Ford Offers Land and Funds for UMich Dearborn Branch
Ford Motor Co offers 210 acres of land and 6 million dollars to establish a University of Michigan Dearborn study center. Harlan H. Hatcher said regents tentatively accepted, contingent on state funds. Fair Lane estate included, housing Ford archives. Henry Ford II praised industry responsibility to education.
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Replicas of Jamestown Ships Sail Again After 350 Years
Three 16th century style replicas Susan Constant Godspeed II and Discovery II will sail up the James River to Jamestown to mark the eight hundredth anniversary. The project built in West Norfolk Virginia honors the original voyage of 1606 with women featured in the christening ceremony and historic details preserved from research by Curtis Dunn Marine Industries.
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Cotonam Promises Relief For Chronic Constipation
An advertisement touts Cotonam as a safe bulk laxative that remoistens and stretches the colon to trigger a normal urge to purge. It claims superiority over salt and drug laxatives and highlights gentle action for pregnant women, with a 60 tablet package priced at 98 cents.
Pope Receives Record 51 American Priests
Pope Pius VIII welcomed 51 newly ordained American priests at a special audience in Vatican City. About 200 relatives joined the ceremony at the Pontifical North American College on Rome’s Janiculum Hill, the largest class in the college’s nearly 100-year history. The Pope praised the priestly mission and the parents who dedicate their sons.
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Susan Constant replica hull buoyancy feat sinks ship
A modern recreation of the Susan Constant features a wooden hull with exceptional buoyancy requiring 100 tons of concrete poured to settle it to the water line. The vessel uses flax sails from England and a traditional wood diaphragm water pump.
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Paralyzed hunter bags deer in wheelchair hunt
Garland Archer of Pleasantville, paralyzed from the waist down in a 45 foot stall, was taken to a hunting camp by friends. In a hillside hunt he fired two shots and bagged a buck. He has hunted 33 years and bagged 30 deer.
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