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Free Press Fresh Air Camp at Sylvan Lake

Detroit Free Press , July 17, 1959 Thanks to the snow, its shoveling and the lack of newspaper search results I present you this little photo caption. While the Free Press is mostly an entertainment rag with faulty information and spelling, it did have a decent heart at certain durations of its long existence. Namely to the sick and poor. The Sunbeam Club (c. 1917) was set up for sick children to communicate with other such children through the newspaper. Whereby they would obtain addresses of those who inter ested the reader and they would become pen pals.  The Free Press Fresh Air Camp (c. 1906) was a service that persisted even longer and gave sick children the opportunity to go to a camp for 10 days or so to regain their health. Obviously there was one at Sylvan Lake but the location may have changed over the years. I don't really want to delve into for obvious reasons of time. At one point I started collecting articles from the Sunbeam Club but despite the troves of inform...