Wakefield City Commission 1924 Regular Meeting Proceedings
Official proceedings record a September 25 1924 Wakefield city commission meeting at City Hall. The agenda includes approval of prior minutes, payment of various bills to vendors such as Chicago Pump Illinois Electric Peyton Paper West Disinfecting Buffalo Springfield Roller Fire and Water Engineering, and others. Actions include paying the bills, referring a railway injury notice to the City Attorney, accepting the Poundmaster report, and authorizing quotes for gymnasium equipment. Mayor Rummel briefly attends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Commission of
Wakefield
Hart
Chicago Pump Company
Boss Illinois Electric Company
Peyton Paper Company
Eens West
Buffalo Springfield Roller Company
Cees Fire and Water Engineering
Upper Peninsula Office Supply Company
C. Hansen Limber Company
Willer
City of Wakefield
Copper Questions Stir Wisconsin Geology Study
Wisconsin state geologists spend summer exploring northern counties to find copper deposits. Two field parties, one from Hayward and one from Mellen, survey soils and rocks from Sawyer, Hurley, and Tron River areas while testing magnetic responses to locate copper ore. The effort includes public notices of local events and urban developments alongside routine community news.
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Wisconsin
Michigan
Houghton
Tlancock
State Geological Survey of
Hayward
Sawyer
Mellen
Hurley
Tron River
Soaehime
Odd Residence Chosen by Three Englishmen
In a solitary Martella tower on the Essex coast the last of three bachelor brothers has died. William Cole was a naturalist who founded the Essex museum at Stratford and the Essex Field club. Benjamin Cole was an entomologist and Henry Cole, the final to pass, was an artist, etcher and sculptor. The moated tower, 20 feet deep and 30 feet wide, is approached by a drawbridge and iron gangway. The eight foot thick walls enclose dungeons and a steep stair leads to a roof with far views across the North Sea Estuary to Colchester and Brightlingsea.
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Essex
England
William Cole
Essex Museum
Stratford
Essex Field Club
Benjamin Cole
Henry Cole
North Sea
Colne
Blackwater
Colchester
Brightlingsea
Theories on Right and Left Handedness
The piece discusses whether handedness is hereditary, noting infants show no hand preference at months old, then favor the right hand by four to five months. It cites the primitive warfare theory linking shield use to right-handed dominance and explains the debate among theories of genetics, accident, education, and physiology. It also notes many people are right-eyed, right-eared, and right-footed.
A Cat Study on Delicate Force and Refined Manner
The passage observes a cat using only the necessary force while playing with a daffodil. It contrasts feline delicacy with dogs and horses that exert strength without regard to necessity, and cites Hamerton on force proportionality as evidence of refined culture in manners and the fine arts.
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Dreux in Focus Its Four Monuments Historiques Esteemed
A Scribner's Magazine writer praises Dreux from Chartres to Rouen noting its old houses and four main monuments historiques. The belfry of the hotel de ville is highlighted for its balanced east west profile and Gothic tracery. The Eglise St Pierre showcases late Gothic and early Renaissance blend, while Echo des Jeunes Filles or Hotel de Dieu is a 16th century block with a blue slate roof and a ribbed rose window.
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Old City
Chartres
Rouen
Dreux
Grande Rue
Eglise St. Pierre
Echo Des Jeunes Filles
The
Tribunal of Commerce
Hotel de Dieu
The Missing Link at Slowcombe-on-Mud Police Station
A stage quip set at Slowcombe-on-Mud police station opens with an inspector asking a weeping woman for a list of stolen items. She names ten spoons and other cutlery, then adds humor by noting only the thief himself remains missing.
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Slowcombe-on-Mud
Life in the Everglades Described as Grassy Water
Adventure Magazine cites Haapsburg Liebe describing the Everglades in Florida as flat grassy land with shallow water and sawgrass edged lakes. Deer turkey panther and other game inhabit higher land away from civilization according to the article.
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Everglades
Florida
Haapsburg Liebe
Adventure Magazine
Contented Prisoner and Concords Crime Free Image
A former resident, painter Edward Simmons, recalls Concord Massachusetts as a town utterly without crime. He tells of the sole prisoner in his time, a mild man who returned to the jail as a lonely former inmate and amused the Emerson family by playing the violin at dances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Concord
Mass
Edward Simmons
Emerson
Skulls as Scarecrows in Historic Bird Control Tales
London Tit-Bits notes bizarre methods used to deter birds. A Ceylonese farmer displayed two skulls, one female and one buffalo, as scarecrows to guard vegetables. A Belgian farmer linked poles with wires and bells to create a rotating water wheel that tinkled bells to frighten birds.
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London
Quote on Women and Fate Sparks Candid Debate
A philosophic youth delivers sharp sayings about women’s nature and choices, describing a girl maturing into a woman by sixteen and catching life’s surprises with humor and paradox. The note recalls a later marriage vanity in Country Gentlemen.
NELS WALSTROM Cealer in Quaker Pipeless Furnaces
NELS WALSTROM offers guaranteed prompt service for Quaker pipeless furnaces with all work ensured.
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City Commission
Hart, Hornibrook
Mathews
Ruminwel
Strough
Hornibrook
Matthews
Tlart
Tornibrook
Mike Faring
Kim
C. & N. W. Railway Company
Putnam Street
Mayor Rummel
A. W. Clevenger
Lansing
State Department of Education
Whlch
A. N Nelson
Tramwood
T. A. Tressel
Indiaana
Mike Farine
H. M. Norris
Northwestern Railroad
Farino
N. PF. Laberdie
Olive
George Howe
Jack
Jack Sevito
Louise LaRochelle
Marquette
John Steele
Laberdie
Howe
William Walters
Abie
Trish Rose
Ashland
John Nordeen
Matt Vikinen
Andrew Pensla
Kaars
Milwaukee
John Niemila
Pike Keatson
John Dillon
Chicago
Dr. T. 8. Crosby
William Novak
John Vietila
Walter Mattson
Detroit
Bessemer Pharmacy
Bessemer
Petoskey
Mich
Federated Woman's Clubs of Michigan
Wakefield Club
Bert Turner
Sidnaw
Fitzpatrick Bros
Lamont
L. Brewer
Duluth
Here
Cloverland Orchestra of
Agogebic Lodge
Evanstad
First National Bank
J. (. Peterson
James Trebilcock
Iron River
Oto
John Hautenan
Castile
Ward Greenore
Wico
Myers Company
Ae Proteau
Bessemer Steam Laundry
Nels Walstrom
Candyland
A. F. Olson, Prop
Chevrolet
Hanson Bros. Garage
Buick
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