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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1917
Page
8
A health article likens illness to overdrawing a health account and urges moderation. It discusses variable inherited resistance and energy expenditure. It then critiques sanitary drinking fountains, citing Michigan studies showing contamination and proposing redesigned delivery to avoid mouth contact.
A meeting of upper peninsula land owners is set for November 8 in Marquette to survey land available for sheep grazing on favorable terms for western ranchmen. A third meeting November 22 in Milwaukee will include northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan delegates and possible representation from the agriculture department following a Chicago sheepmen gathering and a proposal by R F Maclean to President Hasenbarth.
Mr. Hagenbarth toured E. L. 8. with Stephenson company representatives and expressed strong interest in grazing sheep and cattle on the peninsula where forage is abundant and unfailing.
A fall rabbit crop is reported as abundant since laws protecting rabbits took effect. The local sowshoe and cottontail populations are described with higher production in milder climates, and hunters use hounds for an exciting sport enjoyed more than deer hunting.
The article promotes corn as a healthy, muscle-building food and laments that only eleven percent of the nation’s corn yield is eaten by people while the rest is fed to animals. It argues people would be healthier consuming more corn and less wheat bread.
Mrs G H Smith of Brewerton New York writes of long stomach trouble with indigestion and heaviness after meals. She says one or two Chamberlains Tablets relieve her and act as a pleasant laxative. The tablets tone the stomach and help it function naturally.
The Winona copper mine in Houghton county shuts down as copper cannot be mined under 24 cents. The government price cut triggered the closure and the superintendent now operates the site as a trib utator.
The Kaiser would rather the present bond campaign collapse than spend another mile on the western front. The appeal challenges America’s loan to government funds and asks readers if they will allow the spectacle of national financial failure.
Have you a farm or property to sell and will pay 2 per cent after sale is made The ad directs contact Grassey Farm Agency 212 Lewis St Lynn Mass and notes Frank Haggerson at Whitmans Jewelry Store Hurley offers jewelry repair with guaranteed satisfaction.
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