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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Foundation garment fitters wore white uniforms
Not long ago I read in an old magazine about a lady going to buy a “foundation” garment at the Sears and Roebuck store. I ...
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: What we didn’t know yet in 1935
In reading an article that told of things we who lived in 1935 had never seen back then, seemed to really fit me to a ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 8:57 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Three Tuskegee airmen from Dowagiac
In reading the May 19 Marcellus paper, I saw where the Air Zoo Museum at Kalamazoo on May 21 opened an exhibit, “The Test: The ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, June 2, 2011 7:28 am
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Classes of 1864, 1964 opened schools 100 years apart
1929: Each week the Dowagiac Daily News had a full-page called High School News. This was written and edited by the English Department at DHS. ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:29 am
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Girls felt grown-up wearing their first silk stockings
During a recent reminiscing moment with my child bride wife, she recalled as a girl of 13 or 13 years old she wore her first ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, May 19, 2011 7:37 am
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Cass County lost population between 1880 and 1940
1940: The census says the population of Cass County was 21,922, still under the then “all time high” reached in 1880, which was 22,009. Hard ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:50 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: VE Day ‘extras’ heralded the end of World War II in Europe
May 8, 1945, was VE Day and the Dowagiac Daily News put out some extra editions. One was a special called European Victory Edition, a ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 11:19 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Be sure to pack a map when jelly beaning for the jumbos of Wakarusa, Indiana
Here’s a little ditty that has a bit of humor. A lady friend and a faithful reader of my column asked my wife and I ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:08 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Al Capone tossed Norbert Swierz a quarter, and the terrible conditions in real Stalag 17
Second of two parts Here is some more about Norbert Swierz and his most interesting life. His book starts about his childhood in Chicago. He ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:04 am
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Forging a fast friendship with fellow author Norbert Swierz
First of two parts In one’s waning years isn’t it great to be able to make a wonderful new friend? Well, old Charlie recently had ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Thursday, April 7, 2011 10:28 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Charlie and Murphy share a fondness for popcorn
Recently I made my first visit out to the nice Timbers of Cass County nursing home since I went to the grand opening. I went ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, March 30, 2011 10:00 pm
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Cardinal Charlie: 1915 flour prices drove bread cost beyond a dime
Here are some things I read in a bunch of old Daily News papers that my friend and 1948 classmate Betty Lee Singer brought me:
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:53 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Revolver-toting unruly youths complained about in 1876
Here are a few more things I’ve found in a bunch of old newspapers. “Unruly youths,” April 27, 1876. This complaint appeared i the old ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:49 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Stroke started the writing nearly 500 columns ago
In reading the latest Horizons, when I saw the heading Emergency by Air, my memory went back to Nov. 28, 1988, when I had my ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Wednesday, March 9, 2011 11:26 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Beckwith Theatre could have been saved for $45,000
May 1911: Colby Milling Co. built a fish chute or ladder connecting the Dowagiac Creek and the upper mill pond through the dam at the ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Monday, February 28, 2011 10:43 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Pop some corn and recall worst winter storm in April
Now that I’m an octogenarian, being 81 years of age, I have learned how damn useless I am. I hope I just wear out and ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Monday, February 21, 2011 7:09 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Never count out a cat with nine lives and a microchip
Here’s a story for pet lovers. Recently I received a call from an old classmate, Graham Schadt, who lives in Arlington, Texas. He said he ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Monday, January 31, 2011 8:26 pm
Opinion
‘Cardinal Charlie’: Eva Bower wrote columns for the Daily News in 1985
In an old 1985 Dowagiac Daily News I was reading a column called Senior Circuit with Eva Bower. Like my column, there was a picture ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Monday, January 24, 2011 10:55 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Cardinals can be confused with cedar waxwings
Today I received my magazine Birds to Blooms, which is a thoughtful gift from my good friend and reader of my column, Chauncey Harrison. He ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Monday, January 17, 2011 10:32 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Why doesn’t Dowagiac have a welcome sign?
The other day two of my column readers were here for a visit at the same time. One of them brought a photo album of ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Monday, January 10, 2011 8:51 pm
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‘Cardinal Charlie’: Turn signals not thought of when I started driving
The other day, or should I say night, when the car stopped in front of us, I never saw such a bright array of red ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Monday, January 3, 2011 6:46 pm
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Webb Miller’s cigarette case would be worth fortune
I wonder what ever happened to the cigarette case that was autographed by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Hitler and Mussolini. It was owned by Dowagiac’s ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Monday, December 27, 2010 6:23 pm
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London calling to get clever on the computer
The other day our youngest son was home for a couple of days. He brought his laptop computer and was burning a bunch of discs ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Monday, December 20, 2010 9:45 pm
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Class of 1933 celebrated with a swim at Cable Lake
Here are some things from old Dowagiac papers. 1933: Before an audience of 1,200 people, the senior class of 1933 had their commencement. There were ...
by Cardinal Charlie Gill, Monday, December 13, 2010 6:53 pm
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Little cowpoke wanted to nap with his boots on
My child bride wife back on Labor Day said to me, what’s the big deal? She said she had two big labor days, one in ...
