Farmers Buy Fake Poultry Medicine
Michigan poultrymen are warned by the poultry department at Michigan State College that a man defrauded farmers by selling a so called cure for poultry diseases. He claimed to represent the college or the Michigan Poultry Laboratory while peddling the remedy. A sample contained ground bran wood charcoal quassia limestone salt and Epsom salts with no remedial effect. Poultry owners are advised to consult local veterinarians county agents or the college department before buying remedies from strangers.
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Michigan
Michigan State College
St Clair County
Michigan Poultry Laboratory
Epsom
College
Focal Veterinarian
County Agricultural Agent
College Department
Fire Prevention Don’ts for Safe Home Use
Common suggestions on fire prevention include keeping matches in metal boxes away from children and not placing ashes near wooden structures. Seek a competent electrician for wiring, avoid hanging light cords on nails, and never use gasoline near flames. Use fireplace screens and avoid flammable solvents near open lights.
Your Own Home Town
A call to residents to improve and defend their community through loyalty, effort, and mutual support. The piece urges widespread hard work and civic involvement, noting the radio announcer’s time ends.
The Willing Workers Meet. 40 Attend Hostess Mabel Needham
The Willing Workers club held a September 26 meeting with about 40 attendees including guests. Mrs. Hallie Mehler presided, prayers and readings followed, with a varied impromptu program of recitations and songs. dinner ended the session and plans were made for October 24 with an autumn roll call and officer elections.
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Mabel Needham
Hallie Mehler
Dorothy Heilman
Michigan
Lizzie White
Julia Gordon
Cora Walters
C. A. Curtiss
Crooked Mouthed
Lena Gordon
Mattie Craig
Pearl Gilbert
Fainting at Party Turns into Two More Incidents
A London Tid-Bits quip recalls a party mishap where a guest fainted twice and was then brought another two times, highlighting humorous social misadventure.
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London
Two young ladies sting Hastings for magazine subs
A pair of well dressed young women visited Hastings and swindled local boys by collecting spare change for magazine subscriptions and cashing a couple of worthless checks. They left, stayed away, then returned with one now jailed on forgery charges. The scene mirrors a broader caution about sharp salesmanship.
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Hastings
tIonia News
Navy Day Celebrations Set in Michigan Details
Col Walter C Cole named chairman and Gov Fred W Green honorary chairman of Michigan Navy Day arrangements for Oct 28 with a wide celebrity list. Navy Day falls on Oct 28 due to Sunday and will be promoted by proclamations from governors and mayors across Michigan. A 83 county Navy Day committee will engage statewide attention.
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Walter C. Cole
Fred W. Green
Michigan
Navy Department
Continental Congress
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
America
Col. Cole
Green
Fatal Car Crash Near Gunther Gardens Kills Mail Carrier
Albert Mayer of Ann Arbor, a mail carrier, died at the scene when his car barreled into a tree at a curve by Gunther Gardens. His wife died from injuries Sunday night. Passenger Walter Schneeberger escaped with minor injuries after being thrown from the front seat as Mayer failed to negotiate the bend at high speed.
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Gunther Gardens
Albert Mayer
Ann Arbor
Walter Schneeberger
Schneeberger
Mayer
Truck Driver Sideswipes Parked Car in Cambridge
A truck driver could not stop as a car emerged onto the pavement ahead in Cambridge. With another car parked nearby the driver swerved and struck the parked vehicle. The parked car belonged to Owen Bernstein of Liberty and the damage will be settled in about two weeks.
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Cambridge
Owen Bernstein
Liberty
Brooklyn
Rural Letter Carriers Honor Annual Meeting in Michigan
About one hundred members of the second district Association of Rural Mail Carriers from Washtenaw Monroe Lenawee Jackson and Wayne counties met in the Masonic Club rooms for their annual meeting and banquet. State president Guy Landon of Cass City attended. Robert Walker of Plymouth was re elected district president and F L Elliott of Sand Creek was re elected secretary and treasurer. The program was marred by the death of Albert Mayer a longtime carrier at Ann Arbor who was killed en route to the meeting.
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Second District
Washtenaw
Monroe
Lenawee
Jackson
Wayne
Masonic Club
Guy Landon
Cass City
Robert Walker
Plymouth
F. L. Elliott
Sand Creek
Albert Mayer
Association
Ann Arbor
Foreclosure Notice for Saline Property Mortgage 1929
Public auction to sell the Saline land described as lots one and two in section four of Anen H Risdon's Addition. The mortgage on Edwin C Warner and Luella H Warner will foreclose for $5057.09 with taxes, insurance, and attorney fees. Auction at the south front door of the Washtenaw County Courthouse, Ann Arbor, on November 2, 1929 at 10:00 am. Citizens Bank of Saline is the mortgagee. Cavanaugh Burke, attorneys.
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Edwin C. Warner
Luella H Warner
Saline
Washtenaw County
Michigan
Citizens Bank of
Court House
Ann Arbor
Washtenaw
County of Washtenaw
State of
Methodist Church Notes Rally Day and Services
Schofield urges loyalty and forgiveness as Sunday worship opens at 8 PM with special music. Sermon on Christ in the World of Today, Bible school at 11:15 led by HE L. Cramer, Epworth League events, and midweek prayer and choir meetings. A Saline Woman's Club film and church chicken dinners are announced along with a six Monday evening religious education course in Ypsilanti. Local anecdote about Bob Alway flushing a skunk nearby.
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Christ
Bible School
HE. L. Cramer
Church
Bible
School
Epworth League
Saline Woman’s Club
Ladies of Our Church
Methodist
Ypsilanti
New Jersey Man Boasts Of 50 Year Umbrella
A New Jersey man claims he has carried the same umbrella for half a century. He jokes about being chained to it and notes men are funny, yet none chase fur coat sales in August.
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New Jersey
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Michigan Crop Report
Michigan Co-operative Crop -Reporting Service
Mr. Wickersham
Detait
Methodist Church
Schofield
Bob Alway
Bob
Church and
Tecumseh
George Lancaster
Clinton
Pai Malo
Foley
J. E. Stevenson
Emporia
Wheeler’s Pharmacy
Milan
Todd
Boston
Congoleum and
Sandura
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