Since I'm prone to wandering and never finishing a task at hand and I don't wish to clutter another laptop with a multitudinous crush of newspaper articles I'm going to do mass drops of them for certain subjects that I don't plan to do in-depth research on. The small defunct town of Peters, Michigan is one such subject. An Etsy listing for a general store in the town from the 1890s got me intrigued in it and as with most things I fritter on the edge of the thing and then leave it like the ghost town that it is. Not this time! Henry Kaufman, said proprietor of the store, was also the postmaster and probably other jacks of all trades as most industrious men of small towns seemingly were. One thing we know about him is that he sold DeLand's Cap Sheaf soda pop. As for Peters, Michigan, the Michigan State Gazeteer from 1897 states it as such, "A country postoffice in St. Clair county, 25 miles southwest of Port Huron." Some of the other notable personages of ...