Michigan State Parks Earn Record Tour Traffic This Year
State parks in Michigan report 7,454,741 visitors through October 1, a 40 percent rise reflecting the state's booming outdoor recreation demand. Director George R. Hogarth of the Conservation Department notes both statewide tourism growth and ongoing park expansion and improvements. A separate Chelsea note adds a 5 inch tarantula found on bananas at J. W. Burg store, exhibited in a glass can.
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Lansing
Michigan
George R. Hogarth
Conservation Department
Hograth
Chelsea
J. W. Burg
Burg
Chelsea Standard
Democratic wave boosts Democrats in state races and New York
Edward W. Pickard reports Democrats celebrating wins across states showing waning Republican strength, with Virginia restoring safety Democratic status, Kentucky retaining a two thirds lower house majority, and New York City voters sweeping Mayoral contests amid Swing era tensions. The piece notes party power shifts, Klans decline in Indiana, Prohibition debates, and tariff battle developments in Congress.
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South
Congress
Jouett Shouse
Democratic National Executive Committee
Virginia
John Garland Pollard
Bishop Cannon
C. Bascom Slemp
Henry W. Anderson
William M. Brown
Old Dominion
Kentucky
State Assembly
Senate
Hoover
Jimmie Walker
New York City
Fiorello H. la Guardia
George A. Harvey
Queens
New York Cities
Depare
Indiana
Anti-Saloon League
Reginald Sullivan
Indianapolis
Battle reports murky amid Chinese civil war turmoil
Conflicting wires describe fighting between rebel forces and Nationalist troops in China with no clear Manchurian updates. American Red Cross allocates over 20000 dollars for white Russian relief. In Minneapolis the Co operative Farmers Northwest Grain Corporation forms with six million capital. Stock markets tumble as losses erase weeks of gains. bankers silent and bears rule with sporadic recoveries.
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China
People’s
American Red Cross
Minneapolis
Co-operative Farmers Northwest Grain Corporation
Farmer Elevator and Grain Pool Associations
Minnesota
The
Dakotas
Montana
Farmers National Grain Corporation Peay Speer
Weeps
McCullough Appointed U S Senator for Ohio Vacancy
Governor Cooper appoints McCullough of Canton to fill the Ohio Senate vacancy caused by the death of Theodore B. Burton. The appointment lasts one year and requires McCullough to run in November 1930 for the remaining two years of the six year term. Also noted are recent deaths of notable figures including William G. Lee Marquis Inouye Maurice Herbette Prince Max of Baden and George Hannouer.
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McCullogh
Canton
Cooper
Ohio
United States
Theodore B. Burton
Congress
McCulloch
Frank B. Willis
William G. Lee
The
Brotherhood of Railway
Marquis Inouye
Japan
Maurice Herbette
France
Prince Max
Baden
Germany
George Hannouer
Boston and Maine Railroad
Western Newspaper Union
Railroad Conductor Reports Unusual Passenger Sighting Near Cadmus
A conductor on a freight train near Cadmus halted the train after spotting a man stepping onto the tracks and crossing the field. Separate incident: Marie Chandler of Adrian wandered from a nursing home and was found safe with her mother in Hudson. The train’s engineer did not strike her, suggesting she evaded the locomotive.
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Cadmus
Marie Chandler
Adrian
Drake
Viola Chandler
Hudson
Chandler
Manchester
Enterprise
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Mickie
State OF
A. J. Warren
Justice of the Peace
Leagal Counsel
W. E. Dietzker
G. ¥. Cook & Son
Puget Sound
Santa Maria
Guatemala
Hiram Bingham
Connecticut
Edward W. Pickard
Detroit
John W. Smith
Charles Bowles
Bowles
Enator
Bingham
Finance Committee
Norris
Judiciary Committee
Brookhart
Iowa
Wall Street
Washington
Walter J. Fahy
New York
Gooding
Chemical Laboratory
Reed
Pennsylvania
House
X J. Arnold
Southern Tariff Association
American Taxpayers’ Lease
Arnold
Harles Gates Dawes
Great Britain
London
Stimson
MacDonald
Dawes
Guggenheim
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hiram, Johnson
California
Mr. Hoover
House of Commons
American
India
Soviet
Russia
Aul Tardieu
Briand
Rhineland
Reichstag
Fostoria
Ock
Ann Arbor
Saline Mercantile Co
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