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Morning Star, December 26, 2025, pg. 7 As we approach the end of 2025 and the start of 2026, I'd like to publicly thank those who helped me with expenses from my history research and writing endeavors via my Go Fund Me page over the past year. Being an historian is like being a musician or an artist: You don't make a living at it but you love what you are doing. So thank you very much to the following persons for their support: Maggie La Noue, Kent Davis, Rob Reed, Sara Russell, Sherry McCune, Karen Yankie, Kraig Phipps, Mitch Lutzke, George Ristow, Karla Solis, Nicholas Vanacker, Brian Isham, Dennis Pewsey, Annabelle Dean, and Sherie Veramay. We continue with our theme of "Albion - 100 Years Ago." January 2, 1926. "Leon A. Sears, Albion's new City Manager, was on the job at the city offices today. He said that the college had not yet chosen his successor as instructor in mathematics and that he would take care of his classes until the close of the present semester in February." January 7, 1926. "Mrs. Ward Swan and infant son have been discharged from the Sheldon Hospital." "The local lumber firm of S. A. Wilder & Son has been awarded the contract for furnishing the interior mill work of finishing lumber for the Parker Inn construction job." January 8, 1926. "The first reservations for rooms for college girls in the Albion College women's dormitory, now being built on Michigan Ave., have come from Rev. F. R. Johnston, who makes the reservations for his daughter Miss Marian and for his brother's daughter, Miss Eileen Johnston who will enter college next September." "Henry Rampy, 17-year-old Albion boy waived examination Thursday afternoon when arraigned before Justice Kate Bromeling on a charge of larceny…It was stated today that an effort would be made to have the boy's mentality examined with a view of possibly of placing him in a state institution." January 9, 1926. "Preliminary announcement of the formal dedication of Albion's Masonic Temple at the NW corner of Center and Clinton Streets, recently purchased by the Masons from the Eagles, was made today." January 12, 1926. "The supply of dog tags and licenses at the office of City Clerk Paul P. Nagle ran out Saturday evening, but Mr. Nagle gave receipts to all who applied." January 14, 1926. "Gay School news: "Our school was not very large Monday, as Elmo Riever, Elson Tanner, Dorothy De Forest, Willis De Forest, and Cleo Cortright, William Cortright, Lorine Cortright, Daniel Boyd, Maxwell Boyd, and Harold Youngs were absent." January 26, 1926. "Thomas Lloyd, who has been at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Harry Parker, Michigan Ave., since last summer, and has attended school here, left the city this morning for Washington, D.C. where he will remain until the coming summer with his father." "In the case of Edith Grundemann of Albion vs. the Rice Creek school board, Judge Dingeman of Detroit denied the motion for a new trial. Miss Grundemann was given damages from the school board." January 29, 1926. Headline: "Dedication of Masonic Temple is Impressive. Grand Lodge Officers Aid In Ceremonies Held Thursday Night." All text copyright, 2026 © all rights reserved Frank Passic | Artwork copyright Maggie LaNoue © 2026
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