Saline Observer Course Offers Free Subject Choice at MSU
A Saline Observer notice outlines Michigan State College short courses from January 6 to March 6. Students may freely choose subjects within agricultural engineering including electrical equipment, drainage planning, explosives use in drainage, woodshop and forge work, and lab teaching methods. Other offerings cover general agriculture dairy poultry home economics floriculture golf course management and fruit production with information via the Short Course Director at East Lansing.
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Michigan State College
East Lansing
Michigan Attorney General Crowder Reports Busy Year
The annual report from David S. Crowder shows major actions by Michigan's attorney general office. Cases include Elliott vs Voelker upholding Crowder’s position, tax litigation savings, Woodward project land claims, and large settlements reducing million-dollar claims. Other items cover mineral rights, boundary disputes, Bell Telephone rates, gas, drainage, banking matters, and recovering over three hundred thousand dollars for the primary school fund.
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David 4. Crowder
Michigan
Crowley
Harry S. Toy
The
Supreme Court
Nelson Sharpe
Elliott
P. H. Voelker
Dr. Elliott
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company
Nick Krench
Auditor General
Michigan Bell Telephone
Chicago
Elmer B. O'Hara
Macomb
HarriET Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin
HarriET Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, serialized in a national paper and published in 1854 by a Boston firm. The novel sold 295000 copies by year end, became a best seller, inspired plays, and influenced public opinion amid the looming Civil War.
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Boston
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Western
Union
Cliff Dwellings Mysteries of Mesa Verde
The Mesa Verde cliff dwellings in Southern Colorado sit 6 000 feet above sea level and spark countless theories about the builders. Stone and clay structures hint at a civilized people with temples and burial rites, yet no research pins down the occupation period.
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Mesa Verde
Colorado
America
Mussolini On Italian Stamps 1932 Commemorative Issue
A historical note records Mussolini appearing on Italian stamps only twice both in 1932. The fascisti commemorative issue marked ten years of the Black Shirt Rule with designs featuring a statue of Mussolini on horseback in Bologna's stadium and a second stamp showing massed flags with Mussolini’s profile in the upper left, marking his rise to power in 1922.
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Mussolini
Fascisti
Bologna
Benito Mussolini
World’s Smallest Motor Built by 16-Year-Old Victor
Victor Nikitashenko, aged 16, built a miniature electric motor weighing one sixteenth of an ounce in Kiev. The Institute of Physics of the All Ukraine Academy of Sciences certified it a genuine working model. It operates on a two volt battery and is claimed to be the world’s smallest functioning motor.
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Kiev
Ukraine
Victor Nikitashenko
Institute of Physics
All-Ukraine Academy of Sciences
Victor
John Kurtz
Monroe County
Toledo
Dorothy Brown
John Fancher
Monroe
Blissfield
World's Smallest Objects Exhibit at Radio City Music Hall
Jules Charbineau displays part of a 24 000 item collection of the world’s smallest objects at Radio City Music Hall New York. Highlights include a book that fits on a thumbnail a sewing machine half a cigar tall an ivory piano a tiny secretary and chairs a walnut shell theatre stage a camera under half an inch and more crafted to scale by fleas in period display.
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Jong
Radio City Music Hall
New York
Jules Charbineau
Banks Using Public Relations to Restore Confidence
The American Bankers Association outlines steps to improve public understanding of banking. Programs include education talks, customer relations, publicity and advertising efforts, and collaboration with government leaders to shape banking reform. The aim is to strengthen trust through consistent, ethical banking practice and broad outreach.
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New York
Wiat
American Bankers Association
R. S. Hecht
Hecht
Public Education Commission
Committee On Banking Studies
Washington
The
Agricultural Commission
American Institute of Banking
Banking
Association
Predicts Farm Loan Expansion
W S Myers governor of the Farm Credit Administration told Rutgers Graduate School of Banking that agricultural improvements will boost demand for farm credit, especially short-term loans. He argued cooperative production credit associations won t monopolize credit and that farmers should obtain credit from banks or production credit associations on a business basis.
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New Brunswick
N. J
W. S. Myers
Farm Credit Administration
Washington, D. C
Graduate School of Banking
American Institute of Banking
American Bankers Association
Rutgers University
Myers
Production Credit Association
Christmas Vacation Hints In School News
High school pages recap pre holiday prep across grades. Twelfth graders cover criminal procedure government and science tests on heat sulfur and iron while public speaking prep material and a senior Christmas wish close the term. Eleventh grade reviews tests in chemistry history and Latin with Dryden and a Santa note ends January 1936.
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Mary Ellen Kendall
Eugene Rentwisler
John Dryden
Santa Claus
God
Dickens
Federated Church Notes Quick Christmas Services Report
Last Sunday the Federated Church presented a fine morning choir program and a Sunday school Christmas service with a Christ Child play. About 400 attendees praised the performances and scenes using varied lighting. New Year events are announced including a 10 am sermon and 11:15 am Sunday school with a 6:30 pm youth meeting and 7:30 pm service.
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Cotton
Carl Geddes
Reuben Rogers
Eileen Martin
Methodist Church Notes Bert Ede Minister
Morning worship at 10 o clock and evening service at 7 30. Sunday school at 11 with H A Holmes as superintendent. Epworth League at 6 30 Junior League directed by J Stark and Intermediate League led by Mrs Lillian Bur gan. Prayer service Wednesday at 7 30 and choir practice on Thursday evenings.
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H. A. Holmes
Epworth
J. Stark
Lillian Burgan
Early Ohio Native Tribes and 1817 Fort Meigs Treaty
The article traces Ohio’s early tribes including Erie, Iroquois, Weyanders, Delawares, Shawnees, and Miamis, noting their lands and the 1817 Fort Meigs treaty with U S commissioners Cass and McArthur that nearly extinguished native title. It adds a comment about a man avoiding footprints in time.
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Ohio
United States
Cass
Territory of
Michigan
Duntan McArthur
Fort Meigs
Erie
Scioto
Miami
Indiana
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Saline
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Elmo Scott Watson
PWA
Petersburg High School
W. H. Knapp Company
Wallace Scheid
Ada
Electric Service
Adrian
Petersburg Sun
UBLIG
High School News
Willard Kuebler
Paully Mann
Katherine Marken
Lou Evelyn
Bowen
Silas Marner
Federated Church
Kircher
D.D
Chevrolet
Dexter, Michigan
Roy Bixby
Tanner's Store
Methodist
Bert Ede
Dr. Hess
Saline, Michigan
Detroit Edison
Detroit Edison Company
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