Thursday, March 27, 2025

Early Detroit Tiger History

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Charlie Bennett   Prior to 1894, the Detroit Tigers played minor league baseball and were one of the founding members of the West League tha...
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Saturday, March 22, 2025

Detroit's Nineteenth-Century Moonlight Towers

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Newport, Rhode Island introduced the first gas street-lighting in America in 1803. Throughout the nineteenth-century, it was the preferre...
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Friday, February 28, 2025

Little Richard Streicher--Ypsilanti's Depression Era Unsolved Murder

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On the blustery afternoon of March 8, 1935, thirteen-year-old Buck Holt and his eleven-year-old brother Billy followed muskrat tracks i...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Norman "Turkey" Stearnes, Mack Park, and the Detroit Stars

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Norman "Turkey" Stearnes The Negro National League (NNL), America's first successful Black baseball league, was the brainchild...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Diana Lewis--WXYZ-TV's Grande Dame of Detroit Nightly News

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Diana Lewis Thirty-four-year-old Diana Lewis burst onto the local Detroit television news scene when she was chosen to co-anchor the 5:30 pm...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Ypsilanti's Hutchinson House Built with S&H Green Stamp Fortune

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Hutchinson House In 1896, Thomas A. Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson went into the S&H Green Stamp business together. The New York Ti...
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Thursday, February 6, 2025

S&H Green Stamps--Emblem of a Bygone Age

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Sperry and Hutchinson Company were the originators of S&H Green Stamps--as much an American cultural icon as anything. The company ...
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