Local Schedule Notes and Church Notices for Ann Arbor Area
Train schedules for Baston and Pere Marquette lines listed with specific departure times. Several church and lodge announcements include K of P Lodge meeting Thursdays, Pythian Sisters gatherings, Church of God services led by Mrs. Mary E. House, and Reorganized Church events with Sunday School at 10:30 a.m. Social Service at 11:30 a.m. Women's Department biweekly meetings at 2:00 p.m. with meeting place to be decided.
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Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
R. B. McGuire
Methodist Church Notes and Local Visit Highlights
Church School session at 10 45 led by Louis Finch with worship at noon. Several local residents and visitors are listed with weekend visits and travel to Chicago for Thanksgiving. Arleigh Schofield, Great Lakes Naval Training School, on furlough. Deer hunting noted among church members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
John H. Hall
Louis Finch
Herald Grasman
Sebenaing
Agnes Campbell
Saginaw
Lehman
Louis Gee
Beulah Barnum
Elaine
Jackson
Hdna Babcock
Merrill
John Micheal Hochstetler
Clare
Sproul
Claud Cooper
Birch Run
A. Powell
Clare Luce
Rose Luce
Owosso
Dick Harkins
Jack
Mt. Pleasant
Don Luce
Arleigh Schofield
Great Lakes Naval Training School
James Schofield
Garry Lee
Bill Sherman
Bay City
Lena Sherman
Sherman
Fern Miller
Tires and Tubes Rationed Farwell Meeting Nov 17
The Clare County Rationing Board met at Farwell on November 17, 1942 and approved several applications. Mary Peters of Harrison requested a new truck tire and tube for hauling beets, Scott Gee of Lake requested one new truck tube for hauling petroleum products, Olin Jay Woods of Harrison requested a new truck tire, Harlan Walters of Clare County requested three Grade II passenger tires and three new passenger tubes, Clyde Hilyard of Marion Clare County requested two obsolete passenger tires for gauger work in the oil field.
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Clare County Rationing Board
Farwell
Mary Peters
Harrison
Gee
Scott
Lake
Olin Jay Woods
Farmer
Harlan Walters
Clare
Mag
Clyde Hilyard
Marion
Clare County
Gil Field
John Thompson Dies Nearby Barryton After Illness
Mr and Mrs Frank Thompson traveled west of Barryton to visit their brother John Thompson who grew ill and died Friday night. A longtime Clare county resident, he was laid to rest in Ewart on Tuesday with the Thompsons in attendance at the funeral parlors.
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Frank Thompson
Barryton
John Thompson
Thompson
Clare County
Ewart
Canada’s Parliament Buildings in Quebec City
Visitors from around the world tour the Quebec City parliament buildings famed for Seventeenth Century Renaissance style. Construction began in 1883 and the central tower honors Jacques Cartier, with niches displaying Cartier, Champlain, Maisonneuve, and Father de Brébeuf.
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Canada
Quebec
Province of
Jacques Cartier
Cartier
Champlain
Maisonneuve
Montreal
Father de Brabyeu
Dasulf Quartyr
Farwell Girl Weds Charlevoix Man in Charlevoix Church
Ernestine Gladys Nickerson daughter of Mr and Mrs Bonnie Nickerson former Farwell residents now of Charlevoix married Ensign Warren Shopton USNR son of Mr and Mrs Earl Shopton of Charlevoix at First Congregational Church Charlevoix The ceremony occurred at 4 pm with Rev G Russell Parker officiating A reception followed and the couple planned to reside on the west coast after visiting relatives They noted she was a noted Detroit dietitian listed as a war bride in Detroit papers
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Ernestine Gladys Nickerson
Bonnie Nickerson
Farwell
Charlevoix
First Congregational Church
Ensign Warren Shopton
USNR
Earl Shopton
G. Russell Parker
Northport
Russell Kreeze
Grand Rapids
Marie Novak
Stanley Shepton
Hast. Lansing
Keith Nickerson
Camp Livingston
Louisiana
Nickerson
Shopton
Ensign
Sensitive People Barometers Recognized At Congress
Dr. K. R. Collis Hallowes described persons aware of electrical changes before storms and sensitive to barometric shifts. He noted rheumatic subjects suffer seaside aches while inland sufferers remain uncomfortable and urged more climatology research at the International Congress of Physical Medicine held at Wharncliffe rooms.
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International Congress of Physical Medicine
Wharncliffe
Montreal Gazette
K. R. Collis Hallowes
Royal Mineral Water Hospital
Bath
Prohibited Acts Under Old Illinois Laws
The record lists actions still banned in Illinois including river bathing within one mile of shore during defined hours with fines from $1 to $5, kite flying in business streets with a $1 fine, ball playing or lying on park grass with $5 to $20 fines, and bicycles exceeding ten mph on streets with a $3 fine and costs.
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Illinois
Australia Now Strong in Air
Australia built a vast empire air training system from one school and 16 instructors to plan to supply 16 000 fully trained air crew by 1943 and 10 000 pilots observers and gunners annually after. The empire scheme also guaranteed 25 000 ground staff to service squadrons.
