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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1938
Page
4
The Saline Observer lists Kim R Wilson as publisher and M C Boutelle as editor. It notes postal registration, subscription rates, and policies charging for personal notices, poetry, and paid announcements with minimum and per line rates.
A column extols an engineering achievement involving massive tree trunks moved and reset by cranes demonstrating progress and opportunity in America. It notes growing female influence in politics and wealth, citing statistics on women owning industries and stock holdings, life insurance benefits, and their role as beneficiaries and workers, urging prudent policy and responsibility.
Ernest Niethammer works in Ann Arbor for winter months. Mr and Mrs M Myers of Adriax host weekend guests. Lloyd Dell of River Rouge with parents Mr and Mrs Will Del. Fred Gillen and family of Highland Park visit Mr and Mrs George Burkhart. Mrs Alfred Jedele and Mrs Harry Steiner visit from Saline and Ann Arbor. Born to Mr and Mrs Leo West on Saturday a child. Weather and event notes mention an opera house program and charity benefit. Saline yards and local families feature various visits and movements around Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Plymouth, Jackson, and Lansing.
A mixed page offers at home activities for children including salt and flour clay modeling, bead stringing, berry dyeing, and simple crafts. It suggests using household items like Twigs, foil and seeds for seasonal projects and outlines a basic rabbit stew recipe with steps for browning sugar, simmering meat, and thickening the broth.
A brief editorial note urges all American women to unite in support of worthy causes and vote for sound government. It mentions Mrs. A. J. Warren as a potential White House candidate.
The school will resume the former time schedule starting Monday November 28 with bells at 8:15 and 12:30 then 12:40 12:45 and 3:45 dismissal. Four periods occur in each half day with noon dismissal at 11:45 and 12:45 and 3:45 afternoon dismissal.
A former Manchester resident recalls a locomotive ride with his uncle aboard a Boston and Maine train. A hen crosses the track and vanishes, reappears at stops, and ends up in a kennel. Three weeks later at a Fourth of July celebration the hen hatches three chicks all bowlegged due to a dachshund kennel.
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