Bishop's Firm Keeps Lead in Detroit Livestock Market
Horace M. Bishop of Bishop, Hammond & Jackson cites 1900 onward dominance in Detroit stock yards. In 1930 and 1931 the firm sold livestock valued at 9.89 million and 6.34 million dollars respectively, surpassing closest rivals by large margins and handling 43.3 percent of head marketed in 1931.
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Bishop, Hammond & Jackson
Detroit
Horace M
Bishop
Bishop & Bullen
Bishop, Bullen & Holmes
Bullen
Holmes
Hammond
Livestock Commission
Clare Shipping Dates Noted For May Shipments
The Clare Shipping Association lists shipments on Tuesday May 3 and Tuesday May 17. Contact H A Dawson shipper at phone 220F21 for details.
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Clare Shipping Association
Wool Wanted and More at Jas. Ba’ Stanley Farwell
Wool wanted. I am buying wood and will appreciate your patronage. Also handle commercial fertilizer hay cedar fence posts and potatoes. Jas Ba Stanley Farwell. Phone 26WW ott.
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Stanley
Farwell
Gladwin Area News Roundup and Social Notes
Mrs Mary Shilling returns to her farm near Gladwin after a month visiting her daughter Mrs D W Osborne Drillers on the Wilson wildcat have closed while promoters decide Dundee drilling reached nearly one hundred feet with no results Log Cabin Club hosted by Mrs O A Derby with bridge prizes won by Mesdames Asline Horton and Hochstetler Mrs Mary M Stroup to preach at Baptist church next Sunday both services Nora Barnes hosts a bridge dinner twenty guests at seven o clock chicken dinner at the Cafe then cards at her apartment over Citizens State Bank Mrs John Groves wins high score prize and Mrs Allen Crum gets consolation an enjoyable evening for all
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Mary M. Stroup
The
Baptist Church
Nora Barnes
Citizens State Bank
John Groves
Allen Crum
Ruhle Given Prison Term In Auto Theft Ring Case
Clifford C Ruble a Coleman auto mobile dealer and alleged fence in a large car theft ring was sentenced by Judge B J Moinet in Detroit to five years in Leavenworth for selling stolen cars A concurrent two year term on another indictment runs with the first Federal agents had recovered 56 stolen cars in Chicago Detroit Saginaw Bay City Flint Mt Pleasant Coleman and other Michigan cities Ruhle had previous Leavenworth sentence for auto refinancing fraud lasting 15 months.
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Clifford C. Ruble
Coleman
B. J Moinet
Detroit
Leavenworth
Ruhle
Michael Bagnasco
Chicago
Saginaw
Bay City
Flint
Mt. Pleasant
Michigan
Arthur J. Tuttle
Big Business Convention Attracts Odd Attendees
A quirky roster lists a Saratoga chip dealer, Rye bread merchant, Lima bean trader, Panama hat seller, Lansing surgeon, Jamaica ginger dealer, Bermuda onion dealer, Wheeling bicycle maker, and Frankfort sausage vendor among attendees at a business convention.
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Saratoga
Entire fleet to be guided by radio says English inventor
Charles Keeling, a young English radio engineer, claims a wireless system that can control eight signals on one wavelength, enabling four thousand operations from a single transmitter. He envisions fleets of ships and planes operated remotely with no crew, and even secret, fast wireless typing across stations.
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London
Charles Keeling
Keeling
Tam
Admiralty
War Office
Air Ministry
Moving Lights Aid Cross-Eyed Baby at Optometry Clinic
Four weeks of eye exercises using moving lights remedied a cross-eyed condition in a 22 month old child at the Pennsylvania State College of Optometry clinic. The patient is the youngest treated there, with a 48 year old man cited as an example of difficult cases. Correction is harder after age twenty. The clinic specializes in squint and reports 10 to 20 percent of cases involve cross-eyes, about 2 percent of all eye defects.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania State College of Optometry
Edwin Forbes Tait
College of Optometry
Paris Claims Credit for First Periscope
French inventor M. Jean Rey asserts he conceived the first periscope and used it on the Gymnote in 1891. He says England had no underwater craft then and the British disapproved of them. Rey credits Jules Carpentier with perfecting the design in 1897 and notes other nations copied the principle afterward.
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Paris
Howard Grubb
French Academy of Sciences
M. Jean Rey
England
M. Rey
Jules Carpentier
Bright Future Forecast for Aviation Firms
Detroit Michigan aviation executive Carl B. Fritsche of the Aircraft Development Corporation predicts better days ahead for commercial air transport. He notes steady growth over the past two years despite a low mood and says the industry is weathering the downturn and will next move to a sound economic basis.
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Detroit
Mich
Carl B. Fritsche
Aircraft Development Corporation
Letter Returned to Writer After Eleven Years in Transit
A lost letter traveling the United States for 11 years finally reached writer Miss Florence Ratcliff in Farmington Michigan. The credentials for a teaching job were mailed in June 1918 to Miss Ratcliff care of Mrs. Albert Leach. The ink faded and the postmark showed Fort Smith Arkansas.
