Advertising Dividends Highlight Lumber Industry Survey
A survey by the Illinois Lumber and Material Dealers Association shows firms spending 1 to 3 percent of gross sales on advertising report mixed results. About half saw poorer earnings, while 10 percent spent 3 percent or more and many indicated better business. The piece argues advertising lowers selling costs and boosts product quality perception, urging business leaders to consider such investments.
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Illinois Lumbber & Material Dealers’ Association
Cooling Cream Boosts Dairymen's Income
Michigan State College dairy department members say cooled cream, kept in deep setting cans and transferred between containers, fetches higher prices. They advise water cooling, shade roofs, and wet blankets for hot weather, plus testing for butterfat to ensure high grade cream and added dollars. Also, work on the Greenbrook oil well near Pinckney, suspended due to casing pipe shortages, is due to resume soon with pipe en route from Mt. Pleasant.
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Michigan State College
Greenbrook
Pinckney
Mt. Pleasant
Pinckney Dispatch
Lutherans to Build Church on George Shear Property
English Lutherans in the community will soon have a church building with work already started. It will stand on the George Shear property between his land and the Cole home on Hast Liberty street, measuring about 24 by 36 feet.
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George Shear
Cole
Hast Liberty Street
South Lyon Herald
Joseph Walsh
Iron Mountain
Olive
Kat Boettger
Oak Trees Damaged by Fungus Disease
Michigan State College plant pathologists report a severe fungus disease injuring white oaks and sycamores across the state due to favorable weather. Leaves show brown tips, water soaked tissue, and spore-dotted areas that spread with rain. No more than two sentences.
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Michigan
Sate College
Bordeaux
Cedar Hills May Have Golf Course
State park commissioners plan to add golf courses to parks and designate Cedar Hill park at Wampler's lake as the top site beginning this year. Cedar Hill spans 270 acres across Washtenaw Jackson and Lenawee counties with views over Wampler's lake and nearby areas including Round lake.
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Cedar Hill Park
Wampler’s Lake
Washtenaw
Jackson
Lenawee
Cedar Hill
Jackson Girl Scout Camp
Hoxie
Round Lake
Hoxie Lake
Manchester
Warning Against Fraudulent Brokers Targeting Ford Stocks
The Better Business Bureau warns of fraudulent brokers selling stock in foreign Ford companies in the United States and Canada. Some use partial payment plans, delivering nothing as they relocate under new names. victims pay above market prices. The BBB urges consulting local BBB offices before any purchase.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Companies
Better Business Bureau
United States
Canada
Ford
Ford Motor Company of England, Ltd
Ford Motor Company of
France
New York
Aimee Semple McPherson Returns from Europe
Aimee Semple McPherson is home from Europe and still suffers memory loss according to customs officials. The note adds a light remark about her dress and desserts oversights.
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Aimee Semple McPherson
Europe
Aime
Ionia News
Old Cambridge Church Reopens For Wedding
The old St. Michael and All Angels church at Cambridge Junction reopened Saturday for the wedding of Miss Josephine Kerr of Onsted to Mitton Raymond of Adrian. The groom is a nephew of the Ford family of Detroit who attended with others as guests.
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St. Michael and All Angels
Cambridge Junction
Josephine Kerr
Charles Kerr
Onsted
Mitton Raymond
Raymond
Adrian
Henry Ford
Detroit
Ford
Blissfield Advance
Rural butter consumption up by ten percent
Returns from a retailer questionnaire indicate rural areas are eating about 10 percent more butter than six months ago. The author quips that at 400 percent consumption there will be no problem for the dairy industry.
Local man reports Konjola cured long-standing stomach pains
Ernest Dionne of West Detroit credits Konjola with ending twenty years of stomach trouble after six to eight bottle trials. He praises the medicine for stomach, liver, kidney and bowel relief and urges others to try it. Konjola is sold at O C Wheeler's Pharmacy in Saline, Michigan and by nearby druggists.
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Ernest Dionne
Vernor Highway
West
Detroit
Saline
Michigan
O. C. Wheeler
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