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Image 4 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), April 8, 1948

There is a photographing machine on a lower floor of Grand Central Station which is a marvel even in this day of mechanical miracles In appearance it resembles the body of a honsom cab You step inside sit insert a qarter in a slot and press a button In just one minute there is delivered to you automatically your photograph already framed For an other nickel a mailing envelope is also furnished The first days of spring have broght a new look to New York Side streets which had been piled high with snow are clean from warm showers Store windows have chang ed from their winter dressing to bright mildweather colors like the clothing of passing pedestrians Cen tral Park has taken on a verdant mantle set with diamondlike lakes And out in the suburbs residents have removed their overcoats too soon done too much raking on their vards have become overheated caught colds and now are taking the modern version of sulphur and mo lasses I recently had occasion to ride the Pere Marquette railrdftd from Grand Rapids Michigan to Chicago and I was much impressed by the dining car service This railroad is owned by the Chesapeake

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Map showing the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, and its connections

Advertising map covering Michigan and vicinity. Shows drainage, cities and towns, railroad land grant, and the railroad network emphasizing the main line. Information on bond sale by Winslow, Lanier & Co., N.Y., on the verso. Under construction by Continental Improvement Company, George W. Cass, President.

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Young Wolverine (Gramd Rapids, Mich.) 1857-18??

qu er o YOUNG WOLVERINE CITY MATTERS wes The Younc WouverineE is for sale at Gro P Sextons News Room in the Post Office Price four cents ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS c We have omitted our Enigmas Charades e in this No but here give the answers to those in the April No Enigma No 10Hay Charade No 10StriKing Con 1stN Con 2dBecause she tries to get rid of her weeds Con 8dBecause he fingers the keys OUR CONTRIBUTORS With this number of our unassuming and we trust not uninteresting sheet will complete its first year We thought that a hasty glance at some of our contributors would not be amiss and so we photograph them for our readers Wayland Morris is the designation chosen by our Mishawaka Ind friend over which or under which as the case may be we haye been favored with many poetic favors The lines My Sisters Grave in the January number and the fine Poem The Pilgrim Fathers in the Febru ary number have been much admired The lat ter Rep says is capital His real name is Fouiuer and he was once a resident of this city Byron M Brown is a young gent

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