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Unpublished due to lack of access to microfilm during COVID-19 restrictions We continue with our theme of "Albion, 100 Years Ago." May 1, 1921. "Body of Paul Steffe Coming From Overseas. Remains of Albion Boy Killed in Action at Juvigny Expected at Hoboken May 7, Burial Will Occur Here With Military Honors, is Expected….Paul Steffe was a member of Company F, 126th Infantry, 32nd Division, and met death in action at Juvigny, near Soissons, France, September 1, 1918." May 4, 1921. "City Manager E. J. Mallory stated today that the owners of the fish houses left along the south edge of the millpond across the road from Riverside Cemetery had best remove their property or the city would take steps to have the small structures removed. They have been there since the ice went out last winter and are an eyesore, distracting very much from the appearance of things in that locality." May 5, 1921. "Night School Promotion is Impressive. To witness the making of an American, as one might say, is a unique experience and it was the experience enjoyed by an audience that taxed the capacity of one of the rooms of the Austin School last evening on the occasion of the night school which has been conducted this past season on the direction of the Board of Education of the city, with Miss Victoria Michniewicz as teacher." May 10, 1921. Demski House Destroyed by Queer Blaze. Fire of mysterious origin destroyed the home of Mrs. Alexander Shelengewich, better known as the Demski residence, at 507 Austin Ave, early today." City Getting Chloride for Use on Roads. City Manager Mallory is making plans to procure a large quantity of calcium chloride for use on city streets as a dust eradicator, and with the cooperation of local residents, it will be possible for any street in the city to have the improvement." May 11, 1921. "Fred Nass, local youth, pled guilty in Justice Wright’s court last evening to the serious charge of resisting an officer and was sentenced to 60 days in the Marshall jail without the alternative of a fine. Nass, it is said, tried to prevent Officer Burt Little form making an arrest in a downtown business place Saturday night, the officer being compelled to use his club on Nass before he would stop his interference." May 16, 1921. "In the juvenile court Saturday, Edward and James McCoy, two colored boys from Albion, were adjudged dependent and neglected and ordered committed to the State Public School at Coldwater by Judge Hatch. Their mother is dead and their father has abandoned them. County Agent Davis took them there Monday." The local colored Knights of Pythias Lodge listened to their annual Thanksgiving sermon yesterday afternoon at the Bethel Baptist Church on Culver St. It was given by R. H. Cable, principal of the West School. After the service the members marched in body from the church to their lodge rooms in the Putnam Block [NOTE: Building SE Corner of S. Superior & W. Erie Sts.]" May 21, 1921: A. B. Smith Drops Dead Late Today. A. B. Smith, aged about 63 years, proprietor of the pop corn and candy stand at the corner of Superior and Porter Sts. on the south side of the Rosenthal store, had a sudden attack of heart failure and dropped dead in his place of business this afternoon about 2:40 pm." May 23, 1921. "Earl Wilson, colored man, pled guilty on Justice Watson’s court this morning to a charge of shooting within the city limits, and paid a fine of $5.00 and costs. "A milk truck made a quick turn around the Superior St.-Michigan Ave silent policeman this morning and threw out an empty bottle which smashed into a thousand pieces." May 24, 1921. "The Duck Lake Resort, owned and operated on the east side of the lake by the Albion-Duck Lake improvement association, will have its annual grand opening Sunday and Monday, and plans are being made for entertaining even larger throngs than visited the pleasant amusement place at least year’s opening. The resort, including the hotel, Duck Inn, the dance pavilion, the bathhouse and boat livery, will be under the management of Mrs. and Mrs. W. H. Trask, who come very highly recommended to the association." May 25, 1991. "Lightning struck the barn on the farm of the Philo Face estate in Eckford Township Tuesday night and set it on fire. Oscar Face, who lives on the farm, was awakened by the clap and discovered the blaze." May 27, 1921. "Workman Attacked on Albion St. George Cisco, a workman at the Gale Manufacturing plant, was attacked by two men this morning about 2 o’clock near the Malleable Iron Company’s core-room on Albion St., as he was returning from work, receiving painful injuries." "Dozen Liquor Warrants Out. As a result of a wholesale raid made in Albion shortly after noon today by state and city officers, warrants were issued for an even dozen alleged violators of the Liquor laws and nine places in the city, including residences and business placed were searched….Several gallons of liquor and some still equipment were gathered in by the officers as the result of their search of suspected places. Three soft drink places in the business section, Bennett’s on W. Porter St., Powell’s on S. Superior St. in the Putnam Block, and Herman Boldt’s on N. Superior St. were searched, by Powell’s was the only place in which any liquor was found."
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