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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1929
Page
4
Ann Arbor area church schedule lists Sunday services and weekday meetings at several congregations. Local residents and visitors are noted with travel, events, and social activities including plays and school ads. Community notes mention weather related church closures, visits, and youth activities at the Church of God and Farwell High School events.
Mrs. Henry House is pastor. Sunday School at 10 30. Morning worship at 11 30. Evening service at 7 30. Prayer meeting Tuesday 7 30. Young People's prayer meeting at the pastor's home Thursday 7 30.
Don Luce acquires a new Hssex car. Wilton Powell was in Mt. Pleasant Saturday. Frank Irwin works at Cranberry Lake. Tia Badger traveled to Clare on business Thursday. Mr and Mrs Lew Rawson visited in Clare Thursday. W C Puller and Martha drove to Beaverton Saturday. Miss Bodfish spent the weekend in Coleman. Geoil Davison of Flint visited family here. Geo Irwin went to Flint Friday with James Stinchcombe. Mable Melvin and son Keith visited Freeland for a few days. J Barton has been improving. Joe Wardell from Clare visited grandparents W and M Winchell over the weekend. Jannette Green of Clare visited Ruth Shear. Art Rube, working in Flint, spent the weekend with family. Mrs Seymour caring for ill Jessie Brasington. Ruth Miller of Clare visited Rev Mrs House Sunday. Mrs Blanch Burston returned from visits in Flint and Saginaw. Harvey D Begeer and son Arthur of Flint spent the weekend at home. Mrs McLoud dined with nephew George Holmes. Merle Graham stayed in town for Semester exams.
A grocery list features Fred M Morgan Brooms at 79 cents for coffee 39 cents for Wienican Ivory soup 6 oz 3 for 20 cents. Pineapple 2 lb can 21 cents table salt 2 lb 9 cents pancake flour five pounds 20 cents Alaska salmon two cans 49 cents. Radio promo advertises RB Grocer’s Surprise Friday at 8 15 over WIR Business open evenings.
Farwell Woman's Club met January 22 at Mrs. Madge Lamb's home for a music night. Members answered roll call with a themed line and enjoyed a program arranged by Mrs. Lamb featuring Shubert pieces, a Cradle Song, an unfinished symphony, a sketch of Shubert's life, and an impromptu. Visitors included Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Stanley, Mrs. Schofield, Esther Luce, Mildred and Gladys Stanley, Anna Belle Horton, and Francis Bingham. Dainty refreshments were served.
A quip from the Los Angeles Times notes roughing it means a week at a Mountain shack with visible plumbing and no full length mirror, highlighting rustic living as a humorous contrast to modern comforts.
A partial list notes men who died while serving as vice president including George Clinton Elbridge Gerry William R King Henry Wilson W A Hendricks Garrett Hobart and James Sherman.
One of the world’s most remarkable tobacco boxes sits in Caxton Hall London. It measures over a foot square and four feet high, weighs 100 pounds, and is encased in added boxes within silver. The original box from 200 years ago is now insured for 285000 dollars.
The term Chauvinism derives from Nicolas Chauvin a Napoleonic soldier ridiculed for his extreme patriotism. It has come to describe excessive enthusiasm for national ascendancy.
The text notes that by land area alone Australia is slightly larger. It gives figures around 2,974,581 square miles for Australia and 8,026,789 square miles for the United States as gross areas, with land area figures incomplete.
Elegant 45 volt double duty B batteries offered at 28.25 by Anderson’s. This ad highlights a compact power option for older devices and electrical equipment.
In light weight woolens a trend toward prints and sheer textures emerges with georgette like drape. Challis returns as a favorite in floral and geometric designs for day dresses with contrasting belts scarves and jabots.
Fashion notes praise black cloth and black fur coats as the season’s standout trend. Luxurious fabrics such as broadcloth cashmere and suede pair with wolf fox broadtail and Russian lamb pelts. Furs are styled into bows collars cuffs and hats with matching muffs, as shown in Julia Bottomley’s Western Union item.
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