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Halloween Storefront Admirer, October 1957

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Ann Arbor News, October 22, 1957
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Witch' one do I want? Halloween's around the corner and local stores are filled with the excitement of the ghostly night. On Main St. last night these two youngsters stared raptly at the offerings on the inside (left) and the outside (right).

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1957
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October
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21
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Halloween Candy Selections, October 1957

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Ann Arbor News, October 22, 1957
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Witch' one do I want? Halloween's around the corner and local stores are filled with the excitement of the ghostly night. On Main St. last night these two youngsters stared raptly at the offerings on the inside (left) and the outside (right).

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1957
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October
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21
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Lucille Upham With A University Drama Season Scrapbook, April 1957

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Ann Arbor News, April 27, 1957
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LOOKING AHEAD: Mrs. Lucille Upham, manager of the University Drama Season, scans a scrapbook that has just been started for the 1957 festival of plays that opens with "Lady in the Dark," the first musical comedy production since the group's inception.

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1957
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April
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Laura Brunton - Aviatrix, July 1935

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Ann Arbor News, July 26, 1935
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Favorite in Air Race Sunday: Mrs. F. K. Brunton (above), the first woman to solo at the Ann Arbor municipal airport, is a favorite to win the women's air race Sunday at the American Legion air show at the local field on South State St. road. Mrs. Brunton is shown holding Flipper, her mascot.

Year
1935
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July
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Doritrea, Pride of Dhu Varren Farm

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Ann Arbor News, September 25, 1935
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Quite a Bit of Blue-Ribbon Horse Flesh: The beginnings of a fair-sized silken blanket could be made for Doritrea, shown above, from the blue ribbons which she has won at live stock shows and state fairs for her superiority over all other Percheron mares. Doritrea is, first of all, grand champion of Percherons of Michigan. She was so designated at the Michigan state fairs in Detroit of 1934 and 1935. She was first prize three-year-old at the International live stock exposition in Chicago in 1931. With her colt she won first prize at the 1935 Michigan state fair in the mare-and-foal class. She weighs approximately 1900 pounds and is the queen of the Dhu Varren stables of Edward A. Hunter, near Salem.

Year
1935
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September
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Horses from the Percheron Stable at Dhu Varren Farm, September 1935

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Ann Arbor News, September 25, 1935
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Quite a bit of Blue-Ribbon Horse Flesh: Above is a picture of more than six tons of blue-ribbon horseflesh, seven of the leading members of the Percheron stable of Edward A. Hunter whose Dhu Varren farm is located near Salem. Included in the group are Doritrea (center), grand champion mare of Michigan and winner of international prizes, and the stallion, Koncarvisia (extreme right), winner of first prize at the Michigan state fair this year in the two-year old colt development class. The latter is a coal-black animal.

Year
1935
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September
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24
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Dogs: Dalmations

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Ann Arbor News, September 24, 1935
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Will Appear in Dog Parade: These two spotted Dalmatians, owned by the Golfside Riding Academy, are to be entered in the dog parade which will be held Saturday as a climax to National Dog Week. The Dalmatians are believed to be the only ones of their kind in this section of the country. If you haven't entered your dog in the parade, fill out the coupon in today's Daily News and send it in immediately.

Year
1935
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September
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Chelsea: Cement Plant at Dexter Chelsea Road and Railroad Tracks

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Ann Arbor News, March 18, 1973
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From Our Pictorial Archives: Ann Arbor 1938: Not a battered, fire-blackened medieval castle, but the remains of the old Chelsea Cement Plant on the Dexter-Chelsea Rd. where it is crossed by the Penn Central Railroad tracks. This picture was taken in 1938, about 10 years after the plant near Four Mile Lake was abandoned by the state, which had operated it for some years with prison labor - convicts from Jackson. The McKune Memorial Library in Chelsea filled some gaps in our recollections. The White Portland Cement Co. acquired the land and built the plant in 1904, using manufacturing material from the area. A Jackson bank foreclosed a mortgage on the property in 1909, and Nathan Potter, Jackson and Ann Arbor capitalist, reorganized the company in 1911. The state leased the plant from Potter in 1923. The pile of rubble just north of the road and tracks is barely visible today.

