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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1925
Page
9
Oelrichs, 34, prominent bachelor famed for wealth, will marry Miss Dorothy Hayder of St. Louis in Paris on June 29. His aunt Mrs. W K Vanderbilt gave him $500000 in 1912 for reaching his majority after remaining teetotal and tobacco-free.
John Gibson of Lancaster born May 2 1740 rose from Forbes campaign to capture Fort Duquesne to lead Western Military Department in the Revolution. He negotiated with Logan, served as PA convention member, Allegheny County justice, Indiana Territory secretary, and Indiana governor until 1801. He later acted as secretary until Indiana statehood and died April 10 1822 at Braddock's Field.
NEW WILMINGTON Pa May 2 Magle lovers heard an unusual program by the Westminster College Men’s Glee Club in the College Chapel directed by Prof Norval Brains with a Mandolin Trio and readings by William Heywood It was the club’s final appearance of the year and featured students from New Wilmington and nearby towns.
Terrace avenue school listed 4A as thrift champions with 27 pupils saving weekly all year. Names span grades 1B through GB and include Edward Shelley, Anthony Costl, Steve Herman, Helen Fredrick, Annie Chabok, John Hudak, Harry Karski, Steve Duda, Antionszte Labetski, Mary Jane Jordan, and Edward Astrakl among others.
Rose Ave School earned the Thrift Champion Pennant after a year with 80 savers each contributing at least one coin weekly. Students across multiple classes received Thrift Certificates or Thrift Army Pins, led by weekly savers listed by class and name.
A fleet of ten trans Atlantic liners will depart New York Harbor led by the Leviathan carrying about 1,300 passengers to European shores. A second group of ten passenger and mail-carrying steamers will also sail to West Indian and South American ports. Passengers include Senator and Mrs William Calder of Brooklyn and Thelma Morgan Converse among others.
Newcastle cinema goers are urged to see a new film at the Regent starting Monday. The management touts The Silent Accuser as the finest picture yet offered, with guest stars and a noted dog act, promising a show audiences will approve and praise.
The report lists passengers such as Col. Edward M. House and Mrs. House aboard the Atlantic Transport Hner with Minne wska, Bishop James Henry Darling of Harrisburg and Col. Henry W. Shoemaker sailing on the Holland America Nieuw Amsterdam, along with other figures and seemingly snippets about Tito Schipa and a San Quentin prisoner aspiring to be a writer.
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