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Farmington
Mich
United States
Florence Ratcliff
Franklin, College
Ind
Rateliff
Albert Leach
Community events announced for Friday through May festival
Local notices list a junior class play Green Stocking on Friday April 29, American Legion and Auxiliary district meeting at Big Rapids Armory, Dover Busy Bees chicken supper at Ernest Radloff home, band festival at Midland May 28 with bands from several towns, W C T U meeting with Mrs. Burd, King’s Daughters meeting with lunch, public invited to church event next week.
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Tenth District
American Legion and Auxiliary
Big Rapids Armory
Dover
Ernest Radloff
County Officers Raid Surrey Township Farm
Home County officers Beecher Dunlap and Frank LaGrue of Surrey township were arrested last week after Sheriff Woods Undersheriff Etter and Deputy Grouse searched the former’s home on a tip that a fugitive wanted by Federal authorities would be there. A later visit yielded a small quantity believed to be liquor and both men were taken to Bay City and turned over to Federal Court.
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Beecher Dunlap
Frank LaGrue
Surrey Township
Woods
Etter
Bi 'Grouse
Bay City
Federal Court
Pioneers Celebrate Jas Nevills Birthday Saturday
Twenty three pioneers and friends of James Nevills joined a noonday dinner at the home of his daughter Mrs Calvin Ankney near Coleman to mark his 76th birthday. Oldest guest Jake Mason was 88.
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James Nevills
Calvin Ankney
Coleman
Jake Mason
Clare
James 8
Bicknell
Mr. Nevills
Brilliant program announced for Ann Arbor May Festival
The Thirty Ninth Annual May Festival at the University of Michigan will be held in Hill Auditorium on May 18 to 21. President Charles A. Sink cites a broad, varied musical program with works by Holst and Rimsky Korsakov in their first American performance and attendance expected from many esteemed music authorities and celebrities.
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University of Michigan
Hill Auditorium
Charles A. Sink
School of Music
Walter Damrosch
Olin Downes
Daniel Geogory
Mason
Louis Hekstein
Joseph N. Weber
Peter W. Dykema
Pierre
Neon Gas Glows Bright Red Under Electric Current
Neon gas is described as glowing with a brilliant fiery red tint when an electric current passes through it in a near vacuum.
Saying No or Yes Reflects Amiability in Speech
A reflection on self restraint and politeness noting that though saying no is useful it is amiable to choose yes when feasible. The passage suggests that agreeable conduct favors affirmative responses to maintain goodwill and harmony in interaction.
Unemploy ment Committee reports on M 61 and Tobacco River bridge
The Unemployment Committee of Clare County reports on highway M 61 grading from Temple to Marion road and a new bridge over Tobacco River on U S 27 near Clare. It describes setup of an office, hiring of a director, and disbursements totaling 246.50 from a 250 loan, with 578 applications and 387 families served, totaling 149 781.57 expended for M 61 labor. The committee requests reimbursement of 246.56 from the General Fund and notes equitable job distribution among townships.
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State of
Michigan
Highway Department
Tobacco River
U. S. 27
Clare
John BH
Doherty
Clare County Road
Sheffield
Scheffield
John B. Doherty
Students Adopt Overalls and Calico Uniforms
Weidman high school students approved overalls and calico dresses as official garb by a large majority in a student election. Leaders cited economy and reducing embarrassment for those unable to afford costly clothing.
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Weidman High
8 &M
In Memoriam Jo Ann Phillips Memorial Note
In loving memory of our darling baby Jo Ann Phillips who left us on April 25 1982. Just a thought of sweet remembrance and a heartache still for you. Sadly missed by her parents and grandparents.
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Jo Ann Phillips
In loving memory of Mabel M Beale
Gladys Dale writes a loving memorial noting the death of Mabel M Beale five years ago on April 18 1927 and asks readers to remember her mother with affection.
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Mabel M. Beale
Gladys Dale
List Your Livestock With Farmers Produce
Farmers Produce offers livestock listings with shipping dates set for Tuesday April 26 and May 10. Telephone 189, P. F. Geeck.
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Telephone
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Poe
Clare County Savings Bank
Michhgian
H. A. Dawson
Shipper
Mary Shilling
Gladwin
D. W. Osborne
Wilson “Wildcat
Dundee
O. A. Derby
Bridgev
Mesdames Asline, Horton and
Hochstetler
BIG Business
Breid Man
Rye
Lima
Panama
Lansing
Jamaica
Bermuda
Wheeling
Frankfort
Ladies’ Union
Fred Hudson
Shepherd, Beaverton
Alma
Midland
Mr. Pleasant
W. H. Burd
Wm. Gordon
Jas. Nevills
Ann Arbor
the ‘Citizens State Bank
American Bankers Association
Michigan Bankers Association
National Credit Corporation
Board OF Supervisors
Harvey Dawson
T. Carl Holbrook
Perl Tryon
Henry Gardiner
Memoriam
P. F. Geeck
O. D. Bayes Bakery
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