Year
1938
Month
November
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Alfred Drew & His Portable Blacksmith Shop, June 1936

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Ann Arbor News, June 10, 1936
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BLACKSMITHING BY TRAILER: Shown above is Alfred Drew, blacksmith living on a farm between Chelsea and North Lake, who carries his equipment from farm to farm on a trailer, attached to his automobile.

Year
1936
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June
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7
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Cody Farm Home: Textile Road, December 1936

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Ann Arbor News, December 16, 1936
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LANDMARKS FOR MORE THAN CENTURY: These three well kept farmhouses, shown above, located within a radius of one half mile in Pittsfield township, are all more than three quarters of a century old. The farms themselves have been owned and operated by the same family groups for more than 100 years. At the top is the home of Mrs. John Cody, a widow who lives with her two sons, Charles and Grant, on Textile Rd.; in the center the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest D. Sutherland, across the road; and at the bottom the William Harwood home, US-112.

Year
1936
Month
December
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Harwood Farm Home: US-112, December 1936

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Ann Arbor News, December 16, 1936
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LANDMARKS FOR MORE THAN CENTURY: These three well kept farmhouses, shown above, located within a radius of one half mile in Pittsfield township, are all more than three quarters of a century old. The farms themselves have been owned and operated by the same family groups for more than 100 years. At the top is the home of Mrs. John Cody, a widow who lives with her two sons, Charles and Grant, on Textile Rd.; in the center the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest D. Sutherland, across the road; and at the bottom the William Harwood home, US-112.

Year
1936
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December
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11
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Max Spike With His Prize Winning Jersey Cow, September 1936

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Ann Arbor News, September 9, 1936
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SPIKE'S JERSEY WINS AT FREE FAIR - Max Spike is shown above with the Jersey cow which won first prize and grand championship among 4-H entries at the Washtenaw Free Fair and first prize in the Southeastern Michigan Jersey Parish show.

Year
1936
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September
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Morrison Farm Home on Dexter Road, November 1936

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Ann Arbor News, December 2, 1936
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LANDMARK OF DEXTER ROAD: Above are shown the well known Morrison house and barn on Dexter Rd. at Morrison Rd., former home of the Apple King of Michigan, David Henning.

Year
1936
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November
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Arlene Wright, Threshing Farmerette, On The Harold Leverette Farm, July 1936

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Ann Arbor News, July 22, 1936
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MULES RESPOND TO FEMININE TOUCH: A 14-year-old miss, Arlene Wright, is shown above demonstrating to Owen H. Cady, a farmer living near Packard Rd. and US-23 the superiority of the feminine touch in handling mules at threshing time. The scene was photographed on the Harold Leverette farm, Carpenter Rd.

Year
1936
Month
July
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16
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Maier Farm: Corn Damaged by Storm, July 1935

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Ann Arbor News, July 24, 1935
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Storm Levels Washtenaw Grain: Extra days of hard labor will make it possible for David Maier and his son, David, farmers living on West Northfield Church road to salvage most of the oats and corn which the wind and rain storm of last Friday leveled, as shown in the pictures above. However, the Maiers have been tempted to do as many of their neighbors are doing under similar circumstances--touch a match to the tangled masses of their grain fields.

Year
1935
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July
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James W. Finnell & Tall Corn, August 1935

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Ann Arbor News, August 21, 1935
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James W. Finnell, shown above standing alongside a corn field on his farm on the Pleasant lake road eight miles southwest of Ann Arbor, believes he has the tallest stalks in Washtenaw county. Directly at his right are a few stalks more than 13 feet high. Farther in the field are several which measure more than 14 feet.

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1935
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August
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Grain Cutting After Storm: Bolgos

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Ann Arbor News, August 14, 1935
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Rains Play Havoc With Oats Crop: The condition of the oats crop in Washtenaw county is well illustrated by the scene, pictured above, taken Monday on the Bolgos creamery farm, Plymouth road where four men, using a tractor and binder are trying to salvage as much of the crop as possible. Rains of the recent weeks had beaten the uncut grain to the ground. Many farmers are turning their sheep into their oats fields or seeding them to clover, rather than undertaking the well-nigh hopeless task of recovering the grain. The loss of grain in a field such as that shown above runs from one fifth to one half, even when the greatest care is taken, as it was in this instance.

