The Nankin Township Historical Society

Plymouth Mail , September 25, 1908 I'm not sure what this means, presumably cereal, but if you don't buy it the children of the corn are coming for you. Get to Gittins Bros., y'all. OR ELSE.

I found this excellent mini menu from the Fellowcraft Club's First Anniversary Banquet in 1907 today at the Farmington estate sale that I went to yesterday but only made it into the garage. The skull and bones Prost cover won me over. It's vintage age and Detroit connection sealed the deal. Detroit Free Press , May 31, 1908 According to a feature in the Detroit Free Press from the year after this booklet the club was founded in the 1890s and seemingly persisted into the later middle 1940s. On the menu for the first banquet was blue points, celery, olives, fried frog legs, tartar sauce, sliced cucumbers, roast young chicken, brown sweet potatoes, combination salad, Budweiser and cigars. Members listed and those who autographed the menu included B. S. Tomlinson, H. Lelliott, Jas. Thompson, F. O'Hara, E. Schremser, F. van Amburgh, O. Till, Carl Haines, H. Komrofsky, Wm. Votruba, Wm. Maier, Thos. Bowler, Chas. Krejci, L. Motto,  Max Smith, Homer Grenier and Arthur May. A view ...

Detroit Free Press , September 5, 1908 Mrs. Belle Hawley was seemingly always at the cusp at having it all: love, money, health and happiness but couldn't quite get there. She had modest wealth and a marriage to a well-to-do saloon keeper Edward Hawley but couldn't keep him. After dying in a barroom brawl with his brother James, Hawley left nothing to his erstwhile wife. A frequent occupant at the County House along with her sister Mary Glenn she had been let out of the facility a few weeks before her untimely death. Though seemingly afflicted with heart troubles she chose to be healthy over cared for and died from an aortic "aneulism" after ignoring the doctor's office for the comforts of the Continental Hotel at 55 Cadillac Square. She had blamed her sickness on an accidental poisoning but an autopsy said otherwise. She was 45 years old.