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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1908
Page
9
The advertisement hawks Cann's Kidney Remedy as a treatment for backache urinary troubles and headaches tied to kidney and liver trouble. It claims the product has helped afflicted people for forty years and is guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 with sale through all druggists.
The Ohio and Pennsylvania baseball league will not dissolve. a reorganization basis will be set at the Pittsburg meeting Tuesday. Akron lingers undecided while pressure grows for a salary limit enforcement and a possible Akron exit to the Central league. Action on Sunday baseball revival is also anticipated in the state legislature.
Johnny Kilbane, the Cleveland featherweight, has multiple offers after a recent 25 round bout with Tommy Kilbane in a crowded Cleveland room. He is slated for a private six round match Thursday and faces a 20 round bout with Kid Potter in Columbus, with Dayton club seeking an January 8 appearance.
Averages from the O and P league yield top squads across batting stealing and fielding. The best batting lineup includes Murphy Akron, Fisher East Liverpool, Tarleton East Liverpool, Breen Akron, McKechnie Canton, Tooley Sharon, Woodruff East Liverpool, McAleese Youngstown, and Weimer New Castle.
A Butler exchange argues against joining the Ohio and Pennsylvania baseball circuit. It cites Sharon club losses of about 15000 to run the 1910 team, 14000 receipts, a 4000 deficit, and a 3000 personal subsidy, concluding Butler cannot afford fast league baseball. It notes larger towns like New Castle McKeesport and Youngstown show bigger profits or losses, but Butler lacks the scale for such costs.
The card lists bouts across cities including Pittsburg Boston Reading Oshkosh Los Angeles and Sydney with fighters such as Phil Brock Young Donahue Tommy Quill Willie Fitzgerald Eddie McGroarty Tony Caponi Patsy Brannigan Johnny Daly Billy Papke Hugo Kelly Tommy Burns Jack Johnson Al Kauffman and Jimmy Barry scheduled on various dates from November 30 to December 31.
In Baltimore on a plea of guilty the Baker-Whitely Coal company was fined 3700 dollars by Judge Morris in federal court for accepting rebates from the Pennsylvania railroad on coal shipments, violating the Hepburn interstate commerce law.
North Liberty notes list residents in recent moves including A J Stone at Robert Buxton farm and J A Spanglehour building a new coal storage unit. Visits include Jesse Mitcheltree to Mrs C C Denniston near Courtney's Mills. A Thanksgiving poultry shipment by Evert Neal. Evangelistic services begin at North Liberty church on Thanksgiving and continue ten nights.
Reverend P. Milligan of Gen d a Springs Kansas describes severe heart and nerve illness in his wife. After three doctors gave weeks to live, she improved after taking Dr Miles Heart Cure and Nervine, using it eleven times and still occasionally. The testimonial notes guaranteed benefit or money back.
The Interstate polo league will feature six towns Pittsburg Sharon Youngstown Canton Erie and Beaver Falls with Fred Jean heading Pittsburg Ted Lewis and Eddie Higgins guiding Youngstown Foley directing Canton and Fred Hull overseeing Beaver Falls. Thomas E. Dean of Erie is president and C Brown is secretary as a schedule committee drafts the season.
A Saturday meeting at Fellowship alleys organized the city’s first duckpin league. Six teams will compete with three players per team, five games per series, under American Bowling Congress rules. Ed Ramage named president. Co. BE. Brown, secretary and treasurer. E. M. Shay, Yoho, and Harlan on the schedule committee.
The Italian Methodist Episcopal mission on Howard Street will open a night school Thursday at 7 30 PM. Rev. G S W Phillips chairs the night school committee. Sessions planned for Thursday and Friday evenings with a possibility of Monday. Italian English books secured. Eva Davidson and Mrs Marshall teach.
Mr and Mrs C C Johnson welcomed 24 friends for an entertaining night with instrumental and vocal selections and contests. Prizes went to Mr Johnson and Arthur Shields. Prof C C Case is scheduled to open a 10 night musical engagement starting Monday December 7 with daily classes ending in a Saturday concert.
The John Dunsmore Opera Co heads a December lineup with The Barber of Seville in English starring John Dunsmore and Mme Monti Baldini at the opera house. Also on deck are Girls and Forty five Minutes From Broadway with Married for Money and Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Seat sales begin Tuesday at 9 a.m.
Critics on Broadway hail Clyde Fitch's play Girls as a standout comedy with strong reception in New York. Sam S. and Lee are noted in reviews for contributing to the production's charm and appeal.
The Thursday night performance of Barber of Seville at the opera house has been canceled, leaving patrons and cast members awaiting rescheduling details and refunds.
Pittsburg November 30 President Thomas Bray of American Sheet and Tin Plate, an auxiliary of United States Steel, denied a London story of a Anglo American tinplate combine. He said there is nothing in the report and he has not heard of any British combine. Local industry figures doubt the tale, recalling a prior unformed British iron mill coalition.
Ralph Gourley and Andrew Altieri were arrested by Policeman Thomas Augustine yesterday evening on charge of stealing brass fittings from the rear of No. 204 South Jefferson street. They will be held to await a hearing.
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