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Childhood shenanigans in Dowagiac
How many remember when the point after a touchdown was made by a drop-kick, and no one held the ball for the kicker? I’ll never ...
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More childhood memories in Dowagiac
Another thing, back in the 1930s, we also had a window card for putting in the window to tell the Hostess bread truck to stop ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:48 am
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Remembering my childhood
Here are some memories of old Cardinal Charlie’s young years. Those old Burma Shave in the farmers’ fields out on old M-40 South. Also old ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, February 13, 2014 9:44 am
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Cardinal Charlie: Shakespeare, the village that never was
Not many know, but in 1836, the village of Shakespeare was plotted southwest of Dowagiac. It was in an area just northeast of the present ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, February 5, 2014 6:28 pm
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Cardinal Charlie: Clippings from the Dowagiac Daily News
Here are a few things I’ve picked up in some of my old Dowagiac Daily News papers that I was looking at recently. Something I ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:07 am
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Cardinal Charlie: Reflecting on letters from a Civil War soldier
Jim Riley’s diary ended abruptly, for on Monday, June 19th, 1865, troop boat started up the Mississippi River, supposedly to Chicago, Ill., to muster the ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:18 am
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Cardinal Charlie: Letters from a Civil War veteran continue
Shells were fired from Lookout Mountain. Our boys are so weak they can only go a mile before resting. Sherman is here with his army ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 6:32 pm
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Cardinal Charlie: Letters from a Civil War veteran continue
There was a big revival, which began in April and was still going on in June, James said. Lt. Townsend ordered him to clean some ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Friday, January 3, 2014 11:37 am
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Cardinal Charlie: Letters from a civil war veteran, continued
Feb. 21, 1862 We were able to change shirts and the gray-backs (lice) were back after three weeks of no new clothes. March 1 ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, December 18, 2013 6:53 pm
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Cardinal Charlie: Minuteman stood his patriotic ground
The other day, while sitting in my recliner, I looked over at our big, curved-door china closet full of a bit of everything. Lots of ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, August 28, 2013 3:47 pm
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Cardinal Charlie trying spinal cord stimulation for pain
For all of my friends and readers who have missed me, this is why. I’ve been confined for quite some time and have to use ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Friday, August 23, 2013 10:14 am
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Cardinal Charlie: Squirrel comes out the closet for $75
I sure hope my readers don’t have some of the problems like old Charlie has had over the years. I wrote an article several years ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, August 14, 2013 1:48 pm
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Cardinal Charlie writes long letters like in the 1950s
Boy, old Charlie, at age 83, is sure having a lot of trouble these days. I’ve been told I’m living back in the 1950s. I ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, August 7, 2013 4:34 pm
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Cardinal Charlie/remember Snake Dances?
I was talking to a friend and asked him he remembered when we had a “Snake Dance” at the Homecoming football game. We kids all ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, July 25, 2013 9:18 am
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Cardinal Charlie: landlord left us with smaller porch
Recently I read in the paper an article about a lady and her front porch from years ago. This took my mind back to my ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, July 17, 2013 7:07 pm
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Cardinal Charlie/Mae’s Wahoo a portal to Reagan library
I’m sure a lot of my readers can remember Mae Rosemeier, who was a Dowagiac Daily News worker for years. A while back I was ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, July 10, 2013 9:20 pm
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Cardinal Charlie/When boots were galoshes
Here is something I recall of my early school days at Oak Street School. When we got home in the afternoon we had to change ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, July 3, 2013 5:27 pm
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Cardinal Charlie/trash hauler Alfred Falk
I receive all kinds of letters from people who read my weekly column, and I seem to run into folks I don’t know, but know ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:25 pm
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Cardinal Charlie: advertisers of 1901, 1907
In my 1901 DHS class book, called “About Us,” 41 ads were taken out by business people to support the publishing of this book.
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 6:49 pm
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Cardinal Charlie: yearbook name changed annually
Until 1919, yearbook name changed annually When I read the Dear John article where Dave Thomas had questions about the Wahoo, I found out it ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 7:57 pm
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Cardinal Charlie: Scooping soot with a spoon
After seeing a heading in one of my papers the other day, “Spring cleaning,” it brought this 83-year-old mind of mine back to my memory ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, May 29, 2013 7:15 pm
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Cardinal Charlie recalls fire alarm boxes
I’m sure there are a few people around who remember that little old man, “Nicey Day Joe,” and his horse-driven ice cream wagon plying the ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:24 am
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Cardinal Charlie: growing up poor in ’30s
Not too long ago, I read about people in poverty and I said to myself I also was a person in poverty back ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:00 am
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Cardinal Charlie: Going to college in Marion, Ind., in 1902
This is a copy of a local letter given to me that I found quite interesting:
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 8:51 pm
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Cardinal Charlie: Heddon’s Homer Circle passes away at 97
When I read my July 1 South Bend Tribune, I was saddened when I read in Louie Stout’s outdoors column where 97-year-old Homer Circle had ...
