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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1927
Page
3
A list of bargain items includes men’s overcoats and blazers at heavy discounts, plus a mock news note about a ten ton armored war tractor to be used by an Ohio sheriff. The piece also mocks national debt and stock swindlers while noting large sums in dead letters.
The catalog touts No. 806 Ladies' Silk Hosiery as best value with new Comés colors. A Southern exchange column suggests geranium and iris growers swap blooms with growers of stapdragons clematis cannas and similar plants. A note mentions a full dry goods and notions stock at reasonable prices. Georgia’s seal affixed with the 1799 method taking twenty minutes due to dye gilt parchment wax wafers ribbons.
Local business visitors Luther Briggs Arthur Heininger Henry Morris and others traveled to Ann Arbor on Monday for meetings. Miss Marion Rouse returned to Detroit to resume school. James Merritt Martin, brother of Mrs George Shaw, died January first in Los Angeles. A March sale is rumored for northern Ann Arbor pavement district property. Various residents hosted New Year gatherings and visits. The PTA and local clubs planned events, while a Brentford-style film and car crash injury were noted among town happenings.
Ed ward Clark of Ann Arbor introduces parlor basketball a scaled down sport played on a board with holes as positions and a rubber ball. The game uses guard center and forward roles with two point field goals and one point foul shots. The board sits on 15 inch legs allowing sit down play for children.
Gladys Egger of Topaz in Qatanagon county is praised as a model club girl by Boys and Girls Club leaders. She earned a Chicago trip as a sweepstakes prize for her three years of garment and earning club work and has won state and county championships. She also led nearby clubs, sewed for her family, canned and recycled, and cared for a dairy herd when her father was ill.
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