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By ANGELA KELLOGG-HENRY Cleaver Managing Editor In 2021, I wrote an article about a baggage tag from the Johnson House I purchased in an online auction. The brass tag dated from …

By ANGELA KELLOGG-HENRY Cleaver Managing Editor Jon Ringelberg’s new book is a bit different than his half dozen or so other historical works about Clare County. This book is more …

By ANGELA KELLOGG-HENRY Cleaver Managing Editor An online auction site recently featured an antique soot burning bee smoker dated from 1903. The manufacturer was T.F. Bingham of Farwell. …

There are no ‘horseless carriages’ or automobiles in sight. Wagons of all kinds of uses are in the photo if you look closely. The wagon on the right has “laundry” on side. A …

Some may lament that Harrison doesn’t have as many historic or older buildings as other small communities around us. There certainly is, we just need to look closer and do a little research. …

By JULIE BERRY TRAYNOR Cleaver Guest Writer When I graduated from Marion High School I knew what my immediate future held. After a summer job at my aunt’s IGA, I would go to the new …

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