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Morning Star, July 9, 2023, pg. 6 We continue with our theme of "Albion, 100 Years Ago." A reminder: The dates given here are the dates that the topic was published in the Albion Evening Recorder and not necessarily the date that the event happened. July 3, 1923: "Springport, MI. John Banister, a prominent farmer, was killed by lightning at his farm near here Monday afternoon. Mr. Bannister was cutting hay in a field when the storm came up. He started to unharness the team, when a bolt of lightning struck Mr. Bannister and one of the animals, killing both." July 6, 1923. "Asa Taft, age 60 years and formerly a member of the city police force, was killed this afternoon when a brick arch in the basement of the Albion College library, where he was working, fell upon him." July 7, 1923. "The parents of Esther Turner and Anna Thomas of Albion, have engaged Attorney A. F. Cooper, and taken an appeal from an order entered by Judge Hatch in the juvenile court, adjudging the girls, about 14 years of age, delinquents, and sending them to the industrial school at Adrian." July 9, 1923. "If local authorities are able to ascertain just who is destroying property in Victory Park, at the free tourist camp, an arrest or two will result. Someone recently practically tore down one of the ovens erected for use of the tourists." July 11, 1923. "Max Luedemann of this city, aged about 45 years old, and employed as a member of an interurban section crew, was almost instantly killed at 10:30 this morning about 200 yards west of the Bath Mills crossing of the M.U.R. when he accidentally came in contact with the third rail." July 12, 1923. "Mrs. Marjorie Kuhn of Jackson who has been in the Hillsdale County Jail for several weeks charged with the murder of Zelon Lake of Jackson at Jonesville on December 26 last, was bound over to the October term of the Hillsdale circuit court for trial by Justice Miller of Hillsdale." July 18, 1923. "M. Magnotta, proprietor of the White House market, has had an automatic refrigerating machine installed in his establishment on W. Porter St." "George Longmire, colored, pled guilty in the court of Justice Wm. S. Price yesterday to a charge of assault and battery preferred by Lily Riggs, a colored young woman, who claimed that Longmire had slapped her in the face on N. Superior St. Monday evening. Longmire pled guilty and paid a fine of $5 and costs." "Paul Revears, an umbrella mender, who has made Albion his headquarters for the past two or three years, was killed, Ed. Pietkiewicz, 917 Austin Ave., was severely injured, and Tony Kratz, 112 North St. was unhurt when Kratz's auto, a Ford touring car, turned turtle two miles north of the city on the Duck Lake Road Sunday evening at 8:30 pm." July 25, 1923. "At the parlors of Funeral Director J. J. Fisher, on Michigan Ave. Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, Joseph H. Booker of the Lungmotor Corp. of Chicago, will give a public demonstration of the lungmotor which Albion people are invited to witness." "A new elevator company, to take over the present plant of the Albion Farmers Elevator Company in this city, is being organized among the farmers of this vicinity." July 26, 1923. "Erva J. Mallory, local city manager, today received the appointment of acting postmaster of Albion, to succeed Willard R. Noyes, present postmaster, whose term expires Saturday, July 28." "Bolt Company is Doubling Production. Machinery now being installed at the plant of the Albion Bolt Company will make that concern the largest makers of bolts and nuts, exclusively for auto wheels, in the American automotive industry." July 27, 1923. "A marriage license issued to Paul P. Rabakon and Mary A. Zekewicz of Albion, was returned by the latter yesterday to the county clerk at Marshall. She stated she had decided to wait for another year before embarking upon the matrimonial sea." "Miss Mae Steele, 712 N. Eaton St., is confined to her home because of bruises sustained Tuesday when she fell down the cellar steps at her residence. Miss Mary McAuliffe is caring for her." July 30, 1923. "Dr. Samuel Dickie, president of the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, acting for that body, today completed the purchase of the residence property of H. H. Sheldon, corner of E. Porter and S. Berrien Sts for use as a parsonage for the local church."
Next 100 Years Ago article: August 1923 All text copyright, 2026 © all rights reserved Frank Passic | Artwork copyright Maggie LaNoue © 2026
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