Railroad land grants described as profitable bargains
The Michigan Railroads Association in Everyman's Almanac says land grants from 1850 to 1871 were not gifts but bargains with strings. Railroads built lines, settlers followed, and the government saved about 5 million annually, with most loaned funds repaid. grants funded western development and kept troops and mail moving at reduced rates.
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Michigan Railroads Association
Almanac
West
Uncle Sam
Union
Identifying Fingerprints Sparks Funeral Plan Mixup
A Michigan fingerprint record in Owosso caused family plans for an unidentified man’s funeral to shift when initial identification as the uncle proved false. The state police later confirmed the man was from Eaton County, altering the obituary and burial arrangements.
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Michigan
Owosso
East Lansing
Eaton County
State Police Bureau
Give Them To Me Now A Friend Longing Poem
A verse by James Howard Hungerford urges friends to express their affection before death. The poem, contributed by Mrs Grace D Cook, ends with a plea to offer true friendship now rather than at a grave. A separate note from Lansing conservation authorities advises preserving Christmas trees in yards to feed game and song birds during winter.
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James Howard Hungerford
Grace D. Cook
Lansing
Small towns will endure says planning board expert
Dr. C. W. Thompson of the Iowa State Planning Board argues that radio and the automobile have ended rural isolation and made rural residents as style conscious as city dwellers. He asserts towns will remain viable for many years despite urban influence.
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Saline
C. W. Thompson
Iowa State Planning Board
State's auto toll shows no big jump
Michigan traffic deaths rose 9.2 percent in the first ten months of 1936, but the rate is distorted by more vehicle registrations and higher gasoline use. Atwood cites the 135,172 more registered vehicles and an 8.9 percent rise in gasoline consumption as factors.
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Michigan
Orvile EH. Atwood
Michigan State Safety Council
Secretary of State
Atwood
Cornelius F. van Blankensteyn
Michigan State Police
Council
Train wreck blamed on crew violation in Urania
The Interstate Commerce Commission said a September 30 wreck on the Ann Arbor Railroad at Urania was caused by a crew not following an order and rail block signals. Thirteen people were injured, including two passengers, in a head on collision between freight and passenger trains Nod 52.
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Ann Arbor
Interstate Commerce Commission
Urania
Lime Use in Michigan Soils Shifts to Stone Meal Lead
A Michigan State College survey shows farmers favor lime stone meal for soil sweetening over pulverized and hydrated lime. Over nine years applications averaged 66.98 percent stone meal, 22.2 percent pulverized lime, and 10.8 percent hydrated lime. Total annual lime use ranged from 21,087 to 116,201 tons, with the last two years more than doubling prior levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
P. J. Rood
Michigan State College
Pruning and Care of Ornamental Woody Plants Updated
Ex tension landscape architecture specialist O I Gregg announces a revised bulletin on pruning. Copies available from the Michigan State College Bulletin Room East Lansing. Article outlines four pruning essentials balancing top and roots transplant time removing dead or weak wood and shaping form and flower quality.
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O. I. Gregg
Michigan State College
East Lansing
Rabbits No Way To Get Rich Quick
Revival of interest in Michigan rabbit meat production prompts a warning from C G Card of Michigan State College that for most people the industry offers no easy riches. Cost per pound of gain rises with weeks of feeding, with wet mash yielding lower costs early and higher costs late, and dry mash reaching up to 1.61 per pound in seven weeks.
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Michigan
C. G. Card
Poultry Husbandry Department
Michigan State College
The
College Experiment Station
Card
Open season ends for rabbit hunting in southern Michigan
Conservation authorities announce the legal hunting season for rabbits ends New Years Day. In southern counties south of the north line of Town 16 north and east of Saginaw Bay including the Thumb, January 1 is the last day. north of that line and west of Saginaw Bay the season runs to January 31.
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Michigan
Saginaw Bay
Thumb District
Upper Peninsula
Man Returns Home After Three Years Missing
Robt L Sorter, missing for three years, returned to his Dexter home last Friday after an amnesia episode erased his memory. A radio appeal by his wife reached a Dayton coworker who informed Sorter, leading to contact with his wife and son Cyril. The Sorters long operated Manchester Creamery, which burned four years ago causing heavy losses. The town chief notes no township tax was raised this year in Putnam township due to sufficient funds.
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Robt. L. Sorter
Dexter
Dayton
Ohio
Mr. Sorter
Sorter
Cyril
Putnam Township
Holsel
Pinckney Dispatch
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Saline, Mich
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Grange
Marie Dye
Hast Lansing
Edward Marks
Wellsville
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Tipton
Nature
Emerson
Benjamin Franklin
Mary Baker Eddy
Jeremy Taylor
John
Aristotle
Rochester Clarion
Roy Bixby
Tanner's Store
Dr. Hess
Saline, Michigan
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