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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1933
Page
2
The Wakefield News from Wakefield Michigan appears as a small public notice in this edition. It notes the publication is registered as mail matter of the second class under the 1870 act.
The First National Bank of the city begins distributing ten percent of impounded deposits as a Christmas present to depositors after reorganizing under federal regulation. The institution was the first in Michigan and the Northwest to reopen since the March moratorium, with trustees and officers guiding liquidation and partial repayment as employment and conditions improve. Governor Comstock proposes a gross income tax, but critics urge clear reductions in government waste and balanced reform before new taxes.
Michigan’s Conservation Fish Division reports 92,000,000 game fish fingerlings and 110,000,000 commercial fish planted, with total weight affected by transportation and weather delays. Deep snows halted truck delivery, delaying fall plantings. hatchery reports from Bay City and others are incomplete. Rock trout fingerlings accounted for about a third of game species, with millions of trout fingerlings and bass distributed to lakes and streams.
A lengthy plea outlines what readers should demand from their paper, then pivots to state politics and open debate. It covers advertising’s role in funding papers, urges local support for community drives, and warns against leaving advertising dollars to distant firms. The piece shifts to discuss Father Coughlin vs. Al Smith, noting public opinion, media bias, and the right to free speech in a broad Midwest context.
The article highlights child patients at the Michigan State Sanatorium, noting fear and care behind institution doors. It explains modern tuberculosis control through examining all contacts and treating whole families, emphasizing penny Christmas seals as the “protectors of childhood” funding early disease discovery.
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