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A leisurely Look at Michigan’s stories and traditions from yesterday to yesteryear.

Lansing is Dry!

“Awful Two Year Drouth Hits Ingham County!”

…so read the headline of the April 5, 1910 State Republican. The Republican reported that fifty-two Ingham County saloons would be out of business for at least two years.

Boom and Bust in the U.P.

Read about the railroad that was built but never used.

Toledo, Michigan?

Today, Michigan and Ohio are often rivals in the “world of sports.” It seems silly, though, to imagine Wolverines and Buckeyes engaged in an actual war. Yet, this – or something like it – actually occurred in 1835.