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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1917
Page
5
A Cincinnati man coined Freezone a drop applied to a tender corn or callus instantly removes soreness and loosens the area so it can be lifted off with no pain. Freezone dries quickly and shrivels the corn without harming nearby skin. If your druggist lacks it, he can order it from his wholesale house.
The New York assay office cannot safeguard about seven hundred million in gold, sending it to the subtreasury next door. Delta grows as boxes crowd the vault aisle. no formal custody duty rests with the subtreasurer. Assistant Secretary Vogel arranges transfer to Philadelphia mint, swelling totals to well over a billion dollars in one place.
Staten Island residents threaten secession from New York City and possibly the state, demanding autonomy or annexation by New Jersey. They cite ambulance service cuts for contagious disease, delayed water service, and a planned garbage plant as grievances, with district attorney Fach expected to probe ferryboat transport of contagious patients.
New York faces a severe shortage of street letter boxes with only 3 047 boxes citywide, far below the needed 10 000. Postmaster Edward M. Morgan cites municipal obstruction: the Municipal Art Society required design approval before any curb boxes could be placed. Despite readiness to install, no arrival date is given as new boxes await approval and production.
Rudolph Bell, a multi skilled cook butcher and baker at the New York Zoological Park, oversees daily rations for 3000 animals from 6 am to 4 pm. He describes his job as amphibious and chameleon like, handling a vast list of foods for primates and other residents behind a guarded service court.
A year after initial doubt, efforts by the Prison Association of New York and others show widespread employment for released prisoners. Wages range from nine to twenty dollars weekly. Henry Ford employs hundreds, while New York relief bodies coordinate job placement and cooperative bureaus emerge in several states.
The Abydos is described as a floating workshop and not just a boat. In Britain only wristed finds could surpass its size and machinery. The hall spans three decks merged into one vast space with belt driven metalworking machines and a swinging crane able to lift tons. The crew totals 100, plus 150 unskilled laborers and 500 skilled Chinese artisans, overseen by English engineers and officers who are master technicians.
Authorities in Great Britain publish clear tests to distinguish real diamonds from fakes. A genuine diamond remains a clean dry drop rolled by a needle on its surface, while an imitation spreads when the needle touches it. A tumbler test shows a real gem clearly visible in water, while an imitation appears indefinite and hard to see.
An English or French front commander, after lengthy requests, used a bold note on official forms. He wrote I want these things because there is a war on over here. The simple phrase cut through the inquiry chain and he received his items.
Police found a stolen desertion with the engine running. The remark implies the thieves are still at large and active.
A dialogue explores belief in mind reading as the secret behind market insight. One character asks if mind reading is real and the other concedes it explains how market participants seem to know things others do not.
A historical note states that telephone lines in use within the United States during the year Te totaled 120 miles.
Ad touts Cascarets as a gentle nightly cleanse for stomach liver and bowels removing sour food and foul gases while easing constipation. Claims no griping and a ten cent box price with morning well feeling and avoided headaches biliousness indigestion and coated tongue.
Rev. W H Warner of Myersville Maryland credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with saving his life after suffering sciatica back pain neuralgia cramps and nervous dizziness. He asserts the medicine restored him to perfect health and urges readers to obtain DODD'S exactly as he used it.
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