State Lands Tax Paid Across 82 Michigan Counties
The Department of Lands and Forests sent 82 county treasurers checks totaling 438,556.26 for land taxes on 2,885,566 acres. Exemptions apply to the first 1,000 acres in each park. 67,138.08 goes to the game protection fund and 371,418.18 to the general fund. Luce leads with 29,165.47, followed by Schoolcraft and Marquette.
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State Conservation Department
Lands Division
Michigan
Game Protection Fund
General Fund
Luce County
Schoolcraft
Marquette
Eaton County
Ottawa County
Clare
Gladwin
Isabella
Mecosta
Midland
Missaukea
Osceola
Roscommon
Alma Lee Seifer Wins 4-H Exhibit Prize at State Fair
Miss Alma Lee Seifer earned first prize for her 4-H work at the State 4-H Exhibit in Hast Lansing last week. She entered an all wool suit and an aqua Irish linen blouse made in the Pratt School 4-H project.
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Alma Lee Seifer
Hast Lansing
Alma Lee
Pratt School
Price Ceilings Raised on Bicycles and Boat Motors
The OPA announced a 40 percent jump in bicycle price ceilings and about a 6 percent rise for outboard motors, effective immediately, citing higher wage and material costs that exceed 1941 levels while manufacturers had generally held prices.
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Washington
OPA
London Girl, Veteran Web by Telephone Marriage
Dark haired London woman Doreen Davies married by trans Atlantic telephone to former G I Jack Murrell of Fort Worth Texas. The 15 minute ceremony cost $60 at $4 a minute with a Texas minister conducting and Doreen's father serving as proxy in London.
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London
Doreen Davies
G.I
Jack Murrell
Fort Worth
Texas
Doreen
Notice Reregistration for November Election
City Clerk Alex McKinnon reminds voters to re register or they cannot vote in the November election.
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Ans
Alex McKinnon
Appreciation note from Josephine Walters
Josephine Walters expresses sincere thanks for prayers cards letters flowers and other remembrances sent during her stay at Women s Hospital in Detroit and conveys deep gratitude to all.
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Women’s Hospital
Detroit
Josephine Walters
Paper table cloths available from The Sentinel
The Sentinel reports a limited supply of paper table cloths for large parties and public suppers. Individuals and organizations using these cloths will be furnished while supply lasts.
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The
Sentinel
Dancing at Water Edge Park Weekly with Jake Colmus Hill Orchestra
Weekly dances at Water Edge Park in Stevenson's Lake every Saturday feature popular music by Jake Colmus Hill Orchestra. Attendees enjoyguare dances and a lively onatry ambiance, drawing local residents to the lakeside venue each weekend.
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Water Edge Park
Stevenson
Jake Colmus Hill Onatry
Cider Mill Ad Offers Custom Grinding Fridays
Ira Blosser announces custom grinding service at the cider mill every Friday located four miles north and four miles east of Harrison.
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Harrison
Ira Blosser
Lamb Loss Report At Lambing Time In Clare
Farmers report about one third of lambs do not reach market due to losses at lambing time. Bet tee care at lambing and parasite patrols recommended to reduce deaths. Community ag extension notes outline proper galions and remedies for losses in Clare area livestock.
Hoover Warns of Vast Army of Criminals Threatening Nation
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover warned of a potential army of six million criminals and a rising wave of lawlessness. He cited a 12.4 percent 1945 year end crime rise and annual crime rates with shocking frequency, urging roots from moral decline and lax parental control. He urged homes to become sanctuaries for good citizenship and called for reform of the penal system.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
America
Recreation Cost Put at Four Billion
The Commerce Department says American spending on ball games movies and other recreation will total about 4 billion this year a record high. Through June consumer expenditures for recreation reached about 1.725 billion versus 1.456 billion in the same period of 1945.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Paris Jewels Theft Ends in 10 Year Term for Collette
Yvon Collette, who escaped a mental hospital month ago, received a 10 year sentence in absentia for theft of the Pearl of Asia valued at 200000 dollars. His wife Georgette was jailed two years and fined 10000 francs, and Joseph Klop got five years and 20000 francs. The fines cover the jewel’s expenses. the pearl was recovered from a Marseille hotel water tank and returned to R. P. Robert, head of a religious organization. Collette remains at large.
