Wakefield City Commission holds June 12 1924 meeting
Regular meeting at City Hall with Mayor Rummel and five commissioners present. Bills listed include Illinois Electric Company and Michigan Bell Telephone. Motions approve minutes, pay warrants totaling 8664.30, painting work, and permit for Oscar Kumpula store. Communications from Hornibrook and Hart discussed. one abstent apology, debate over Memorial Community Building grounds.
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City Commission of
Wakefield
Illinois Electric Company
Reese
Reese Beet
Ieee Aee
The
Citator Publishing Company
Michigan
Citator
Buffalo Springfield Roller Company
Zion Institutions & Industries
Central Electric Company
Michigan Bell Telephone Company
Anton Ringsmuth
Eee
Issee Advocate Publishing Company
Oscar Feigley
City Electric & Plumbing Company
Electrical Rsay and Supplies
McCarthy
Hill & Manley
Hill & Manley Part Payment On Road Contract | Vested Covetveceseseess
Iogroo
A. J. Cayia
OGM
Peters
Shawbie
City Commission
Strough
Hook
Oscar Kumpula
Wico
WM. Jacobson
Why She Did Not Give Up Teaching
Nancy Banks, a determined widow who left an abusive husband to teach and write, confronts a legal threat from Henry Banks. Facing a five thousand dollar sum and a demand to sever contact, she funds a partial payoff and chooses to stay at Clinton school, planning a long teaching career and literary pursuit.
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Mra. Banks
Clinton
Nancy Banks
Henry Banks
Nancy
Henry
Sturgis & Baker
Central
Mr. Sturgis
Clinton School
A New Religion Night Apparition Warned by Porter
A hotel night porter saw a pale figure in white drifting along the hall at two in the morning. He halted the somnambulist, who apologetically explained he had been walking in a trance in his pajamas.
Almost Friendless Quote From Hana Copenhagen
A wry exchange notes social collapse after financial loss. One speaker asks about friends, the reply clarifies half remain unaware of the loss while the rest know nothing of it yet. Reflects social perception and irony in a Copenhagen setting.
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Kieds- Hana
Copenhagen
Woman Fined for Cutting Cat's Claws in Chester
In Chester Pennsylvania Mrs. M Schofield at 631 East Twelfth Street was arrested after a neighbor reported a cat claw trimming incident. SPCA Agent La Rose obtained a warrant and Magistrate Maitland fined Schofield ten dollars plus costs.
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Chester
M. Schofield
East Twelfth Street
la Rose
Spirit of Captain Kidd Haunts Old House in Ohio
New Lexington Ohio residents recount a haunted house on the Pleasantville pike near Lancaster Fairfield county built over 125 years ago. Legend ties Captain Kidd’s gang to a buried treasure in the back room with barred windows and eerie noises. tenants have fled after short stays as treasure hunts continue on the Baldwin farm now being platted for building lots.
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New Lexington
Ohio
Captain Kidd
Pleasantville Pike
Lancaster
Fairfield County
Kentucky
W. W. Kemper
Kempers
Wife Keeps Vow to Die When Spouse Is Buried
Alto Texas widow Mrs J G Hoover dies at home three hours after returning from her husband's funeral. She had vowed she would not live without him and died peacefully beside him. Hoover owned acreage near Alto. son Miller Hoover a noted local tomato grower and former state agriculture department associate in 1922.
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Alto
Tex
J. G. Hoover
Thie
Hoover
Miller
State Department of Agriculture
Tame Duck Overpowers Wild Hawk in Alabama Battle
In Cullen Alabama a large hawk attacked a pond bound duck from a duck ranch owned by Mrs John Ramsey. The duck fought back pecking the hawk in the eyes and blinding it. It held on to the hawk’s throat until the owner killed the hawk with a club. The duck remained unharmed.
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Cullen, Ala
John Ramsey
New Skyscraper Plans Big Parking Space in Chicago
A Chicago skyscraper will dedicate a quarter of its area to tenant parking, providing space for 625 cars. The building sits on a business street where motor vehicle parking has become a serious problem, and it will be the second largest in the city.
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Chicago
Owensboro Man Dies While Caregiving for Ill Wife
Calvin Lamar, 74, of Owensboro Kentucky, collapsed and died of heart disease while administering medicine to his ailing wife. Mrs Lamar is not expected to recover and remains unaware of his death.
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Owensboro
Calvin Lamar
Science Aims to Conquer Insanity and Aging
Dr. William J. Bailey told the American Chemical Society that endocrine research, especially gamma ray studies, could curb insanity aging and death itself. He claimed endocrine glands regulate brain function and that ionization could slow senescence and restore normal vitality, urging focus on rejuvenation and improved bodily power.
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Washington
William J. A. Bulley
New York
American Chemical Society
Bailey
American Endocrine Laboratories
Balfey
Beauty Expert Chooses Cook Over Models for Romance
Beauty expert passes up models in a New York romance note. The piece reads as a light paragraph aimed at a polite readership, describing a celebrity figure preferring a cook amid social expectations for mature women.
Romance of a Bolton fashion expert and his housekeeper
J R Bolton, a Bolton fashion expert and Retail Millinery association connoisseur, long a bachelor, marries Ethel Heiey Gough, London import and housekeeper. She, plain yet capable, once served dinners to Bolton and his private Napkin Ring club, before the couple wed for life.
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J. R
J. R. Bolton
Ethel Tieien Gough
London
Blame Gentie after wreck at grade crossing
Pat blames the train engineer after his car was struck at a grade crossing by a fast passenger train. Rescue party member asks how it happened as the wreckage is lifted. The remark reflects frustration at the collision and visibility in broad daylight.
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Begorra
Scoundrel Mark Leads to Doorstep Exchange
Two men, at odds, visited each other in turn. One wrote "Scoundrel" on the rival's door. Zoe Cther sought his neighbor and learned the master was away. A servant said he was at home, but the visitor replied he only wished to return the prior visit since the man left his name this morning.
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Zoe Cther
Paint company offers free five gallons to property owners
A large paint concern launches an advertising campaign offering five gallons of its best house paint free of charge to one property owner at each post office or rural route in its county. The offer aims to place its paint on a house in every locality. Interested persons should write the Kero Paint Company at 218 Seath Tilt St., Lewisville, Kentucky.
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Lts County
Ecach
Kero Paint Company
Seath Tilt St
Lewisvill
Kentucky
Wakefield City Taxes Due July 1 1924
Taxpayers are notified that the City of Wakefield taxes will be due on July 1, 1924. The notice specifies the payment deadline and directs that amounts must be settled by that date.
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Hornibrook
Hook
City of
Wakefield
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Rummel
Hook, Hornibrook
Hart and Strough
Mack
Hart
William G. Andrews Decorative Company
William T. Hornibrook
W. C C. Hart
Commission Hornibrook
Hook and Strough
Yeas, Hornibrook and Hart
Wakefeld, Mich
Sunday Lake Street
Putnam Street
Poundmaster
John Niemi
Myra Curtis Lane
Western Newspaper Union
Capt. Kidd
Tame Duck
Wild Hawk
City of Wakefield
A. D
George J. Hrbacek
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