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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1923
Page
8
A southern newspaper prints a curious classified ad about learning to play the bass horn. The piece notes reader ads draw replies and power to attract attention. It comments on the humor and ambiguity of small ads for buying selling and trading in the paper.
Detroit Trust Co as receiver may discontinue the Detroit Bay City and Western Railroad after bondholders refused funds. Keating, a noted G A R member, collapses and dies on Memorial Day parade duty. Other items include political speeches, a banker’s fatal fall, a bishop's decline, a campaign for superannuated ministers, industrial accidents, forest fires, and local civic notes from Michigan and nearby regions.
Word arrived of the death in Los Angeles of Egbert Ingersoll aged near 102, a Lansing area pioneer who settled in 1836 and built Lansing’s first electric power plant. He helped capture John Wilkes Booth as a Civil War government detective. He would have turned 102 on July 1.
The Shorthorn breeders finalize plans for a June 13 county tour visiting farms at Saline Bridgewater Dexter and Sylvan township with a noon picnic at H Hayes farm and visits to Ford's Dearborn herd. Representatives from the American Shorthorn Breeders Association Shorthorn World and Michigan Shorthorn Breeders Association will accompany the group. The event targets farmers families and youth with talks judging demonstrations and farm visits.
Michigan granges will host nutrition lectures through a new cooperative plan with the Michigan Tuberculosis Association. A. B. Cook states the Grange will cooperate fully to ensure success, highlighting health work as a priority. Ruth Christopher, specialist from Michigan Agricultural College, will lead nutrition education and related programs across the state.
People in the vicinity are urged to send any legal notices required in estate settlements to this newspaper. Rates apply to such notices, and readers are advised to ask the probate judge to forward them here for publication.
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