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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1923
Page
2
A Baltimore American reprint warns ultra busy executives that success loses value if it costs family love. It cites an Illinois utility executive who planned to give his son an hour of daily time as a Christmas present before dying two weeks later. The author contrasts this with a personal ethos of balancing work and cherishing children.
The Kansas and Texas papers trade tall tales about cyclones and oil wells. A Kansan recounts a 1006 oil strike sunk by a twister that left a gusher after money ran out. A Texan recalls a drought era raft where a cyclone swept away a well and left a mile-wide, yellow water lake with tadpoles.
A Paris wine shop owner known as Valat is acquitted of murder under France's unwritten law but must pay 10 000 francs to the locksmith's widow. He killed after the locksmith refused 40 000 francs, hoping to buy back his shop, with Verdun heroism cited in mitigation. The State Fair committee in Michigan plans attractions for Detroit from August 31 to September 9.
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