Library Receives 1943 State Grant Boosting Saline Library
The Saline Public Library received a $52.88 check from the Michigan State Board for Libraries as its 1943 grant from the State Aid to Libraries Fund. The funds support books salaries supplies and equipment and help keep hours open.
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Saline Public
Michigan State Board For Libraries
Harry Tshimes
State Board of Libraries
Holmes
Victory
America
WAC
WAVES
United Nations
Michigan
Immunization urged for children entering school in wartime
State Health Commissioner H. Allen Moyer warns parents that diphtheria and smallpox protection is vital as epidemics can arise from shifting populations and crowded areas. He urges early immunization before kindergarten, noting booster toxoid injections a month apart and free vaccine distribution via state labs to physicians.
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H. Allen Moyer
Dr. Moyer
Moyer
State Health Department
Michigan
Card of Thanks From Mrs. Thomas Shurtz
Mrs. Thomas Shurtz expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness, flowers, and cards. She notes their help meant a great deal and extends thanks.
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Thomas Shurtz
Lets Be Cheerful Week Idea In Tough Times
Observations urge more cheerfulness and humor during nervous days. The piece notes planned weekly themes, rationing tempers alongside foods, and daily life scenes in a busy Saturday night downtown. It mentions ice cream shortages due to wartime restrictions and local shop routines.
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Lend Lease
Clinton
Five per cent of Michigan milk rejected at plants
Michigan State College dairy expert J M Jensen says about five percent of milk from farms is returned after rejection at fluid milk plants cheese powder and butter plants This volume exceeds wartime needs and lowers farmer returns Poor handling and high arrival temperatures create gas and sour milk Reducing rejections by washing utensils and improving on farm cooling can help Cooling can bring milk from 53 degree water up to near neck level with proper tanking and occasional stirring
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Michigan
J. M. Jensen
Michigan State College Extension
Jensen
Lower Peninsula
Mrs Nancy Davis Dies at 67 in Conroy and Saline
Mrs Nancy Davis age 67 died at home on Bennett street after living in Saline 23 years She was born July 20 1876 and was survived by husband Frank Davis who died in 1937 three daughters Cephas Lee Hudson Earl Culliton Saline and Joseph Pence South Bend Ind two sons Floyd Fort Wayne Ind and Ray Saline one brother Frank Foley Conroy Ohio one sister Mrs Ellis Springer Ohio City Ohio 14 grandchildren and one great grandchild Funeral services set for Friday at 9 am at Lockwood funeral home and 2 pm at the Methodist church in Conroy with Rev Lendrom officiating Burial will follow Friends may call at home until coffiniumeral.
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Nancy Davis
Bennett Street
Frank Davis
Cephas Lee
Hudson
Earl Culliton
Saline
Joseph Pence
South Bend
Ind
Floyd Davis
Fort Wayne
Ray Davis
Frank Foley
Conroy
Ohio
Ellis Springer
Ohio City
Davis
Methodist Church
Lockwood Funeral Home
Lendrom
Michigan Birth Death Records Date Back to 1867
A Michigan Public Health Conference paper by W J V Deacon traces vital records origins from 1832 England cholera needs to 1867 Michigan law. He notes early records moved from State to Health Department in 1921 with births deaths and marriages kept for legal and public health uses.
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Michigan
Massachusetts
W. J. V. Deacon
Bureau of Records and Statisics
Michigan Department of Sa
Lansing
Deacon
Germany
England
Edwin Chadwick
Department of State
Department of Health
Saline Rotary Club Hosts Current Events Quiz
Saline Potory Club twenty questions on current events presented at the Rotary meeting Thursday noon at The Tavern. Dr. G. J. Prout led with 12 correct, C. A. Curtiss next with 11, then others. Townsend and Ford birthdays announced but not present. bulletin board committee reports progress on Saline soldiers in service.
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Rotary Club
G. J. Prout
C. A. Curtiss
G. C. Townsend
Don Ford
Birthday Greeting for Bobby Feldkamp
A birthday notice celebrates 1 year old Bobby Feldkamp on Friday August 6. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Erwin Feldkamp. The rest of the text discusses Michigan shore line measurements and tuberculosis facts unrelated to the birthday item.
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Bobby Feldkamp
Erwin Feldkamp
Local Hospital Reports Multiple Earliest Week Surgeries
Saline General Hospital lists patients recovering from appendectomies including Mrs Lee Robison and Mrs Robert Love. Several others from Dexter Saline Ypsilanti Manchester and Henry Street underwent tonsillectomies last week with varying recovery progress. A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs Carl Curry on Saturday August 7 and another son to Mr and Mrs Elmer Lange on Sunday August 8.
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Lee Robison
Robert Love
Dorothy Long
Dexter
John Brown
Saline
Peggy Elliott
Ypsilanti
Herbert Knox
Carl W. Curry
Elmer Lange
Lloyd
Alice Snyder
Manchester
Jane and
Robert Murrel
Henry Street
Observer Liners Classified Advertising Summary
Classified ads from Observer Liners list for sale used casting rods and reels, poultry remedies, two large rental bedrooms, and Saline area farm listings near Ann Arbor. Farm features include 130 acres dairy setup with 10 room brick house and $20 000 price with $11 000 down, 200 acre stock farm, 115 and 157 acre lots with prices, plus mortgage terms and contact numbers.
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Ann Arbor
Ferguson
Forest
Auction Sale To Settle Estate Of Mrs Walker
Public auction at the George Walker farm 21.4 miles west of Saline on M 11 on Saturday August 14 1943 at 2 PM. Household goods and small farm tools include beds dressers tables dining room set sewing machine organ and more. Terms cash. Administrators Mrs Sam Lambarth and Mrs Emilie Jedete. Auctioneer Geo J Klager. Also tuberculosis Xmas seal posters distribution and an eye exam event by Dr Frank Gifford at Milan Hotel Saturday 2 30 to 9 45 PM.
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George Walker
Saline
Sam Lambarth
Emilie Jedete
Geo. J Klager
Saline ads and notices from local merchants
A cluttered page lists sales and wanted items from Wiedman Auto Co and Morton Poultry Farm plus Household goods like Hoover vacuums and Sunbeam razors. Also offerings for real estate building lots, used cars, farm stock, and farm services with contact numbers and local firms including Parsons and Snyder.
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Wiedman Auto Co
Wiedman Auto Company
Saline
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