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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1926
Page
3
The store promotes great values on men overcoats priced from 16.50 to 25.00 and bathrobes from 4.50 to 8.00 as gifts for Xmas. It notes a Niagara Falls barrel stunt and a New Zealand mishap as odd anecdotes, and highlights new neckwear selections along with mentions of American flags and corrosion costs in industry.
G L Parsons notes continued boxed sets for gifts and promotes new blanket stock with patterned colors. Australia has harvested apples and forty three steamers will ship 2.5 million cases to Europe. Mention of rubber plantations starting in Ceylon and seed smuggling from Brazil. Silk and wool hose offered in color ranges. Students in American schools total 25 million.
A compilation of brief items records numerous residents visiting relatives in Detroit and nearby towns, illnesses in families including Mrs. William Orr and Samuel Velennett, and many social calls during the week. It notes auto license plates available, Thanksgiving visits, and local shops offering scratch pads and cemetery dues. Also mentions a road study on brick pavement thickness and Mussolini's lack of hit men.
The passage describes making a decorative tea cozy using figured silk or bright cretonne and ribbons. It notes that hostesses hope for such cozies as Christmas gifts, emphasizing their ease of construction from two pieces joined at curved edges.
The eight inch tall figures Nanette and Brintintin hang as pretty ornaments for milady's boudoir. They feature cotton cloth heads painted faces white zephyr bodies with blue and white clothing in crochet and blue hats.
A Weshtenaw county tuberculosis group secretary helps a mother with a crippled child to the bus, sharing a story of a five year struggle for treatment and the hope of recovery for other children. The article also notes a meteor headed duck sighting and turkey thefts recovered by Lenawee deputies.
The Unknown Soldier screens Saturday and Sunday at Liberty Theater. Directors Renaud Hoffman lauded for realism with spiritual touch. Stars Charles Emmett Mack and Marguerite De La Motte. Ethel Wales as mother. Henry B. Walthall as father-in-law. comic trio Syd Crossley Jess Devorska George Cooper provide light moments.
Four handmade place cards are described, each made by painting on white cardboard. Subjects include a bright butterfly, a cheerful Chinaman with a gay lantern, and two playful Dutch figures.
The bankers at their Los Angeles convention assert railroads now run with record economy and efficiency and that national prosperity hinges on prompt transportation. They credit railroads with sustaining industrial activity and avoiding excess inventories during business cycles. A separate note mentions Roy Lowery and family preparing a large Thanksgiving poultry lot. It included 132 geese and ducks, with some geese over 16 pounds, marketed Monday.
Discussion centers on potential income tax cuts and possible rollback of the 1925 13 to 14 percent corporation tax to 12 14 percent. Observers note Mellon opposition and party control in Congress. revenue optimism may prompt tax revisions. Court ruling underscores executive removal power.
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