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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1925
Page
6
Lawrence Mercer and Butler counties see more No Trespassing signs as the county treasurer Nessle reports rising hunter licenses. City hunters without farm friends in the district face fewer hunting spots, while farmers organize protection to keep trespassers off their premises.
Paris unrest grows as workers stage prolonged protests. The latest action involves the "Allo girls" who sat at switchboards with lights burning for two hours, signaling a sit down style strike that spreads through the city. The piece notes rising discontent among labor groups and the growing tactic of peaceful duration demonstrations.
On a day of mild protests telegraph operators and messenger boys let dispatches pile up while bakers announce two hour shop closures. Butchers oppose a slaughterage tax and warn of passing costs to consumers. These calm actions are described as still strikes and seen as gentler methods to settle wage and hours disputes.
Mercer PA Oct 23 The Mercer grand jury will consider approval of widening a bridge on the Mercer New Wilmington road edge of Mercer. County Engineer F P Graham told jurors bids on eight county bridge projects were well below estimates including a new bridge over Big Run between Sharon and Greenville. Two bid rejections revealed contractors undercharged for bridge work.
Harrisburg October 23 report that two men serving long sentences for second degree murder will receive rehearings before the state pardon board. Eugene Johnson Schuylkill and Gust Paulis Allegheny were granted rehearings along with four others while fourteen petitions were refused.
In mid ocean depth tests Captain De Carteret recalls the Colonia cable ship experiment described by George W. Gray. An empty soda bottle with a wooden stopper was lowered to 2,000 fathoms and returned intact, illustrating extreme water pressure.
Puzzle lists many numbered clues for horizontal and vertical entries including prefix before 7 and 1 joined in wedlock and various animal and object terms. entries span parts of speech, geographic abbreviations, and common crossword answers across two contiguously labeled grids.
A wooden stopper protruded and became a hydraulic ram under water pressure driving it 80 through the bottle base without a star fracture. Another seaman recalled lowering weighted meat to sink mid Atlantic and emerging tender after deep cold and extreme pressure.
Tourists visit the I R S log cabin on the state capitol grounds in Milmark where Theodore Roosevelt ranched in the 1870s. The D A R restored the setting with Badlands cedars and native plants, plans include an ornamental iron fence and D A R hostesses for the season.
Yesterday's puzzle answered shows clues for a word puzzle across two sections. It features hints like a cake in a nursery rhyme and a German militiaman in the Franco Prussian war, plus a fruit and a Great Lakes state.
Delegates from 7,000 miners in the Mount Carmel district express approval of International President John Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America amid the anthracite dispute. They commend Lewis's Atlantic City addresses and note few requests for relief from the union treasury, suggesting strong resolve to sustain a prolonged strike.
H C Ballance of Natal reports in a Natal newspaper that he saw two whales fighting a hair covered sea monster about 1800 yards from shore. He describes a polar bear like animal the size of an elephant that lunged at the whales and backed out of the water repeatedly, with a later sighting as the incoming tide brought the creature within view.
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