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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1917
Page
10
A local help ad run in the paper invites applicants for a first-class table waitress at the Wakefield Hotel. The casual notices also mention various services and local business mentions including dry goods, cigars, and general errands.
In Thirty-second Judicial Circuit Gogebic County Michigan Sylvia Cowell plaintiff and Charles A Cowell defendant. Defendant not resident of state. appearance required within three months from order date or bill will be confessed. Order published weekly for six weeks in Wakefield Advocate starting within 20 days.
Sunday chicken dinner at the Wakefield Hotel offered for 50 cents. Local notices include a job ad for a clothing learner at Skud Goldman & Co and Dr Crosby’s medical ads. Mabel McKie of Bessemer graduates with a life certificate from Maranette Normal School. Various shops tout jewelry and tailored clothes with guarantees. Health ads promote Hellister's Rocky Mountain Tea. Weather notes report a recent snow storm with slushy sidewalks and sleigh use. A preacher’s salary joke ends the column.
An advertisement cites ancient Pythagoreans using a red five pointed star as a health symbol on Chamberlain's Tab lets. The copy claims the star also fulfills a "mission" as a symbol of death and promotes these tablets for indigestion biliousness and constipation with quick relief, available everywhere.
Local ad lists a heavy work team for sale in Hurley Wisconsin. Inquiries directed to Stanley Griseski for details and purchase arrangements.
Property owners in Wakefield Township must remove all garbage and refuse by May 15 1917. The Board of Health will inspect that day and ensure privy vaults cess pools and other dangerous areas are disinfected. Noncompliance will be dealt with by law. By order of Health Officers Dr H A Tressel and Dr R I C Prout dated April 21 1917.
A water danger notice warns residents to boil all drinking water due to low village spring supply and contamination risk as officers plan to divert river water into mains. Boiled water is mandatory until a safe supply is secured. safety notices will be posted when confirmed.
In the Gogebic County Circuit Court Mildred Milne sues Frank M. Milne. Because the defendant is nonresident a three month appearance period is set. If no appearance the bill may be confessed. The order requires publication in Wakefield Advocate for six weeks starting soon. Attorneys John Luxmore Jr. and William S. Baird are listed.
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