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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1925
Page
4
A cartoonish scene shows Rastus and Sambo at an excavation site with shovels. Rastus flaunts a new enormous Ingersoll watch and jokes about its time while Sambo reacts with a quip. In a shop scene Mrs Newrich seeks piano music for her daughter and the clerk offers Twilight at 25 cents as a tune choice.
A reader quips about price and value, noting “that cost 50 cents” and asking for something near a dollar. The line mocks fashion rhetoric by calling the waistline the line of least resistance, reflecting playful urban wit in the Philadelphia North American.
Seventh annual event for the Upper Peninsula at the U P Experiment Station features morning tours of special interest, a farmers picnic at lunch in the Station grove, and an afternoon speaking program led by Dr. Kenyon L Butterfield, president of the...
R S Shaw of the Michigan State College experiment station will speak on college plans for the Upper Peninsula. The event includes a singing contest with 100 in cash prizes, a dairy cow judging contest with a pure bred Holstein bull prize, a poultry culling contest with a pure-bred pen prize, barnyard golf, and horseshoe courts for friendly matches.
The Minnesota Supreme Court upholds a district court ruling vacating streets and alleys in Hibbing’s old townsite on the Mesabi range to enable iron ore mining. It also rules that owners of two adjoining southern tracts are not entitled to compensation. The underlying ore is controlled by Oliver Iron Mining Company.
The Oliver Iron Mining company spent 3.5 million dollars for surface rights and moved Hibbing’s village to enable North Forty mining. The Supreme Court backed vacating streets and alleys to mine the North Forty and adjacent slopes, estimating 20 million tons plus 13 million tons available, with extensive labor and supply needs.
A comic line has Blonde Bess declaring only the installment man can force her to return an engagement ring. The quip frames a lighthearted exchange about debt and romance.
Health note urges flushing kidneys with water and Rad Salts daily. Advises four ounces of Rad Salts in water each morning to aid kidney function and reduce related disorders. Recommends physician checkups twice yearly.
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