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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1908
Page
4
The Associated Charities lack funds to aid foreign workers in manufacturing districts while many local families, including a 17 year old breadwinner and an asthmatic father, rely on scarce city aid. Cases detail rent arrears, illness, and risk of foreclosures as they seek relief amid widespread destitution.
A death after weeks of bedfast illness exposes a widow and daughter living on $1.50 weekly from the city. Associ ated Charities has been essential to relieve hunger, with many similar cases and a few undeserving who exploit charity while avoiding scrutiny.
A Cleveland area analysis argues that the Collinwood school disaster resulted from low cost building plans and urges state laws to require independent architectural review. The author criticizes local boards for choosing unsafe designs and warns of similar risks in other cities and boroughs.
An elderly poem reflects on missionary zeal and cultural clashes, noting that heathens once devoured a preacher while considering chosen beliefs, and argues restraint in imposing creeds. It touches on sobriety, public safety, and a proposed city flag in Youngstown, amid Lawrence county oddities.
From the Ammendale Md novitiate Brother Alfred testifies to Father John’s Medicine’s merits for preventing pneumonia and curing colds. He notes it as nourishing and free from dangerous drugs. The medicine is sold by Geo. W. Clutton at 122 Washington Street, New Castle Pa.
A sermon uses the Isaiah quotation to warn against refuges of lies built from straw and board. It argues religion involves mystery but demands belief amid uncertainty, noting science and life hold unknowns yet require faith. It lists common refuges like skepticism and time constraints and urges steadfast trust in moral truth and the Christian Savior.
Dominick Sainato held on in jail playing a mouth organ as he awaits trial for the Duff murder. The report notes Calaute's attempted suicide in the adjoining cell and their tense shared confinement. Calaute, torn clothing and a grim mood, seeks death rather than a June term of court.
W. B. O Connor sustained serious injuries after slipping and falling down an elevator shaft at Armour Company's warehouse in Youngstown last night.
The sale and use of the wheel has grown yearly with production matching former peak levels when riding was a fad. Riding is no longer a fad but a practical time and money saver and the quickest transport for over half the population. It is cheaper and more reliable than street cars and adapts to any street. The Columbia Hartford Iver Johnson and Pierce models are offered by Patterson Stationery Co. See them now. they are described as beauties.
Column notes a heated local option battle with Prohibitionists opposing liquor controls. A Geneva magistrate fines two boys for Sunday school absences. Smug remarks on weather, scandals, and a Baltimore man’s disinheritance mingle with jokes about Indians and lent fish peddlers.
The piece jokes that jails are empty and officers idle, questions the value of frequent sheriffs elections, and jokes about a ring found by a mail carrier named George Swisher after it lay buried in snow. It also recalls a boardinghouse mistress praising prune as winter strawberries to amuse readers.
A terse editorial notes frenzied financiers face jail while farmers focus on cider mills and mock city folk. A Galitzin dispatch reports five feet of snow blocking New Castle streets, impeding travel as an out building of the Pennsylvania Railroad lies buried.
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