Christmas program at Oak Grove school scheduled for December 22
The text notes a Christmas program at Oak Grove school to be held Wednesday evening December 22. It mentions residents including LeBaron of Crane Road and Jesse Bird Jr returning to California for the winter, with a Detroit company involved in an auto trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeBaron
Crane Road
John Gooding
Jesse Bird,Jr
California
Detroit
Oak Grove
Joseph Sweeney
Local Neighbors Share Weekend Visits and Gatherings
A string of Sunday calls and family visits linked residents from Adrian Plymouth Tecumseh Milan and Ypsilanti. Highlights include Miss Mary Jane Hammond hosting her sewing club for a Christmas party, Henry Hammond’s birthday anniversary supper, and numerous relatives dining with or visiting Ham monds and Hovey Needhams around Adrian area homes.
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Myr
Bernice Locke
Charlotte
Lloyd Carey
Mary Jane Hammond
Blying Fingers
Ralph Hammond
Mary Lewis
Harold Hammond
Henry
E. J. Forsythe
Adrian Elsman
Robert Hammond
Chester Richard
Hudson Bailiff and Son
Fairfield
Hovey
Needham
Glen Cordon
Plymouth
Ira
Hank
Dan
Bliss
Detroit
Glenn Gordon
Grace Hammond
Mary McMann
Herman, Mehler
Gordon
Cadillac
Gardéri
Eller Rossi
Morenci
Needhams
George
Merk
Walter Gordon
Walte
True Ghost Stories of a Seafaring Christmas
A sailor recalls a Christmas when his father disappeared on the Oceania Vance. A tabloid headline announced the loss, then years later the ship was found wrecked. Father and crew were later rescued by a Mexican fishing boat and brought to southern Mexico.
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Santa Barbara
Hollywood
Charley Chaplin
Father
Oceania
Los Angeles
Vance
Deegan
Mexico
Fred MacMurray Childhood and Early Struggles to Stardom
The article recalls Fred MacMurray born in Kankakee Illinois in 1908, raised in Beaver Dam, winning the American Legion medal in 1925, then attending Carroll College in Wisconsin while supporting himself by saxophone. After family hardship and a failed garage job, he moved to Hollywood with his mother and pursued music and stage early roles, leading to his break with the California Collegians and later film work.
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Ecessiey
Fred
MacMurray
Orn
Kankakee
Til
Beaver Dam
Gene
Carroll College
Waukesha
Wis
Hollywood
Calif
Fred MacMurray
Picture
California Collegi‘ans
New York
Roberta
Brouhaha
Yivood
Ted
Imres
Banker’s Dead Cat Prank Ends With T Bone Beetle
In 1928 Chicago a vain north shore banker hides a cat’s body in a safe deposit box then on a train and finally in a garden parcel. An unknown commuter had placed a T bone steak in the box, ending the tale with sharp irony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harles -M. Walker
Big Horn
Wyoming
Chicago
Charlie
Tie
North Shore
Loop
Redg Beetle
Union
The Wobble Ship Tale From Early Newsprint
The piece recounts Frank Ward O Malley from the New York Sun and Capt Heinie Hassenpfetter in a tall tale of the good ships Wobble with subways and wells. It notes a one paddle wheel design and a voyage across the Atlantic turned awry by insects and drift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Ward O'Malley
New York Sun
Nell
New York
Africa
Heinle
Atlantic
Laddie Sells Scale Riches From Captured Monster
The tale recalls Laddie who captured a huge fish and had its scales sold to buyers including a spade maker from Mo line Si. The stomach yields a golden throne image while buyers pay high prices for parts of the fish. The event ends with a profit as the stranger buys the scales and other pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Hidiecs Thele
Laddie
Stanley
Moline
Jonah
Hed
Baton
The Seven Points of Departure by William F Godson
A reader note on personal action urges self reliance and hustle to obtain what one wants. It cites the maxim Everyone must hustle while waiting and outlines seven steps to leave a room or moment properly as described in The Reader's Digest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank B. Craig
William F.godson
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Kay Francis
Epger Sewanee
Farhous
Joan Lowell
Jeann
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Elmo
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Scott
Watson
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