State News in Brief Highlights Michigan Crises and Accidents
A Michigan Central shops shed fire in Jackson causes $5000 loss with unclear cause. Lakeview Creamery burns for $10000 amid overheated boiler theory. Alto woman killed in freight train collision. Grand Rapids man survives ice crash. Benton Harbor priest credited for new $25000 St John’s gym. Lansing chalk shortfall halts overtime parking relief. Oscoda fishing tug rescue after grounding. Grand Rapids bans unemployment aid for 1932 license cars. Flint fragments from burglary tied to bloodstained scene. Owosso man jailed for drunken driving and license revocation urged. Clawson family saves members from smoke with dog rescue. Mt. Pleasant father accused of coercion and theft by son. Adrian road crew employments funding relief. Jonesville mail theft suspected at New York Central. Lincoln opens $18000 school remodel. Allegan church fire cause traced to overheated furnace. Grand Rapids winter industry boosts sparrow bounty job. Battle Creek boy dies from hunting accident. limb amputations. Kalamazoo beavers build dam at Schoolcraft. Lansing federal building planning equipment received. Cadillac deer shot, venison to county infirmary. Tonia treasurer refuses tax payments awaiting bonding. Hastings former officer in hospital after skull fracture. Cassopolis death linked to crossing accidents. East Lansing MSU drops music art from PE requirement. Grand Rapids traffic fatal at Red Granite. Lansing school employees deemed outside Veterans Preference Act. Clare three injured in train crossing crash. Cass City youths earn grand champion ribbons at livestock show.
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Grand Rapids
Louis Neumann
Battle Creek
Morris Durham
Morris
Kalamazoo
Beavers
Spring Run
James Canning
Flowerfield Township
Schoolcraft
Canning
Lansing
State Capitol
Walter G. Rogers
Cadillac
Nixon
Wexford County Infirmary and Sanitarium
Tonia
Nina Underwood
Hastings
George Slater
Lake Odessa
Cassopolis
Claude Watson
Harold Herman
Edmore
Grand Trunk
Niles
John Horling
Coopersville
East Lansing
Michigan State College
Red Granite
Wis
Michigan Supreme Court
Joseph A. Campbell
Electrical
Detroit
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Clare—Harland Gerow
Clarence Black
Lester Olds
Harold Thayer
Farwell
Olda
Thayer
Clare
Temple
Cass City
Delbert Rawson
Lewis Horner
Poinsettia Origins tied to Joel Poinsett and San Diego display
The poinsettia, a Christmas symbol on the Pacific coast and increasingly in the East, traces its home to Joel Roberts Poinsett who collected the plant in Mexico in the early 1800s and promoted it globally. San Diego’s Balboa Park hosts a famous two acre outdoor display reaching fourteen feet high, peaking around December 10 and lasting several weeks.
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Poinsetta
Pacific
Joel Roberts Poinsett
Mexico
Doctor Poingett
Chile
van Buren
San Diego
Balboa Park
Home Fire Losses and Causes in 1929
The report cites about 10 000 annual fire deaths with a deaths to injuries ratio of 1 to 214. More than 60 percent of fatal fires occur at homes, and a fire happens every four minutes. Defective flues chimneys and heating systems and roof sparks were the leading known causes, with property losses around 50 million dollars in 1929.
Little Isabel’s penny chorus at bridge club
Isabel, a child at a mother's circle of friends, resists a kiss from Aunt Ruth until promised pennies. She accepts the kiss but is surprised to find only two coins in her hand, exclaiming that there are just two pennies.
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Isabel
Bridge Club
Ruth
Margie
Grizzly Bears Face Extinction Threat Says Scientist
Dr William D Ball head of the biological survey warns grizzlies could vanish across the United States in a few years without stronger protection. He reports an 87 percent drop over five years and notes extinction already in California. About 3,500 remain, mainly in Alaska.
