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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1923
Page
10
A fragmented advertisement from The Red Front store displays low prices on groceries and household items. Items include coffee, crackers, olives, pork, corn flakes, pasta, evaporated milk, sauerkraut, vinegar, hominy, spinach, starch, and baking goods with various per unit prices. The ad notes evening hours.
We repair or rebuild shoes to their original shape with a finish like new. The cost is comparatively small and we promise happy feet. One trial is requested before you credit us for knowing the right way of shoe rebuilding. We are at your service all the time.
Default on a 1916 real estate mortgage by Charles Ciliax and Viletta Ciliax of Grant township Clare County Michigan to Henry and Mary Lydiatt prompts foreclosure. Mortgagee Mary A. Lydiatt seeks sale of the South Half of NE 34 Section 1 Township 17 North Range 4 West at the Clare County Courthouse Harrison on August 27 1923 at 1:00 PM under court authority.
Advertises Pratt's Ideal Ointment for fever sores ulcers skin diseases and piles. Sold at stores handling medicinal preparations or sent postpaid on receipt of price. 1 Oz jars fifty cents 8 Oz jars three dollars. Clare Michigan Box 403.
A New York Sun excerpt links a “Well-Spring of Pleasure” to a string of disruptive images including a tornado, a midnight alarm, a life job and a reign of terror. The fragment hints at casualty lists and everyday items like a vacuum cleaner and a handle-with-care sign.
A clipped ad offers a mail order trial package from Foley & Co. for Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets. Readers mail name and address with payment to Foley & Co. at 2835 Sheffield Ave Chicago, with sellers Floyd Kirkpatrick Clare and Wm Burston Farwell.
Dordthy Gorr attended the May festival in Mt Pleasant Friday night. The note mentions a school break and a seaside cottage visit by Mr and Mrs Frank Waters and friends from Mt Pleasant. A Grange meeting is planned at Freeman town hall on Saturday afternoon June 9 with cake and coffee served.
Residents and visitors are listed with their relations and movements. N W Greenwood and A J Vincent of Gaylord spent time with Wm Clark. Henry Huber and wife visit Mrs J Webber. Henry Clark and wife from Chesaning visited W Clark’s. Helen Clark of Owosso visits grandparents Mr and Mrs Clark. Eliza and Thelma Vanbuskirk and Mrs Clifford Barber’s family ill with measles. F Williams plants late due to lateness. Mrs Hudson Jones took Mrs F Williams to A B Wentworth’s near Clare for a few days.
Mann Siding school closed for a picnic in the yard. Local residents and families visited, with several moving between Clare Marshall Lansing and nearby farms. Measles spread among Emerson Burton’s and Ira Root’s children. Green and Hileman families appear in social mentions.
Pontiac resident N. E. Greenwood Zeno Budd visits his mother and sisters Mirla and Wilma Budd. Several locals go fishing, census taking, school matters, and family gatherings are mentioned along with a runaway horse incident involving Amos Vanbuskirk and his girl.
Mr and Mrs Reed hosted events over the weekend for Marlone Reed of Flint Helene Reed and a friend from Owosso Lucille Reed from Beaverton Byron Black and wife visited with his father Wim Black Mr and Mrs Macklem of Flint joined Gerald Macklem George Strachan and family visited John Smiths in Wise Claude Smith entertained guests from Beaverton Meda Siliott spent Sunday at home with Jim Hillott O B Macklem and family visited near Ooletian Harl Bergey and baby from Bline visited J Degeers Frances Beatty from Lansing visiting her parents Guy and Mrs Beatty Dewey Black came from Flint for a birthday trip Mrs Fred Coe spent part of last week with her daughter Varley Sowls in Olaza.
Mayor Murphy traveled to Clare on a business trip while the county reports closure of the city school for three months. The column lists numerous residents visiting, traveling, or staying in Harrison and nearby towns, plus a homecoming week prep and a funeral service for W. J. Quinn conducted by Father Flannigan.
Emmett Robinette and wife of Flint visited his parents while Mr. Weaver of Dover shared a farewell flying call home from a fishing trip. Mrs. Perverse and son bought a flock near Harrison, and Mrs. Trumble and Mrs. Silas Brown checked on the ill at Mann Riding. Dover’s Sister Dover returned from a trip and hopes for modern ventures like a barber shop and beauty parlor. An aeroplane visit was noted and Hatton township fishing limits sparked debate with Mr. Cornwell. Farmers benefited from wool prices around 47 cents, with overall improvement in the wool market.
Washington The United States Shipping Board considers building two new ocean liners for trans Atlantic service in partnership with Leviathan. The ships are projected to cost 12 600 000 dollars each. Detroiter Chosen ALA A. Head New York The twenty first annual meeting of the American Automobile Association last week closed its most successful season electing Thomas P Henry of Detroit president Roy Hill of Minneapolis secretary and William C Kirby of Chicago treasurer
Last week the Hall of Fame at New York University unveiled busts of Abraham Lincoln Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Ward Beecher Alexander Hamilton Ulysses S Grant Robert E. Lee and Frances Willard bringing the total busts in the hall to 13.
The Canadian Pacific liner Marvale sank on the southern coast of Newfoundland last week with 346 aboard. Survivors report a dire rescue as the ship went down during a night of fasting, a tale carried to St. Johns by the crew of a train from St. Shotts.
The death is announced of Lady Constance Lytton born 1869 daughter of the first Earl of Lytton. She joined the suffrage cause in 1908 and was imprisoned four times for militant activities.
Lieutenant Harrison G. Crocker of Kelly Field will depart Ellington Field Houston this week for a nonstop flight to Detroit, covering about 1400 miles. The route will go from the Gulf to the Great Lakes as announced at Air Corps headquarters.
Nashville Tennessee General Thomas Benton Smith aged 85 a brigade commander in Bates division of the Confederate army from Tennessee died at the Central Hospital for the Insane near Nashville where he had been an inmate for years from a sabre cut to the head received at the Battle of Nashville on December 16 1864.
Paris chamber members heard radical Alfred Margaine urge breaking Germany apart. He argued Ruhr occupation harms profits and security, proposing Prussia be separated from the rest of Germany to compel terms.
Captain Patrick Irving O Hay, a 52 year old adventurer and multi occupation figure, receives a gold card from the Society of Restauranteurs. The card allows him to eat free at 380 New York City restaurants, marking a new phase amid rising obesity.
Eddie J. O'Brien and James Colson, members of the Toledo gang, were sentenced to 60 years in the Atlanta penitentiary by Judge J. M. Killitts in federal court. All gang members except leader Jos Urbaytis have now been sentenced. Britain agrees with U S on debt terms as Bradbury withdraws to align with France and Belgium on the American draft.
A Manchester editor was hauled into court for calling a dog breed a bandy legged pup in a slander suit. The case proved the dog Peke Clah Wee Wu Pokinese had a good prize winning pedigree, and the editor lost the suit.
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