Saline Week In Review June 24 1938 Local News Briefs
Miss Jeanette Clay visits grandmother in Lansing. Saline streets oiled to curb dust. Families host visitors from Columbus Ohio and West Branch. Erma Theurer to work as nurse at Interlochen camp. Detroit College of Law graduate Carl Zahn among 47th commencement. Camp Newkirk visit by Eagle hopeful Jack Arend. Corn below knee high by Fourth of July. Rouse family planning Pittsfield reunion July 4. Buell Johnson dies at 75 in Bridgewater. Local social events and visits wrap up week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeanette Clay
George Potter
Lansing
Saline
G. C. Townsend
Robert Austin
Columbus
Ohio
Roy Gillis
Don Gillis
West Branch
Roy Haeussler
Erma Theurer
Interlochen
Carl H. Zahn
John Zahn
Detroit College of Law
Jesse Bird
Owosso
Nelson Bell
A. R. Lee
Rouse
Kennard Pester
Pittsfield
Buell Johnson
Bridge
Presbyterian Home Coming at the Church on Sunday
The Presbyterian society will host a home coming at the church this Sunday. Miss Linnie Rogers is visiting her brother B. B. Rogers in Jackson for the week. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Howard spent the end of the week with her parents in Manchester. Ward Miller of Chicago visits his parents Mr. and Mrs. Amos Miller for two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Webster of Grand Rapids were guests of Mrs. Florence Bond and Mrs. G. W. Cook later in the week. A home wedding occurred at the Derr residence when Pearl Elizabeth Derr wed this Wednesday afternoon.
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The
Presbyterian Society
Linnie Rogers
Jackson
B. B. Rogers
Glen Howard
Manchester
Ward Miller
Chicago
Amos Miller
Eugene Webster
Grand Rapids
Florence Bond
G. W. Cook
Arthur Derr
Miss Pearl Elizabeth
Farmers take to the air as Flying Farmers grow roots
The article notes a surge of private aviation among farmers led by the National Flying Farmers Association with over 3 000 members. It highlights conventions, field takeoffs, and farm airstrips that let farmers shop at the field. Stanton County Kansas boasted 60 planes and 75 airmen certificates. Lake Michigan navigation credited to Jean Nicolet in 1634.
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Midwest
National
Flying Farmers’ Association
Oklahoma A&m College
Hutchinson
Kansas
Kansas Flying Farmers
Stanton County
United States
Lake Michigan
Jean Nicolet
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Champlain
Straits of Mackinac
Community Notes On Local Moves And Farm Activity
Mrs. H T Nichols and daughter Miss Zoa visit Detroit while wheat cropping continues. J A Klein and family plan to move into the George Sherman house. McCormick binder shipment staged with eleven units in W J Jackson's yard. Davenport and Nissly travel to Detroit via the new electric line. July 1 marks the new revenue law raising caution on actions and speech to avoid revenue stamps.
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Tommorrow
First US Telegraph Race Wire Debuts in 1827
Harrison G. Dyar built a likely first commercial telegraph line in Long Island City New York to relay race results from a local course. The system wired race events and demonstrated early telegram use in sports reporting.
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United States
Harrison G. Dyar
Long Island City
N. Y
New York City Freight Traffic Moves Freight by Rail
New York City is served by 11 major railroad systems moving more than 70 million tons of freight annually. The network supports regional commerce and forms a backbone for goods entering and leaving the metropolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Campaign to Reach Into Every Home
A national push by ADA and partners to promote ice cream and cake through house to house leaflets, posters on 6000 express trucks, and magazine ads in 35 magazines reaching millions of homes. Betty Crocker radio show on NBC and ABC ties in. campaigns from General Mills Pillsbury and others amplify messaging to households nationwide.
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Owen M. Richards
American Dairy Association
ADA
Housewives of America
America
Ladies’ Home Journal
American Weekly
Motion Picture
King Features Syndicate
Associated Press
Parade
All America
Life Magazine
Good Housekeeping
Seventeen Magazine
Blankets the Nation
AIDA
General Mills
McCall’s
Better Homes and Gardens
Woman’s Home Companion
Good Housekeping
Country Gentleman
Farm Journal
This Week
Successful Farming
Betty Crocker General Mills
NBC
ABC
Preserve Industry Council
Marathon Corporrtion
Pillsbury Mills
Saturday Evening Post
Seven U S Presidents Died In Office In Early Years
Seven presidents died in office including Harrison Taylor Lincoln Garfield McKinley Harding and Roosevelt Only Taylor and Roosevelt died while in office while Congress was in session The fragment notes presidents dying during service and while sessions continued.
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William Henry Harrison
Zachary Taylor
Abraham Lincoln
James A. Garfield
William McKindey
Warren G. Harding
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Taylor
Roosevelt
Con- Tess
Remembering Pickett's Charge and American Freedom
A reflective foreword weighs Gettysburgs bloodiest moment and the nation’s losses. It contrasts wartime costs with the enduring American ideal of freedom and warns of currents toward foreign domination and fear. The text urges understanding of America’s heritage and the duty of citizens to defend it.
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North
America
Illinois uses earth resistance test to locate water supplies
The Illinois geological survey reports an electrical earth resistance test can locate sand and gravel deposits likely to bear water. Technicians claim a 92 percent success rate in finding usable water supplies for towns and cities in Illinois using this method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois Geological Survey
Illinois
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Arvid Temple
Buffalo
Harry N. Friis
Cap
Laroy
Romig & Rooney
Pillsbury
True Story
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Family Circle
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Ann Arbor, Mich
Gettysburg
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Cemetery Ridge
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