Little Miss Diana Wilson Celebrates Ninth Birthday
Diana Wilson marked her ninth birthday with a surprise party at her parents home attended by twenty four friends. Mary Alice Jayne won the party contest while refreshments and a pink frosted cake with rose buds highlighted the festive evening.
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Diana Wilson
Harl C. Wilson
Diana
Mary Alice Jayne
Paul ‘Beals
Lila Pifer
Lila
Clyde Pifer
Delores’ Wood
Wilda Hecker
Diana ‘Wilson
Donna Jean Richmond
Joanne Gibson
Geraldine
Miss Pricilla Burns Birthday Party Guests
Miss Pricilla Burns celebrated her twelfth birthday at a small dinner party Saturday evening. Guests included Misses Margaret Brown Velma Elkins and Nettie Mary Brown. A birthday cake featuring circus animals and twelve white candles served as the centerpiece. Priscilla received gifts from her girl chums.
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Pricilla Burns
Margaret Brown
Velma Elkins
Nettie Mary Brown
Priscilla
Chums
Harrison High School Alumni Banquet Plans May 1
Harrison High School Alumni Association schedules spring meeting April 8 in the English room at 7:30 PM to appoint banquet committees for the May 1 event honoring the 1840 graduating class. Members of all years urged to attend and contribute ideas to keep the association active and growing in Michigan.
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Harrison High School Alumni Association
Harrison High School
Harrison
Michigan
Harrison Alumni Association
Harrison Girl Scouts Hostesses at Party and Entertainment
Harrison Girl Scouts acted as hostesses at a dinner party and evening program held Wednesday at the Congregational Church social rooms and later in the school gymnasium. Miss Sagerman from Central State Teachers College spoke on girl scout work and sports. Mt. Pleasant students attended and contributed to the program. Committees handled decorations, dining, and foods. the scouts prepared dishes for credit. Further details will appear in next week's Sentinel.
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Harrison
Congregational Church
Sagerman
Central State Teachers College
Mt. Pleasant
Mary Jean Vertier
Rosalie Kinné
Martha Anne Moore
Sarah Marie Burch
Mary Louise Burns
Jean Gibson
Helen Gibson
Cleo Reminis
Beverly Zubler
Dorothy Brown
Sentinel
New England Fast Day Remarked in New Hampshire History
New Hampshire is the sole New England state still observing Fast Day on the last Thursday in April. The tradition traces to 1601 when the province governor lay dying and ordered a day of public fasting and prayer amid tokens of divine displeasure.
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New England
New Hampshirec
Harrison High Hosts Year End Banquet For CMCAA League
More than 130 players from Clare Missaukee and Osceola Counties athletic associations attended Harrison High School Thursday March 28 for the year end banquet. Dr. Beck spoke on lessons from basketball promoting sportsmanship and teamwork as coaches and officials were acknowledged with trophies for league winners LeRoy Farwell McBain.
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Clare, Missaukee and
Osceola Counties Athletic Association
Harrison High School
Athlitic Boys
Harrison
Paris Fire Brigrade Origins and Priest Cell Guards
In 1705 Louis XIV founded Paris fire brigades with forty firemen sourced from high altitude workers. An auxiliary priest brigade of four companies later guarded the city. Notre Dame bell rang as a fire warning. At Hotel Dieu a huge blaze led to 20 firemen priests perishing while rescuing patients.
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Louis XIV
France
Paris
Cathedral of
Notre Dame
Hotel Dieu
Stenciled Woodwork Shows Stain Masking Technique
An unusual method applies a stencil to wood with varnish or shellac before staining. The stain sits on the coated stencil and is wiped away, leaving a design. For natural color finishes the stencil is done in japan or color varnish before final surface filling.
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Japan
Horses Powering War Efforts Through Centuries
National Geographic notes that over a thousand western plains horses are shipped to Europe for modern warfare while historic data show Civil War and World War horse to man ratios remained similar. It traces Spanish horse ancestry to mustangs and highlights declines in farm and city horse populations since 1913 due to motorization and disease.
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United States
Europe
Dobbin
National Geographic Society
Spain
Cortez
Mexico
de Soto
Florida
Texas
Mississippi River
England
Caesar
Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
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