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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1936
Page
6
A mother asks her son Tommy to fetch a switch for punishment. He returns claiming he cannot find a switch but presents a large rock to be thrown at him instead. The exchange highlights a brisk, humorous domestic moment.
Jones claims the monkey most resembles humankind while Smith dismisses the notion with a sharp retort. Pearson's Weekly notes the lighthearted exchange, highlighting enduring debates about animal similarity to humans.
A Farm Club exchange features a member noting feeding a sick pig sugar and another joking about sugar curing hams. The dialogue pivots on whether sugar can act as a cure and the idea of sugar curing meat is referenced as a pun.
Washington announces the fifty third supplement of general rules and regulations for safety at sea mandating loudspeaker broadcasts from the bridge to lifeboat stations embarkation decks crew quarters and passenger gathering areas. New construction rules apply now with compliance dates for existing ships between July 1 and 1938.
A fogbound Staten Island ferry glides into Manhattan while a government cutter drifts by unseen. A veteran film star William S Hart is pictured in Times Square with his ranch and Pinto horse nearby. City life scenes show first floor tenants, gossip, police, a hospital head wound, and debates on endorsements and reputations in a Bell Syndicate report from the WNU Service.
The small frame house once owned by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant will be saved from demolition. It was given to the Michigan State Fair association by the Michigan Mutual Liability company and will be moved to the fair grounds for public display.
The first Pacific Northwest court house and second oldest Washington building is being rebuilt. Located 12 miles south of Chehalis, the log Jackson Prairie courthouse was built in 1847 by settler John R. Jackson.
Pasadena reports reveal the peculiar will of Auguste J. Paris. He requested his body remain unburied for ten days lest he be buried alive. His son Pierre Paris sought court action to invalidate the codicil, citing state laws governing disposal of dead bodies.
Pratt Kansas residents report a soldier skeleton unearthed near the Cannonball trail once used by wagon trains fifty years ago. The remains were found upright and bore a metal badge and uniform patches, suggesting a soldier rather than an Indian and implying a brave’s burial rite by local tribes.
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