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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1925
Page
6
E A White argues that electricity can transform agriculture by lowering costs and improving farm life. He notes rural innovation, declining isolation, and rapid societal links via mail, phone, radio, auto, and roads, while citing a 1922 migration of about two million people from farms.
Prof. James E. Rice of Cornell summarizes a decade long study on hen house illumination. He argues artificial light lengthens the laying day safely to raise fall and winter production while maintaining the hen’s natural capacity. He warns improper use boosts none or too much and endorses a 40 watt Mazda lamp with a cone reflector six feet above the floor to guide birds to feed and roost as needed.
Leaders in farm electrification argue electric power enhances home life beyond dollars. Dr. Stewart of Minnesota says farmers seek convenience and happiness from electricity regardless of profit. Aylesworth of NELA claims electricity could extend farm women's lives by 15 to 20 years and turn misery into happiness.
Owen D Young of General Electric urged farmers, power companies, and manufacturers to unite to electrify farming. He urged farmers to lead, study electrification, co operate with utilities, and push for practical farm electrical gear. Utilities should create agricultural departments and gain farming know how. Manufacturers must invest to create farm ready machines.
In Lowell Massachusetts a healing miracle is claimed as Alma A Gelineau sixteen years old, long crippled, shows steady improvement after a flame colored spot on her foot spreads, forming a heart shape. Physicians had foreseen death, but relatives attribute the change to divine intervention.
Kansas City mourns the burial of the hospital patient known for six years as Doctor Kinsey. Since a May 7, 1919 ambulance call to a Salvation Army station, the elderly man in evening dress remained unidentified. The burial ends a long mystery and leaves the waiting family without answers.
A well dressed man staggered into a station dazed and was thought intoxicated. At the hospital he regained consciousness briefly, suffered a paralytic stroke, and later became speechless and unable to communicate. He muttered about going home and never recovered.
Tommy Reid, aged 13, who supported his widowed mother by selling papers, followed a lead from a stranger to a fake collection for $72. He tracked the man to Fourteenth Street, identified him peddling candy, and helped bring him to justice. The thief, Philip Huston of Brooklyn, 33, is serving a penitentiary sentence.
A policeman named Huston was arrested again and records show he had a prior conviction on the same charge. The note implies a pattern of prior offenses, underscoring ongoing legal issues surrounding the officer.
The National Forest Reservation Commission announced the addition of 21 000 acres to the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire. The expanded area brings government land to 462 200 acres with an investment of 8 870 000 dollars and plans call for growth to 960 000 acres. The purchase adds 38 000 000 feet of softwood and over 35 000 000 feet of hardwood, with expected annual yields of 7 000 cords softwood and 2 000 000 feet hardwood. Total timber stock nears one billion board feet, over half softwood for print paper.
Captain William H. Houghton chief of the United States secret service in Philadelphia said counterfeiters are scarce and the money-raisers are in federal penitentiaries. He noted far fewer complaints now and described counterfeit money as almost a vanished practice. Wakefield News personals requested.
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