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United States
William D. Ball
California
Alaska
Veiled Desert People Tuaregs Called People of the Yell
Collier's Weekly notesTuaregs, nomads of the Sahara, wear veils or face cloths at all times and rarely uncover even when traveling to Paris, earning them a title linked to their veiled appearance.
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Sahara Desert
Yell
Paris
Collier’s Weekly
The Truth About Rheumatism Ad Claim
An advertorial claims the uric acid poison leaves the body within 24 hours of taking Alleniu and pain vanishes in 48 hours with a money back guarantee. It promotes Allenry for $5 and urges readers to stop using temporary pain relievers.
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Allenry
A. Anderson
Druggista
Local Social Roundup From Tarwell and Nearby
Multiple Tarwell families and neighbors share visits and outings across the week. Frank Pettibone started work for Harry Clewell. Santa Claus delivers a Crosley radio to the Perverse household. numerous calls and visits occur among Bolens Mussells Leichtis Bord ers and Horning families with church, hospital, and travel mentions.
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Seymour Border
Clarence Horning
Otis McPhail
Jackie Leichti
Ann Arbor
Santa, Claus
Carrie
Crosley
Austin Trumble
Frank Pringle
Clare
Mt. Pleasant
Emma Breach
Lewis Nevins
Coleman
Town With Odd Name Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat is described as a Canadian Pacific railroad town in southeast Alberta within the Dominion electoral district of Medicine Hat It sits about 80 miles from the Saskatchewan border and 75 miles from the Montana border.
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Medicine Hat
Canadian Pacific
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Montana
Congressional Funerals Funded by Law
It is provided by law that the funeral expenses of members of congress shall be paid. It is considered a just and fitting tribute to men who have died, while in the service of their country.
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Congress
This Woman Lost 64 Pounds of Fat
Mrs. H Price of Woodside credits Kruschen with dropping from 190 to 126 pounds in a year. She says she looks younger and notes friends praise her weight loss. Advertisement promotes a half teaspoonful daily in hot water before breakfast and a money back guarantee if not satisfied after one bottle.
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J. A. Anderson
America
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Jackson
Michigan Central
Lakeview
R. A. Langdon
Alto
Andrew Watson
Here
W. F. Curott
Hart
Benton Harbor
G. A. Witteman
St. John’s Catholic
Oscoda
Fred
George Pletcher
Au Sable
Au Sable River
Frank Lawrence
Fred Coldpath
Edward Matthews
Flint—Genesee County
John Delay
Flushing
Delay
Owosso
George Allen
J. H. Collins
Secretary of State
Allen
Clawson
Matthew St. Angelo
St. Angelo
Lillian
Matthew, Jr
L. Robinson
Robinson
Crooks Road
Fourteen Mile Road
A. E. Walker
Edward Walker
Nellie
Lenawee
Jonesville
New York Central
New York City
Focal Bank
Lincoln
Allegan
Church of God
Charles
Wadaworth
Aaron Irwin
Geo
Irwin
Little Mary
Tarwell
Tom Bolen
Frank Irwin
Cranberry Lake
Bolen
Frank Pettibone
Harry Cleveland
Carrie Perverse
Art ‘Walters
Thos. Bolen
Mery] Ritter
Red Howard
Lenny Billsby
Pearl Lelchti
George Bryant
Donald
Ed. Mussell
David Mussell
Mussell
Arnold Bidwell
Flint
Don Artibee
Kathern Leichti
Bob Gardner
Art Horning
Kathern Horning
Clayton Funnel
Frank Clark
Akey
Grandma Hendrie
Phyllis
Jim Sherman
Hunie Aiey
Jess Wood
Henry Lines
Josie
Albert
Sequent Towers
Walter W. Caple
Member
Florists’ Telegraph Association
Caple
Alma
Thurston & Son
Clare, Mich
Sady
Big Brother
Thayer Brothers
West Fourth St
Clare, Michigan
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