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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1922
Page
2
Readable fragments describe a local notice about a public matter in the Ava city area near Rumst and Wak. The text hints at a scheduling or action by a local authority, with unclear dates or parties. Further context is missing to specify the event or deadline.
The walkout of railway shopmen widens as officials warn 800000 workers across main lines and clerical divisions may join. F. Grable and E. H. Fitzgerald met with Mr Jewell to discuss strategy while railroads prep bulletins to strip seniority and pension rights from nonreturning workers. Jewell asserts the labor board lacks jurisdiction and cites federal protection for strikers amid disputed wage cuts.
Lloyd Glotzback, husband of Mme Mutzenauer a prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera, faced an assault and battery charge in Monterey California on July 4. Judge Michaelis dismissed the case as reported.
Alumni associations across the county participate in Knox College campaign to complete the four second million endowment known as Old Smash by George Fitch. The effort culminates in a successful campaign with substantial community support in Knox, Galesburg, NL, and surrounding regions.
In North Dakota Republican primary coverage Senator Porter J McCumber appears beaten by former Gov Lynn Frazier with early figures showing Frazier ahead by about 20,000 votes in urban precincts McCumber's lead in cities dwindles as rural margins are yet to be counted The report notes McCumber's tariff bill battles and political dynamics shaping the outcome with scattered county results and stock market and agricultural price data also summarized for context.
A north bound Michigan Central train collided with a passing automobile near Allegan, ten miles north of Kalamazoo, killing two children instantly and injuring three others and a woman. The dead are Bernice Wheatley five and Perden Haas Fern Hays four. Maxine Hays two and others were seriously hurt.
Louise Gomez, former Lafayette, Indiana girl and wife of a Brazilian diplomat in Paris, died by suicide by gas. A letter found attributed her death to weariness of life.
Watermelons are selling in the New York retail market at 70 cents to 1.50 dollars per melon. Georgia growers are receiving from 3 to 1744 cents per melon, according to a statement by the state department of farms and markets.
Shade Blair, a farmer near Leslie Arkansas, was shot and killed. His stepson Ernest Morris, fourteen, is jailed charged with the killing and has admitted the shooting.
Mrs Ida Moore Small died at her home in Kankakee on Monday after a stroke and was buried in Mound Grove cemetery. Governor Small and his family attended with friends as Rev R F Eckley led a Methodist service and dropped a white lily into the grave. Thousands gathered at the governor's house lawn before the service, with many state and city officials present.
Despondent over the death of her husband Dr. Wallace Blanchard an orthopedic doctor Mrs Galifen Blanchard of 164 North Ridge land avenue Oak Park shot and killed herself on the sun porch of her home in Chicago on July 4.
The interdepartmental social hygiene board, created four years ago to fight vice and protect army and navy personnel, ceased to exist on Saturday after widespread campaign efforts.
Dublin reports the republican regulars in the Four Courts surrender after heavy bombardment by Irish Free State troops. One explosion, fires, and mined walls followed a morning assault. thirty or more wounded, several officers hurt, and 33 prisoners taken.
In Philadelphia on July 3 one bandit is believed killed and two Textile National Bank runners and a policeman were slightly hurt as eight men tried to hold up the runners in the city’s northwestern district.
Detroit reports a 10 to 1 ballot in favor of calling a national strike by the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railway Shop Laborers. The vote was announced in Detroit on July 1.
Alfred Bettinger, lawyer and president of the Oslo National Life Insurance company, long-time Cincinnati practitioner, died at his home after a prolonged illness. He was sixty eight.
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