Family confrontation on ship leads to engagement reveal
Craven recognizes his daughter Lydia aboard as Mrs. Merrilees announces plans to marry him after a sudden reunion. Lydia questions her status while Mrs. Merrilees contemplates fitting into the family's dynamic, and Tad seeks balance amid the awkward disclosures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Craven
Thaddeus Craven
Lydia
Daddy
Mrs. Merrilees
Betty
Tad
New York
Peter
London
Tad Craven
Miss Craven
Lydia Craven Surprises Father on the Atlantic
On the Alsatia sailing from Liverpool to New York Lydia Craven learns her father Thaddeus Craven is aboard with a plan for a secret marriage. Lydia seeks understanding from Peter Traft, a trusted acquaintance, while revealing her true identity and craving friendship amid the family estrangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia Craven
Lydia
Liverpool
New York
Amelia Beggar
Lucy Carteret
America
Lucy
Quoin
Thaddeus Craven
Questioning Thaddeus Craven’s honesty and motives
The speaker asks whether Thaddeus Craven is an honest man and whether he might plot against Lydia to secure his projects. The tone implies suspicion and possible danger surrounding Craven’s intentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thaddeus Craven
Lydia
Portable garage praised for curb appeal
A suburban dweller defends a portable garage saying it satisfies him and pleases his wife who has had it moved six times because she believes it doesn’t look right from the street.
Michigan draft men to fill guard ranks at Camp Custer
After the 81st 82d and 33d units merge into the 125th and 126th regiments 4 000 to 5 000 men from Camp Custer will be assigned to infantry machine gun and other units with 40 hour weeks over 16 weeks of intensive training at Waco Texas.
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Lansing
Michigan National Guard
Camp Custer
Battle Creek
Hinkley
Volland
Beaudry
Cleary
Signal Corps
Waco
Texas
National Guard of
Michigan
France
Camp
Custer
National Army
Camp Custer Notes on Camp Rules and Injuries
The article records a posted order banning privates from growing crops or fruit at Camp Custer. It notes new building board paper trays in offices, Milwaukee’s rejected recruits, a planned civilian jail on base, and strict no smoking enforcement claimed by a 33d Michigan member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Custer
Camp Custer
Milwaukee
33D
Michigan
Michigan Briefs Cover Fires Fish Refuse Military Training and More
Ann Arbor firemen offer to knit for soldiers. Sault Ste. Marie child dies from a match accident. Grayling reports fish mortality from powder plant refuse in the Au Sable. Lansing residents urged to file food complaints with the Food Admin. Keeler. Petoskey Lumber firm sells Ontonagon holdings and exits logging. Marine City drowning while fetching daughter. Muskegon man searches for missing wife and children since August. Jackson hosts eleventh Eucharistic conference with Detroit diocese. East Tawas forms 20th forest engineers regiment for France. Iron River builds a reinforced concrete boat model. Hastings boy escapes death when car rolls into the Thornapple. Pontiac youths impersonate officials. jail sentence. Jackson warden accepts U.S. Signal Corps post. Menominee man missing after quota departure. Escanaba woman applies for final naturalization. Ann Arbor man not prosecuted for avoiding service after self-inflicted foot wound.
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Anton Jesek
Muskegon
Louis Frard
Milwaukee
Saginaw
Jackson
Detroit
East Tawas
20Th Engineers (Forest) Regiment
United States
France
Iron River
A. 38
Tulloch
Universal Portland Cement Co
Walter Dauzy
Hastings
Maurice Edmonds
J. F. Edmonds
Thornapple River
Pontiac
Harold Griswold
Birmingham
Mack Hunt
George Stephenson
Brice P. Disque
Washington
United States Signal Corps
Menominee
Ubon Rollet Jacobson
Camp Custer
Waukegan
Ill
Escanaba
Delta County
Hilda Webber
Osier
Ann Arbor
Edward W. Hyatt
U. of M
Richmond
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Louis Joseph Vance
Peter Traft
Miss Carteret
Mr. Craven
Traft
England
Martin
Mr. Traft
Gen. Crowder
H. H. Freeman
Kalamazoo
Prescott
Hoover
Freeman
Richard C. Flannigan
Garden Bay
Crooks Mill
Schoolcraft County
Vans Harbor
W. W. Custer
Garden Bay Road
Ann Arbor—City
Red Cross
Sault Ste. Marie
Marian Miller
Bedla Miller
Grayling
Au Sable River
John Baird
Fred L. Keeler
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Boards of Education
Petoskey
A. B. Bliss Lumber Co
Ontonagon County
Upper Peninsula
Marine City
Bell River
H. C. Palmer
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