Saline Union Troops Active Across Civil War Fronts
Saline residents sent a dozen letters home from workers in the Union Army detailing life from 1862 to 1865. Wesley Wistlick of Company D, 20th Michigan, described Lincoln visiting troops and battlefield scenes, while Corporal James A. Dell, 8th Texas Cavalry, wrote from Tennessee and Virginia about sieges, prison executions, and hardships. Letters recount battles at Antietam and Spottsylvania, hospital stays, and requests for stamps and clothing as war wore on.
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Saline
Union Soisatiere
Wesley Wistlick
Camouiiion
Abraham Linncoln
Cudersick
Michigan Volunteers
Antietam
A. J. Ouderkirk
Alfred Wilcox
Saline Solder
James A. Dell
Mahala
Fred Jerry
Dell
Lenoir Station
Tennessee
Union Army Hospital No. 5
Knoxville
100Th Ohio Infantry
Indiana
Arcendtian
Devin
S. T. Dodd
Company D
8Th Texas Cavairy
Spottsylvania Court House
Virgina
McCollum
Frank Lansing
Lewis Allen
William Snow
George Walker
Henry Benton
John Waldron
Fred. Elster
Snow
Walker
Abraham Voorhies
James Saunders
Fredericksburg
Janarly
Franklin
Burnside
Vicksburg
Grant
Rudolph Layher Retired Teacher Dies at 90
Rudolph G Layher 90 a retired commercial studies teacher died Sunday morning at St Joseph Mercy Hospital Funeral services were held Wednesday at Locxwood Funeral Home with Rev Alvin Siemisen officiating Burial was in Lodi Cemetery He taught at Detroit Western High School and earlier in Minneapolis Pa and Lorain Ohio He was born April 1 1830 in Bridgewater Twp and married Thelma Schnirring in 1913 Survivors include his wife two daughters two sons four brothers four sisters and six grandchildren
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Rudolph G. Layher
Marple Road
Pittsfield
Locxwood Funeral Home
Alvin Siemisen
Lodi Cemetery
Layher
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
Phisfieldtownshin
St. Paul's
Adolph
Rives Junction
Harold
Ann Arbor
Herbert Wenger
Fon Arbor
Luella Miler
Detroit
Norman
Walls
Cassoport
Hida Cecil
Los Angeles
California
County Polio Center Plans Attract Regional Farm Activist Leaders
County officials invite representatives from Ingham Livingston Monroe Lenawee and Wayne counties to discuss farm activist buildings to be located at the center. All parties will review regional plans and coordinate efforts across counties.
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Ingham
Livingston
Monroe
Lenawee
Wayns
Edison style electric water heaters promise full hot water
A conversational note extols new electric water heaters built to Edison specifications. A new Edison service backs the units, promising reliable hot water supply and customer confidence.
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Edison
York Township Annual Meeting Highlights Fiscal Report
York Township held its annual meeting Saturday with low attendance. Supervisor Thurlow Sanford noted 69 percent of income spent on roads, no township tax for six years, and county school taxes only. A Washtenaw County Zoning Ordinance, passed February 11, was discussed, and a detailed financial balance sheet was available from clerk Miaud Steidle and supervisor Sanford.
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York Township
Herman Oelke
Itme
Miaud Steidle
Thurlow Sanford
Sanford
Washtenaw County
Harlow Holcomb
William Hayes
Saline
National 4 H Club Contest Announces Scholarships and Trips
National 4-H Club outlines college scholarships worth 3400 for 18 national winners in poultry crops and entomology, plus all expense trips to the national 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. County blue ribbon groups receive gold medals. state champions gain trips and recognition.
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Cooperative’ “Extension” Service
Chicago
Chile
Hercules Powder Company
Army Reserve Speakers Offer Talks to Community Groups
Army Speakers are available for group meetings from the Army Reserve detachments in Ann Arbor. Officers and public information personnel are listed as qualified spokesmen for the new Reserve program stressing six months of active duty with weekly training and hometown unit options. Civic groups schools and PTA members invited to request talks by phone or at the Army Reserve Training Center 524 S Main St. Ann Arbor.
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Beng Mads
Army Reserve
Arbor
Army Reserve Program
Reserve Forces
Army Reserve Training Center
S. Main ‘St
Ann
Double Check Tax Returns Expert Advises Payment Designations
Assistant District Director James F. Jeanes of the Michigan Internal Revenue Service explains that payees should use checks or money orders made payable to the Internal Revenue Service for federal income taxes. He notes taxpayers' confusion from old titles and cites a 1950s modernization move to streamline designations and improve collection efficiency across more than 100 taxes.
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Internal Revenue Service
James F
Michigan
Internal Revenue
Interna
Jeane
Seane
Federal ”Tax Agency
Bureau of Internal Reversue
Federated Church Women Plan April 12 Meeting
Mrs. Sherman Capps of 5593 Morgan Road will host the Federated Church School Women’s Class meeting Friday evening April 12 at 8:00. The program includes viewing pictures of England by speaker Mr. Kaser, with Mrs. Arthur Sees as class president.
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Sherman Capps
Morgan ‘Road
Federated Church School
England
Kaser
Arur 5Es
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Fort Sumpter
Lincoln
Hergeback
Aarge
General Burnside
McClellen
J. C. Holmes
Holmes
Jackson
Ypsilanti
McCollims
Yazoo
Mississippi
Rudolph Layher
Polio
Bea
Plumber’s
Reddy
Army
Federated. Church Women
Saline, Michigan
Arbor St
Phong
Ospacula
Walker’s Quality Bakery
the Saline Savings Bank
United States
Saline Savings: Bank
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