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The Saginaw County Club: The Original Clubhouse
“Plans for the proposed club house were presented to the meeting, and the gentlemen in attendance spent some time in looking them over....
kellison71
May 19, 20244 min read
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Jewett School – A One-Room School Becomes a Five-Room Rural School
“This is the Jewett school of Kochville township which was dedicated with appropriate ceremony Friday evening. It is not a new building...
kellison71
May 11, 20244 min read
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Park & Shop-No Sales Pressure
“First in of its kind in northeastern Michigan, the big, new Park and Shop ‘super food market at 2024 North Niagara street – on the west...
kellison71
May 5, 20244 min read
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Mrs. Stephen H. Lyttle-Teacher
“Prominent Teachers Married. Charlotte, July 11. – Miss. Ruth Marshall, teacher in the open air school in Jackson, was married at the...
kellison71
Apr 26, 20244 min read
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Palma Torchia Vescio: A Grocery Store Becomes a Self-Serve Supermarket
“Services will be held Monday for Palma Vescio who with her husband opened a small grocery store with merchandise valued at $337 in the...
kellison71
Apr 21, 20243 min read
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Much Closer Than Six Degrees of Separation: Auguste Rodin and Elizabeth Merrill Ring
“The idea that we’re all connected by just “six degrees”—six other people—is entrenched in our folklore. But Columbia sociologist Duncan...
kellison71
Apr 12, 20246 min read
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The Saginaw Woman’s Club, Garden Department: Flower Shows with a Mission
This week we celebrate a centennial. On April 2, 1924, Saginaw’s City Council designated the peony Saginaw’s Official City Flower....
kellison71
Apr 2, 20246 min read
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Zilwaukee Junior High School – A c. 1972 Recipe From Seventh Grade Home Economics
This week’s recipe is a recreation of a simple, child-friendly recipe learned in a c. 1972 Home Economics class at Zilwaukee Junior High ...
kellison71
Mar 31, 20244 min read
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Mrs. Button's Not Too British Muffins
“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity” -Motto of the Saginaw Woman’s Club Organized in 1892 as the...
kellison71
Mar 23, 20244 min read
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