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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1914
Page
3
The widow Gay wed quickly to finish before her grandchild learned to say grandma. A neighbor notes the haste as a lighthearted aside about the wedding and its motives.
A terse dialogue asks what business a man has and reveals he is a press agent. The ensuing question ponders why a girl screams after a kiss has been stolen, hinting at a melodramatic or sensational scene and a mystery around romantic theft.
A historical note traces rapid agricultural and industrial expansion in Michigan's Copper Country. It highlights a shift from scarce farming to a thriving kraut business, with COOP outputs, growing orchard plans, and record farm numbers, tying to regional factories and fruit tree plantings near Ishpeming.
Northern Michigan agro pages describe vast apple growing, land sales, and ranch plans. A. M. Young expands Rainy Lake ranch to 3,000 acres with cattle aims, while Robert Sherwood harvests 24,000 bushels from 300 acres of apples near Watervliet. Benzie county colonization plans recruit 75 Belgians from Chicago to farm 4 acre plots.
Thornton A. Green of Ontonagon, president of the Upper Peninsula Development Bureau, argues that land values rose due to the bureau’s advertising and calls the bureau’s work a failure if prices did not increase. He says the bureau gave value to lands that previously lacked it and notes that farmers could not easily sell farm lands across state lines without the bureau’s efforts.
Buckwheat grows well on cleared northern Michigan lands. A 2S acre field yields a pretty sight and solid income as Alvan Peck, a successful farmer from near Wexford county and once in a cutover pine and hardwood tract, reports 30 bushels per acre this year.
The article reports army worm damage to corn crops around Manistique and Houghton county with two year persistence. It also highlights profitable Rural Russet potatoes in Wexford county with yields of 200, 75, and 18 bushels from varied seed amounts, signaling future emphasis on Rural Russets.
Rev. Alexander Sharp of Columbus Presbyterian told the Men’s Club at Tabernacle Christian Church that his recent two month vacation abroad included a peace sermon. On return he found mice had eaten the desk copy of his universal peace plea.
A young woman introduces a handsome but ill mannered gentleman in the Potteries. He asks if many ladies resemble her, she replies that they all are good looking and that they make their own mugs. The second remark notes that it might be better to run in debt than be pushed in.
Emelie Haberkorn of 2261 Gravois Ave St Louis writes that two years of pelvic organ catarrh improved after reading Dr Hartman’s The Life of Life and starting Peruna treatment. She reports rapid relief, gratitude, and plans to recommend the remedy to others.
An American tourist in a London boarding house insists on no more meals yet requests a hot water bottle, prompting a witty cockney maid to joke she can eat it for her. The piece follows with a note on ancient coin counterfeiting outfits found by a University of Pennsylvania museum.
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