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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1925
Page
80
International News Service reports German painters and sculptors near collapse due to postwar inflation and deflation. The Prussian Diet laments dwindling art support, with few funds reaching artists and many forced to seek other jobs such as running bars or selling wares.
John W. Worthington known as the wolf of La Salle Street returns to Chicago from Mexico on a stretcher to settle with the government. Accompanied by his daughter Alice he seeks a stay of execution for his two year prison sentence for using the mails to defraud. He is partly paralyzed and near death, aiming to will his fortune and resign himself to prison.
A farmer phones First National Bank asking for a cashed check and a missing bill. The banker questions the bill denomination while the farmer, claiming Baptist church membership, digs into the humor of the miscommunication.
Edna Wallace Hopper promotes Hair Youth claiming dramatic hair benefits from a concentrated tonic. The testimonial asserts no gray or falling hair and thick luxurious locks, with application via an eyedropper to the scalp. Sample requests offered by mail.
Westminster College faces seating shortages as enrollment nears 420, the highest in school history. Daily chapels overflow with students. chairs are placed between the platform and first row, and the Argo yearbook office doubles as overflow seating. The freshman class reaches 160 students this year.
The cornerstone of the new Sewickley High School in Sewickley Pennsylvania was laid on a Thursday afternoon with school board members, citizens and over 300 students participating. The project costs about 350000 dollars and is on Harbaugh Street. Reverend D L Myers delivered the invocation. 4 H Conway the principal spoke brief ly. Lee G Purdy a school board member acted as master of ceremonies. America was sung by the students after a task from N G Parke supervising principal. W E Patton presided and placed the archives in the cornerstone while John Houston set the stone. Benediction followed.
Swedish geologists Henrik W. Munthe and Lenart von Post identify a dried outlet of the Baltic into the North Sea in central Sweden. The 9000 year old Svea river system shows 12 former beds and a 75 foot erosion near Degerfors, proving Baltic freshwater conditions then. The find parallels imagination of Great Lakes draining via Chicago River. A Save canal concept persists since 1916 despite other projects.
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