'Cardinal Charlie'
’49 Springsteen’s ad stands out
In going over a bunch of my old Dowagiac Daily News papers, I’ve found a lot of interesting ads. I found quite a few about ...
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Opinion
Not missing the snow
Hey, dude, where’s my snow? This was the first thing I saw on the front page of my Herald-Palladium paper on Dec. 31. I, too, ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:55 pm
Opinion
Fried cakes in a kettle
Here are some more of my old memories of days long ago. I can remember some of the folks who were our friends used to ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 9:54 pm
Opinion
Remember Milnot?
I don’t know for what reason, but sometimes out of a clear blue sky something will come into my mind, like how we used to ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:19 pm
'Cardinal Charlie'
Justus Gage needs plaque
Now here is something for one to ponder. My child-bride wife and I were having a discussion the other day about schools. My wife said ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, December 21, 2011 9:36 pm
Opinion
Elections meant days off
In reading in the paper about the problem that the Galien school is having and the possibility of maybe having to consolidate with maybe Buchanan ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:21 pm
Opinion
2007 city calendar
Recently, a nice lady reader of my column asked me if I would like an old Dowagiac city calendar. Of course, I said yes. It ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, December 7, 2011 11:04 pm
Opinion
Same house for 66 years
Recently my wife and I were talking (yes, she still is my child bride wife). I said, you know what? Since I’ve lived in my ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:58 pm
Opinion
Sid’s chocolate sodas
Some more things from the 1897 and 1918 Daily News: Noland Lewis drug store opened. His soda fountain and sodas were free to women and ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, November 16, 2011 9:09 pm
Opinion
Dowagiac in 1897
Here are some things about what went on in Dowagiac 114 years ago found in some old Daily News papers that were given to me ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, November 9, 2011 8:33 pm
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Pughs do wonderful job
To the editor: Last Sunday afternoon my wife and I went to Beckwith Theatre to see the play “Southern Comforts.” It was performed by just ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, November 3, 2011 12:03 am
Opinion
Cardinal roots on Redbirds
As I was watching the second World Series game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Texas Rangers that was played at St. Louis, of ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, November 3, 2011 12:01 am
Opinion
Cardinal Charlie: Gazette interviews Wagel about plane clipping truck
In last Saturday’s Palladium, there was a picture of a plane crash that happened on Friday on U.S. 131 north of Plainwell.
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, October 6, 2011 12:06 am
Opinion
‘Cardinal Charlie’: Nothing beats Peg’s red applesauce with topping
My wife makes the best applesauce ever. It is a little chunky — just the way I like it. And besides, the cinnamon she uses, ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 11:55 pm
Opinion
‘Cardinal Charlie’: Sunday baseball against the local law back in 1901
Some more on old Dowagiac. 1901: Sunday baseball, which had been started in Dowagiac, came to an abrupt end when Prosecuting Attorney C.M. Eby and ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, September 7, 2011 11:54 pm
Opinion
‘Cardinal Charlie’: Still many Dowagiac homes dating from 1800s
‘Here are some things of interest I found of a lot of those beautiful old Dowagiac homes that many are still standing. At 108 Green ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:58 pm
Opinion
‘Cardinal Charlie’: Visited by one of three Tuskegee airmen from Dogpatch
Not too long ago, I received an e-mail from one of my book readers, who I’ve had some correspondence with in the last few years. ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:43 pm
Opinion
‘Cardinal Charlie’: Push lawn mowers used to be self-propelled
Things of the past in my mind of the good old days, like the way of mowing one’s lawn. No gasoline or electric motor jobs ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:07 pm
Opinion
Cardinal Charlie: Round Oak closed for months during 1897
In the local brevities of the 1897 paper, an ad, try one of Hamel’s Apple Blossoms because it is the flower of cigars.
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:14 am
Opinion
Brave Marcellus lost to Chieftains 108-0 in 1919
1915: March 11, M.V.C. Hart of Dowagiac died on Monday. Mr. Hart formerly owned a large farm out at Volinia and resided there for many ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 11:42 pm
Opinion
‘Cardinal Charlie’: Party line ‘rubbering’ and a faux circus performer
As a boy, our family had no car, so we used “ol’ Shanks mare.” We had to walk when we went to town. Once, our ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, July 27, 2011 9:50 pm
Opinion
‘Cardinal Charlie’: Both of my grandfathers made grain drills
‘I was glad to see where the SMC museum has restored an old Dowagiac grain drill. I haven’t been out to see it yet, but ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:20 pm
Opinion
‘Cardinal Charlie’: Smallpox meant quarantine in 1912
Ray Johnson went to his home in Dowagiac Sunday. His mother was sick at the time and Tuesday the cause was pronounced as smallpox. Ray ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, July 6, 2011 11:16 pm
Opinion
‘Cardinal Charlie’: A mysterious find in a chest dug up by South Bend boys July 4, 1910, at Corey Lake
Here is a good story from 1910. It happened at Corey Lake on July 4 when some boys from South Bend were digging a hole ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, June 29, 2011 8:17 pm
Opinion
Cardinal Charlie: These court actions just in from 1909
Here are some old things I’ve found lately in my reading of years past in Dowagiac.
