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Christmas Guests and Local Happenings in Clare
Rey and Mrs Albert Dawes host their family from Battle Creek for Christmas. Miss Pat Doherty returns from Northwestern University to spend the holidays with her parents. Jim Lansing, previously on the steamship Crete, is home for the holidays and plans time in Detroit after the new year. Local weather notes reference unusual warmth in December 1888 as recorded in The Clare Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Dust and Dora Dust visit Clare relatives for Christmas. Jas Olson hosts 4000 area children at the Ideal Theater to see Dicken's Christmas Carol with Reginald Owen and Gene Lockwood in a heartwarming holiday highlight.
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G. G. Born
Donald Sheathelm
Detroit
Lenny Ritter. Myr
Carl Dust
Saginaw
Dora Dust
Algonac
Russell
Jas. Olson
Clare and
Ideal Theater
Dicken
Metro-Goldwyn
Oliver Becker
on-Hirst
Mary Sheen
Ionia
Betty Gordamer
H.R. Wilson
Ladies Aid
Hol. Russell
Gene Frey
Allegan
Tim Frey
Merritt Ogle
Belding
C. C. Ogle
Vera Longfelier
Lansing
Hari Tupper
Mildred Stirling
Jackson
Chas. Stirling
Jesse Lamphere
Ployd Merica
Flint
Jesse
Paul L. Stangle
College of Enginering
University of Detroit
L. Stangle
Blaine, Phylis
Jacqueline
Bessie Sutton
Murray City
Union Furnace
Ohio
Lyle Bond
Norman Blystone
Forrest Jordan
Altha Kidder
Melvin Stevens
University of Michigan