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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1925
Page
4
The Wakefield News announces its weekly Saturday publication schedule from Wakefield Michigan. Editor and Publisher N L Prezise is listed, along with postal details and subscription notes.
The Chicago and Northwestern railroad plans to petition the state utilities commission to discontinue the Wakefield to Ironwood scoot service, arguing winter demand justifies keeping two daily trains. Wakefield residents insist the winter trains are essential and should continue during a six month trial period, with a decision on longer term service to follow.
The Gogebic County Fair, aided by a new cattle barn and many new exhibitors, drew praise for its crops, horse racing, free attractions, and pageant. Secretary F. A. Healy and directors earned congratulations for expanding the fair from a small event seven years ago to a multi day judging endeavor for cattle, poultry, household arts, hogs, sheep, and horses.
A series of humorous vignettes touch on postwar life and modern woes. A Private jokes about drill duties while a captain questions him. A father notes college costs boosting his family. A wife complains of dowries and modesty while a husband jokes about Pittsburg. An electrician warns about high voltage as a jail visit yields irony.
A serialized tale unfolds with Sallie at the center as Anne breaks an engagement with Curtiss Wright amid a gossip fueled past. Friends discuss Major Christopher echoes and a mistaken identity involving Curtiss’s brother, revealing social pressures and the era’s hypocrisy.
Mr John son of National Life Insurance warns fat is America's top killer surpassing ocean travel, railroads, and early aviation. Fatty heart degeneration and poor diet threaten middle aged businessmen. safety tips favor sea travel, rail, and later flight. Gasoline price cuts interest auto owners as debates in eugenics, breeding, and a look at astronomy and ether theory accompany a scattered survey of science.
The text notes watch night customs before great events traced to Mark and Psalms, highlighting John Wesley and the Moravians for popularizing watch night services for the new year within Methodist tradition. It links early scriptural references to later religious observance and named figures.
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