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Unpublished due to lack of access to microfilm during COVID-19 restrictions We continue with our theme of "Albion, 100 Years Ago." July 6, 1921. "Fire Alarm Results in Booze Raid. The city fire department was called to House No. 22 in the foreign section this morning at 9:35 and as usual City Manager Mallory and Chief of Police Stoddard made the trip to the scene of the supposed conflagration. The job turned out to be one for the officers rather than for the firemen however, for an unusually large whiskey still, in full operation and several gallons of corn whiskey were found and confiscated by the city officials. Paul Marchek is the man said to be responsible for the booze making plant" "A small cyclone passed over a section of Marengo Township Monday afternoon between 3 and 4 o’clock which could be seen from the grandstand oof the fairgrounds in Marshall. A silo was leveled on the George Fountain farm. On the Samuel Bossard farm the silo was blown down." July 7, 1921, pg. 1. "The home of Dr. Washington Gardner, corner of Michigan Avenue and Bidwell Streets, is to become the temporary residence of Dr. J.W. Laird, new president of Albion College. The price was not made public. Possession will b given early in September and possibly before." "After the hearing of a suit brought by George E. Dean vs. L. L. Avery and B. R. Tuxworth for the payment of back rent on the Avery grocery store on S. Superior St., this morning, Justice Walter M. Watson ordered a judgement in favor of Mr. Dean." "Rolfe Powers of Lansing, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Powers of this city, is building a cottage at Duck Lake." "Speros Martinoff, former Albion St. grocer, has started suit in the circuit court at Jackson for %50,000 against the Jackson News for injuries alleged to have been received through the publication of a number of newspaper stories concerning his connection with the fire which partly destroyed the Martin store on Albion St. several months ago, and other matters." July 8, 1921. "Albion Theatres Will Close on Account of Heat. Albion will not have any movies for at least one month. The two local theatres have decided to close their doors on Monday, July 11, and will remain closed until August 15." July 9, 1921. "Sheriff Lucas, Deputies Scott and McCarty and Chief of Police Clyde Stoddard made a search of three houses in the foreign colony and a residence near the coal mine north of the city late yesterday in an effort to local Paul Matechek, wanted for making booze in his rooms in House No. 22, near Albion St." "Chief of Police Clyde Stoddard received notification from the Navy department at Washington today to the effect that William Thomas Mulvaney, a former Albion boy who has been on the U.S. S. Meredith, is classified as a deserter, having been absent from his ship since July 1." "The steep hill at Clough View station [NOTE: 24 Mile Rd. at Michigan Avenue west of Albion] which is the beginning of the Sheridan-Marengo township line road at that point, has been cut down and the earth dumped on the steep embankment which slopes to the MCRR tracks, broadening and making more safe the main east and west highway." "The law in Michigan provides that all automobile drivers when within 500 feet of a public school must have their car under control." July 22, 1921. "It is expected that within the next few days an order will come from officials of the Michigan Central and the New York Central railroad companies, whereby both roads will ue the present Michigan Central depot as a union passenger station." July 27, 1921. "On the East Erie St. Road beginning with the county line and continuing east, a mile of state reward road is being built." Frank Magnotta, who has been conducting the Coney Island restaurant on W. Porter St., has gone out of business and moved fixtures from the restaurant yesterday. He will associate himself with his brother Mike Magnotta in the bottling business."
All text copyright, 2026 © all rights reserved Frank Passic | Artwork copyright Maggie LaNoue © 2026
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