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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1923
Page
2
West Mooreville items list residents on the sick list including George Carpenter and Doris Gilman. Many visits and Thanksgiving gatherings are noted among families in Milan Ypsilanti and nearby towns with diphtheria cases reported.
Local residents visit relatives across Ann Arbor Manchester and Mooreville during Thanksgiving week. Families include the Richards, Reeves, Bailey, Theurer, Thearer, Rhoades, Peters, Guenther, Steib, and others. Measles limited school attendance to three and four pupils last week.
Local notices detail Thanksgiving gatherings across West Saline with many residents visiting relatives in Petersburg Milan Ann Arbor and Detroit. Names include Otto Bredornvtz Louis Riley Arend Sptter Breernitz Finkbein Hauser Graf and others as they share meals and attend events while some travel to Chicago for the Livestock Exposition.
Carl Schaffer of Manchester called friends in Bridgewater and spent Sunday there. Edward Hennis from Detroit visited his mother Miss Rose Breining over Thanksgiving with friends in Azalia. Miss Vera Hildinger near Clinton was a weekend guest of her parents. The Bersuders of Ann Arbor spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Joseph Bersud.
Central York residents gathered for Thanksgiving with relatives across Ridge, Detroit, and Superior townships. Families hosted or visited included the Richards, Murray, Hertler, and McMichael clans. Several households reported lamb losses and livestock distress amid holiday travel and chores.
Grandpa Wiggins lies in bed with a winter cough yet shows cheerfulness after ordering a new patent medicine. The item is described as a remedy that claims to cure cages the best doctors have deemed incurable, per Bill Sam's Dictionary page 607.
November roll call records sixteen pupils without absences or tardies at Fosdick school. Visits to the Campbell home noted. Lansing warns on smallpox vaccination as Michigan braces for a winter outbreak. Oak Grove Association postpones its meeting due to measles and scarlet fever in the district. Mooreville school closed for diphtheria.
Residents and relatives in South Saline and nearby towns mark illness reports and Thanksgiving gatherings. Names include Mrs George Rothfuss ill with blood poisoning, the Craig, Kutler, and Johnson families visiting, and numerous locals sharing meals, travel, and hospital news during the holiday period.
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