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Goes To Detroit

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
January
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Ypsllanti is ii(]v plodding along without a mayor and President of the Couneil SI. B. Schatter is re.illy holding the reina oí the city in his band, The cause of tliis is tli.n the lirm of Harding & Snaefer has recently p:n-ehased the business of the Detroit Branca of the Overman Wheel cojnpany, the manufacturéis of the Victor bieycle. The deal was made sonie few days before the eompa-.iy failed aml Sor a time it looked as i'f Harding ,v öhaefer'fi deal wouM f all thrjugh, bat the company go-t everything flxed np and placed on its feet, and on a better loiindatiou than before the failure, so the ïpsilanti gentlemen went on and aequired the business, tikiu possessiou yesterday. Mr. Hai'iling, Ypsilanti's genial mayor, is in charge of the tousiness and will rema in ín Detroit nearly altogetheir while Mr. Shaefer will continue in charge of the haTdwaTe 'business in this city. It is estimated that the Detroit bram-h will sell 1,000 wheels during the coming season, wlïk-h means a business of ?00,000 for the season. It is the distributing point for three or four counties continguoiis to Wayne county. This move on the part of Mr. Harding preelmUs him fi-om running foi re-eleetion unless he takes the Pingroe view of things and the Demócrata will have to cast about this spring for sonie other man 1o lead the paity in the local eleolion this spring.

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Ann Arbor Democrat