Furniture Finish Promises New Look for Old Furnishings
A furniture finish is offered to restore old pieces with a new appearance. Available colors include light and dark oak, mahogany, cherry, white, black and walnut. Try a can.
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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1908
Page
2
A furniture finish is offered to restore old pieces with a new appearance. Available colors include light and dark oak, mahogany, cherry, white, black and walnut. Try a can.
The article notes upcoming changes in purchasing methods for all 16 Pennsylvania divisions, including itemized supply accounts and cross-division comparisons. It also covers railway updates, a detective anecdote about Detective Hamilton, car service reports, and personnel movements across several lines.
A New York doctor and colleagues traced baldness to scalp diseases and developed a treatment that healed nine of ten cases, restoring healthy hair. The Woodbury Institute method, once exclusive, is now offered in this city for home use at the Geo. W. Building.
Attorney S. P. Emery announces the pardon board will hear Rosario Serge on May 20 regarding a petition to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment. Emery gathers material and plans an exhaustive review of the case and the reasons for a commutation.
More than 100 men labor on the Greenville construction of the St Pauls Orphan Home building, advancing the project amid steady progress and planning updates.
Ellwood City May 11 1908 editor notes Dr J N McCormick of Bowling Green Ky will address physicians and citizens of New Castle and vicinity. Stevenson praises his Rochester Pa address to Beaver County Medical Society and urges unity cooperation and reform in medicine. He predicts a valuable lecture on medical progress and doctor patient relations.
Police investigate a robbery at H. C. Lavender's North Liberty street home. A $75 gold watch engraved H. Lavender and $3 in cash were stolen. A roomer moving to another town is suspected as the possible culprit.
In Pittsburg the Annex hotel will host a Thursday evening banquet and business meeting with men from Western Pennsylvania Christian churches. The aim is to organize men’s societies akin to the First Christian church group, following a convention resolution urging broader church cooperation. John Sayter leads the movement to unite all societies for practical work.
About 150 men are expected at the meeting with a number attending from this city, centered on missionary and evangelical lines.
Coal operators in Sharon and nearby counties declare the 1906 07 scale remains in force for two more years after the Toledo agreement and the UMW referendum in Ohio Indiana and Western Pennsylvania They will not attend future joint conference sessions except to settle minor changes The nine hour day 55 cent pick mining rate and 243 day wage are fixed terms affecting nearly 2000 miners across the two counties
City Electrician W. S. Devlin installs two Citizens telephones at the circus grounds on Grant street for police department use in emergencies. The move aims to speed communication during incidents requiring urgent response.
The Catholic Federation of Youngstown, organized recently, will hold a large open meeting next Sunday to discuss activities and upcoming events.
Five detectives tracking the Salem police murder last April 7 pressed to arrest the burglar. They searched Harry Caler's home in West Bridgewater after Mrs Caler invited a search. While officers searched Mrs Caler allegedly warned the suspect along the Ohio river bank, and the gunman fled after a night train encounter.
The Holzbach home at Salt Springs between Youngstown and Niles is believed to house gold in mortar foundations sand plaster and callar cement. Assayers in Pittsburgh confirmed gold in a large sand bank on the farm and plans are underway to mine the ridge sand used in building. Dorothy Jackson of Beaver Falls visited Pittsburg Street guests Monday.
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