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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1908
Page
4
Evening edition from The News Company of New Castle outlines partnership owners Mrs eseadwell and L Rentz with manager Welle. Subscription costs 20 cents weekly, five dollars yearly for local, one dollar annual for mail daily. notices request correspondence on public matters from county readers. checks and money orders to The News Com New Castle.
An optimistic report from Superintendent Amsbury says weeks more drought will not curb New Castle’s water supply. The city enjoys abundant springs and clean drinking water, unlike towns in Western PA and Ohio facing shortages and epidemics.
A report argues the upcoming squirrel season will draw many hunters to western woods and New Castle despite scarce work. It warns of self inflicted injuries and accidental shootings from inexperience, notes failed protective legislation, and cites State Game Commissioner Joseph Kalbfus speaking at a Y M C A lecture.
Police seek a well dressed highwayman who mingled with theatergoers at Times Square Station and knocked a widow, Mrs. S. F. Stewart of Gramercy, to steal her silver purse containing $20.
George Lewis Wellington of Annapolis, a Naval Academy graduate and Maryland senator’s nephew, died by chloroform in New Orleans. He left a stark address to the press claiming fatigue with society and asking publication of his full notes, listing varied roles from midshipman to engineer student.
A collage of quips and riffs cites Maud Muller Paul Revere and Casey as favored subjects of parody across papers like the Louisville Courier-Journal New York Mail and Cleveland Leader. Notes on weather politics dating and odd social jests close with a Jackson banker tale and a YWCA cafe scene.
A New Castle column rails at dog nuisances and Sunday chicken dinners while noting ample water and beer. It criticizes a proposed ordinance removing appointive offices and suggests extending it to councilmen. Judge Porter condemns gambling at county fairs and calls for broad restraint.
Members of Lawrence Commandery No. 62 K T are asked to send their cards by September 24 for the twenty fifth anniversary. James P. Toler is the eminent commander.
The Philadelphia North American praises William R. Hearst for exposing Joseph B. Foraker as a defender of corporate greed and foe of progressive reforms. It argues Foraker's Senate opposition and ties to railroads and trusts damage the Republican cause while lauding Hearst for revealing political corruption. The piece criticizes Taft’s handling of Foraker and praises the exposure as a national service.
The World views Senator Foraker as a public tragedy not a private downfall. It argues his secret Standard Oil ties stained his career and taint his political legacy, while noting Taft severs ties, the GOP abandons him, and public conscience condemns the corruption linking the senator to the oil giant. The piece cautions that the oil power endures despite Foraker’s ruin.
Joe and Benjamin Samuels, six and seven, were arrested on malicious mischief charges by Mike Bola of Shadyside avenue. Bola alleged the boys spoiled $40 of garden truck but agreed to drop the case if they plead guilty and pay all costs.
The Canfield village fair consumes all horses forcing the funeral of Stanley Pares to be postponed until Thursday.
Roosevelt takes charge of Republican campaign once Apathy is removed, with Hitchcock and Crane to join soon. He plans frequent White House briefings with national and state leaders, may personally stump if Bryan presses hard, and vows an immediate investigation into Governor Haskell of Oklahoma if proof exists. Bryan fires back with a telegram demanding evidence and exoneration.
Dorothy Anson Dodge the 19 year old daughter of Pop Adrian Anson and her husband Arthur C Dodge of Montclair New Jersey have gone on their honeymoon in parts unknown after secretly marrying in Hoboken last evening. They have not yet communicated with relatives and there is reportedly no opposition to the match.
Daniel J. Sully once dubbed cotton king of his street left Cerro-Coloradoining to take a clerk job at Hayden, Stone & Co. in New York. He vows conservatism and says he is quitting speculation forever to prove a single plunger can change.
A foreigner named Stiney Circum was beaten by a mob in Youngstown last week and is reported to be in a dying condition due to tetanus from the injuries.
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