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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1926
Page
4
County Tuberculosis Association urges gifts and stamps to fund health work across Washtenaw. Last year county averaged eleven and one quarter cents per person in the county for the drive. With rising demand the county hopes for stronger support in 1926.
William Allen White notes across states showing varied votes on the Volstead policy. New York and Wisconsin stay wet, Illinois sees a dry senator, Nevada favors modification, California and Montana keep dry enforcement, Missouri and Colorado vote dry with enforcement appeals. Ohio elects a dry senator and governor. The piece frames a looming long fight between wets and dries.
A 1920s appeal from Michigan crippled children groups urges public support. The Michigan Society for Crippled Children, based in Ann Arbor, promotes county chapters, home surveys, and a one dollar membership to fund local care and central services to restore health and function in crippled children.
Community readers are urged to sustain Christmas spirit year round through a mail campaign. Envelopes with Christmas seals arrive door to door. despite small one cent contributions, the fund operates with low overhead and has produced real results in recent years.
A narrator describes a $5,000,000 tuberculosis fund pitched as a bonafide mutual company. Stock is a seal, dividends are health benefits, including reduced TB risk and heightened health knowledge. The scheme claims 20 years of effort and five million dollars spent annually to promote public health.
Brave singers of the Middle Ages echo in modern Christmas carolers to herald the tuberculosis seal drive. Michigan released 72 million seals on November 26 to fund the Michigan Tuberculosis Association. The article also notes a missing six year old, Donald Easterday, from Girard District 4, reportedly taken by men in a car with California plates.
Thirty years ago a Wallace brock fire incident showed smoke seeping through floor cracks and knots, blackening the north side near openings while other sides remained clean. John Gordon returned from a north woods hunt with five deer.
Fifteen years ago Fred Schmid and family moved into the John Lutz house near the depot. Martin Gresshans sold his farm to Thomas Bord of Lenawee. A chicken pie dinner was held at the home of Mr and Mrs David Gordon on December 6. Mrs Mildred Tower visits Ann Arbor with her aunt. Mrs Leon Tower and Dorothy spend the week at Gregory. Chris Geisel and family from Toledo visit Mrs Adam Feuerbacher’s household. Baked bananas feature dessert as winter nears.
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