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of thisoped at tion, byg, plianth as be -variety, ilso for country.carry re ^onsMliity tor radio and. 1 otihor mtoriiiatipn mediums.The same group will most in Colorado for their third annual meeting ill 1927. *ir OLD GHOSTS COULD iWANDERmiiterWnr i firoinih islidren parent?, nd fam-out the 1* less! bicyd’e j iy shot-?: n w hen in pay-*y must :ieyr pay se arthgrocer’S'5il iii.ands am very yell at ifriver me Satr ► sister, ep bole could, porously Charles Ii somequi te a outfitIlf dl(d ghosts could wander, as some folks think they to, would they 'hjriunt Wistfully five scehes of their former activities? If the ghosts of kliehigan’s historic past could wander would they mourn the passing of tpe old days or glory in the achievements of tihe tlhe new?Of alll; pljaces ,in Michigan around which is woven the. glamour oif a romantic past none is more pietur-! e^Qtte thian Mackinac Island/ with I the fort, its forest, and. its magic ot sc?a and land.Gonje are the days of the fur trader, gone Ire. old days Of battle, gone most, of the tribes of the Red Skins. But the old. ’trading pest remains and from its ventage point high, on the side of 'the hill the old tort looks down on. the busy waterways of icom-merce, bii a hixuliious sumimer pop:^ illation and on1 the remnant of a Ifast-van tolling race.The Johii Jacob Astor House still stanlds ;ais it stood when- bluff John Astor built it. A sturdy structure with beamed ceilings, deep set windows wifih Qiiny’ panels of *gdass, In the ball i-ooni a,ra the sanue wide li’ighly-wa,xed floor b c-arids on which tjhe beauty and officialdom of generations have danced.H.as John J acob Astor looked on! at a lil this,: and if so what have been his thoughts? ft would be haoid bo say generally, {but could the have looked on. last Saturday it Woull have been: easy for John Astor was strong, level headed, simple, and sane.His old g-hicst in its wanderings might then have seen that histtcriic ball room ‘convarfcad into a clinic Chamber, .mtfgjhit have seen there a strange. go.fche.Ting of poor folk andtorWsalineIbelow
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Saline Observer
Saline, Michigan, US
Thu, Jul 15, 1926
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