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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1925
Page
4
The Wakefield News of Wakefield Michigan publishes every Saturday with subscription options of one year or six months. Editor and Publisher H L Prezise oversees the paper as it enters mail matter of second class status.
The feature argues for parental rights in child instruction, praising the supreme court for protecting home schooling against state overreach. It contrasts fathers’ daily labor with mothers’ roles, then cites Oregon case law to condemn socialism and uphold parental nurture as supreme.
The federal supreme court’s ruling against Oregon’s plan to eliminate parochial and private schools upholds a key American principle. It rejects state socialism that would compel parents to surrender child education to the state and standardize instruction. The decision limits state power to require school attendance to public education and home instruction only.
A jumble of quoted lines reveals a domestic vignette with a cook, a mistress, Annie, and references to dust writing, ad edication, and a budding curiosity about first kisses. The exchanges mix playful mishearing and casual remarks, underscoring a light domestic snapshot.
A serialized story follows Sallie as she faces scrutiny over a romantic entanglement with Warren Fisher. Mrs Fisher demands separation, while Ellie Mitchell defends Sallie, arguing the husband’s flirtations stem from his own seduction of younger women. The confrontation reveals loyalties and social pressures in a mid 20th century setting.
Judge Gary criticizes the timid mental attitude of managers and calls the era new and bold. Mentions flying, diving, and scientific advances as signs of progress and contrasts proposed economy with expanding aviation and shipping plans. Notes indictments of Fall, Doheny, and Sinclair, rain in the corn belt lifting farmer spirits yet corn prices fall, and a long Bible-reading marathon at a California church.
A humorous letter from the Oregon Agricultural College Forestry Department publication Oh Sugar Pine features a pun filled plea to Hazel. The writer, signed “Weeping Willie,” uses tree and wood imagery to express affection and longing with lighthearted botanical wordplay.
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