Local Residents Gather for Weekend Visits and News
Ferndale guests include Mr and Mrs C H Peterson and son Harold at the Gorham home. Bay View visits, Saginaw trips, and weekend gatherings feature many families from Ferndale and surrounding towns with news of illness, travel, and new arrivals. Gerald Linden born July 14 to Mr and Mrs Wilbur Guy.
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C. H. Peterson
Harold
Ferndale
C. A. Gorham
Weidman
Bay View
Anna Herrig
Saginaw
Sargent Dodds
F. H. Dodds
Mr. Dodds
Ishpeming
Upper Peninsula
George Chamberlin
Richard Chamberlin
Lake
Louise Stewart
Hale
Elizabeth Francis
D. P. Young
George Middlesworth
Big Rapids
Louise Hall
Young
Sam Harris
Beulah
Catherine Cheverton
Oklahoma
E. C. Warriner
Warriner
Ben Lewis
Ann Arbor
Bernard Woodruff
Albion
Jack Johnson
Luman Burch
Chicago
C. J. Everest
Lyon
Mary Cooley
North Franklin Street
Iden Francis
Maumee
Ohio
S. E. Francis
Elsie Cratsley
South Main Street
Edgar Kempton
Franklin
North Adams
E. F. Collins
Sid Thompson
Eleanor
W. S. Hern
Suzanne
Three Rivers
E. O. Morton
E. A. Bixby
Meta
J. M. Kennedy
Kennedy Ome
Union Township
Jean Benford
Benzonia
Margaret
Jane Hawkins
G. H. McGregor
Detroit
Tygart
S. Quackenbush
Coldwater Lake
Irene MacCollum
Clarence Affeldt
Lansing
B. L. Parkhill
Wilbur Guy
Gerald Linden
Public notice of final administration account in Mara Benthal estate
Probate court in Isabella County Mt Pleasant fixes August 12 1926 at 10 am for examining and allowing final administration account of Mara Benthal deceased and distributing residue. Publication in Mount Pleasant Times for three consecutive weeks required. Charles Cassady judge of probate Lulu Deeter register of probate.
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State of
Michigan
Isabella
Onld
Mt. Pleasant
Sons County
Charles Cassady
Mara Laubenthal
Lynch
Mount Pleasant
Lulu Deeter
Register of Probate
Creation of Mankind in Sioux Legend Told by Yellowrobe
Chauncey Yellowrobe of Rosebud Sioux, a Rosebud Sioux chieftain and teacher at the federal Indian school in Rapid City, shares a Sioux origin tale. The story describes the Creator forming humans from clay, fire baking, and the final red figure becoming the first people who inhabit the West and the Spirit's garden.
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Chauncey Yellowrobe
Snof
Federal Indian’ School
Rapid City
S. D
Pathfinder Magazine
Message Sticks Open Books to Aborigines
A Sydney Bulletin writer notes the Aboriginal ability to read message sticks from distant tribes. An elder translated unfamiliar markings with fluency, and a later recitation by another native matched the first translation. A few white men have learned the conventional symbols as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Sydney Bulletin
Child Hoarder and Hidden Treasures Recalled
A young boy hides a box and paper bag beneath a shop window. Several bystanders peek in and after three investigate, the fourth laughs at the iron and nails found inside. The scene stirs memories of childhood hoarding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Telegram
Turning the Tables on Pie Fractions Lesson
A class struggles with fractions in arithmetic as Doris proclaims she prefers half a pie to two thirds. The teacher underscores that two thirds exceed a half, prompting Doris to admit she dislikes pie. The humor centers on Doris’s candid aside about not liking pie.
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Doris
Jews flock to Palestine outpacing U S immigration
Geneva July 22 United Press The Central Bureau reports 28 722 Jews immigrated to Palestine in the last year versus 9 945 to the United States. Palestine’s Jewish population now 180 000 with about 2 600 returning monthly. Poland is a major source with 17 740 in 1925.
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Henry Wood
United Press
Geneva
Palestine
United States
Central Bureau
International Zionist Movement
Poland
Haid Sear
New Nation Federation of Jewish Workers
Zionist Organization
British Chamber Seeks Confederate War Debt Settlement
The Association of British Chambers of Commerce plans talks in Hull on September 28 and 24, urging the US government to settle pre Civil War Confederate debts. It notes eight states Alabama Arkansas Florida Mississippi North Carolina Louisiana Georgia and South Carolina are wealthy enough to meet obligations and opposes post Fort Sumter loans.
