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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1917
Page
5
The Wakefield Iron Co warns Wakefield merchants to first verify brass checks and call the company before accepting assignments or cashing due bills from employees. It notes boarding house keepers suffer when board bills are unpaid, harming both workers and local merchants. Signed by W. C. Hart, General Supt.
The school gardens this year consist of two square rods each with plots allotted to pupils lacking home ground. Grounds were prepared by the School Board, and pupils used tools to clear stones and loosen soil. Each student could plant up to four kinds of vegetables, often including rutabagas beets and carrots. Some planted entire plots with potatoes. Around 125 home gardens receive supervision. Despite a hailstorm most crops survived and further planting is planned as ground dries. A cow with calf is missing. inform Marco Diemo in Wakefield for a $10.09 reward.
Lord Davenport warns England’s food stock equals twelve weeks’ supply, with famine risk if it falls to seven. The rules urge meatless Tuesdays, limited use of potatoes, bans on light pastries, and bread sales only if twelve hours old. A separate crime note recalls two burglars looting a house and leaving a five dollar bill hidden in boots.
A promotional verse urges residents to support every forward movement and improvement. It praises boosting neighbors, friends, lodges, streets, and workers, warns against being a knocker, and calls for continuous effort to elevate the city to its final letter.
A call urges stopping the practice of tossing papers and debris into streets. The wind carries litter citywide into yards of residents who strive for clean premises, highlighting widespread disregard for ordinances and the efforts of conscientious neighbors.
County Agent Kadonsky reports weekly weather and crop conditions. Early part of week cold and rainy then warm growing weather. Planting nearly all done with a great increase in potatoes. Hay crops may be below average. Seed situation satisfactory. Farm labor scarce, el wate.
May ore shipments from five Lake Superior ports show Escanaba 1,105,068 tons Marquette 98,039 tons Superior 732,951 tons Two Harbors 118,858 tons total 6,283,612 tons. April total was 101,532 tons and shipments to June 1 this year are down 3,612,847 tons from the previous year.
James Conterio of Ramsay Michigan advertises a full range of household moving services with very reasonable rates and a contact phone, 7 F4.
The supreme board of directors announced an appropriation of 1 million dollars by the Knights of Columbus to establish and maintain recreation centers at principal army concentration camps. The action follows a general member appeal to continue and expand work started along the Mexican border last year.
An Ohio reader, E. W. Archer of Caldwell, testifies that his family has used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for years and always takes it on extended visits, asserting it is a dependable preventive. He notes the product is obtainable everywhere.
A violent hail and rain storm struck last Sunday night into Monday morning, breaking nearly all south facing glass and shredding tar paper roofs. The Jas Carelli greenhouse was ruined and losses are estimated around 5900 to 6000 dollars. Strangely, new mines and towns up the line remained untouched.
A 25.00 reward is posted for any watch that cannot be repaired. It notes that dollar movements are not considered acceptable, attributed to Bradley the Jeweler.
Dr. R J Mullen passed final medical corps exams in Stephenson Michigan and anticipates a Washington commission next month. Henry J Miller, studying music at Valparaiso, has a new song Down by the Old Wisconsin River gaining sellers’ interest. Orville Collick, Yale music graduate, will resume piano teaching September 1, seeking students at 220 Park St Ironwood Michigan.
S H Murphy, a Wellsburg NY druggist, extols Chamberlain's Tablets as the most satisfactory remedy for stomach troubles and constipation he has sold in thirty four years. The product is advertised as obtainable everywhere.
A collage of local ads and notices includes Daly’s three star cigars from Wakefield Cigar Factory, Victor and Pathe records at Hydar’s Ironwood, help-wanted for housework, watching services, sales pitches for electronics and furniture, a dog tax reminder, social updates, and community items on schools, mines’ hours, and patriotic Sundays.
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