Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only one state are all three represented, Michigan. Michigan even goes a step farther by having a Vassar, and completes the story with the following towns (see Rand McNally World Atlas): McBrides, Romeo, Elsie, Eureka, Waltz, Chase, Halfway, Rapid City, Twining, Blissfield, Climax, Liberty, Alaska, Maybee, Union City, Paines, Kawkawlin, Paw Paw, Richville, Cadillac, Lawrence, Princeton, Champion, Battle Creek, Bad Axe, Onaway, and Farwell...
University of Michigan...
...Stillwater, Minn., 1,415 inmates of the State prison, including men who had never heard a radio before, filed into their auditorium to hear a broadcast supplemented by a wall chart, of a game in which Minnesota's Golden Gophers galloped through Michigan...
...year to a clergyman, and only one can devote ceremonies to a Roman Catholic priest who was a Congressman. To Detroit, last week brought Gabriel Richard Day, the lyoth anniversary of the birth of a Catholic who helped build the city. Under the chairmanship of Catholic Archbishop Edward Mooney, Michigan's Catholic Governor Frank Murphy and Dr. Joseph Anderson Vance of Detroit's First Presbyterian Church, the day was celebrated with high mass, a parade, a banquet, a speech by onetime Governor Chase Salmon Osborn, author of a biography of Father Richard, and a wreath-laying...
Gabriel Richard, a priest of the teaching Sulpician Order, left his native France during the revolution, was sent to Illinois as a missionary, finally settled in Detroit in 1798. Arriving two years after the U. S. had annexed the Michigan territory, Father Richard was a leader of the village of less than 1,000 a year before its first merchant arrived. The priest brought Michigan its first piano, its first organ (whose pipes Indians stole, returned when they suspected the Great Spirit was angry), its first printing press on which he got out the territory's first newspaper...