Cash Prizes Offered for Essay Contest in Upper Peninsula
High school students in northern Michigan are invited to enter an essay contest run by the Northern Michigan Sportsmen's Association with $125 in cash prizes. First prize is $50, second $25, with $5 for ten honorable mentions. Essays must be 750 words or less, on wildlife incidents personally observed, no name on the essay, and must be mailed to Clarence B. Randall by May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper Peninsula
Northern Michigan Sportsmen's Association
Clarence B. Randall
Ishpeming
Wild Life Contest Committee
Peninsula Bank
Ishpeming Mich
John P. Norton
Bescanaba
John N. Lowe
Marquette
John T. Reeder
Houghton
Escanaba
Publication Order in Ramsauer Estate Final Account
The Gogebic County Probate Court sets April 28 1924 at ten o'clock for examination and approval of Alfred Kallander final administration account in the Charles Ramsauer estate. Public notice will run in Wakefield Advocate for three consecutive weeks prior to hearing. Judge William S. Baird presides. Irene B. Buchanan registers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Michigan
Gogebie
Bessemer
Said
William 38
Baird
Charles Ramsauer
Alfred Kallander
Wakefield Advocate
Flags Must Be Displayed at Polls on Election Days
A 1923 law requires each polling place to display a United States flag with staff and bunting at public expense. Wakefield already observed such display at city hall, and local officials will enforce flag display at all polling sites during elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Wakefield
Return of Flags to Clerks for Proper Custody
The article directs the return of flags to the respective clerks charged with proper care and custody. It notes the obligation to deliver flags to designated officials for safekeeping and proper handling under the specified authority.
Papyrus Grows Wild in Syracuse Italy
In Sicily, papyrus still grows wild, the only place in the world. Legend links its origin to Hiero of Syracuse who built a grand ship for Ptolemy of Egypt, with gardens and marble columns. Archimedes likely aided the gift, and papyrus spread along the Anape river where it has persisted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
Sicily
Egypt
Henry James Forman
Hiero
Theocritus
Archimedes
Ptolemy
Alexandria
Anape
Harper’s Magazine
Middleman’s profits and farmer self sufficiency
Words of objection by farmers against middlemen often fail yet a farmer who grows all he needs on his own acres, year round, gains independence from middlemen. The article suggests remedies lie largely in the farmer’s own hands and actions.
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Michigan
Hasbrook &Trezise, Publishers
Mich
Skillings’ Mining Review
Menominee Range
Menominee
Ascanaba
William 8. Baird
Irene B. Buchanan
Italy
Wakefield Hardware and Furniture Co
Harry & Swanson
Wakefield, Mich
F. O. B. Flint
Sedan
Prices J. C
Flint, Mich
Superior
Bapreas
Hanson Bros
Wakefield, Michigan
Middleman
Calumet
Durant
Bedell Motor Sales Co
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