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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1925
Page
8
A News reporter and a party of news representatives were hosted by the Sells-Floto publicity department after a Wednesday performance. They toured the lot and dined in the big performers' cook tent. The meal, served to the squad, contrasted with rough food stereotypes and included a close encounter with a performer recently finishing an aerial act.
Enthusiastic New Castle audience enjoyed the Sells Floto performance and commended the clean cut personnel. The animal acts received high praise as peerless in the circus world while the costumes and novelty features drew favorable comment.
New Castle merchants prepare for the straw hat season with stocks of hay designs and Brill lant bands, aiming to adorn Pa Newe's noble brow as warm weather approaches. Local salesman predicts heavy demand and a broader brim will be popular this summer amid gaudy bands and very light weights. The piece notes that nearly 12,000 workers nationwide in factories making coffins and undertakers goods at the last census.
Station WOAT in San Antonio reports being heard elsewhere with R E Davenport first to report reception. A former New Castle musician Mrs H Willard Brown now Betsy Brown supervises Saturday clagatcal programs at KYW Chicago. KDKA has reports of reception from Turkey France Belgium with Turkey programs from midnight to five am. FHT seems in conflict with Chicago stations and WHT owned by former Chicago mayor W H Thompson faces hostile wartime sentiment.
His stationt is located at Deerfield but the studios are in Chicago. A very pretty fight trewing between five major radio manufacturers divides sides. AT&T and Western Electric back one group while RCA Westinghouse and General Electric align with the other. Indianapolis motor races will be broadcast this year from WGN Chicago and WFRM Indianapolis.
Broadcast schedules and musical programs from multiple stations in 1925 to 1928 include Cleveland W E A R programs with Masters Standard time 360 meters on May 16 1925 featuring fraternity and college honors from Western Reserve alumni, and May 18 1895 360 meters offerings from Mont to New York venues. Also Albany Strand Theater Orchestra 6:30 PM schedule and a Health talk banquet at New York State College for Teachers.
A Paramount production recreates Fort Worth Village and Dodge City in exact detail for The Thundering Herd directed by William K. Howard. Stars Jack Holt Lois Wilson Noah Beery and Raymond Hatton portray frontier adventures with Indian battles and buffalo stampedes as the main draw at Negent theatre next week.
A compact item notes untidy OCR and lists items including a memories feature, a concert, Arlington weather forecast, and baseball scores. The fragment preserves mentions of a report by p. mi ockman and sections labeled A. p. Concert and Bp. time, with weather and scores hinted.
Hartern Standard lists 2 p m half hour of ballads and Negro spirituals by John B Thwing from Braddock. Providence 7 p m speech by William Jennings Bryan. Pittsburgh 8 p m Atwater Kent artists and Silvertown Cord Orchestra at 9. WIT New York 8 p m medal presentation to Elihu Root Owen D Young Mrs Harriman and Dr Park at National Institute banquet.
Word comes that Harry L. Richey of Columbus formerly with The News underwent an appendicitis operation in Columbus hospital on Wednesday and is reported in serious condition. His father Harry W. Richey and his wife left here this morning to visit him in Columbus.
Burrogate James A Foley was selected to succeed Charles F Murphy as head of Tammany Hall but declined the post. The Suez Canal yields an annual gross of nearly 315 million dollars.
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