Wakefield City Commission Meets May 1 1824 Proceedings
Official proceedings of Wakefield city commission dated May 1 1824 at City Hall. Mayor Rammell and commissioners discuss minutes, approve bills from Badger Brush to Western Union, and authorize payment subject to absent members. Reader notices include tax appointment and refunds for church rent and lodge dues. A rat bounty, bids for sewer work, and staff use fill out the agenda before adjournment.
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Commission of Wakefield
Badger Brush Company
Fed E
ALEK
LEE Associated Manufacturers Company
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STE Doubleday Brothers & Company
Legal Claks Co
Yecise Jae American Labrance Fire Engine Company
Central Electric Company
White & Milavetz Auto Company
Thomas Hicks
American Railway Express Company
Skud & Goldman
City Electric & Phunbing Company
Ork Fo
Chad Ta
Gust PO
Cleon Motor Company
Evens
Ees
Bedell Motor Sales Company
Ellen Milason
Banat
Eravel
Thomas Oweosonia
Western Union Telegraph Company
Coles
City of Wakefield
Wakefield Woman's Club
Hornibrook
Hook
Sinon
Gameunt
Notice to bids for city sewers on multiple streets
Bids are invited for lineal feet of 12 inch sewer on Lavers Road and 1 inch sewers on Pierce Street from Smith Street to River Street and on River Street from Pierce Street south. City Commission may reject any bids. A certified check equal to 1 percent of the total bid must accompany each bid. Plans and specifications are on file at the City Engineer's office.
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Lavers Road
SOO
Pierce Street
Smith Street
River Street
City Commission
Bonus Agreed Upon To The President Fornk Signature
A complete agreement on the soldiers' bonus was reached by Senate and House conferees. The conference report will be acted on in both chambers within the next two days and the bill will be in the President's hands early next week. Cash payments begin March 8. The House and Senate differed on dates and loan bases. Dependents of veterans receiving certain benefits are addressed under the bill.
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Hornibrook
Hook
City of
Wakefield
Senate
House
Representative Green
Ways Aid Means Committee
Dependent Veterans Bonus Eligibility Clarified
The article explains that a provision limiting the bonus to dependents of deceased veterans has been removed, ensuring all eligible dependents receive the bonus. It notes the change broadens who qualifies and removes the prior restriction.
Panama Canal Reports Record Traffic Gain in 1923
The Panama Canal and related agencies posted a fiscal year ending June 30 1923 record profit of 12 063 880 led by tolls and miscellaneous receipts at 10 001 066. Traffic operations surged greatly exceeding 1922 results and placing the canal on a pace to overhaul the Suez Canal.
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Panama Canal
United States
Morrow
Washington
Panama Railroad
Suez Canal
Wakefield to welcome larger return of teachers next fall
Wakefield plans a larger share of teachers returning for the next school year according to Superintendent A W Clevenger who released the list of definite returnees. Several staff will depart for other cities or leave the profession while others are undecided amid new appointments and board considerations. The board will review the return list at the Tuesday meeting along with recommendations for additional positions including Alice Josephson Gladys Johnson and Dora Lyons.
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Wakefield
A. W. Clevenger
J. A. Frederickson
Elizabeth Sisko
Mabel DeFere
Alice Perry
Edna Rummel
Jennie Wall
Jessie Snavely
Vera Johnson
Ann Lepisto
Ida Byers
Marie Conway
Marie Bjorkman
Dorothy Bell
Kathryn Arend
Elizabeth Grace
Marie Kliehege
Helen Ziegler
Sigrid Berg
Katherine Teppo
Pearl Bunt
Maude Trebilcock
R. G. Weihe
Wava Tamblingson
Gladys Sandstrom
Lempi Hill
Esther Niemi
Mildred Davies
Alice Josephson
Northern State Normal
Gladys Johnson
Northwestern University
Dora Lyons
Canal Commission Reports Oil Fueled Transport Boom in 1923
Governor Morrow’s report shows commercial transits rising from 2,736 to 3,967 and net tonnage increasing from 11,417,459 to 18,605,786. It notes oil fields in southern California as the main driver of growth and oil providing 6 percent of eastbound cargo by June 30, 1923.
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Panama Railroad Company
Morrow
California
Mexico
United States
College Girls Grow Taller and Stronger Since 1884
Statistics from Vassar College show college girls increased average weight from 123.8 to 125.8 pounds between 1884 and 1920. Waist measurements fell from 25 to 22 inches by 1896, then rose to 25 inches again later. Improved condition linked to growing athletic interest.
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Vassar College
New York
Mabel Newcomer
Economics Department
Department of Physical Education
Girl Freed to Marry on Honeymoon in DC Jail
Washington Judge Frees nineteen year old Gladiola Peyton from District of Columbia jail on two occasions. First to permit her to marry, then to grant temporary freedom for a honeymoon. The unusual release underscores a gendered legal mercy allowing a prisoner to wed and travel briefly.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Gladiola Peyton
Bride and Groom Turn Prison Visit Into Honeymoon Escape
Miss Peyton, a stenographer, was jailed for forgery for a year. Her fiancé Freder ick Ewers visited with special permission and accompanied her to the altar. The bridal party returned to the jail. Mrs. Ewers later got a first wedding present a court permit to leave in custody of her attorney as she changed her plea to not guilty. They left Washington for a Florida honeymoon.
Shenandoah Anchored to Mast First Of Its Kind
U S airmen hailed a historic feat as the navy dirigible Shenandoah moored to a new mast at Lakehurst New Jersey after drifting over the lake for an hour. The craft touched down at 200 feet, a cable was attached, windlass tightened the slack, and the forward end pressed against the support before the ship was secured for a half hour and returned to its hangar. Three vessels cleared Whitehall New York bound for Quebec and New York carrying 100000 pounds of live eels valued at over 7000 dollars with gear to refresh the eels as needed.
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U. S
Lakehurst
N. J
Whitehall
N. Y
New York City
Quebec
Evil Effects of Hashish and Hashash
The Arabs term a hashish user hashash and the formed hashash een gave rise to the word assassin. Hashish alters the nervous system differently by dose. Small doses bring gaiety, larger doses cause hallucinations delirium and sometimes catalepsy. An average dose induces a dreamy stage with shifting ideas. The habitual user can rarely collect his thoughts.
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Hashash
Curiosities and community notices from a bygone period
A patchwork of historical thoughts and local notes cites Herodotus on hemp fumes, predictions by Sir Arthur Keith about future grooming, a large 260 pound buck shot near Goutais river, a Castile Location house for sale, a hot supper by the Ladies Aid Society, used cars advertised, boys receiving baseball shoes, deputy sheriff Hornibrook returning from Fort Leavenworth with federal cases, neighborhood hosts entertaining friends, Wakefield Civic Club meeting with a Edison reel.
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Ladies Aid Society of the Union Church
Hanson Bros
Skud Goldman’s
W. T. Hornibrook
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Federal Court
Robert Tolema
Plymouth
Wakefield Civic Club
Thomas A. Edison
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Took
Taft and
Strough
Mike Lehto
Chicago
Yeas
Remumel
Hook and Thornibrook
Pred Mackey
Ted Nieli
Asther, Lawrence
Irving Niemi
John Willa
Joseph W Gi
City Health Officer
Michigan
A Ll Rummel
WM. Jacobson
Strance
Nets
Clevenger
R. G
Herodotus
Detroit Mayer
Arthur Keith
Arthur
Tom Kinsley
Goutais River
Castile
John Gilbert
Brunswick Callendar
Wakefield’s
Sporting Goods
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