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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1917
Page
13
A country farmer and his melancholy family accept Bowser's invite to stay in town for a week. The visit lifts spirits as mutual hospitality transforms loneliness into warmth, leaving Bowser shocked yet grateful when the guests depart with new hope.
S W Straus imagines a temporary return to a primitive economy in which barter drives early trade and money evolves from gold and silver bars. The piece connects ancient exchange to the modern banking story, noting how money and banking trace to barter and the need for a standard unit.
A 1917 essay explains gold’s vast reuse and its impact on prices. It traces gold’s enduring value, the myth of a finite gold supply, and how ancient, medieval, and modern economies used gold and other metals for coinage while noting the dominance of the American dollar today.
The text defines thrift as disciplined self denial for future gain. It frames thrift as the exercise of will, building moral stamina and steady refusal to yield to temptation.
A brief note emphasizes thrift as the base of personal efficiency and asserts that personal efficiency underpins all forms of success.
A persuasive piece on thrift education emphasizing discipline and self restraint. It argues true thrift avoids sacrificing living standards and notes that many die with no estate and that widows over sixty five frequently lack basic necessities.
Harry Gorham Farnum of New York after a 12 year persistence marries Viola Evelyn Trueman of Boston. The pair first met when she was five, he a Cornell student. Despite her father’s initial opposition, family consent followed and they wed at a Congregational church after obtaining a city hall license.
In Fort Wayne Indiana Bernard Junge returned home hours before a funeral for a man he believed to be his son. Descriptions matched then the real son arrived alive after escaping an insane hospital. He had to confront burying the wrong man and paying for the coffin.
An auction of Mrs. Elizabeth Currie’s effects revealed $38,000 in cash hidden in silk quilted bundles inside a trunk. The trunk’s top was lifted after slow bidding to display an expensive toilet set and silverware, then the three cash packages fell to the floor.
In Rattleboro Vermont sixteen year old Charles Norman captured a fox by grabbing its tail after noticing the tail protruding from a front hole. He pulled it free and let it go unharmed, reporting the encounter.
Theodore Jennings nine and Carl Ferguson seven from Rector Arkansas were found near starvation in a box car after being locked inside for 60 hours by a tramp angered when they would not share their lunch. They cried out only after the train moved and fought to escape at each stop until rescue.
Edith Cadell of Lowell donated a pint of her blood to her father Robert Cadell after a hemorrhage at work. Doctors performed a transfusion, and both father and daughter recovered. A reunion is expected soon.
Ida Levine, convicted in general sessions by Judge Crain, faces six months to three years in the penitentiary for a scheme swindling Jewish women on New Yorks East Side. She claimed to invest jewelry sold by wealthy wives at full value with 50 percent interest promised, taking about $30,000, and was found guilty of swindling Lena Krieger out of 1200.
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