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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1927
Page
4
Notices of condolence resolutions and small paid notices appear in the fragmentary newspaper text. It references bereavement acknowledgments, advertising rates, and subscription or publication details, with garbled lines indicating obituary related items and classified notices.
Governor Fred W. Green pledges honest, efficient state service and a wage of openness. He vows to end one man rule, curb extortion and lobbying, restore auditing to the auditor general, strengthen education funding, and set up annual financial reports. He requests $50,000 yearly for Upper Peninsula mining research and calls for prison reform and a separate facility for first offenders.
Fire Chief Kelsey ordered to reorganize the Moruay fire department under salary limits. Sheriff Tudson re commissions Fred Jerry and Sela Fitzgerald as deputies. Ann Arbor mayor regrets taxing nonresident vendors. Tramps and hunger issues row with aldermen. Marshal Jerry detained a man then released him to seek aid. A local schoolgirl essay on physiology draws critique in a sensational press. Friis Minnett ship flour to Detroit today. C H Conklin divorces. Mollie Culver of Hillsdale visits. McKinnon store prepares for S T Fairbank groceries. Revival meetings close stores and saloons at 7 PM all week. A A Wood elected president of the Michigan Sheep Breeders Association.
Signs mislabeling stores confuse visitors and a fictitious dealer sign remains. Miss Futh Morreson of Ann Arbor died from severe burns after clothing caught fire. Mr and Mrs Eden Buckman marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary by mail. The old York millpond became a public bath, with a skating incident when the ice broke. Leigh Townsend and family travel to Washington for the winter. Mrs Chiles Hill and Helen Jackson visit Mrs K B Simmons. Tobias Sutherland’s fifty ninth birthday is noted in Ypsilanti. A citron from 1910 is displayed in L M Thorn’s store window.
The governor calls for studying New York's Baume law to fight crime and outlines plans for reorganizing the state police a three man parole board strengthening the mothers pension act cooperation with farming economy in government and lower taxes revising the workmen's compensation act election laws and a new conservation program.
The Michigan Tuberculosis Association backs a new 1927 law to replace the 1909 code. Officials argue current rules misclassify TB as a dangerous disease and hinder proper care. They cite cases where counties refuse hospitalization, endangering families and residents.
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