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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1925
Page
4
The piece blasts the Pinchot plan collapse as coal operators reject proposals and Congress is urged to act. It accuses monopolies of exploiting the public by keeping coal prices high while wages lag, calls for mandatory disclosure of operators and miners books, and argues for lasting laws to prevent future strikes while preserving the right to rest and work.
More than 300 subscribers shared in holiday distribution of savings checks this week at the First National Bank. Over 12000 dollars was saved by subscribers in the past year, with a larger club size than Ironwood’s comparable program in the county. The bank plans further growth and notes the savings idea’s rise alongside other thrift plans in recent years.
The Christmas Savings club, started by the First National Bank three years ago, grew deposits yearly and is expected to nearly double its 1926 totals. Originating in Muskegon, the plan was adopted by Union Trust Co. of Harrisburg and Muskegon Savings Bank, with Michigan banks embracing it for systematic saving and long term deposits.
The article praises the filing of itemized city expense accounts for services rendered as a new standard of good government. It notes past failures to render detailed funds reports and calls for full, legal, moral accountability from Mayor Gilbert and Dr. R. L. C. Prout regarding trip and expense details, while urging action on a broader coal heat issue.
A fragmentary column blends views on Maine exports seed potatoes and a northern power cable project to Denmark with musings on democracy and power. It cites bootlegging, governance, and a critique of how elites cling to wealth. The text also notes solitary confinement in New Hampshire and references a controversial hippo potamus anecdote.
A historical reflection argues that solitude harms the weak and criminal minds alike, equating solitary confinement for a cancer patient with that for a criminal, warning it breeds bitterness and may drive toward insanity.
A collection of quick wits and gags from a small town scene. Jokes hinge on New Year resolutions, thrift humor, and everyday misadventures. Bits include a kitchen sink washing quip, misers like King Tut, a mail bag joke, a dress-stealing daughter, casual dating judgments, and a noisy diner with a missing clam in chowder.
A collage of humorous vignettes and overheard lines. The pieces include a felled streetcar mystery, a ticket agent hunting Belinda, a child’s chicken complaint, a Cockney tour of an American estate, an insistent insurance sample, a Southern preacher and prayer scene, a phonetic miscommunication on a train, a dry clerk’s report of a corrupt agent’s death by writer’s cream, and a Fargo marriage notice for Olga Benrod and Dr. Harry U. Winner.
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