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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1939
Page
3
The notice explains pricing for paid poetry and personal or business notices in the newspaper. Poetry costs five cents per line with six lines per page, while paid entertainments require six cents per line and a 25 cent minimum. obituary and marriage notices are published free.
The excerpt from the Brooklyn Exponent uses a two cows parable to simplify major political systems. It contrasts socialism communism fascism nazism and capitalism with actions taken toward cows and milk to illustrate government roles and citizen outcomes.
An anonymous verse recounts the death of Ezra Lane with lament for his absence from Skinner’s store to his final ascent, noting sorrow in the family circle and neighbors, and reflecting on life, health, and mortality.
Michigan State College laboratories in the home economics division test baby foods now sold nationally. New Newaygo county vegetables go into canned strained vegetables for babies. A new ready to serve cereal adds Vitamin B to stimulate appetites. Flora Hamning continues a foods and nutrition fellowship dating to 1930, using chemical tests for Vitamin C and feeding studies on rats to assess Vitamin A.
Local column recounts social visits in Saline and nearby areas including Detroit guests Wilmont Collins and Preston Rouse families. Notes births, birthdays, engagements and travels. mentions strawberry prices, a pipe organ recital, farm purchases, and a memorial address at the Baptist church.
Kalamazoo county home demonstration agent Margaret Linsell and Michigan State College specialist Jessie Marion report widespread chair renovations. Cane and rush seats, slip covers, re-upholstery and tied springs revive heirloom pieces while saving over $31,000 in home furnishing costs across 24 counties and 1828 families involved.
Divine services at 10 a m with Sunday school. English services are held every second and fourth Sunday of the month. Everyone is cordially invited.
Eddie Cantor discusses acquiring the Will Rogers collection, assembled by the late Willard S. Morse, through dealer Ernest Dawson. The archive includes first editions, clippings, and magazine pieces highlighting Rogers and Cantor from vaudeville to film, with notes on their friendship and Rogers’ lasting influence.
The Washtenaw County Farms Loan Association will hold its annual meeting at the Y M C A in Ann Arbor on Thursday evening June 8. Frank M. Potts will preside and R A Pence reports, with wives invited. John Doe, District Representative of the Federal Land Bank, is asked to attend to discuss policies and answer questions. A social hour and refreshments will follow the regular business and director elections.
Annual event at East Lansing brings livestock men to farms and campus. Morning program features Prof George A Brown and department staff with results on silage and hay feeding. Afternoon talks cover pasture, corm silage use, beef cattle in Michigan, cattle industry stabilization, and market outlook.
A dog belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hit unearthed a rat nest and killed the mother rat while removing the six young from the nest. He carried them away but declined to kill them, amid a muddled note urging civic duties.
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