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London
United States
Association of British Chambers of Commerce
Hull
Association
Foreign Office
Washington
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Mississippi
North Carolina
Louisiana
Georgia
South Carolina
Fort Sumter
Priestly Heroes Died Victims of Massacre
The New York World reports on Franciscan records noting fifty one priests died while attempting to Christianize Pueblo Indians in New Mexico between 1542 and 1696. Massacres peaked in 1680 with Pueblo uprisings, and 31 missionaries were slain in one day across multiple pueblos.
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New Mexico
Franciscan Fathers
Southwest
Juan de Padila
Gran Quivera
Tiguex
Pecos
Mexico
New York World
Religious Beliefs of Indians Queer Mixture
Southwestern Texas survivor tribe near Ysleta clings to a pagan mix within their faith, despite Roman Catholic influence. Missionaries fail to root out pagan rites, preserving primitive worship along the Rio Grande. A separate note mentions Seminole negroes near Brackettville.
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Ysleta
Texas
Southwest
Rio Grande
Baltimore Sun
Brackettville_end
Card of Thanks from Carpenter Family
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness during sickness and death of husband son and brother. Mrs. Carrie Carpenter. Bertha Carpenter and children.
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Carrie Carpenter
Ace
Bertha Carpenter and
Chilen
Strange religion among the Seminoles blends rites
The passage notes that for the Seminoles Christmas ends Lent rather than Easter. It describes religious feasts where pork is the only forbidden meat and sacramental drink is ten. The religion is described as a strange blend of revelings from many sources with traces dating to Africa and the earliest indigenous peoples of the continent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Football Schedule for C M Normal Announced
The schedule lists out of state trip to Bowling Green Ohio to face Ohio Northern and two Michigan normals Ypsilanti and Northern. It ends with the traditional Thanksgiving Day clash against Detroit City College in the Auto City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
Albion College
Methodist
Centralites
Bowling Green
Ohio
Ohio Northern Normal
Michigan
Tilt schedule cites multiple campuses ahead of contests
The article lists a season schedule with open dates and away and home events including Albion College Ferris Institute Northern Normal Ypsilanti Normal Ohio Northern Normal Battle Creek College Detroit City College. A death notice thanks friends for kindness, flowers, singers and minister for comfort to James Kent and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albion College
Ferris Institute
Northern Normal
Ypsilanti Normal
Ohio Northern Normal
Battle Creek College
Detroit City College
Death Claims One of Community Pioneers
Celestia M. Swaddle born May 11 1848 at South Bristol New York. Welsh and Puritan lineage. Came to Michigan 1846 and grew up in Galesburg. Taught in Kalamazoo public schools before marrying William A. Wightman in 1865. They lived in Little Rock Arkansas two years then returned to Michigan where their three children were born. The couple moved to Ewatt in 1872. husband died there in 1882. Burial was in Riverside.
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Riverside
Celestia M. Swaddle
South
Bristol
Canandaigue
New York
Granfather
Ward
Kalamazoo
William A. Wightman
Galesburg
Little Rock
Arkansas
Michigan
Market Prices for Agricultural Livestock and Poultry
The listing shows varied prices for oats rye white beans and several bean types. It includes live stock categories such as fattened cattle veal calves and pork per ewe, with poultry prices for live poultry hens spring chickens and heavy roosters.
Monument of Mrs Wightman Leaves Family Tribute
1887' Mrs. Wightman moved to Mt Pleasant with her young family and made it home. Surviving children include Miss Elizabeth of this city and Mrs. Steuart Hayden of Grand Rapids along with a grandson Clifford living with Mrs Wightman. Mentioned relatives include Mrs. W Doughty and Mrs Orcutt of Kalamazoo. two half-sisters and a half-brother reside in Galesburg. The article ends with a remark on parking excess.
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Saustwilf Towers
Dany
Asa ‘Beautfieri
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co
Grand Rapids
Manistee
National Biscuit’ Company
National Biscuit
Pany
Abe
Maxwell’s Cash and Carry Grocery
East Broadway
British Chamber of Commerce
C.M. Normal
F. Owen
Broadway
Franklin Streets
James Kent
A.l.lawrence
Pleasant Markets Sday
Jerry
ARBER
Isabella Bank
Campbell
Mt, Pleasant
Mich
Welch’s Home Dairy & Bakery
Welch’s
Ray Austin
South Normal
X. Gaudard
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