Clare Sentinel Publishing Details and Subscription Rates
The Clare Sentinel lists its offices at 112 W Fourth Street Clare Michigan 48617 and notes weekly publication on Wednesdays. It lists staff including Editor and Publisher Harold A Couturier Associate Publisher and Advertising Mgr Paul G Schroeder and Plant Production Superintendent William D Elde. Subscriptions are 4.50 in Clare County and military service 5.50 in Isabella Gladwin Osceola Midland Mecosta 6.50 elsewhere in Michigan 8.00 for other states.
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W. Fourth Street
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Michigan
Michigan, Michigan Press Association
William D. Elde
Paul G. Schroeder
Mgr
Clare County
Isabella
Gladwin
Osceola
Midland & Mecosta
States
Nelson Miles
Holley Carburetor Company
Toll cuts on Mackinac Bridge aim to boost travel and relief
Editorial notes tolls on the Mackinac Bridge drop from 3.75 to 1.50 for cars and 4.25 to 1.50 for most trucks starting Jan 1 under a state gasoline tax law to retire bridge bonds. Officials hope lower fares lift northern tourism and ease local finances. bridge opened 1957 connects Michigan’s peninsulas, with annual traffic over one million.
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Mackinac Bridge
Northland
Mackinac
Michigan
Lower
Upper
Upper Peninsula
Names Change for Clare Village Rosebush in 1889
In January 1889 the village of Calkinsville is renamed Rosebush after Elizabeth Rose Bush, with a plat recorded Jan 22. Farwell Brick and Tile Works orders 2,000,000 clay shingles. Local notes mention dental services, a Clare incident, and Christmas dance contributions by Eastman, Doughty, and Cosper.
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Calkinsville
Rosebush
Elizabeth Rose Bush
James L. Bush
Farwell Brick and Tile Works
Lumber Prices Rise As Japan Buys U.S. Timber
A Michigan lumber and supply firm told the National Federation of Independent Business that soaring lumber and plywood costs stem from Japan buying timber at high prices. The trend has forced U.S. mills out of business, slowed home building, and reduced timber supplies, with auctions on state and federal lands seeing Japanese outbidding American mills.
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Michigan Lumber and Supply Company
National Federation of Independent Business
Japan
U.S
Timber exports spark debate over foreign aid and prices
A mill operator laments hard-to-get raw materials as exporters bid up hemlock to about 80 per thousand feet while local bidders cap at 50. A hardware dealer notes foreign log sales raise finished lumber prices by a third over eight months, fueling calls in Congress to curb timber exports to Japan and even halt all foreign sales to protect domestic mills.
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Oe Orue
Wayne Morse
Oregon
U.S
Japan
Remembering the medicine shows of old times
A reminiscence by C William Junsberger of Souderton Pa recalling the traveling medicine show era. He describes crowds gathering around a portable stage and the candy boxes with supposed gifts while vendors pitched elixirs. He notes how earlier gullibility now seems quaint in hindsight, dated January 15 1969.
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William Junsberger
Souderton
Radio City Music Hall
New York City
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