Audubon Society Announces Michigan Bird Contest Prizes
The Michigan Audubon Society in Hart will award prizes to rural children for feeding and identifying the most song birds excluding crows and English sparrows. Winners in two zones receive bird books charts and recruit plans, with runners up getting a bird game and recruit plan. Feeding runs Feb 15 to Mar 31, and teachers report by Apr 6 to the school commissioner.
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Michigan Audubon Society
Hart
North America
Mason
Arenac
Michigan
Department of Public Instruction
Best Methods Fail On Infertile Soil
Michigan State College soils experts warn that improved farm methods do not raise yields unless soil fertility is conserved. State records show oats, wheat, and corn yields lag behind earlier decades due to nutrient loss. Legumes, manure, and rye plow-downs help nitrogen. phosphoric acid and potash rise with commercial fertilizers. Circular Bulletin 53 details proper analyses for Michigan.
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Soils Department
Michigan State College
State Department of Agriculture
Michigan
Advertising guidance for merchants and budgets
A lively 19th century newspaper ad note urges merchants to use big page ads for major needs and regular or small classifieds for small stores. It emphasizes tailoring ads to what you sell and what you’re willing to pay, with bold language about purse and purpose.
March 20 Cambridge Junction to start 24 hour weigh checks
State highway officials announce night and day weighing of heavy and passenger vehicles beginning March 20 at Cambridge Junction. A new weigh station at 0.8-112 and M-50 features a modern scale house and precise balances. Overloads result in fines and required unloading, with court action if tickets are unpaid.
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Cambridge Junction
Justice Mobr
Tipton
Cambridge
Clinton
Mortgage Sale Foreclosure of Wenzel Property in Washtenaw County
Mortgagee Minnie Rust announces foreclosure of the Wenzel real estate in Pittsfield Township Washtenaw County Michigan for 3316.10 due including principal interest and fees. Sale set for May 18 1931 at ten in the forenoon at the south front door of the court house Ann Arbor to satisfy the mortgage and costs. The described parcel lot 34 in Wind Mill Heights with a dwelling stands on section 2 Pittsfield Township and is bounded start point on east boundary. Mortgage dated November 7 1925 and recorded November 20 1925 Liber 170 page 569. Attorney for Mortgagor N B Brown.
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Andrew J. Wenzel
Elizabeth M. Wenzel
Minnie Rust
Office of the Register of Deeds
Washtenaw County
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Washtenaw
State of Michigan
Pittsfield
County of Washtenaw
Pittsfield Township
Wind Mill Heights
Minnie. Rust
Lee
N. Brown
Ypsilanti
Bonus Loan Vote Shifts Gop Stance With Democrats
The House and Senate approved a bonus loan bill lifting veteran certificates from 22 to 50 percent of face value. A near party-line vote 363 to 39 in the House followed Longworth’s push, while the Senate backed the measure 72 to 12. Administrations leaders warn of veto, with fiscal debates intensifying over veterans’ pensions and related relief funding.
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Ways and Means
Senate
Smoot
Reed
Mellon
Andy
House
Veterans’ Committee
Congress
Interior Department
Hoover
Buyers Strike Urges Early Purchases As Prices Fall
An urging to readers to buy now amid a broad economic downturn. The piece notes lower prices, widespread participation from manufacturers to retailers, and the need for consumer spending to keep factories and stores functioning. It stresses the multiplier effect of shopping and the benefit to families and workers.
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Federal Farm Board
Washington
James C. Stone
Stone
International Harvester Company
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Samual RR
William F. Schilling
Brown
Ostmaster
Walter Brown
Civil Aeronautics
Moffett
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
Naval Aviation
Mr. Brown
Interstate Commerce Commission
McKellar
Tennessee
Senator Norris
Nebraska
Express
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Post Office Department
Millard Tydings
Maryland
Net
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Commission
Tydings
South
Morrison
North Carolina
Rascob
Democratic National Committee
Wagner
New York
Democratic Party
Wickersham
Thelbert Stewart
Labor Statistics
Senate Committee On Food Costs
Stewart
Capper
Kansas
Spain
Juan Bautista Aznar
Guerra
Alvarez
Alfonso
Aznar
A. L. Willard
Panama
Arthur L. Willard
Panama Canal
Nicaragua Canal
Saratoga
Lexington
Los Angeles
Naval Air Station
Coco Solo
Frank H. Schofield
Langley
Northampton
Salt Lake City
Pensacola
Schofield
Atlantic
Texas
John V. Chase
United States
Soviet
Russia
Commissariat of Education
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Movie Trust
Louis Mann
Frank C. Emerson
Wyoming
W. R. Merriam
Minnesota
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Clarence R. Edwards
New England
Boston
Arlington National Cemetery
Western Newspaper Union
James GC. Stone
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