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Paris
Yvon Collette
Collette
Georgette
Joseph Klop
Marseille
R. P. Robert
Industry Booming in Russ Reich Area Reveals Soviet Trade
German officials tell American correspondents that Saxony and Thuringia show full employment and shortages in some sectors while most factory output goes to the Soviet Union for reparations. Zeiss in Jena supplies 90 percent of its production to Russia, per the plant director.
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Berlin
Germany
Saxony
Thuringia
Saxony - Thuringian
Russia
Zeiss Optical Works
Jena
Japanese Exports Near Twice Imports After War
Japan reports a sizable postwar trade surplus of about 27.6 million dollars. L P Fleming of SHAEF export import division disclosed that imports valued at 23.846 million and exports at 51.477 million since surrender, yielding a favorable balance.
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Tokyo
Japan
Allied Council For Japan
L. P. Fleming
Supreme Headquarters
Grand Coulee to Get Six Giant Irrigation Pumps
Two California firms will build six unprecedented pumps for Grand Coulee dam’s irrigation system in Washington. The $1,062,975 units, driven by 65,000 horsepower motors, will lift 12,000 gallons per second to 210 feet and be tested via a reduced scale model before approval. Delivery starts in 1948 with four more later that year as war-time work resumes.
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Grand Coulee, Wash
Washington
Grand Coulee Dam
California
Giants
Pelton Water Wheel Company
San Francisco
Byron Jackson Pump Company
Los Angeles
Commissioner of Reclamation
Michael W. Straus
Grand Coulee
Columbia Basin
Bureau of Reclamation
Pacific Northwest
Bureau
Lumber Shortage Warned If Forest Growth Not Boosted
The American Forestry Association warned in a forest resource appraisal report that a lumber shortage could occur if steps are not taken to increase forest productivity. The report, submitted to a conservationist committee at Higgins Lake, urges a vigorous program to stimulate timber growth and notes private lands supply 90 percent of lumber with 55 percent of timber, while public lands offer 10 percent of output.
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Roscommon
John E. Woods
America
Association
Woods
British to Train Young Women Police Detectives
English police plan to recruit young women as plain clothes detectives in the Crimin al Investigation department college. Twenty one trainees have entered with more to follow. Before joining, they serve an apprenticeship as uniformed officers assisting the public.
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London
Sherlock Holmes
Criminal Investigation Department College
C. I. D. College
Disasters Strike 185 Japanese. deaths and injuries reported
Tokyo reports two mine explosions and a railway crash harming 185 Japanese. An explosion at a Chugai Mining site near Nagano killed seven and left 98 injured after 2000 pounds of dynamite detonated. A Tagawa coal pit blast left 44 missing on Kyushu. A Nagoya repatriation train crash at Ninomiya station killed seven and sickened 34.
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Tokyo
Chugai Mining Company
Nagano
Kyodo
Tagawa
Kawasaki
Kyushu
Ninomiya
Westinghouse Increases Appliance Output Postwar
Westinghouse Electric reports reaching about 50 percent of prewar capacity for refrigerators and surpassing prior output of electric irons and roasters. The appliance division produces about 1,600 refrigerators daily and 3,000 smaller units.
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New York
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Gwilym A. Price
Population of U S Leaps Up six Per Cent
Washington reports the population of the United States reached 140,386,509 on January 1, 1946, a 6.6 percent rise since 1940. Birthrates declined somewhat since 1943 but have not returned to prewar levels. Natural increase peaked at about 930,000 in late 1942 and fell to around 720,000 in the latter half of the war period.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Bureau
Girl Blinded by Illness Recovers After Angel Vision
An 18 year old Milan patient Ada Blancato bedridden three years due to tuberculous peritonitis says an angel told her on Christus Heart day June 28 she would recover. She awoke early dawn that day and walked dressed herself and ate. Doctor Vittorio Mattei calls it a strange case not a miracle.
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Milan
Italy
Vittorio Mattei
Ada Blancato
FBI Uses Hidden Cam To Capture Extortion Suspect
In Indianapolis a concealed camera recorded 17 year old Hollis Coe taking a package planted in a bakery parking lot as demanded in a fifteen thousand dollar extortion note to West Baking Company. The youth, employed three years at the garage, was arrested on federal extortion charges.
