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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1923
Page
1
Michigan officials predict 1,000,000 automobiles by January 1 as 700,000 plates are issued for the year and demand grows. Licenses run about 500 daily, with orders for 25,000 more plates from Jackson prison and a 750,000 first consignment in mustard and black. Last year 581,000 licenses were issued.
The University School of Music will run a busy summer program with a strong teaching corps and a broad subject range. Weekly Hill auditorium concerts precede a choral concert directed by George Oscar Bowen featuring the summer choral union. Special courses in public school music methods led by Bowen with assistants from Newark and Boston. Free city pupil instruction planned and detailed announcements to follow. Concerts every Wednesday evening in Hill auditorium except July 4.
A Milan to Gagetown trip ended in a crash injuring Mr Ralph Robinson, Mrs Cora Sarrington, Miss Grace Haight, and Mrs Robinson. Haight, driving, skidded on gravel, hit a ditch, struck a tree. all were taken to Milan for treatment.
Lot owners are urged to pay a one dollar and fifty cent tax for cemetery care, including outside village owners. An extra worker is hired to accelerate work. Do not plant flowers except near the monument. aim for smooth sod. Potted plants may be used if cared for. Water vessels are not allowed in the mausoleum and rotting plant stems produce odors.
A noisy London thoroughfare halted by a burly constable as an aristocratic man wheels a baby carriage with a sheep past a crowd. The scene precedes Cyril Chadwick in his impersonation of Spoo y in Three Live Ghosts at the Liberty. George Fitzmaurice praises the shot as cameras stop rather than roll. An2 Q. Nilsson and Norman Kerry star.
The American Legion proceeds to fund the Otter Lake Children’s Billet campaign aiming to raise about 50 000 by June 20 with state aid and individual gifts. A summer home at Port Austin will host widows and orphans of service members, cared for by war widows and staff, while ex servicemen and citizens support this pioneering Michigan effort attracting nationwide notice.
On Sunday June 17 seventy five relatives gathered at Mr and Mrs Chris O Braun’s farm home to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary. Theodore Ziefie of Ann Arbor installed a radio for entertainment and guests presented fine gifts including china cut glass and linen. Out of town attendees came from Detroit Ann Arbor Kalamazoo Mt Clemens Ypsilanti Howell and Northfield.
The notice lists per word rates for classified ads, painting and paper hanging rates, and contact details for Camburn Bros. A sale notice mentions a horse for sale or trade and a purebred Leghorn cockerel. Dental office closure announced for Dr Henderson of Saline until August 2. Community events invite ice cream social on June 23 and dancing at Pleasant Lake hall on June 22 with a Detroit colored orchestra.
We offer Chevrolets with good tires starters electric lights and solid finish. Prices are low and terms right. The Saline Garage Authorized. Chevrolet Dealers Give us a ring Phone 61.
A collage of ads lists farm horses for sale, used machinery, pasture rentals, poultry buying, hats and flowers sales, potatoes for sale and seed, range replacements, plow repairs, and stationery orders. Local providers include Dietiker's, Wiedman Auto Co, Edw J Muir, Julius Hentler, F C Hols, C F Bracey, Olvier Goldsmith, Saline Flouring Mills, Baumann Walterhouse, and The Observer office. Community activity mentions a Wamplers Lake dancing event in May and June.
Mixed ad clippings include sale offers for Bred Duroc pigs and White Leghorn eggs, optometrist services in Ann Arbor, and a real estate inquiry near Saline with parcels around Detroit. Also a notice urging residents to send legal printing notices via probate judge and a call for estate settlement notices.
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