09 May 1923
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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1923
Page
1
An international dispatch reports Chinese brigands threaten to send flesh tickets if troops do not withdraw. Lin Sheng describes captives including Americans and children on the Peking Shanghai express being mistreated as ransom fails. Day recounts his trip.
Dublin May 9 reports say peace talks between William T Cosgrave and Eamonn De Valera have broken off. De Valera ordered Republican Irregulars to cease hostilities earlier, with Senator Douglas as intermediary. Heavy fighting reported in Wicklow and Blessington as Free State troops search for De Valera who remains at large.
The fragment blends a playful ode to a beloved Sprig with a danish weather scene. It notes forty degree heat, winterlike branches, and a Christus Day mood as farms and animals wait for spring. The piece ends on the line that weather must be faced with the file.
R F Naill of Asia Development Company reports foreign captives, including Americans, in famine and fatigue after brutal marches by brigands in the Shantung mountains. Three thousand bandits advance north as Chinese troops pursue. all women missionaries are moved to TsIHa An Fu for protection.
Westminster College at New Wilmington convened a special meeting where Hazel Smith of Washington was named Freshman representative to the student council. Elected officers for the coming year include J. O. Courtney as chairman Miss Cornelia Gilkey as secretary and Samuel Shane as treasurer. Retiring officers led by John L. Miller as chairman and Mary B. Scott as secretary concluded their term. District missionary convention attendees Mrs George F Hegele and Mrs Herman Buchner will join Evans City events. Board of trade directors will meet at noon Thursday at the Elks club.
Clark and Clark in New Castle Springfield Ohio list marriage licenses for individuals including Charles Moy and Ines Kay Emmitt D Good Geraldine P O Pete Benson Katherine Kent Castle Leo J Cavender Mae Felvwenbach Harald W Critchlow Fae M Phillips and others across New Castle and nearby towns. The entries reflect couples receiving licenses in the period.
Washington reports that China is losing the advantages gained at the Washington arms conference due to chaos in Peking and the Shantung bandit raid. Officials note China’s government weakness has undermined hoped relief from foreign interference and strain on diplomatic leverage.
Led by Elekt bida from top steamship firms bids for the governments merchant fleet have been filed with the United States Shipping Board. Officials anticipate selling part of the fleet at satisfactory figures with bids opened May 28. Buyers may negotiate how many ships they take on a given route.
Executions issued by Walter Allen through attorney R K Aiken target 14 defendants tied to a tar and feather case during a Liberty Loan campaign. A verdict dated May 23, 1921 ordered $350 plus $292.22 costs, totaling $642.22, with payments reportedly unpaid.
Announcement made that the Highland United Presbyterian church cornerstone will be laid on Wednesday evening May 16 at 6 30 p m A tentative program will likely be finalized tonight Speakers will be focal ministers A dinner will follow the laying of the stone The completed church will rank among the citys most beautiful Rev C J Williamson has led the drive for a larger edifice for the growing congregation
J C Leonner secretary of Shenango Pottery announces a stockholders meeting set for July 12 to approve increasing capital stock from 250000 to 750000. Mrs Ethel Anderson of North St underwent a serious operation last night at New Castle Hospital and is reported improving. Superintendent Coulthard says the company buses will be demonstrated here Wednesday.
New Castle was struck by a late season snow storm that entered around 11 16 p m Tuesday May 8 bringing heavy whiteness yet avoiding frost due to cloud cover. Forecasters warn a possible cold snap may harm fruit and expect temperatures to rise slowly later in the week. Reports from Chicago indicate snow across the north and middle west while ships navigate ice floes on the Great Lakes.
Harrisburg May 9. Auditor General Lewis State Treasurer Charles Snyder and Senator George S Woodward led an open hearing against hundreds of amendments to the administration reorganization code. They argued the measure shifts authority back to a potentially dangerous reigning power and criticized the division of authority and secretary of the commonwealth on the board of public accounts.
President Wallace met Westminster College seniors and outlined their role for the upcoming commencement. Dr. J. W. McClurkin of Shadyside United Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, will speak at the graduation and celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his Westminster graduation.
New Castle school board on Tuesday chose Dorothy Beal to serve as dental hygienist starting next school year. Superintendent Ben Graham reported the clinic's success and urged expanding its scope to preventive dental hygiene under Dr R G C Luts. The move follows months of urging by the dental association for including a hygienist in the clinic.
The Scottish Rite Bodies on corner Lincoln and Highland avenues will begin wrecking the Knox homestead at 118 East Lincoln Avenue and the John Knox residence at 112 East Lincoln Avenue, plus two barns a shed and a garage. Sealed bids with $300 certified checks are due May 19. Salvage work includes fixtures and materials with brick kept on site. Additional adjacent property may be acquired to expand the site for the monster cathedral project.
At the New Castle plant of Seiberling Rubber Company several hundred tires and 1500 to 2000 tubes are now turned out daily as the tire rush season begins. About 250 employees work there, and the Seventh ward industry is becoming a stable, important part of the city economy.
On Tuesday evening May 8, New Castle public schools added several teachers to the faculties. Elected alongside returning contract-holders were Elizabeth Cole and Helen Alton for elementary, Allen Hage and Mate Collins for elementary, Harriet Sox for Franklin junior high, and Emily Johnson and Deborah Thompson for the senior high.
Death records list Rev Willis Burton from Buffalo New York F Edward Belland aged 66 from Delton Pennsylvania Mrs Filomemy Pelletrone aged 21 from Hilleville and infant Antonio MigHoal aged 4 with North Cedar street listed among the details.
Federal grand jury in Wheeling, West Virginia, returned eighty seven indictments alleging a whiskey running scheme involving notable local figures and Ohio County. Sheriff Harry Clouse of Ohio County and jail official Joseph Bennett are named, with Chester Thompson, S. K. Johnson, and William Schultz among those indicted for roles in transporting liquor and related abuses.
Philadelphia records report an inquiry into the death of Florence Kirk a graduate nurse at a local hospital whose body was found by her mother in her rooms. Physicians say she had been dead about two days with severe illness noted prior to death and a possible fatal complication under investigation.
A boy named Herbert Learneh ten years old from Windbar Pennsylvania lost a finger while playing with a dynamite cap. Other items note Bance Ohio bonds for a park, flags on election day, a governor granted a murder sentence reprieve, and various regional incidents.
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