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...also a geographer. Last year comprehensive Mr. Osborn lodged a geographic complaint with the Census Bureau, whose chore it is to compute the areas of States and Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave in to its distinguished pest. Result: Michigan went up from 22nd to eighth place among the States, became "the biggest State east of the Mississippi River...
...instead of going to school. He went through Robinson's Complete Arithmetic by himself, read Tennyson. Wordsworth, Shakespeare and Horatio Alger, began to teach in a country school at 17. Three years later he went to high school, finished it in a year, then got a degree from Huron College in two and a half years...
...extinct. Still one of the most popular of lecturers, he estimates "I'll probably average a talk a day over the next year." These include the ten or twelve sermons he will preach in Boston, New York and New Haven churches, the 13 he will preach in the Huron City Church near his Michigan summer home...
Bridge Dedication (Sat. 12:30 p.m. CBS). Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn, Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy jointly dedicate the new Port Huron International Bridge linking Michigan with Ontario...
...automobiles for the use of delegates, called on Henry Ford to reject the Supreme Order of the German Eagle awarded him by Hitler's Reich last fortnight on his 75th birthday. (Same day, Mr. Ford & wife sailed on a lake freighter for a month at his Huron Mountain estate near Marquette, Mich...