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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1923
Page
8
Professional auctioneer with Jones School of Auctioneering Class of 1920 offers services for general and purebred sales in Michigan Ohio and Ontario Canada. Experienced in pedigrees and willing to conduct a real sale at the right price with tin cups and auction blanks provided.
Lansing reports the 1923 Michigan session entering committee work on tax and administrative bills. Public hearings target the Sligh bill removing a 10000 cap on big corporation taxes and a two cent per gallon gas tax. Measures on bus regulation, divorce and marriage rules, cattle compensation, and road bond suspensions also move forward.
Wayne lawmakers push bills in both chambers to redraw seats for incoming legislatures as 24 in the house and 9 in the senate are proposed. Glaspie seeks to restore village and township franchise rates for interurbans. Additional measures include death penalty bills, supreme court retirement, soldier bonus claims funding, eight hour day, workmen compensation tweaks, lieutenant governor on the state board, and $3 tax to $1 federal road aid objection. A memorial to curb federal road aid and a stance against federal coal mine control are noted.
Senator Gansser of Bay City proposes bills to force railroads to fit locomotives with automatic air controlled fire box doors and to equip engines with compressed air bell ringers. Senator Condon of Detroit seeks state air regulation placing ownership of air rights with nearby landowners and bars risky trick flying. Hearings are scheduled on a proposal to increase taxes on steam vessels and insurance bills to license agents and companies drawing large crowds.
One hundred editors and publishers from across Michigan attended the Michigan Press Association conference at Michigan Agricultural College February 1 and 2. Distinguished speakers included James Schermerhorn, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Reid, Speaker George W. Welsh, and President David Friday. Officers elected for 1923 were Len W. Feighteier president, David Hubbell vice president, Sim R. Wilson secretary treasurer, with an executive committee of Fred D. Keister Jonia Schuyler Manshall and Herbert A. Wood.
The Sebewaing Blade reports on a February 12 PTA gathering with notes on an upcoming operetta before spring vacation. junior class hosted a successful February 1 Japanese Fete, while biology and English classes cover experiments and classic literature. Basketball losses at Chelsea precede a home game, and local fishing reports note light ice thickness outside.
People in this vicinity are urged to send any legal printing needs for estate settlements to this newspaper. Rates are universal in such matters, and to have notices appear here, simply ask the probate judge to send them to this paper.
An acute nasal catarrh attack is linked to a run down condition. Hall's Catarrh Medicine combines a local ointment and a blood-acting tonic, designed to reduce susceptibility to colds. Sold by druggists for over four decades by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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