Dedicating Clinic at Marquette Gogebic Event
A special edition marks the clinic dedication with Governor Brucker Senator Couzens and University of Michigan President Ruthven as guests. The Marquette Mining Journal reports on Miss Sean Miss-Dwyer’s Gogebic work aiding native communities, Indian school conditions, and urgent plans for tuberculosis and trachoma prevention, highlighting county nurse efforts and Indian settlement challenges.
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Brucker
Couzens
Ruthven
University of Michigan
Mikien
Var
Thuredan
Mamboutin
Marquette Mining Journal
Peninsula
Sean
Miss — Dwyer
Gogeb — Ty
Gogebic
Dwyer Finsr
Colum
Miss Dwyer
Silver Scott
Aspens
Dwyer
N’s Fund
Three Michigan Amendments To Be Voted On In November
Michigan voters will decide three constitutional amendments in the November 1932 general election. One would bar first degree murderers from parole and require life imprisonment with limited exceptions. A second would restrict voting on public expenditures to property owners, keeping renters from bond issue votes. The third would move voter residence requirements from townships to cities or townships. The legislature also approved recommendations on elections while rejecting spring measures for state aid to landing fields and highway bond refinancings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Northwestern trims Wakefield train service to seasonal sole link
Northwestern officials announce that Train A, a combined passenger freight and express service, will be the only rail connection for Wakefield in the near future. The afternoon scoot is removed from timetables and will resume November 1. A morning mixed train from Ironwood will operate daily except Sundays, delivering express parcels to the local post office by noon. The Ironwood to Wakefield service will be extended, adding several days to the current schedule.
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Wakefield
Ges
Northwestern
Ironwood
Marenisco
Ashlund Settles Damage Case For 1600 Settlement Reached
Attorneys for Thomas Ashlund settled an action brought by Oscar Mackee of this city for injuries alleged from a blast. Mackee, local power and light superintendent, claimed a fragment of rock from Ashlund’s construction blast struck him several blocks away.
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Ashlund
Thomas Ashlund
Oscar Mackee
Mr. Mackee
Power and Light Department
Thomas Ashland
Mackee
Personal News From Wakefield Area Summer Plans
Wm. Niemi arrives home for summer vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Al Cormier of Little Falls visit two weeks. Arthur Tressel returns from Carleton College. Miss Phyllis Piechta vacations with parents at Wico location. Ed Neidhold family to Appleton for a golden wedding anniversary. Jona Frederickson fresh from North Chicago teaching, plans to visit. Mrs Frederickson and daughter return to North Chicago. Elizabeth Adams and Velma Sherrod plan to sail from Montreal to visit Europe. Clarence Eckert stays with parents in Winona. August Monti hosting visitors from Atlanta. Alicia Kampula summering in New Hampshire. Howard Anderson and Mrs Carter involved in improving after near accident. Einer Hyppa, Peter Niemi, and Wm. Niemi motor to Minneapolis. Mrs. Hyppa joins later. A. F. Olson and daughter Hazel plan southern Michigan trip. Hazel to attend U of Michigan summer school.
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Wm. Niemi
Aeland High School
al. Cormier
Little Falls
Minn
Witc
A. Cormier
Ed. Neidhold
Grant Leman
North Chica
Frederickson
Elizabeth Adams
Velma Sherrod
Montreal
England
Germany
Austria
Italy
France
Ogee
Wakefield
Clarence Eckert
Winona
William Carter
Waring
Einer Hyppa
Peter Niemi
Minneapolis
Fred Mackey
Niemi
University of Minnesota
A. F. Olson
Miss Hazel
Wilma P
Southern Michigan
University of Michigan
Olson
Reeder Hubbel
John Holland Dies After Long Illness
John Holland died at his Bessemer home Sunday evening after more than two years of ill health following a paralytic stroke. A Gogebic county representative at Lansing for seven terms and longtime postmaster at Bessemer, he was 70. Holland had lived 65 years in the Upper Peninsula, worked as a blacksmith, ran a grocery and real estate business, served as Bessemer mayor in 1906, and held six Republican terms in the state legislature after earlier serving as a Democrat. Funeral services were held Wednesday at St. Sebastian’s Church with burial in Bessemer.
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John Holland
Gogebic County
Lansing
Bessemer
Holland
Upper Peninsula
St. Sebastian’s Church
Mines in District Open on Curtailed Basis
Mines continue limited operation with Sunday Lake shipping three days weekly while Plymouth and Wakefield pits run daily. Plymouth opening this week may reduce unemployment as work begins on the Tula road protest and the new nasium, both expected to start within weeks.
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Plymouth
Wakefield
Tula Road
Commission Prepares Additional Budget
The city commission plans to add a $30,000 emergency appropriation for road and sewer work to expand public improvements and relieve unemployment. Funds will be taxed in 1931, beginning July, with an elevated tax rate per thousand dollars to support the relief program and auxiliary public works.
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Supreme Court of the An
Brightsman Elected to Marenisco School Board
Ray Brightsman was elected to Marenisco township school board Monday by 123 to 80. He defeated Mrs Myrtle Miller. The winner succeeds Homer Reace who did not seek re election.
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Brightsman
Ray Brightsman
Marenisco Township
Myrtle Miller
Homer Reace
Why Do You Like or Dislike Your Town
A Wakefield writer criticizes the city in a contest honorable mention piece titled Why Do Like or Dislike Your Own Town. The essay laments a hopeless place with decaying Main Street, second‑hand buildings, and cynical locals. It contrasts beauty and mining wealth with lack of civic pride and hoped for monuments to celebrate miners.
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Newspaper Institute of America
Michigan
School Board Elections Set With July 13 Ballot
Summer months bring construction for a new building to alleviate crowded conditions as enrollment rises. An annual school election is scheduled for July 13 to fill a three year term and a one year unexpired term. Dr H A Tressel seeks the long term seat and Dr L G Wilson the short term.
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Wile
Toot
AG Juulen
Seale Baschol
H. A. Tressel
L. G. Wilson
E W Hopkins Retires From Range Office in Ere Wood
E W Hopkins retires from the range office of the company long based in Erewood. After his departure, several changes in office personnel have been rumored and there is note of a cemetery stake. Hurley Miner reports.
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E. W. Hopkins
Compan
Erewood
Castile
Hurley Miner
Marenisco Graduates Eight High School Students
Commencement exercises at Roosevelt school Marenisco honored eight high school graduates Rev Axel Pearson Evanston Ill delivered the address Other speakers included the M pastor of the club and Mr BE Pole who played violin Virginia McN was the honoree
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Roosevelt School
Marenisco
Axel Pearson
Evanston
Ill
Lub
Pole
Virginia McN
5,000,000-Ton Mines Dominate Lake Superior District
The Lake Superior iron ore district contains 75 mines shipping 5,000,000 tons or more, totaling over 1.5 billion tons for the district and accounting for 71 percent of shipments. Mesabi leads with 42 mines. Vermilion Gogebic and Marquette ranges hold major shares, led by Hull-Rust, with 100,000 tons in a single year and a history dating back to the late 19th century.
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Lake Superior
Minnesota
Mic
Wisconsin
Mesabi
Minesota
Cannons
Michigan
Marquette
Menominee
Cemerece
Iarquette
Pene Superior
Sone
Penn Mines
Chapin
Gogebic
Colby
Norrie
Sunday Lake
Vermilion
Soudan
Missabe
Commodore
Lake A Ror
Arcturus
Kerr
Plymouth
Uhederground
Lake Superior District
Hibbing
Minn
Canisteo
Coler Jaine
Oe Oliver Iron Mining Co
Gogebic Range
Winegar Mill To Close Indefinitely Amid Lumber Shortage
The Bonifas mill at Winegar will close for an undetermined period due to limited lumber supply on hand and demand. Rumors point to a near-term shutdown of the new mill at Marenisco. Prospects for lumber market improvement appear uncertain as winter reports suggest no imminent upturn. Nearby, Mr and Mrs H I Da of Sault Ste Marie and Mr and Mrs Davies of Munising visited W J Davies this week.
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Winegar
Marenisco
Tahera
H. I. da
Esecanaba
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Children’s Hospital
Arthur Tressel
Northfield
Carleton College
Phyllis Plcchta
National Kindergarten College
Wico
Commission
All Wakefield
Ister
Eureka
Ironton
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