Social Notes From Vernon Hill and Nearby Towns
Local residents and relatives frequent gatherings and visits in Mt Pleasant Clare Saginaw and Vernon with numerous dinners weekend trips and family calls. Notable names include Ward Boody Bryant Pringle Piggott Heiser Bolen Arrand Fannell and Robison among others. Events cover dinners calls home care and weekend travel across Michigan towns.
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Wdswin House
Mt. Pleasant
Ward Boody
Alred
Bryant
Sid Colosky
Lake
Frank Pringle
Jack Aube
Vernon
Detroit
Jack Rose
Flint
Anna Arrand
New Deal Critics Brace For Supreme Court Shakeup
Washington commentary warns Roosevelt may name five or six new justices as battles over judiciary independence widen. Critics label supporters as traitors while press freedom is attacked and calls for centralized federal power grow.
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Supreme Court
Roosevelt
New Deal Administration
Congress
New Deal
Sacramento Air Depot to Rise as West's Key Army Base
Sacramento plans rush construction of a major Army air depot to serve the western region by 1939. The 1 200 acre site northeast of the capital will include a vast engineering shop a 900 by 600 foot repair dock a 90 foot control tower and a ten acre supply warehouse plus a glass walled two story equipment repair building. Major Parker supervises work with 200 already on site and 1 000 expected during peak. The facility will house 25 to 40 officers 150 enlisted men and about 500 civilian technicians.
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Sacramento
Calif
Rocky Mountains
Ain
Ensgineering
Four-Cent Salary Debt Settled After 39 Years
Minneapolis report on J. P. H. Brombush, longtime safekeeping chief at First National Bank, finally receiving four cents owed since 1897. Beginning as a messenger, his monthly pay left an extra penny unpaid each year. after 40 years he settled with Francis A. Chamberlain, with Brombush waiving about six cents in interest.
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Minneapolis
J. P. H. Brombush
First National Bank & Trust Company
Francis A. Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Security National Bank
First National
Bromhash
Brombash
Bank
Brombush
Haters of Women Also Found to Dislike Cats
Dr. Charles M. Diserens of the University of Cincinnati says men hostile to women often vent on cats. He notes a ten to one ratio of dislike for cats by men toward women and cites the French as an example of men who like cats and control women.
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Cincinnati
Charles M. Diserens
University of Cincinnati
Diserens
Ventriloquism Dummies Ancestors Preserved in Wew Haven
In New Haven Connecticut a collection of Charlie McCarthy ancestors rests in the home of musician Harry Edward Parsons. The dolls were carved by Lewis Parsons and clothed by Lydia Streeter Parsons during the Civil War era and kept in their original traveling trunk.
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Wew Haven
Conn
Charlie McCarthy
Harry Edward Parsons
Lewis Jay Parsons
Lewis Parsons
Lydia Streeter Parsons
Favorite Prescription Promises Relief for Nervous Ailments
Detroit woman Mrs. Herman King reports nervous weakness and loss of appetite improved after taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. She credits increased appetite and strength to the remedy and urges purchase from local druggists in new tablet form.
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Detroit
Mich
Herman King
Calumet St. Saya
Plan to Restore Last Home of Daniel Boone in Missouri
The Daniel Boone birth home in St Charles Missouri is to be restored to its original appearance The present owner Colonel Francis Mariot Curlee a descendant of Boone s brother John acquired the property in 1925 after it was bought by Henry Bollman in 1904 The 1810 house built by Major Nathan Boone features thick walls warm in winter and cool in summer Furnishings are reproductions and some originals The south light reveals a timbered ceiling native brick floor and Windsor chairs A Ken joht rifle hangs over the fireplace and the second floor library houses about 2009 books on Boone and dueling code volumes
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St. Charles
Daniel Boone
Francis Mariot Curlee
Boone
John
Henry Bollman
Bollman
Colonel Curlee
Nathan Boone
Paw Paw Michigan Name Story Leaves Town Folks Tired
Paw Paw residents often explain that the town’s name comes from the Paw Paw river and its paw paw trees, a fact some locals say is tiresome to recount. The river and town adopted the name after the township’s 1867 change from Lafayette.
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Michigan
Paw Paw
Mich
Paw Paws
Lafayette
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Mona Jean Harvey
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Bill Six
Frank Robison
Marl Jackson
Bobbie
Will Kanaar
Arthur Center
Ideal Theatre
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Margaret Lindsay
Joan Blondell
Rhapsody In the Zoo
A Sailor
Screeno
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Ray Corrigan
Max Terhune
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Match Girl
Frank McHugh
Nat Pendleton
Allen Jenkins
Louise Fazenda
J the Weaver Brothers
Elvira
Cone
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Ricardo Cortez
Dick Powell
Fred Waring
Gartion “Parlarthon
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Arthur W. Parker
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