Grand Haven Daily Tribune Article Index
1896
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Article Subject | Article Description |
Medicine / City Hospital | Proposal for building a Grand Haven hospital |
Shipping / St. Lawrence Seaway | Record of first ship through St. Lawrence to Europe |
Phenomena / Ghosts | Captain Jack sees ghost on Second Street Hill |
Railroads / Ferry | Train cars drop off ferry at Frankfort |
Shipping / tugs | Capt. Jack Cavanaugh to look after repairs of government tug |
Phenomena / lights | Sky reflections of Holland lights and Fruitport blast furnace |
Horseracing / park | Interest in setting up Grand Haven harness racing park |
Railroads / Pennsylvania RR | Pennsylvania Railroad to Grand Haven? 2 articles |
Grand River / Assets | Grand River Assets / Transportation |
Grand River / Transportation | Large population across river has trouble crossing |
Industry / ice harvesting | Harvesting ice around Grand Haven |
Shipping / winter | Description of Grand Haven's winter fleet |
Industry / Match Company | Story of Ruby Match Company |
Ad / William Mieras | William Mieras Ad |
City / Society | Grand Haven is a small city but has metropolitan air |
Crime / Safe Cracking | Grand Haven's only blown safe |
Recreation / coasting | Coasting on Second Street Hill for eight blocks! 2 articles |
Vagrancy / hobos | Bull pen is solution for tramp problem |
Recreation / bicycles | Picture / story on petroleum bicycle |
Lifesaving / Award | Story of bestowing Live Saving Medal |
Recreation / bicycles | Picture / story on express tricycle |
Pier / Beach | Description of shoreline / pier ice as military fortifications |
Napoleon / women | Napoleon's description of ideal woman |
Cemetery / bears | Bear seen near cemetery |
Buildings / New Cutler House | home or hotel? |
Beach / ice | Description of on shoreline to second bar |
Industry / GH Brass and Novelty | Grand Haven Brass and Novelty started |
Firefighting / mascot | Story of Old Joe the fire engine horse |
Lynching / Civil War | Story of Grand Haven builder hung by rebels in 1861/ other old stories |
Storms / hurricane force | 60 mph winds blows down stack at Dake |
Highland Park / bears | Capt. Walker reports bear tracks at Highland Park but no bear |
Railroads / Grand Trunk | Grand Trunk executive visits Grand Haven |
Phenomena / storms | Storm on 10th carried sand to the interior of state - covered snow! |
Life Saving / Supply House | United States Lifesaving Supply House described |
Phenomena / storm ice | Recent storm piled ice 50 feet high at St. Joe / 4' seiche in harbor |
Napoleon / horses | Napoleon's love for horses |
Personalities / Capt. Cobb | Story of Capt. Cobb arriving back from Daytona with sea shells |
Piers / sightseeing | Pier becoming Sunday promenade / 2000 watch ship stuck in ice |
Ads / drawings | Interesting ads and drawings |
Horse Racing / new park | Investors for new harness driving park |
Harbors / appropriations | Muskegon gets harbor appropriations |
Beaver Island | Life on Beaver Island |
Industry / Brass and Novelty | List of donations to Brass and Novelty Company |
Horse Racing / new park | Bicyclists and horsemen should reopen trotting park |
City / Civil War | Grand Haven did not need draft during Civil War |
Recreation / children's games | Grand Haven boys like marbles, peg top and marbles |
Recreation / skating | Skating in big lake near pier |
Lifesaving / Award | Ingor Olsen / medal / Milwaukee pier horror |
Industry / Black Berries | Gathering black berries in the woods was a GH industry |
Piers / construction | Holland piers to be extended |
Railroads / electric | More on Grand Rapids - Grand Haven electric railroad |
Ships / Francis Hinton | Francis Hinton for sale |
Life Saving / hero | Inger Olsen physical description - a hero |
