Word: mich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Menominee, Mich., one Prince, 35-pound collie, heard his master, Farmer Methad Dvoracek, screaming in the barn; bounded in, flung himself at a 1,500-pound bull which had Farmer Dvoracek cornered, prostrate and already gored; seized the bull's nose, hung on while being flailed about until a chunk of nose and the bull's ring tore away, leaped for another grip, drove the bull outdoors bellowing, bounded to the kitchen door, barked, led help to Farmer Dvoracek...
...Battle Creek, Mich., the large Angora tomcat of a Mrs. F. C. Philo eyed a man who entered the Philo home as a metre-reader, saw the man seize Mrs. Philo and bear her to the floor, leaped upon the intruder, bit, clawed, screeched, spat, drove him from the house...
...River Rouge, Mich., six bootleggers walked into the office of a Christmas charity committee. Each laid $100 on the table. They said they wanted to buy shoes and rubbers for every child in town that needed them. They said the wanted local ministers to make out a list of the poor children. The ministers hemmed, hawed, spoke of "taints" and "contraband." Only one minister flatly agreed...
Please discontinue the subscription to TIME now addressed to Mr. & Mrs. C. F. Clark, 1935 Burlingame Ave., Detroit, Mich, upon its expiration this month. Although I am nominally at least a Republican, your waste of two or three pages in each issue discussing the favorite colors of Mrs. Coolidge, President Coolidge's colds and indisposition, and such drivel is sickening. Also many of your brilliant ( ?) descriptions of world personages, governmental actions, scientific observations, and the like are evidently written by somebodies or nobodies who are anxious to get in the spotlight by using belittling descriptions, large and unfamiliar words...
...Detroit, Mich...