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1914

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1949

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Issues about "Frank" (96 issues)
Steeple Shakers are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXVI December 30, 1949

We like to see farmers get together to eat and talk and discuss the problems of their fields while their wives exchange salad recipes and pumpkin...

4 pages 2 months ago
Cabbages and Kings are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXVI November 11, 1949

own The time has come , the walrus said , to talk of many things , of birds and bees and humming things , and cabbages and kings . So runs the...

4 pages 2 months ago
No , 49 are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXIV June 18, 1948

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR It was many years ago that a Swedish farmer was talking to a busi- nessman in Shelby and said : " I believe that Swift Lathers...

4 pages 2 months ago
Strawberry Searchers are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXIV June 04, 1948

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR On Decoration Day I always try to do a little decorating , like slap- ping on half a gallon of aluminum paint on the side of...

4 pages 2 months ago
Decorated Eggshells are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXIV March 26, 1948

Now that the new Shelby depot has its windows and door in I am reminded of many memories of the old depot which sat almost where this one does only...

4 pages 2 months ago
Irish Ribbons . are ripe in the Land of Mears
March 12, 1948

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Irish Ribbons . Of the beginnings of Mears I know a little , having listened to the remnant of the pioneers who were here 35...

4 pages 2 months ago
Maple Outlets are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXIV, No. 34 March 05, 1948

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR If you like to ride the trains and hound dogs and rub the vapored window panes to see the towns and villages go by , come with...

4 pages 2 months ago
Retired Woodchucks are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXIV February 06, 1948

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Try Orel Burdick for those hard - to - get radio tubes . IIe has over 200 different types in stock at his watch and radio...

4 pages 2 months ago
Glamourized Seeds are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXIII January 09, 1948

as more Go on , Oceana , and do your stuff . Sprinkle your marl beds over your acid soils . Reforest your wind - blown hillsides with spruce to...

4 pages 2 months ago
Permanent Waves are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXIV November 28, 1947

Forest , my son , I see you have been bolting together the two - by - fours for your new work bench at the foot of the cellar stairs . If you would...

4 pages 2 months ago
Peach Puddings are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXIV August 29, 1947

-The school millage election in Mears July 14 was highly irregular in form . Voting was not permitted until a late hour and some of the peo- ple...

4 pages 2 months ago
Potato Flowers are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXIV July 25, 1947

Potato Flowers are ripe in the Land of Mears be When a wise housewife takes her purse and goes to the store to get groceries she does not begin...

4 pages 2 months ago
Calla Lilies are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXIV July 18, 1947

Calla Lilies are ripe in the Land of Mears So still the summer night at twenty minutes after two . I cannot sleep . I will arise . Not a breath...

4 pages 2 months ago
Paper Hatchets are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume CL February 21, 1947

If it be so that Hart is already a city and has been since January 27 by the filing of the certificate of incorporation with the Secretary of State...

4 pages 2 months ago
Cranberry Squeals are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXIII November 22, 1946

We see by the cold west wind that beats with snowy fury against the insecurity of our coal bin window that winter is actually here , notwith-...

4 pages 2 months ago
Forest Trails are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXXIII November 15, 1946

The call of the wilderness takes many men out into the big woods all over northern Michigan now in pursuit of antlers . They sleep in tents or...

4 pages 2 months ago
Cabbage Harvesters are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXX October 29, 1943

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR -To those who have long beaten their heels on the city pavements , the feel of the old sand roads beneath their feet good to...

4 pages about 2 months ago
Madonna Lilies are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXIX July 09, 1943

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Mary Alice Christian Anderson - sounds like Hans Christian Ander- son , the writer of fairy tales - well , Mary Alice still...

4 pages 2 months ago
The Gravy Train is ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXIX June 18, 1943

The Gravy Train The gravy train crew in a certain distant county realizing the great tides of public sentiment were against their conspiracy and...

4 pages 2 months ago
Screen Door Hinges are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXIX June 04, 1943

Clarence Twining has been pampering his stomach lately as it was ailing . He eats lots of milk . - Keith Corliss , the grocer in Mears , says to...

4 pages 2 months ago
Blue Violets are ripe in the Land of Mears
May 14, 1943

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Blue Violets Keith Corliss , the grocer , has shaken the winter dust off his wheel- barrow and is now building a cement patch...

4 pages about 2 months ago
Shuddering Daffodils are ripe in the Land of Mears
April 30, 1943

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR -If you are a farmer , why not grow some sorghum on your farm this year , enough for your family use anyway ? It will grow...

4 pages about 2 months ago
Victory Garden Seeds are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXIX, No. 38 April 09, 1943

Joe Grantz has gone to war and Nathalie Plumhoff will be licking more stamps . - In Golden township Al Urtel was elected supervisor : Bert Bashaw ,...

4 pages about 2 months ago
Parasols and Showers are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXIX, No. 37 April 02, 1943

Why not let the people elect the county highway commissioners ? They couldn't do any worse . It is the people's right . We are the people . Why...

4 pages about 2 months ago
Fish Houses are ripe in the Land of Mears
Volume XXIX, No. 28 January 29, 1943

So Hugh Salisbury . the stake - driving , swamp - wading , town - platting surveyor , sold his farm . Hugh came to Oceana county back in 1887 and...

4 pages about 2 months ago