Farm Bureau warns villages against suing towns over road funds
Michigan Farm Bureau official R Wayne Newton criticizes the Municipal League push to sue townships for road taxes. He argues such litigation could raise village taxes and provoke worse expenditures. The Farm Bureau urges state aid and better tax auditing to resolve the dispute.
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Michigan Municipal League
R. Wayne Newton
Michigan State Farm Bureau
Advic
Municial League
State Tax Commission
Farm Bureau
Municipal League
Particuar
Emerson H. Boyles
League
Judge Boyles
Michigan Farm Bureau News
After the Game Is Over Tra Wedding Exchange
A fragmentary scene shows a couple debating at home about a wedding anniversary and a strange line about killing a chicken. A narrator mentions a statistics joke claiming Americans drink 75 000 cups of coffee per second with no clear context.
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Tra
Nora
Barley Outperforms Corn For Steers In Michigan Study
At Michigan State College barley fed steers gained faster and cheaper than corn or oats peers. Beginning November 26, 1929 the steers weighed 377 to 381 pounds and ended the trial June 4 with barley fed animals at 795 pounds and corn at 776. Barley cost per hundredweight gained was 9.13 dollars versus 9.72 for corn and 9.78 for oats. All lots received silage alfalfa hay and linseed meal throughout the feeding period. All three groups continued on feed through September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan State College
Michigan State College Sees Rise in Power Tools for Farming
Agricultural engineers at Michigan State College report that power tools including two row cultivators and the rotary hoe are suited for cultivating large acreages quickly. The two row cultivator handles 15 to 20 acres daily while the rotary hoe reaches 30 to 40 acres with a tractor. Early weed germination is essential for rotary hoe effectiveness. Demonstrations with two row cultivators on Monroe county farms used tractors at 1.5 to 5 mph. Further demonstrations will occur across Michigan counties this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural Engineering Department
Michigan State College
Monroe County
Michigan
Woman Dies As Car Skids In Tipton Village
Mrs Donald H Haite 26 of Massillon Ohio is killed when the car driven by her husband veers off the road near Tipton village and overturns. He and their 10 month old baby are uninjured. Haite suspects sleepiness while en route to Eaton Rapids Michigan to visit her parents. The car shows minor damage.
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Adrian
Donald H. Haite
Massillon
Ohio
Tipton Vilage
Haite
Wolverines Highlight Detroit Zoo Summer Display
The Detroit zoo features 13 wolverines from Alaska, the only captive group. Many animals show moulting and shaggy coats as the season progresses. Horns of the mule deer are in velvet while two giraffes and a mix of baboons, bears, elk, moose, antelope, water buffalo, ostriches, and zebras attract visitors at this notable exhibit.
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Detroit
Alaska
Charlotte Republican-Tribune
Choral Union Plans Big Year At University
The University of Michigan School of Music outlines a fifty second Choral Union season in Ann Arbor with Kreisler and Madame Coloratura among 10 planned numbers. Don Cossack Chorus and Detroit Symphony performances are slated, plus Iturbi and Robeson debuts. Negotiations continue for three more attractions as May Festival adds six concerts in 1931.
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University of Michigan School of Music
Choral Union
Ann Arbor
Ehitz Kreisler
Charles L. Wagner
New York
John McCormack
Madame Galli-Curci
America
Pacific Coast
San Francisco Opera Company
East
Boe
Don Cossack
Serge Jaroff
Hill Auditorium
Don Cossacks
Europe
Great Britain
Australia
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Hig
Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Weild
Bernardino Molinari
Jose Iturbi
Spain
Iturbi
Carnegie Hall
Paul Robeson
Rotten business taints storefront smell
A shopper asks about a foul odor. the merchant bluntly notes the smell is the business itself. The exchange highlights a metaphorical critique of the store’s practices and reputation.
No Medicine in the World Like Konjola
Mrs. Benjamin Vincent of Carrollton Saginaw declares Konjola cured her stomach ulcers kidney issues and back pain after five bottles over weeks She credits the remedy as master medicine and notes it relieves stomach liver kidney and bowel ailments rheumatism neuritis and nervousness Sold at Wheeler’s Pharmacy Saline Michigan and by druggists in the region
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Benjamin Vincent
Sixth
Madison Streets
Carrollton
Saginaw
South
Saline
Michigan
O. C. Wheeler
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