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Indianapolis
FBI
James L. Dalton
Hollis Coe
Dalton
Coe
Harold B. West
West Baking Company
West
Youngster Refuses Truth. Johnny in Reform School
Omaha detective captain presses a youngster for a direct answer. The boy responds that he will not tell the truth because Johnny is the one who knows, and Johnny is now in reform school.
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Omaha
Neb
Harry Green
Green
Johnny
Reform School
Fall schedule of state ferries at Straits of Mackinac
Fall 1946 schedule for Michigan State Ferries crossing the Straits of Mackinac from September 9 to November 9. Departure times from Mackinaw City and St Ignace listed in EST, with a note that hunting season service runs without schedule from November 10 to 30, using five boats.
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Michigan State Ferries
Straits of Mackinac
Mackinaw City
St. Ignace
Missionary Association Visit Planned at Loomis Church
Rev J A Ringenburg President of the Missionary Church Association will speak at Loomis Missionary Church on September 18 and 19. Rev J Wesley Teale pastor invites the public to attend and hear the able speaker during the two day series of services.
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Missionary Association
Loomis
J. A. Ringenburg
Missionary Church Association
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Loomis Missionary Church
J. Wesley Teale
Card of Thanks for Floral Support and Kind Expressions
We thank relatives neighbors and friends for beautiful floral offerings and other expressions of sympathy. Rev Redman and wife for life eternal messages in song and word, Dr and Mrs McArthur and hospital staff, also Mr Thurston for courteous services during our bereavement. Maggie Foss Hiva Foss and family.
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Redman
McArthur
Thurston
In Memoriam for Our Wife Mother Daughter and Sister
In memory of our wife mother daughter and sister who passed away on September 12 1944. Two years have passed full of heartaches and tears. Her smiling presence is missed today and we know she has been called to rest. Howard Brown and children Don Brown and family
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Howard Brown
Don Brown
Clare County seeks bids for tank car heater unit
Sealed bids will be received at the Clare County Road Commission office in Harrison Michigan until 11 00 A M Thursday October 8 1946 for one tank car heater unit for thawing road culverts. The board may reject any or all bids. Frank Beam Chairman Manuel Sutton Member Lear Dinient Member.
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Clare County Road Commission
Harrison
Michigan
Board of
Family thanks friends and musicians after loss of father
We thank all our friends Rev Hastman and the musicians for comforting messages and kindness shown during the loss of our father Mr and Mrs Henry Austin Mr and Mrs Fred Bailey Mr and Mrs Harvey Bailey Mr and Mrs David Bailey Mr Archie Bailey
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Hastman
Henry Austin
Fred Bailey
Harvey Bailey
David Bailey
Archie Bailey
Bereavement Thanks for Louis Abel Circle
The family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness during the loss of Louis Abel. Special appreciation to Rev. Hahn for comfort and to the pallbearers. Signed by Anna Streib Louise Barth Otte Abel.
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Louis Abel
Rev
Hahn
Anna Streib
Louise Barth Otte Abel
Cider Mill Set To Open In Dover
The Dover cider mill will open Thursday September 19 and operate every Thursday thereafter until further notice. Everett Allen is noted in the opening notice.
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Dover Cider
Curt's Hamburgers Closed For One-Week Break
Curt's Hamburgers will be closed from September 16 through September 22 for a scheduled break. The restaurant plans to resume regular hours on September 23.
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Curt’s
Purvis Declares No Responsibility for Spouse Bills
Richard Purvis states on September 13 1946 he will not be responsible for debts contracted by his wife Lola Marle Purvis.
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Richard Purvis
Lola Marle Purvis
Inysslt
E Grove
Five milking dairy cows up for sale near Rosebush
Five three year old heifers two Holsteins and three Durhams all milking due to come in between January 1 and March 1. Also an eight year old Durham cow pasture bred. Glen Billsby located 2 miles north of Rosebush 3 west and 80 rods north on east side.
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Glen Billsby
Rosebush
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WM. H. Bicknell
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Federal Reserve System
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Mrs
Maggie Foss
Hiva Foss
Harry Foss
Ivalee
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Robert
Memoriam
Frank Beam
Manuel Sutton
Lear Dinient
Everetts Allen
Van’s Furniture
West Fifth St. Clare
Frank J. Keplinger
Glass Road
Farwell
Bureau of Social Aid
H. A. Knapping
C. Krocker
Mann Siding
John Lower
Brown Corners
Clare Rel
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Otter Lake
ABC Electric
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Mich
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