Life Saving / hero | Dan Miller and his gold medal |
Recreation / bicycling | Bicycle built for two - drawing |
Ships / Andrew Johnson | Andrew Johnson painted white |
Railroads / electric | Description of proposed electric railroad route |
Life Saving / Bill Andrea | Bill Andrea, ex Grand Haven sheriff appointed lifesaving chief at Manitou Island |
Railroads / dummy | Highland Park dummy line upgraded |
City / liberty pole | Early Grand Haven had liberty pole and pump on First and Washington |
Life Saving / 11th District | Description of 11th Life Saving district under Robbins |
Life Saving / bicycle | Pentwater Life Saving captain bicycles between stations |
Advertising / billboards | First use of phosphorous paint on billboards |
City / prominent visitors | Few prominent or political men visit Grand Haven |
(Dewey) Hill / cable car | Proposal for cable car to the top of big sand hill |
Sidewalks / proposal | Proposal for Grand Haven sidewalk construction |
Tugs / Crosby | Tug Crosby to be sold / story / Nyack |
Ships / Revenge | Drawing of British flagship Revenge |
Phenomena / house | Peculiar situation of house bordering two wards |
Transportation / horses | 48% decrease in horse use because of street railways and bikes |
Harbors / spilled flour | Barrel of flour falls in channel causing excitement |
Harbor / beach / river | There is 13,000 feet of waterfront at Grand Haven |
Ships / Carlisle/Andrew Johnson | Cutter Carlisle to replace Andrew Johnson |
Medicine / fraud | Money-making scam with medicinal roots |
Horse Racing / new park | Racetrack to be used as County Fairgrounds? |
Ships / Chicora | Spiritualist to locate the wreck of the Chicora |
Highland Park / Dummy Line | Dummy engine and two cars replaced |
Trees / icicles | Gathering icicles from Maple trees |
Phenomena / telescopes | Use of telescope makes one eye stronger than other |
Ships / Lady Elgin | Victim of Lady Elgin wreck in uniform found near GH 36 years ago |
Highland Park / boat | Proposal for a (?) boat off Highland Park this year |
Business / glass company | Dutch glass company looking for GH facility |
Business / broom factory | Machinery for broom factory at depot - 3 articles |
Tugs / Crosby | Tug Crosby sold |
Life Saving / crew list | Crew list for Grand Haven Life Savers this year |
Railroads / electric | Grand Haven - Grand Rapids railroad to be a reality |
Business / broom factory | Broom factory makes first shipment |
Recreation / kites | Kite-flying mania |
Ships / Nyack | Nyack new schedule |
Ships / Stevenson | Stevenson purchased by John DeYoung |
Religion / public prayer | Letter to editor about abolishing prayer in public schools |
Ships / invention | Oversized life ring better than boat - drawing |
Pier / rescue | Man saves poodle at foghorn house |
Pier / use | Sunday visitors at pier |
Shipping / invention | Cable car package express - drawing |
(Dewey) Hill / wildlife | Big flock of geese settle on big sand hill |
Horse Racing / Peach Plains | Story of first big races at Peach Plains Trotting Park |
Harbor / appropriations | Grand Haven to get $20,000 / other harbor appropriations listed |
Horse Racing / Geo. St. Clair | Geo. St. Clair sold to easterners |
Drowning / Spring Lake | Thayer's body found from Christmas drowning |
Industry / fishing | Grand Haven fishermen arrested for nets to small - 4 articles |
Phenomena / court house | 13 woodpeckers die hitting court house |
Industry / fishing | More on fish net story - 2 articles |
Bicycle / invention | Water bicycle - drawing |
Crime / electric chair | Invention of electric chair - drawing |
Lighthouses / Cape Hatteras | Proposed Hatteras lighthouse |
Life Saving / Chicago | Chicago Life Saving crew saves four just as it goes into commission |
Ships / Stevenson | Stevenson grounds at Ludington |
