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Wakefield Advocate

Location

Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America

Date

Aug 19, 1922

Page

7

Wakefield School District Seeks Coal Bids 1922

The Wakefield Michigan Board of Education will meet August 22 1922 at 8:00 PM to open bids for about 325 tons of Youghiogheny Lump soft coal for Wakefield schools and Halcyon Club. Coal to be delivered in gondola or F O B Wakefield cars. minimum carload quantities apply. The board may reject any or all bids. Abe Mathews Jr, Secretary.

Board of Education Wakefield Michigan Youghiogheny Halcyon Club City of F. O Abe Mathews, Jr

Wakefield Michigan bids for school transportation and wood supplies

Notice announces opening bids for transportation for school children on six routes with 100 cords of dry hardwood deliveries to Wakefield schools including High Central Industrial and Wico. Separate bids for 500 cards of hardwood to be delivered starting November 1922, with delivery quantities by school. Bids may be partial. purchases subject to Purchasing Agent approval.

Wico Thefield

Death Foretold by Physician in Fatal Fight with Death

Dr Clarence H Wall a New York City Ambulance physician dies at 38 after predicting his own death from a blood poisoning contracted via a hypodermic injection. He tested his condition with his instruments then faced death with scientific calm. his brother and two doctors confirmed his prognosis before he died at daylight. Also notes Dr Burton E Baker an X Ray expert died similarly. The piece ends with birth statistics from Detroit 1921 and foreign-born birth rates.

Clarence H. Wall City Ambulance New York Fall Wall Burton E. Baker Emerson Ida Ostermeyer Bessemer

Is Native Stock Dying Out in Michigan 1921 Births

Sanitarians with Michigan’s health department report 1921 births show foreign stock outpacing natives. Of 95,932 statewide births, 63,617 were to native parents and 82,324 to foreignparented families. Among women ages 15 to 44, natives numbered 371,600 while foreignborn women reached 172,300. 178 native births occurred per 1,099 native women.

State Department of Health Michigan

Eight Million To Be Spent On Telephones In Michigan

Expansion of telephone service in Michigan this year will cost about 8 million dollars, per Franz C. Kuhn. The Michigan State Telephone Company will seek funds from AT&T to finance expansion amid consolidations, with dividends suspended since 1914. Net gains and rising wire mileage are noted, as the company grows its stations to nearly 496 thousand.

Michigan Franz C. Kuhn Michigan State Telephone Company Michigan State Company Michigan Company American Telephone & Telegraph Company

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