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Australia
Nana
RAAF
Japan
RAAP
Middle East
Syria
Damascus
23 Million Britons Mobilized for National Service
London reports that Ernest Bevin announced 23 million of Britain's 14 to 65 population have been mobilized for full time national service. He noted many more volunteers for canteens and related services, leaving under 3 million idle including children and the elderly.
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London
Ernest Bevin
Britain
Bevin
British Crop Boost Saves Million Tons of Shipping
A Ministry of Agriculture official says UK farming raised yields by five percent per cultivated acre leading to over one million tons of shipping space saved. The wheat yield rose notably this year as a bumper harvest followed plowing more than two million acres of grassland and greater machinery use.
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London
Ministry of Agriculture
Jumping Beans Executed in Hawaii Quarantine Display
Ninety nine Mexican jumping beans were destroyed in a Hilo gas chamber by the territorial board of agriculture. The beans, brought for sale as oddities, were culled to keep Hawaii free of the pest capocapsa.
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Hilo
Hawaii
Territorial Board of Agriculture
Mascot Geey AWOL at Las Vegas Gunnery School
The horned toad mascot named Geey left, then returned as leader of a 14 member family. Gunner Pete was renamed Machine Gun Patricia after the incident.
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Geey
Las Vegas
Machine Gun
Pete
Patricia
Passenger train cars numbered 45 218 in U S rail system
At the start of 1941 the United States railroads owned 45 218 passenger train cars. The figure reflects the extensive passenger service operated nationwide as the war era approached.
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Washington
United States
Hemp to Fuel War Effort Prompts 1943 Planting Push
The article notes a wartime push for hemp cultivation reaching 240 million pounds by 1948. It estimates 300 000 acres needed at 800 pounds per acre with 350 000 bushels of seed and 35 000 seed acres. Kentucky, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois could grow the fiber as a substitute for scarce hard fibers. Hemp would supply ropes and twines for navy needs and other uses.
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U. S
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Illinois
Navy
Rope History: Hawser Use and Abaca Fibers Rise
The article notes rope uses from tying hair springs to hoisting hay and securing ships. It explains hawser as the strong rope used to moor vessels and that most such ropes are now made from abaca, a hard fiber imported from the Philippines and East Indies.
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Secamen
Philippines
East Indies
Rural Briefs Cash income from American farm marketings
Cash income from American farm marketings totaled 1 059 000 000 in June, compared with 93 000 000 in May and 773 000 000 in June of 1941. Supplies of fresh vegetables for market remain abundant with harvest expected to be 9 percent greater than in 1941.
Lemon juice ration cut scurvy in British Navy
The article notes scurvy as a long recognized disease and credits the British Navy with reducing its incidence after lime juice rationing began in 1804. It also discusses pre isolation work on vitamin C and early use of animals like the guinea pig to study scurvy and isolate crystalline vitamin.
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Chemical and Engineering News
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South
North
Pere Marquette
West
East
Church OF God
Mary E. House
Rosebush
R-2
Karl Paul Link
University of Wisconsin
Link
Mississippi River
Anserson’s Drug Store
Pacific
U.S
J. R. DeLong
Gainesville
U. S. Department of Agriculture
B. S. Wilder
Johnnie Ray DeLong
J. R
W. B. Hammett
Inman
J. H. Talbert
Department of Agriculture Technician
Hammett Farm
Ford
Ozil S. Alen
Ypsilanti
Michigan
Dan McDonald
West Grand Blvd
Detroit
Frank Robinson
Oakley
Model H International
H. BE. Laker
Lake, Mich
Arthur Town Hall
Chas. Heiser
Warren Heiser
O. W. Nash
Fowler Orchard
Miles Poste
Milan
Saleh
Clare Sentinel
H. J. Hierholzer
Jay Allen
S.E.Y
Hatton Township
Robert Hudson
Mich
Shropshire Rams
Ross Coe
E. 4Th St
A. S. Hoyt
Roy Hoover, Sr
Dover
Clare R
Willis
Wheaton Ave
Grant Chapman
Sam Welch
Woods Store
West First St. Clare
Clare Auto Parts
Mickie
Robert Gardner
Mary Mater
BE. Wheaton Ave
Anderson’s
Rexall Drug Store
West Seventh St
Michigan Bell Telephone Company
Parker
Elm Lawn
Ithaca
J. H. Russell
Dull
Beaverton
Fred Harris
Midland
R. Smith
Smith Ave
Lansing
Hona L. DuChane
Golonville
Swift & Co
South McEwan Street
James A. Stanley
Roy Feigshner
Clare, Mich
J. W.,dunlop, Clarer
Doherty
Doherty Hotel
Muskegon River
ART Damoth.agy
Clare Realty Company
Farmars
Gladwin
Northern Michigan
Wolverine Stock Yards
St. Johns
Lapeer
Samborn’s Produce & Furniture
South McEwan St
Vernon Township
Wm. J. Mahr
Samborn
Leghorn
Rock
Independent Produce Co
Rock Springers
Hees
L. W. Jackson
Clare Standish
Havens
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