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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1917
Page
15
Bowser offers a week in the city to a lonely landowning farmer and family. The couple and four children accept and brighten up with hospitality. The farmer vows to improve his farm and Bowser pays fifty dollars for clothes after the guests depart.
The piece imagines briefly living in ancient times to study customs and civilization then traces barter to coinage and writing. It notes the Society Islands barter, the evolution to money, and how banking links to human needs, urging curiosity about historical money systems.
The article traces gold’s enduring value and reuse from ancient times to modern coinage. It cites the Comstock mines saga with riches and ruin, notes various metals used as money, and ends by praising the enduring prominence of the American dollar.
A concise meditation on thrift as self denial for future gain. It frames thrift as a challenge to indulge present pleasures and as the exercise of willpower shaping moral stamina.
Thrift and efficiency are presented as the foundation of individual success and overall progress, emphasizing frugality and self discipline as core virtues. The text argues thrift underpins personal achievement and, by extension, societal advancement.
A discussion on thrift education as a tool to influence current society and reform future national development through disciplined saving and prudent resource use. It argues that teaching thrift fosters responsible citizens and broad economic stability.
A midcentury editorial argues that fattening the purse by sacrificing living standards is false thrift. It notes 27,011 die yearly in New York County with 85.4 percent leaving no estate and urges teaching thrift to children like reading, writing, and arithmetic, stressing self-imposed discipline.
An older widow report notes that thirty two percent of widows over fifty five in America lack necessities of life. The finding highlights hardship among senior widows and calls for support measures.
After a 12 year courtship Harry Gorham Farnum of New York marries Viola Evelyn Trueman of Boston. Farnum first proposed when she was five. he was a Cornell freshman then. They wed in a Congregational church after obtaining a city hall license with her parents present.
Bernard Junge believed his son was killed in a Poseyville train accident and prepared a burial. The son, who had escaped an insane hospital, returned home hours before the funeral, causing his father to pay for a coffin and burial for another man.
In Urd Neb an auctioneer selling the effects of Mrs Elizabeth Currie an elderly recluse uncovered an expensive toilet set and silverware hidden under quilts. When he lifted a quilt three silk wrapped packages spilled containing eight thousand dollars in cash.
In Brattleboro Vermont sixteen year old Charles Norman spotted a fox tail sticking from a hole and grabbed it. He pulled the tail free and the fox was released unharmed.
Theodore Jennings aged nine and Carl Ferguson aged seven were found near starved in a box car in East St Louis after being locked inside for about 60 hours by a tramp who split their school lunch. They had no food or water and only began to scream as the train stopped.
In Marlboro Massachusetts Edith Cadell of Lowell donated a pint of her blood to her father Robert Cadell who suffered a hemorrhage at work. Doctors say the transfusion saved his life and he is on the road to recovery. Edith also recovered and a reunion is expected soon.
Ida Levine, convicted in general sessions, receives six months to three years in the penitentiary for a scheme that swindled Jewish women on Manhattan's East Side. She lured investors by promising high profits and 50 percent interest, selling jewelry at inflated prices and misappropriating funds including a $1 200 loss to Lena Krieger.
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