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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1924
Page
3
Japan embraces golf as a popular pastime with Japanese champions emerging for years. The prince regent is an avid golfer and many players don plus fours. A Japanese paper notes that golf teaches students Latin and Greek, while the sport’s language trends toward no swearing, aside from the word baka meaning fool.
A western inventor says alfalfa can yield at least 75 kinds of candy and an excellent syrup. He plans a mill to produce alfalfa flour for baking while using alfalfa in livestock feeds at small Montana mills. If proven, alfalfa could revolutionize confectionery and boost acreage and prices.
The Pittman children are described as first in various school activities. Tommy leads in reading, Alice in arithmetic, Sammy in sports, while Janet is first to leave the building when the bell rings. The uncle's question prompts Janet to reveal her unique distinction.
Chief Canadian wood yellow birch betula lutea is described as Canada’s most important hardwood. It grows from the maritime provinces to Lake Superior and along the boundary to Lake of the Woods. It appears in the lower Laurentian forest and is heavily used for flooring and cabinet work.
A Paris bootblack now uses a palette when shining women's shoes. The varying colors of Parisian women's footwear make it hard to match creams, so he lays out different creams on a palette and blends them in different proportions to achieve the correct hue.
An echo is the repetition of sound caused by its reflection from distant surfaces like hills cliffs or buildings. Sound travels about 1000 feet per second in ordinary air and a person 1000 feet from a reflective surface hears the echo about two seconds after shouting due to the round trip of the sound waves.
First publication dated September 6 (7) 1924 with final publication October 11 (11) 1924. Notices refer to legal actions requiring compliance by affected parties within specified deadlines as recorded in the public notice. The fragment indicates dates and formal publication sequence for the case or matter.
Writ of execution issued by the Circuit Court in favor of Universal Auto Company against John Michaels and Sylvester P. Fitzpatrick directs sale of Michaels land. The South half of Lot 2 in the original Village of Wakefield is to be sold at public vendue at the Gogebic County Court House on October 23, 1924 at 10 AM. Thomas Jeffery, Sheriff, Gogebic County, Michigan. Jones & Patek, Attorneys for Universal Auto Company. Ironwood, Mich.
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