The Old Times Michigan

 This story is from the Monitor Leader, which was a Mt. Clemens based newspaper. This story comes from December 11th, 1945 . It took place in a little town called Van Dyke, which is now Warren. Here's some information that I stole from Wikipedia: Van Dyke was a community along the northern boundary of Detroit, Michigan, near Van Dyke Avenue and 9 Mile Road. The town was named for Van Dyke Avenue, which was named for James Van Dyke, Mayor of Detroit in 1847. This was in the southern end of what was then Warren Township, Macomb County, Michigan. The Van Dyke Post Office operated from 1925 until 1957. The town of Van Dyke was platted by Walter Piper in 1917 and its streets named for autos being manufactured at the time. Street names (still in existence) include Packard, Hudson, Marmon, Ford, Dodge, Paige, Republic, Federal, Hupp, Maxwell, Cadillac, Studebaker, Chalmers and Automobile. The two main auto engine manufacturers of the time-Continental and Lozier, also got street names. It

It was April 23, 1908  and there was a lot of what seems to be normal news in the paper. Things like the escapades of the rich and famous, stories of people being mangled by trains, and snippets about suicides. Also, Mayor Thompson proclaimed Friday as clean-up day, and you now have to get up off your ass and clean your yard. And then you have this story here where a "pretty young woman on the eastside" scores a win for the 20th century feminist movement.  Before the article a bit of 1900's terminology may need to be explained. A "masher" was a classy gentleman of the time who engaged in just tiny bit of sexual harassment in public. It got so bad as to where women began wearing large hat pins in their hat and would pull them out and threaten to stab these boneheads (a term developed at this time).  Mashers need expect no sympathy from Police Justice Stein, as Kenneth McLennin, who was before the court Thursday morning, can testify. McLennin, according to the tes

Today's post is going to feature two stories from the same month of January in 1908. Coincidentally there were 2 deaths from drinking "carbolic acid". Carbolic Acid:  A very poisonous chemical substance made from tar and also found in some plants and essential oils (scented liquid taken from plants). Carbolic acid is used to make plastics, nylon, epoxy, medicines, and to kill germs. Also called phenol. I couldn't find what the they these people would be doing with this acid.  Also before we start talking about John Krecha , I want to briefly mention the article juxtaposed next to it. "MINISTER FALLS INTO WATER IN BAPTISTRY", which is 3 paragraphs long. " In Immersing an unusually large person, be slipped slightly and received quite a drenching, so much so that he was obliged to secure one of the parishioner's automobiles, go hastily to his hotel change his clothing." This was like dictation to a YouTube video in the early 20th century. It's

 It was January 25th of 1908 and there were a lot leg-based news going on. A policeman shot a fleeing youth in the leg for tagging obscenities on a wall, proving that history repeats itself in a beautiful violent circle. George Ruppan, local ice-cutter, had his leg "crushed off" on the river while cutting ice. Also, Mrs. Elizabeth Halsted burned to death in her home. But enough with the fun stuff. A regular Jesse James gang was rounded up in the juvenile court Saturday morning, when Walter Czarnecki, Walter Ruszkiwicz, Stanislaus Kakonski, John Jablonski and Albert Kenzinski were before Judge Rohnert. The boys, who range in age from 12 to 15 years, live in the vicinity of St. Aubin and Kirby-aves., and from their admissions it is learned, they have become a terror to the small boys living in that section of the city. Stealing coal from the railroads or teasing peddlers was too tame for these boys, so they stole a revolver and became, hold-up artists of the dime novel sort.

I t was January 18th of 1908 , the temperature was in the 30s, and there were plenty of goings-on in the news. It seems there were plenty of murder cases, bank fraud, sick celebrities, and a mention of improved health from the Pope. But the real news was John Jurczyk's Scotch collie, simply referred to as "the dog". But for the intelligence of a Scotch. collie dog, owned by Joseph Jurczyk, of No. 1155 Chene-st., Jurezyk, his wife and three children would un-doubtedly have lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the confectionery store of John Slock, at 12:30 Saturday morning. Jurczyks lived in rooms over the store, The first intimation they had of danger was when the dog bounded into the sleeping room and literally dragged his master from the bed. The dog had been locked in the kitchen for the night, and access to the other part of the house was barred. by a sewing machine. In his efforts to awaken the family the dog had pushed the machine to one side and opened the d