licenses while temperance factions in Butler Beaver Mercer and Lawrence counties react. Local option and targeted enforcement are urged to settle disputes, with Prohibitionists at a recent convention pushing for stricter measures.
Hints urge a gentle spring return as residents expect warmer days and a welcome in May. A job ad teases the reader about a possible position on the fource with a wordplay about beating it. March moods in Youngstown note bluster and a probe into the Ohio penitentiary looms, while a horse’s age remains unguessable from eyebrows.
A collage of humorous items and local notes includes jokes about inventions, gas in a Detroit church, sauerkraut prices in Pittsburg, church hypocrisy, a longevity joke, ad responses, saloon closures in New York, Lent starting, school discipline, curb market questions, and a pending dogcatcher harvest with a half crop peach forecast.
Wampum church circles are interested in two weeks of revival services started last night by Rev. Livingston. The services will be held in the M. BE. church every evening until they conclude.
The Star Family Theater hosts an all star show with three packed crowds last night. Onzo performs blindfolded barrel jumping and somersaulting while I J Miller presents a pictorial ballad. Arthur Cody sings and dances, Anderson and Reynolds deliver clever vaudeville, and Ruby Reynolds and Anderson perform a comedy sketch. Moving pictures close the bill along with fancy trays as prizes.
The Keystone Citizen reports a major temperance battle in Pennsylvania's Twenty fourth district over local option. It centers on Congressman E F Acheson and opposition led by John K Tener of Charleroi with backing from liquor interests. The piece urges Acheson’s return to Congress to advance sobriety and local option despite brewer pressure.
New Castle lodge No. 69 B P O Elks to hold regular session in Royal Arcanum hall Jackson block Neshannock avenue March 4 at 8 pm. WM. Knobloch E R. 16413 Chas H. Vanfleet, Sec.
Advertises a horse sale at Highland stables on Thursday March 5 seeking good and second-class horses weighing 900 to 1200 pounds. Signed P. W. Sprinkell. Also promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea claiming it strengthens the sick and weak. Tea or tablets sold by J. C. Wallace.
Prominent Methodist divine Bishop Thoburn will soon relocate to Meadville as his permanent residence. The report appears in the McKeesport News with other brief items from surrounding areas.
Judge Holt of Beaver County denounces liquor dealers in politics and says the barroom is not the place to promote political schemes as court convenes.
Oysters priced at 25 cents a quart advertised for Lent Wednesday at Fulton Fish Market now housed in Central Market located at 24 South Mill Street.
Sufferers of rheumatism in the county and beyond are invited to test Uric-O at no cost. A 75 cent bottle is mailed free via Smith Drug Co of Syracuse to any address with a doctor’s order. Paisley’s Pharmacy in New Castle markets Uric-O locally.
A physician outlines leading catarrh symptoms including offensive breath sneezing husky voice nasal discharge throat drops coughing and weakness. He says only Hyomel destroys the germs and promises a money back guarantee by George W. Clutton if it does not cure.
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