The Nankin Township Historical Society

I've always taken an Nietzschean tact (It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.) in regards to sites like Find-A-Grave and posting remembrance cards there that I have found at estate sales or thrift stores. It's somewhat of a duty to the species to do so. This Funeral program was found at the Volunteers of America Thirst Store in Westland, Michigan. Her Find-A-Grave memorial is here .

Her Find-A-Grave memorial .

I'm always quite proud of myself when I discover something in the ephemera world which relates to real-life experience. Being that this remembrance card sat on my kitchen table for who knows how long - and from where it came I remember not - and that it originated from the Lynch family funeral directors in Milford, it plays some significance in both the current and past.  Despite my laissez-faire anarchist leanings, I am well-immersed in the so-called arts without much tarnish to my own soul. The libertine lifestyle doesn't suit me in the least. Free love is a crutch for weak people and a permissive society to me is one on the verge of instantaneous death. Needless to say, such things were not indoctrinated into me by an union-president and stalwart Catholic parents. I thought what I must regardless of what I was taught and told.  To make a very long story short I began reading poesy in the late years of high school and my first poets became my philosophers. Haha. After high s...

Anybody who is bored on a consistent basis is a complete moron. I could easily peruse ephemera for a century straight and not get through an inch of the percentage of interesting documents and books out there remaining in the wild.  This 1938 Home Almanac, like the other 3 almanacs by various makers that I found at a Westland estate a week or two ago, put out by Ford is a work of art. While some take a jaded view of Henry Ford, I take an Atlas Shruggian perspective on the man who probably did more good for mankind in one year than 10 million do-gooders did in their lifetimes. The fact is, we wouldn't have the things we do today technology-wise and in general without such individuals as old Hank.  Yeah, he was a prick to Edsel and said some unsavory things about Jews during the early run of The Dearborn Independent but it doesn't diminish either his accomplishments and innovations nor his massive charity. The man basically rebuilt the village of Inkster single-handedly and lift...

Here is the second piece of corresponding ephemera found in this 1964 booklet 23rd Annual Dental Review of the Detroit District Dental Society , November 22-24, 1964. The most interesting being the longer article which appeared in The Emergency Press from November 5, 1964.  Originally, I wondered if this was an early form of Laura Mundo's newsletter by the same name since the story was about Dearborn but it seemingly dates to a time when workers from both The Detroit News and Free Press were on a protracted strike and three new papers The Detroit Daily Press , The Detroit Bulletin and The Detroit Emergency Press began publishing on July 23, 1964.  Anyway, Pinto was seemingly a Garden City dentist at one point and that places him within the Nankin Township umbrella that I have extended all the way to Detroit and the Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti area and places north and south by whim. Who needs Al Roker when you have Al Kroker on the Emergen Scene?

Dr. Joseph F. Pinto, Garden City dentist, will be among thirty-four dentists from Michigan who will represent dentists from their state at the 105th annual session of the American Dental Association to be held Nov. 8-12 in San Francisco. Dr. Pinto will attend the meeting as an alternate delegate which is expected to draw over 25,000 person associated with the field of dentistry. The Association's session will be held in conjunction with the 52nd annual meetin of the Federation Dentaire Internationale, the profession international organization.

Every few months I get the foolhardy inclination to sort and catalog all of my "holdings" into some semblance of order. While I've done a decent job of doing so in the physical form for the sake of the " newspaper ," it's seemingly a monumental task for any mortal to digitally represent it. As such, I've merely made dents in my task. At least I haven't given up on the endeavor and keep coming back to it. Yesterday, I purchased quite a few Detroit Dental Bulletin publications from the Plymouth estate sale of their former president Joseph F. Pinto who passed away on April 5th of this year. I'm not sure of the demand for such material but it was a 75% blowout at the sale and I hated to see this material get tossed into a trash bin. I will feature corresponding ephemera found in this 1964 booklet in subsequent posts.