Saline area notes and community updates
Local visitors include Clinton Bristol of Dearborn and Ray Shaneyfelt of Essex Ontario visiting Saline relatives. Brighton considers reincorporation as a fifth class city. Thanksgiving events and theater plans feature Miss Gertrude Collins from Detroit and the Liberty theatre attraction A Poor Girl is Romance. Townsfolk report turkey markets, a Mason High School burglary, and a new Clinton fire truck delivery. The Federated church Men’s Chorus broadcasts receive praise. Theodore Raab of Freedom dies. funeral held. Socials include Burkhardt entertainments with Ann Arbor guests. Pay cemetery dues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolford
Wayne
Charles Wolford
Upham
Son
Monroe
Old Saline
Brighton
Gertrude Collins
Detroit
T. P. Collins
Liberty Theatre
Cobb Couple Marks Golden Wedding at Grandville Home
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Cobb of Hamilton Park Grandville celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with about 100 relatives and friends attending at son Maxwell P. Cobb’s Grandville home. The couple, aged 77 and 76, have three children: Max P. Cobb Ward G. Cobb and Gertrude E. Cobb. The article traces Mr. Cobb’s 1849 birth on a Macon county farm and life in Detroit Saline Traverse City Grand Rapids and Grandville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay Williams
Ypsilanti
Edward Alber
Owosso
George H. Cobb
Hamilton Park
Grandville
Maxwell P. Cobb
Mr. Cobb
Macon
Lenamvee County
Detroit
Saline
Ella V. Cook
Peter Cook
Urania
Gertrude E. Cobb
Battle Creek
Ethel F. Collingwood
Lansing
Ward G. Cobb
Sherman
Harriet Cook
Lucy Cobb
A. D. Crittenden
George Crittenden
Yppsilanti
R. A. Troogood
Grand Rapids
Michigan Paragraphs on Industry and Growth in 1930s
By 1930 Michigan car sales reach half of auto turnover as Ford scales mass production to a science. Trade notes include Ford five day week impact, high union costs for turbine components, Luther Thomas expanding Fidelity Trust to a ten million dollar firm, and a new large car ferry for Ann Arbor roads. Detroit attracts printers college plans, northern lands crop plans, and sales to 75 000 customers. Sault Ste Marie reports summer visitors, Flint seeks builders for 100 plus homes, and F W Stevens collected Chinese artifacts now at the University of Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
CG. B. Griffin
U.of M
Ford
C. A. Vane
Horace Greeley
Luther D. Thomas
Fidelity Trust Company
Detroit
Emvoria
Kansas
Dolar Corporation
Ann Arbor
Lake Michigan
Printer's College
United Typothetee of America
Sweet Clover
Harding
Sault Ste Marie
Soo
Flint
When Boy and Buppy Meet at the Tuberculosis Sanatorium
A boy nearing home from the Ingham county tuberculosis sanatorium finds joy in imagining life with puppies as Christmas seals fund Michigan Tuberculosis Association work. Nearby, chicken thieves strike N W Davis farm near Petersburg. A Farm loot recovery reveals 41 stamped Highland envelopes and other items hidden at a vacant Fuller place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingham County
Michigan Tuberculosis Association
Michigan
Highland Post Office
Thomas Rogers
John Peterson
Sunny Plats
Fuller ‘Place
Poarch
Milford Times
Pills and pills: factory workers overmedicated and misled
A factory worker notes a culture of daily pills among five thousand colleagues who distrust healthful diet yet chase cures sold by fad vendors. He cautions readers that easy remedies today may cause digestive harm tomorrow and urges nutritious eating, water, milk, and proper sleep for a healthier life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bank For Savings
Fkroehler
Davenport Bed
Life Time
W. E. Dietiker
Home Furnishings Funeral Director
Embahner
Citizens Bank Saline
Mich
Sanford Hardware Co., Inc
Milan
Wolverine Gas and Oil
Aviation and Navy Gas
East Mich. Ave
East Michigan and
Maple Avenues
Saline, Mich
Will "Holt
Manchester
Clinton Bristol
Dearborn
Ray Shaneyfelt
Essex
Ontario
Frank Davis
C.C. Slaght
Tecumseh
Erwin Sehill
Famly
Moriz Rosenthal Ioncert
Hill Auditortium
Marion Reese
Ernest Towler
Ray Davis
Chisren
Mrs. C. Edwards
Mosherviller
J. A. Alber
Mrs. Lilliat Burgan
M. B. Ladies’ Aid Society
Ruth Aprill
Eaton Rapids
Lucille April
Ann Anhbys
Ella. Henne
Fred Clarke
Evanston
Mason High School
G L. Parsons
Clinton
Federated Church
Pontiac
D. F. Schairer
Hill Street
Edward C. Schairer
San Antonio
Texas
Capt. Schairer
Times News
Theodore Raab
Freedom
Oscar
Ronald
John Bierly
George Rheinfrank
Bridgewater
Bethel Church
Freedom Cemetery
William Burkhardt
Elmer Hoppee
Helen
Walter Schneberger
Pauline Briegle
Bernice Clark
Walter Blaess
Ray Fern
ED. A. Nowack
F. W. Stevens
Michigan Trust Company
China
University of Michigan
Boy
Buppy
N. W. Davis
Petersburg
Petersburg Sun
H. Gross & Sons
Charles Emmett Mack
Marguerite de la Motte
H. B. Walthall
Ernst Bros. Electric Shop
North
Fourth Avenue
Adams
Prarl
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