Michigan's wartime echoes shape postwar politics and jobs
The piece notes unemployment risks for GOP prospects in Michigan one year ahead, cites a Democratic comeback possibility in Lansing, and recalls how 1930s tides shifted with city employment in Detroit Pontiac and Flint. It cites 1946 payrolls Grand Rapids Battle Creek, AP survey on peace-time production, union wage demands, and doctor shortages across 88 towns. It forecasts crop yields and warns of an early frost.
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Michigan
Lansing
Detroit
Pontiac
Flint
Committee For Economic Development
Grand Rapids
Battle Creek
Associated Press
Clare
U. S
Looking Back The Way We Came In The Observer Files
A long list of local happenings and people with brief notes from Detroit trips to family visits. Events include health, travel, social visits, a gun club outing, a firehouse incident, and community notices.
Saline Community Notes and Local Changes
Thirty years ago July weather brings haying as Saline is well represented at the State fair. New telephone operator Miss Helen Lederer. Miss Julia Nedeau ill with scarlet fever. Local visits include Miss Bernice Barr returning from Charlevoix and others itinerating to Hastings and Tecumseh events. Birth announced for Herman and Mrs Ehnis in Ann Arbor. resignations and hires at Cotton's store. Adrian trips and family visits recur among Schaibles and Wallaces. Firestone tires touted for long life. a Saline resident drives 15 000 miles on a single tire run.
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Nellie Congdon
Hillsdale
W. H. Barr
Edward Henne
Wampler’s Lake
Chauncey FitzGerald
Lena Wilcox
Farmington, N. M
Harry Holmes
Homer Kuebler
Bliss Curtiss
George Martin
Detroit
Tigers
Yankees
Daniel’s Flats
Harold Hertler
Ann Arbor
Charles
Landwehr Place
Hertler
Frank Camburn
Michigan Union and Union
Don Richards
Thorn’s Grocery
Matt
Jarrandt
Ing
Saline
Helen Lederer
Julia Nedeau
Fred Sellen
Bernice Barr
Charlevoix
Fred Henne
Hastings
Tecumseh
Herman Ehnis
Tower of York
Harvey McMichael
George Geisel
Cotton
Amanda Schaible
Manchester
Florence Schaible
Loretta Schaible
Lottie Wallace
D. C Littlejohn
Howell
Lansing
Wealthy Wallace
Elizabeth Gaumar
Jones
Seeger & Schroen
Muir & Gross
Firestone Auto
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General Motors
Chrysler
Ford
O.P.A
A. J. Warren
Robert Parsons
Archie Lawrence
Alwin Gross
Studebaker
Pital
Howard Electric Service
South Lewis Street
Saline, Mich
Hot Point
Norge
Zenith Radios
Hoover Vacuum
Charles Howard
Lockwood Funeral Home
Francis N. Lockwood
Alice J. Lockwood
Funeral Directors
Pillsbury’s Best Dairy Feed
Pillsbury
Pillsbury’s
Morton Poultry Farm
the Saline Recreation
Saline Recreation
M. W. McHenry
Electric Hour
Robert Armbruster
His Orchestra
EWT
WJR
The
Detroit Edison Company
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