Year
1935
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August
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Arthur Heath Harvests Wheat, August 1935

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Ann Arbor News, August 7, 1935
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Harvesting of wheat on the grand scale, with tractor-drawn "combines" cutting and threshing the grain in a multiple operation, is not confined, as is popularly supposed, to the broad wheat lands of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Each summer, Arthur Heath, farmer living two miles southwest of Milan, harvests his own and some of his neighbors' wheat crops with the combine, pictured above. Horse-drawn wagons are used to haul the sacks of wheat to the barn. That is the only concession to old-fashioned methods of wheat harvesting.

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1935
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August
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Whitmore Lake: Owen Steffe of Whitmore Lake is using Big-Scale Haying Methods to gather in a crop of 125 acres of alfalfa hay on the Huron Valley farms on Whitmore Lake Rd.

Whitmore Lake: Owen Steffe of Whitmore Lake is using Big-Scale Haying Methods to gather in a crop of 125 acres of alfalfa hay on the Huron Valley farms on Whitmore Lake Rd. image
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Ann Arbor News, July 17, 1935
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Steffe Uses Big-Scale Haying Methods: Above are pictured the hay rake and stacker, said by local farm authorities to be the only combination of its kind operating in Michigan, which Owen Steffe of Whitmore Lake is using to gather in a crop of 125 acres of alfalfa hay on the Huron Valley farms on Whitmore Lake Rd. During the season he uses it on a number of farms for which he harvests all the hay grown. This strange combination consists of a huge rake drawn by two horses hitched individually at the two ends and a huge mechanical arm which scoops up a young haystack at one swoop and hoists it up on the growing stack. The crop shown in the picture above is running about two tons to the acre of exceptionally fine hay.

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1935
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July
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Whitmore Lake: Owen Steffe of Whitmore Lake is using Big-Scale Haying Methods to gather in a crop of 125 acres of alfalfa hay on the Huron Valley farms on Whitmore Lake Rd.

Whitmore Lake: Owen Steffe of Whitmore Lake is using Big-Scale Haying Methods to gather in a crop of 125 acres of alfalfa hay on the Huron Valley farms on Whitmore Lake Rd. image
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Ann Arbor News, July 17, 1935
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Steffe Uses Big-Scale Haying Methods: Above are pictured the hay rake and stacker, said by local farm authorities to be the only combination of its kind operating in Michigan, which Owen Steffe of Whitmore Lake is using to gather in a crop of 125 acres of alfalfa hay on the Huron Valley farms on Whitmore Lake Rd. During the season he uses it on a number of farms for which he harvests all the hay grown. This strange combination consists of a huge rake drawn by two horses hitched individually at the two ends and a huge mechanical arm which scoops up a young haystack at one swoop and hoists it up on the growing stack. The crop shown in the picture above is running about two tons to the acre of exceptionally fine hay.

Year
1935
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July
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Saline: Henry Goltz receives a check for his share of $24,000 federal corn-hog benefit payment to Washtenaw County farmers.

Saline: Henry Goltz receives a check for his share of $24,000 federal corn-hog benefit payment to Washtenaw County farmers. image
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Ann Arbor News, April 24, 1935
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Receiving His Corn-Hog Check: One of the 623 Washtenaw County farmers who shared in the distribution of $24,000 in federal corn-hog benefit payments yesterday was Henry Goltz, Saline township, who is shown above. Mr. Goltz is shown receiving his check from C.D. Finkbeiner, county committeeman. In the background is Mark Sweetland, Lodi township committeeman.

Year
1935
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April
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23
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Eldon Pfahler & His Prize Winning Potatoes, October 1941

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Ann Arbor News, October 22, 1941
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COUNTY MAN'S POTATOES WIN STATE SWEEPSTAKES: Eldon Pfahler, who teaches at the Stone school near Ann Arbor, lives with his father Sam Pfahler at 4866 Willow Rd. and plans to adopt farming as his future profession, is shown here with the result of his first venture into farming, an entry of Chippewa potatoes which took first place in its class and sweepstakes cup in the early potato division at the Detroit state fair. The cup and blue ribbon shown beside the potatoes represent Mr. Pfahler's rewards from the Washtenaw county and state fair organizations for his prize winning entries.

Year
1941
Month
October
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