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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1937
Page
8
Denison and Jane flee through burning pines to a pool by a spring, survive a deadly blaze, and confess love while narrowly escaping the wildfire. Jane confronts her father Van Tambel about Denison and McCrossen, asserting independence and plans for the future.
In smoke scarred pines refugees reach Denison's ranch as Jane feeds the fire. Van Tambel and McCrossen demand Jane's whereabouts and Denison warns them off, while Jane defends herself against her father's insult with quiet dignity. The confrontation escalates at the corral gate.
A veteran mentalist recalls a staged mind reading act tied to a passport dream and the steamship Scythia. After affirming his science and code trained act, a spectator warned him he knew his pocket contents, triggering a chain that culminated in a fatal voyage for a man later found dead in his cabin.
At South Reston Hall near Louth a party of six armed men and dogs guard a 400yearold farmhouse amid reports of eerie happenings. Incidents include room disruption food removal soot in chimneys and a bed slept in. A woman saw a pointed nosed bushy tailed creature and fainted. A false roof search found nothing though a terrier barked at a spot.
The pounding noise when closing faucets is identified as water hammer. It may be caused by faucet washers but more likely results from absent air cushions or air chambers filled with water in the piping system.
In Abyssinia the Gallas tribe bachelors build spiked palisades and traps around their huts to deter unmarried girls. A girl climbs over the palisade, hides inside a bachelor’s hut, and forces a marriage, revealing social customs and enforcement.
The account recounts Muggs Taylor delivering the first report of Custer’s defeat at the Little Big Horn after fleeing Sioux pursuers on June 28 1876. Taylor rode via Fort Ellis Bozeman and Helena to alert officials and the Associated Press, shaping the disaster’s early narrative. He later became a Montana peace officer and was killed in 1882 in Coulson.
United Press reports a display at the American Museum of Natural History featuring Stone and Iron Age implements and Viking era funeral urns. The exhibit includes about 3,500 items such as daggers spear heads scrapers and amber adornments with earliest flint tools and later bronze razors dating to around 1500 B. C.
The earthquake in Bihar northern India devastates farm land as millions of tons of sand rise through the crust burying tillable soil. The report notes widespread agricultural ruin and long term impact on local farming communities.
In Norfolk Virginia a shaggy brown dog dies after being hit by a car while a black and white spotted dog remains nearby. The latter mourns, licks the dead companion, and howls as a crowd gathers. A garbage crew eventually takes Brownie away.
Fragmentary report describes Madrid under artillery pressure with both sides claiming gains and uncertain outcomes as control of the area remains contested. Sparse readable details highlight ongoing fighting and disputed possession.
State of Michigan Circuit Court Washtenaw County issues a writ of attachment in a case between Interstate Credit Company and Harvey O Knickerbocker. The writ seeks to recover twelve hundred dollars under an express contract, returnable December 28, 1936. Attorney Albert E Blashfield of Ann Arbor filed the notice with dates running December 31, 1936 to February 11, 1937.
The Circuit Court in Washtenaw County at Ann Arbor on December 7 1936 ordered Rollie Hoover to enter appearance within three months or judgment may be entered. Publication of the notice to commence within two weeks in the Saline Observer. The order names Myrtle Edith Hoover as plaintiff and Rollie Hoover as defendant. George W. Sample is the circuit judge with Luella M. Smith as deputy clerk. Attorney Lee N. Brown represents the plaintiff from Ypsilanti Michigan.
Public auction to satisfy a $6,507.05 debt on a Washtenaw County mortgage. J Frederick Bross of Lakeland Michigan defaulted on a 1930 deed to R T Dobson, later assigned to Clara K DeFries. Sale set for March 20 1937 at 10 60 am at the south front door of the Washtenaw County Court House in Ann Arbor.
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