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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1924
Page
9
A program on Thursday May 29 at 8 p m features students from Mr Collicks class performing a piano and vocal recital. Pieces include Sleeping Beauty Anvil Chorus Rachmaninoff Prelude and Mendelssohn Rondo Capriccioso with performers Priscilla Peters Robert Peters Lois Nelson and others from the school ensemble.
A thoughtful reflection notes that a fair estimate of character cannot rely on others’ words about a person, yet what they say about others can reveal certain aspects of their own character and judgment. The piece prompts readers to weigh reputations carefully and consider motives behind spoken judgments.
A Punchesque collage from Youth's Companion jokes about common phrases and misinterpretations. It riffs on perambulators, cigar manufacturers, library porters, baby safety razors, minute men, stock market exchanges, hair tonics for brushes, and moral quips. It closes with a note on a Canadian farmer and a Welsh rabbit reference.
Eighteen farms five miles from Red Wing Minnesota host a rural electric transmission line test to study electricity usage in agriculture. Equipment arrives weekly from March to April as a four farmer committee, two utility reps and the Minnesota College of Agriculture dean oversee the project. General Electric even sends an engineer from Schenectady to observe the trial and its progress.
Eighty eggs a day per hen, instead of eight, are produced by hens in a Wisconsin poultry house after electric lighting was installed. Electricity has unlocked the hidden exergy of the hen population in winter.
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