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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1937
Page
8
The Michigan Tuberculosis Association promotes its 1937 Christmas seal sale with 65,000,000 seals featuring the town crier. Proceeds fund anti tuberculosis programs now in their thirty first year, with chest X rays aiding detection and early treatment across the state.
A Northwestern National Life Insurance survey of 83 U S cities finds soaring costs push middle class families to postpone or cancel new homes from New York to Seattle. Costs up about 15 percent since 1936 with 94 8 percent of 1926 29 boom levels. Rental increases and cost plus building shape industry delays. Some cities see little impact while demand shifts to repairs and old-home purchases.
Lorain based rat catcher Lorain C E L Strawsburg of Hagerstown Maryland arrives to trap public buildings. With 17 years’ experience he says female rats are too smart for traps and that ninety percent of captured rats are males. He advocates poisoning to kill the female rat.
An unused Pennsylvania railroad station in Rayland Ohio has been leased to store automobiles. The facility at the rail yard will serve as a secure depot for vehicles awaiting dispatch or sale in the region.
A scrambled OCR fragment mentions a fiend and a keep off the grass sign with unclear context. The readable elements include a sign on grass and a threat or action related to a firework or firewopped motif, but no coherent event or names emerge.
Thanksgiving guests gathered at Mr. and Mrs. Frank Myers in Harrison. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Shunk and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ott and family, Clarence Glynn, Norman Myers family, George and Mary Perkins, Russell and Verlin Williams, Lynn Vige, and friends. Local hunting visits occurred with Bill Hartman, Grant Williams, and others.
A list of local families sharing Thanksgiving and weekend visits. Colomilee Phillips and Brant relatives joined by Arthur Hierholzer and Midland family. Clute and Thompson families spent Thanksgiving with Archie McKillop and Ruby Thompson in Pontiac and Rosebush, with Empey, Willets, Bodkins, and Nevills also noted in gatherings.
Thanksgiving gatherings listed include Mr and Mrs James Negillscot Reginald Reid Robert and Jay Harrison and Mrs Floyd Garver Roberta Lansing Richard Emerson and Harold Thompson Dover with Mr and Mrs Arthur Phillips M D Clute visiting Harrison with Elmer Clute for several days last week
Mrs. F. Hinkle shows steady improvement, leaving bed to walk briefly with help. Clara Davison of Lansing visits Vern Moling family. Several relatives and friends gather for Thanksgiving and weekend visits near Clare, including Sparbels, McIntosh, Sparkel, Armstrong, and Teale families, with Teales moving into a new house west of Clare.
Willis Whitney joined his wife at the Purdy home for Thanksgiving and stayed until Saturday. Mr and Mrs Wellington Moline of Lansing and Mr and Mrs Harold Moline of Clare were Thanksgiving dinner guests of their parents, Mr Burd and Mrs Vern Moline. Billy returned from MSC at Hast Lansing and remained for the weekend while Mr and Mrs Powers and son spent Sunday at Lake.
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