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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1917
Page
9
A note urges residents to visit Bradley the village blacksmith for repairs when watches stop keeping time. It emphasizes reliable service and quick fixes by a local smith known in the community.
In the Probate Court at Bessemer on March 6 1917 Judge Curtis Buck presiding the case of Gust Mellstrom also known as August Mellstrom. The court orders the hearing for April 2 at ten o’clock in the forenoon and directs public notice by publication for three successive weeks in the Wakefield Voice newspaper.
Waldemar von Geltch, possibly the era's finest violinist in Wakefield, with pianist wife Mrs. von Geltch, presented a moving program at Town Hall. His Polonaise by Wieniawski and self composed Home Sweet Home variations drew deep audience silence. Flora Prentiss provided engaging readings and dialect sketches. The event featured a trio and raised $50 for next year’s committee, which announced Chau r The Chicago Male Quartet and other acts.
A piano recital will be presented at the Wakefield high school auditorium this evening March 31 by the pupils of Miss Zella Banfield. The program features four groups with student soloists and a piano duet followed by the Star Spangled Banner sung by all. The list includes Katherine Fisher Josephine Novakoski Beth Hillis Genevieve Stasiak Margold Tillie Yatczak Elsie Fritz Mary Komove and many others in four groups and a final ensemble. Present enrollment of pupils at Wakefield is shown with many names including Cohen Fisher Fritz Hillis Jacobson Novakoski Oberg and Laughner among others.
The Wakefield Business Men's Association on March 20 1917 resolved to urge the Gogebic County Board of Supervisors to deputize citizens to enforce anti I W W laws and detect conspiracies that threaten employment or payment, with county payment of sheriff expenses. Also local notices on illnesses deaths and business items including a Wakefield sale postponement and visits by local residents and officials.
A brief notice mentions Mrs A Sokol visiting Bessemer on Monday and renting furnished rooms with contact to Jas Green. A tongue in cheek line warns against the printing business amid high paper costs. Card of thanks expresses gratitude for support after a son's death and burial with thanks for floral offerings. Wakefield cigar factory resumes after name change to Milligan Daly and government paperwork delays held up production a month.
Mothers are urged to give the family a thorough system cleanse this spring using Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. The ad claims purifying the blood, cleaning the stomach and bowels, and driving winter germs away will improve health and happiness. promotes 35-cent price as the best spring tonic laxative purifier.
An old health brief claims salt-based liver and kidney care can come from a simple daily dose of Salts made from acid, lemon juice, and lithia. It promises to flush kidneys, neutralize urine acidity, ease back pain and bladder irritation, and says meat eaters should periodically use this inexpensive tonic.
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