Dollar Club meets at Wheaton Avenue Home
The Dollar Club met Wednesday evening with Mrs. Arthur Roe at her new home on Wheaton Avenue. Guests included Mrs. Floyd Shiv aly, Mrs. Lyle Murdoch, and Mrs. Blanche Zinser. Two tables of banco were played with Mrs. Harter high score and Mrs. Murdoch low. Lunch was served. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Roy Harter on East Fifth Street on September 4.
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Dollar Club
Arthur Roe
Wheaton Avenue
Floyd Shivaly
Lyle Murdoch
Blanche Zinser
Banco
Harter
Murdoch Low
Roy Harter
East Fifth Street
Stough Loomis Reunion Held in Clare Sunday
The Stough and Loomis reunion gathered thirty four participants at Clare Tourist Park on Sunday July 30. A picnic dinner followed at one o clock and the afternoon featured visiting and reminiscing. Charlie Belcher won the horseshoe championship. Attendees included Mrs. Jennie Venable and many local families from Clare and Wallaceburg Ontario.
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Stough and Loomis
Clare
Charlie Belcher
Jennie Venable
Port Neches
Texas
George McCreary
Janet Poole
Wallaceburg
Ont
Dale Stough
Henderson Rockwell
Mrs John Cameron Hosts Lake George Bridge Event
Mrs John Cameron of Owosso entertained at their Lake George cottage with an afternoon Bridge party followed by a chop suey dinner last week. Guests included Mrs C A Newberry Mrs Stanley Hopkins Mrs G A Van Epps Mrs C H Gorte and Mrs Roy Adams Mrs Forest Shumway and Mrs Allen Crum Mrs Oscar Kube Mrs Fred Bingham Mrs Verne Braden and Mrs Roy Howard. First prizes were won by Mrs Shumway and Mrs Bingham second by Mrs Rube and Mrs Braden and the galloping prize by Mrs Crum.
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John Cameron
Owosso
Lake George
C. A. Newberry
Stanley Hopkins
Berkley
G. A. van Epps
C. H. Gorte
Roy Adams
Forest Shumway
Allen Crum
Clare
Oscar
Mrs Hugh Barnes Hosts Bridge Party at Lake Cottage
Mrs Hugh Barnes entertained twelve ladies at the Barnes cottage on Hight Point Lake for contract bridge. Mrs John Bruckart won first prize, Mrs Jack Rudy took second and Mrs Allen Crum earned the traveling prize. A 6:00 dinner featured chop suey noodles homemade rolls fried chicken and iced tea.
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Hugh Barnes
Contract Bridge
Barnes
Hight Point Lake
John Bruckart
Jack Rudy
Allen Crum
Oppressive Child Labor Definition in Early Policy
The passage defines oppressive child labor as the employment of children under 16 in any occupation, with exceptions for 14 or 15 year olds in non manufacturing/mining work deemed not to interfere with schooling or health, and for 16 or 17 year olds in occupations declared hazardous by the Children's Bureau chief.
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Children’s Bureau
Unfamiliar Feuds Highlight Odd Couple Tale
A terse anecdote reports a man who had not kissed his wife in five years shooting at another man who had. The remark underscores odd tension and longstanding marital estrangement in a compact, newsy note.
Bouchey Myers Nuptials Held at Clare Parsonage
Miss Vergiline Bouchey daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack Bouchey of Clare and Mr Albert Myers son of Mr and Mrs Howard Myers of Wise township were quietly married Saturday evening July 29 at 6 o'clock in the Clare Methodist parsonage. Rev James A Rogers officiated with bridesmaid Mrs Robert Myers and best man Robert Myers. They left for a brief honeymoon at Mrs John Small in Flint and reside on the groom's farm near Rosebush since August 1.
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Vergiline Bouchey
Jack Bouchey
Clare
Albert ‘Myers
Rosebush
Howard Myers
Wise Township
James A. Rogers
Robert Myers
John Small
Flint
W. A. Bruckart Celebrates 79th Birthday at Loomis Home
W A Bruckart was honored as guest of his daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Teale of Loomis for his seventy ninth birthday on Wednesday July 26. A pot luck dinner served under the trees featured a day of visiting and singing his favorite songs with relatives and friends from Gladwin Sheridan Colonville Clare and nearby areas.
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Bruckart
Teale
Loomis
Mr. Bruckhart
Ralph Schwil
Max
Gladwin
W. H. Bruckart
Sheridan
Aaron McReynolds
Colonville
Clarence Davis
The
Hagle
David Teale
Clare
Club's Trained Pigeons Ready for War Service
Cincinnati pigeon club members maintain about 2000 homing birds trained for potential military use. The 40 members meet monthly to improve racing stock, hold weekly summer races up to 600 miles, and the group operates with government sanction for wartime deployment.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Greater
South African Climate Shows Definite Change
Weather experts in Cape Town and Durban report a definite climate shift in South Africa with longer winters and cooler summers. Government meteorologist Irvin B. Low notes a noticeable change since 1930 and cites increasing difficulty in forecasting.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Cape Town
Durban
Irvin B. Low
Plastered With Names On Cast After Accident
In Logansport Indiana 18 year old Emileu Whitehead suffered a back fracture in a October 25 automobile crash. While hospitalized she received 300 visitors who all signed her plaster cast with autographs.
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Logansport
Ind
Emileu Whitehead
Hospitals provide broad coverage with few counties far from care
Health authorities in Washington DC report the United States has generous hospital coverage. Only 13 counties nationwide lie more than 30 miles from a general hospital, highlighting extensive health access.
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Washington, D. C
U. S
American Shipbuilding From Sail to Steam in History
A survey traces American maritime prowess from sail to steam, highlighting Clippers led by Donald McKay and the Flying Cloud, and the Monitor-Merrimack duel. It notes the Great Eastern’s era, Civil War ironclads, and wartime shipbuilding surges, with later shifts toward subsidies and renewed lines to the Orient and Europe.
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America
California
Australia
Donald McKay
Nova Scotia
United States
Boston
New York
San Francisco
Mississippi
Admiral Farragut
Hartford
England
Great Eastern
Hampton Roads
Monitor
Merrimack
Norfolk
Jutland
France
British Isles
Britain
Orient
South America
Europe
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Stough-Loomis
Mrs. Hugh Barnes
Lake Cottage
Mrs. Barnes
Hugh
Barnes Cottage
Bouchey-Myers
W. A. Bruckart
Clare Cleaners
Howard Jones
U.S
Betty Wells
National Geographic Socieety
WNU
India
China
John Ericsson
Merrimac
Consolidated
WNW Service
Roy E. Cimmerer
Clare, Midh
Woodburys
U.S.P
Dr. West
Dr. Caldwells
Carters
Essom Salts
Shele
Flem
Davy
Michigan
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