The Old Times Michigan

  This article is about check fraud from The National Bank of Mouth. When you write a check from that bank, you sure as hell better make sure your ass can cash it. Mean Joe Greening learned a valuable lesson in an article from February of 1909 from The Detroit Times.  PIGMY WORSTS GIANT IN FIGHT Joseph Greening, No. 94 Mott-ave., as he gave his address to the police, and Arthur Morris, a waiter, rooming at No. 162 Congress-st, east, were principals in a bloody "scrap" in Smith's restaurant at No. 111 Bates-st., about 1:20 o'clock, Tuesday morning. Greening is a big strapping fellow and Morris a frail young chap in comparison, but when it was all over, the giant went to St. Mary's hospital for repairs while the pigmy was locked up in central station on a charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm. Morris was released later, however, when word came from the hospital that Greening's injuries were not serious, and it is doubtful whether any prosecution

 Here I've got a quick article all from Jan.  30th 1909. The subject matter of this article is nothing to laugh at, but there is some humor in the horrors that existed in the world in 1909.  DEATH ENTERS WHERE POVERTY PREVAILED MUSKEGON, Mich., Jan. 30,- Mrs. Samuel Huston, of Ferry, Oceana county, and her two children are dead from typhoid fever. The family was found living in a one-room hovel. They had nothing to eat and every member of the family was affected with some disease. The father is ill and four other children will have to be sent to a state institution. ____________________________________________ Stroh's Bottled Beer is a modern family 'commodity or rather necessity. It has no rival. It is the standard of purity and flavor. Phone Main 316 for a case. Holy hell, newspaper people, read the room. "You think an entire family being devastated from hunger and illness is cold? Not as cold as a Stroh's Beer!" Perhaps the Huston family was unaware of the