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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1928
Page
4
A housewife often buys from door to door peddlers to silence them, buying items she does not need. If town housewives united for a year to refuse purchases from immigrant salesmen they would gain uninterrupted time for home duties and shopping by their own judgment.
A Washington editor mocked General Goethals for parts of hair and cigarette smoking before he led the Panama Canal project. The article notes he kept those habits and still succeeded, finishing the canal despite early doubts.
State Geologist R A Smith writes in The Michigan Property Owner that oil possibilities exist across Michigan with several small deposits found in Midland and Gratiot counties and a well near Ashley yielding promising returns. He explains anticlines as future oil fields and outlines limited upper peninsula potential.
Michigan farms report smaller March 1 stocks of corn wheat and oats than a year earlier. Corn stocks amount to 579000 bushels with lower merchantable quality. wheat stocks total 3276000 bushels. oats around 18960000 bushels. Countrywide, farm stocks for corn wheat oats decline while barley and rye rise.
In a Monday look ahead era near, motorists face dangers at railroad crossings. Veteran engineer B D Howerd warns Sundays bring higher risk as drivers ignore signals, while Illinois bills push motorists to stop at crossings. He cites horror of stalled cars on tracks and risk to trains and the public.
A collection of notes warns that shooting road signs is a crime with penalties up to six months in jail and a $500 fine, plus extra jail time for discharging firearms from a vehicle. Also included is a deer story from M. J. Burgess farm, and a Paw Paw banquet hosted by Spicer and Kave with W. H. Berkey as main speaker highlighting Michigan press history.
The piece laments springtime as coal age decline leaves dirt and wreckage in yards. It notes rising sun and cleaner days ahead as winter recedes and grass returns, reflecting on human works and fading beauty. The prose hints at environmental and moral reflections amid seasonal change.
The notice outlines steps for handling trash on fields with ed corn to prevent borers, with May 1 to July 10 as a safe window if tillage cannot bury material. It also recounts chicken coop thefts in Shiawassee and Montcalm counties, noting thieves use drugs to incapacitate hens and prior legal efforts to curb flock thefts.
A humorous contrast marks a family story where the traditional wife once wielded a rolling pin during disputes and her modern granddaughter, a society flapper, converts quick shooting into a charm offensive toward the jury.
Voters in Saline Township Michigan will elect officers including a supervisor clerk treasurer and highway officials at the annual township election in the Saline opera house on Monday April 2 1998. Polls open seven AM and run to five PM with possible noon adjournment or early closing per board action. An Orion village race drew interest though the key development was approval of a notable measure.
The Rochester Clarion reports a name change for the village once called Orion. The name will now be Lake Orion reflecting a shift from the former designation given about 30 years ago.
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