Sports / rowing | Frank Yates of Grand Haven - championship sculler |
Drowning / Spring Lake | Bolthouse body found from Christmas drowning |
Phenomena / tides | Tide every 1/2 hour noticed in channel by bridge tender |
Ships / Stevenson | Stevenson captain accuses life savers of negligence |
Industry / fishing | Fish net story continues |
Recreation / sledding | Big bobsled in New Jersey - drawing |
Sports / baseball | Grand Haven semi-pro ball club organized |
Ships / Stevenson | Stevenson pulled up for repairs |
Tugs / Williams | Capt. Cavanaugh becomes captain of tug Williams |
Ships / Glad Tidings | Famous Great Lakes gospel ship |
Ships / Porcupine | Report of Porcupine lying at the bottom of Spring Lake |
City / sanitation | Letter to editor - Grand Haven should clean up. |
Industry / fishing | Fish net story continues |
Ships / Stevenson | Only 26 of 382 barrels of salt were saved off Stevenson |
Ships / Milwaukee | Milwaukee, the last of the side wheelers leaves Grand Haven |
Transportation / bicycles | Importance of bicycles |
Water Safety / message | Funny water safety message |
Phenomena / clouds | Grand Haven's darkest day today - low, dark clouds |
Drowning / Chicago | Chicago man drowns in molasses |
Phenomena / lightning | Elliot Street lightning prone? |
Ships / Nyack | Nyack enters into service on Grand Haven route 3 articles |
Highland Park / Dummy Line | Before Dummy Line Grand Rapids people knew more about HP than GH people |
Recreation / bicycling | First bicycle in Grand Haven was owned by Joe Kirby |
Bridges / causeway | Causeway over boom to island to be built |
Crime / murder history | Ottawa County sensational murders listed |
Fatality / suicide | Spring Lake woman suicides by hanging |
Life Saving / fishing | 75 LB sturgeon speared by life saving station |
Railroads / bicycle | Unusual 2-man railroad bicycle in town |
Recreation / bicycling | (who column on Grand Haven bicycling ?) |
Recreation / bicycling | Practical bicycle costumes for women - drawing |
Ships / Indian Bill | Indian Bill in town with slabs |
Piers / collision | Atlantic in for repairs after hitting Muskegon pier |
Bridges / Spring Lake | Letter to ed. for free Spring Lake bridge / existing conditions |
Sports / baseball | Story of Ernie Loon, early great Grand Haven baseball player |
Recreation / bicycling | Homemade bicycle - drawings |
Spring Lake / descriptive tour | Extensive article describing a tour of Spring Lake |
Sports / baseball | Climbing trees to see baseball games |
Industry / fishing | Illegal Grand Haven fish nets sold in Milwaukee - proceeds to GH fishermen |
People / Indians | Vanishing local Indians |
Ships / Nyack | Nyack receiving coat of green paint |
Life Saving / Stevenson | Letter to ed. Defending life saving crew at Whitehall |
Piers / dimensions | Measurements of harbors and piers - Grand Haven |
Crime / robbery | Highway robbers caught and jailed |
Military / airships | Dynamite-dropping airship |
Highland Park / property tax | Highland Park resorter sells cottage because of unfair property tax |
Ships / Francis Hinton | Francis Hinton delivers ore to Fruitport furnaces |
Horse Racing / track | Racetrack put back in shape |
Pier / fishing | Many Grand Rapids strangers noticed fishing on pier |
Pier / fishing | Catching tiger bass on pier |
Pier / fishing | Names of fishermen on pier - postmaster |
Military / war dead | List of Grand Haven war dead at Lake Forrest Cemetery |
Phenomena / water level | After southerly winds Spring Lake's water level lowers 6" |
City / map | Map of Grand Haven and port by Ohio RR company in Fostora Times |
Phenomena / cyclone | Cyclone passes through Baker lumber yard |
Crime / jail | Description of Ottawa County Jail - big article |
Fruitport / boom | Fruitport was a boom town in the early 70s |
Religion / