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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1915
Page
9
Peter Radford argues for Congress to prioritize port development and free ports to reduce wharfage costs for farmers and industry. He cites 2B era maritime growth, current overland transport dominance, and the need to shift appropriations to ports that allow free vessel discharge. Aimed at broad economic reform, the piece promotes free ports as essential and attainable through targeted federal funding.
The piece argues farming requires a market system as essential as land. It criticizes only funding soil and seed improvements, urging a mega organization to unite farmers merchants bankers editors and statesmen to conquer marketing. The Farmers Union supports science and marketing and seeks government and commercial aid focused on marketing.
A medieval style fable uses Darius as king to warn that partisan factions and petty politicians hinder industry and progress. It urges citizens to settle disputes over trivial issues and keep public debate from derailing labor and commerce.
A long excerpt presents the Texas Farmers' Union opposition to women's suffrage as debated in the Texas legislature. It argues that women belong in the home and prefer family welfare over political rights, while acknowledging that women may have right to vote but should not be compelled by necessity to work or seek public power. The piece also includes moral and social appeals, contrasting traditional gender roles with suffrage, and ends with a discussion of early gold and silver use.
Themistocles asserts he can wield a small town into a great city and warns that politicians who stir passions without building something lasting fail. True statesmanship is measured by action like plow and hammer, not mere rhetoric.
The article explains preserving cut flowers by placing them in a moist atmosphere or dipping them in clear gum water to form a transparent coating that locks in color and shape as they dry. It also advertises brands by M. E. Daly and recommends Bessemer Favorite Fresh Havana or LaLuma cigars as safe alternatives.
In northwest Persia Azerbaijan the Ghebers descendants thrive amid earthquakes and caves near Tabriz. The Secundereah cavern vents deadly fumes while Takht-i Suleimani rises 150 feet on a hill with a thirty foot wall surrounding temple remains and a blue lake, including a central fire temple cluster.
A weather beaten tramp, asked about his coat, quips that it suffers from insomnia since it hasn’t had a nap in ten years. The remark appears in the Christian Register as a light, humorous aside.
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