Michigan Bell outlines 1928 expansion plan in Michigan
President Butch Foraker unveils a 1928 program totaling about 27 million dollars for new plants across Michigan. The plan seeks to boost long distance cables, central offices, and outside plant while forecasting a population and industrial growth across Detroit and other cities, with projected rise to 632,000 telephones in service by end of 1928.
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Local Notes From Mr Gray and Neighbors
Clarence Gray arrived home Monday evening. Verda Yoesting spent Thursday and Friday with Link Hammersley. Charles Smith was hauling hay Monday. Bar Thompson was seen with a load of wood for the school house. Link Hammersley and his two sons Roy and Jesse went to Gladwin Saturday. Mrs Walter Mathews is able to sit up and hopes to be home soon.
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Link Hammersley
Charles Smith
Bar Thompson
Roy
Jesse
Gladwin
Walter Mathews
Local social notes and visits recount Lake George area
Windover A B E and sister visited Lake last week Monday. Delling family from Marion and Caro guests at Achard ranch. McCall death prompts sympathy to widow. Delling kin hosted nieces and husbands from Tuesday to Friday. Mrs Desemed of Toledo visiting. Detroit visitors at Lostlake club over New Year. Marjorie Proper and son joined Finch family for two weeks in Flint. land trip to Lansing. car trouble en route home.
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Clair Petiprin
Dwain
Clifton Sage
Caro
Minnie Greene
Toledo
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Burk
Finch
Marjorie
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Ross
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Detroit
Davis Marshall Fields and Company Promote COMBINATION XX PLAN Bloomer
The Davis Marshall Fields and Company promote the COMBINATION XX PLAN bloomer line as superior value. Available in Pink Peach Orchid Coral Nile Tan Navy Black in Small through Large sizes.
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East Lincoln Social Notes Include Visits and Recovering News
East Lincoln residents share New Year visits with neighbors from Mud Lake, Cornwell ranch, and Harrison. Local moves bring N J Billgreen and daughter to Lake George. Rev L J Tead’s passing mourned by the community with attendees from East Lincoln.
Local Notes and Travel Highlights From Eagle Area
Norman Allen and family made a combined pleasure and business trip to Detroit and nearby Michigan spots. Mrs Hannah Mack of Clare visited relatives, returning home Thursday. The Hutchinsons from Flint planned a visit after holidays. Ernest Kleiner and children show improvement after illness. Owen Spink visits his sister in Jackson while Leon Warner and Lillian tend the farm in their absence. New Year’s Day was quiet due to cold and snow. about thirty attended Sunday School. A county snow plow was tested over the weekend and performed well in heavy drifts. Robi Hutchinson’s Clare visit. his wife ill with flu earlier in the week.
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Detroit
Hannah Mack
Clare
Wm. Horton
Robi. Hutchinson
Flint
Ernest Kleiner
Owen Spink
Jackson
Leon Warner
Lillian
New County
A. H. Hutchinson
Dover News Calendar Ties in Sunday School Contest
The Dover Sentinel notes a calendar and holiday greetings. Sunday School attendance contest for three months ended in a tie last Sunday. A community supper will be hosted at Mrs Jordans after revival meetings at the Brown. Various local residents share social visits and New Year celebrations.
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Floyd Weaver
Dover
Lawrence Robinett
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Edna
Bob Wilson
Randall
John Morden
South of Clare
Walter Graham
Weaver
Sunday School officers reelected for coming year
Sunday School re elected the coming year with Mrs. B S Weaver as Superintendent John Oman as assistant Mildred Montney secretary Ruby Jordan assistant Warl Gilmore treasurer Forest Jordan librarian Mary Ginn pianist Ruby Jordan assistant The unit notes the season start and hopes for its best year ahead. Severe winter weather kept people indoors with snowdrifts blocking east and west roads and cars stuck despite a snow plow. Dan Courtney of Saginaw spent New Years with his son Hol John Bowers and family enjoy the new King radio evenings. Mr and Mrs Frank Weaver and Gon Floyd spent Christmas with relatives in Flint.
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Mildred Montney
Ruby Jordan
Ass’t
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Treas
Forest Jordan
Mary Ginn
Dan Courtney
Saginaw
Hol
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King
Frank Weaver
Floyd
Flint
Local residents share holiday notes and births in Alma area
Mr. and Mrs. Ladd and daughter Shirley along with the Redmans and daughter Mary visited their Alma cottage. New Year visits span from Pint to Frost cemetery burials, Christmas trips to Bowling Green, and a newborn baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Whitmer. Mrs. J Ladd has returned home after hospitalization.
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Gayla Harper
Bowling Green
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J. A. Whitmer
Frost
Paul Moore
G. Moore
Auburn
Ind
J. Ladd
Lewis Light
Rev
Flint
Guy A. Light
Marion F. Caner
Local Family Notes and Visitors Across Towns
Harold Newbound visits parents Mr and Mrs Joe Newbound while Miles Darling, ill for weeks, is taken to Ann Arbor hospital. Robert Hecker of Ann Arbor visits his sister Mrs Miles Darling as Miss O D Schaaf travels from Sault Ste Marie to Hayes to see her parents. Miss Lottie Bruce returns to Farwell after Christmas with her parents Mr and Mrs Samuel Bruce. Fred Schaaf family visit Flint relatives. a new baby Ford car owned by Billie Bruce appears in town. Winter arrives. Fred Gleason visits his children in Flint. Wilma Hochstetler of Clare visits cousin Neenah Crigier.
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Joe Newbound
Miles Darling
Ann Arbor
Robert Hecker
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Sault St. Marie
Don Schaaf
Hayes
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Lottie Bruce
Farwell
Samuel Bruce
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Wilma Hochstetler
Clare
Neenah Crigier
Pioneers in Industry Pencil Makers of Early America
The first lead pencil maker in the United States was William Monroe of Concord Massachusetts who in 1812 invented a process to pulverize mix and encase the material in cedar holders He sold well but ceased after a year and a half due to scarce raw materials Another early figure was Joseph Dixon who began business in 827.
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Concord
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Old Time Customs Among Indian Tribes and Malays
The piece describes timekeeping via betel leaf chewing among Mohammedan tribes in India and the Indo Malayan peninsula. It notes the chewing process lasts about 20 minutes and serves as a time standard. It also mentions Malays measuring time by the drying of wet hair on a newborn's head.
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