Roosevelt Highway Association Elects Officers
The Theodore Roosevelt Highway Association met in Duluth and elected new officers for the year. Col. T. Coleman TuPont becomes president, with E. A. Cox as 1st vice president and Max J. Powell as 2nd vice president. A. W. Tracy serves as executive secretary, A. Grover as treasurer, and KR D. Handy among the executive committee. The group plans greater executive control and a mid summer meeting, with Glacier Park hosting the Western division in July. The Roosevelt Highway runs from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon, spanning 4060.7 miles across many states and provinces. In 1922 the association spent $6,012,261 on route improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Roosevelt
Duluth
Col. T. Coleman Tu Pont
du Pont Powder Co
Edward J. Filiatrault
E. A. Cox
Lewiston
Idaho
Max J. Powell
Burlington
A. W. Tracy
Minn
A. ©. Grover
Tlath
KR. D. Handy
Duuth News-Tribune
H. Duning
Hands and Insurance
Gogebic County Poultry Show Announces Premiums
Attractive premium books are ready for distribution at the Gogebic Range Poultry Show. Prizes will be awarded on single entries with cash premiums on all poultry admitted to the American Standard of Perfection of 1915. First prize is $1.00, second $0.50, best unity hen $2.00, and various sweepstakes awards for best display and best trio.
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Gogebic Range
Ironwood
Was a Horse of Another Color
A western ranchman and farmer contemplates mail order trading for a gasoline engine after a foreman spots a suitable engine in a catalog. The boss sends a wire saying to ship the engine if good, and the seller replies to send a check if good, then they will send the engine. Also noted are purchases of 500 steel flat cars by the Chicago & Northwestern Railway for timber trade use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company
Peninsula
Ashland
Phantom ship fore shadowed wreck of tug Reliance
A Sault Ste. Marie circulated tale tells of a phantom ship resembling the tug Reliance seen on Lake Superior before its wreck. Survivors and relatives, including Capt. MacPherson and Mrs MacPherson, reported the mirage twice near sundown, heightening superstitions about the Garganna Harbor light keeper’s family.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Reliance
Lake Superior
MacPherson
Phonom
Charles Myron
Garguanna Harbor
Midnight Mass Broadcast From Duluth Cathedral Sets World Record
The Duluth Herald Cyceum Kelly station WJAP aired the Christmas Midnight Mass from Sacred Heart Cathedral in Duluth. Bishop John T. McNicholas delivered the sermon as Helmer’s Orchestra and cathedral choir provided music. This marked a historic broadcast of a Catholic service worldwide, with two cathedral broadcasting sets and reception across Gogebic Range radios and programs from Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Davenport, Pittsburgh, Davenport, and Minneapolis, plus remarks by Coolidge Weeks and Denby.
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Duluth
Theressa Lynn
McNicholas
Toft
City Electric and Plumbing Shop
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnatii
S. T. Bonino’s
Father 'Y Connor
Old Cathedral
Davenport
Pittsburg
Minneapolis
Calvin Coolidge
Weeks
Denby
Your Town Needs Your Personal Support and Action
Are you at the cross roads of duty and neglect and will you choose to help develop your community. Citizens are urged to invest locally and boost real estate farm values by buying there and offering moral and financial backing to local business and opportunities. The message stresses cooperation, personal interest, and active participation to honor and respect the town.
Eleven Men Murdered in Maplehurst Disaster Spark Debate
The Kewenaw Miner blames the coal strike for the Maplehurst tragedy near the Canal, arguing failure to move coal in season left a small boat on Lake Superior in winter, endangering eleven workers. It equates strike leaders, operators, and workers with murder. A New York carpenter offers to build a keyhouse for six dollars.
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Maplehurst
Lake Superior
Keweenaw
New York
Purebred Holstein Bull Added to Ironwood Dairy Herd
Aldrich Mikola of Ironwood buys Hengerveld Butter Boy Allegan, a registered Holstein bull, from T. J. Voyce. The animal has strong lineage with a granddam yielding 1050 pounds of butterfat in a year. Sired by a 380 hs bull now with Robin Carr Stock Farm. $2,000 was refused. Mikola advances his herd with this progressive purchase.
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Aldrich Mikola
Ironwood
Allegan
T. J. Voyce
Robin Carr
Fowlerville
Livingston County
Michigan
Mikola
Arbuckle Motion Picture Comeback Debated
Fatty Arbuckle has been reinstated in the film industry and may return, according to reports from Los Angeles. Will Hays and producers say Arbuckle’s comeback depends on the American people, while others contend public sentiment will largely decide his fate.
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Fatty" Arbuckle
Los Angeles
Arbuckle
Will Hays
Arbuckle’s Comeback Questioned by Mining Gazette Editorial
The Mining Gazette questions if audiences can enjoy Fatty Arbuckle onscreen after his acquittal and a lingering scandal. It notes his faded popularity, asks whether memory can be silenced, and urges readers to consider community interests and better buying through the paper’s advertising columns.
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Arbuckle
Fatty
Mining Gazette
Dairy meeting scheduled in Gogebic County
A series of meetings organized by the Michigan Agricultural College extension and the Upper Peninsula Development Bureau aims to boost dairy cows as a key Upper Michigan asset. Sessions are set for February 14 in Ironwood, February 17 in Escanaba, and February 16 in Sault Ste. Marie with notable speakers including Prof. O. E. Reed and A. G. Kettunen. Topics cover dairy as a business, calf clubs, land clearing, and financing.
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Upper Michigan
Michigan Agricultural College Extension Department
Upper Peninsula Development Bureau
Ironwood
Escanaba
Sault Ste. Marie
Marquette
Peninsula
Soo
Choppewa County
Prof
O. EF. Reed
The
Michigan Agricultural College
A. G. Kettunen
Larry F. Livingston
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Roosevelt Highway Association
Portland
Maine
Oregon
New Hampshire
Vermont
Ontario
Lower Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Washington
Gogebic County
Tron County
Wis
Hurley
Fatty” Arbuckle
A. J. Glover
Dair
Fort Atkinson
Particiy
Forest
Langladeeo
Price County
L. S. Rice
R. FP. Hasbro
Fedoral
Stetsons
Crushers
Wakefield Store Co
IRC
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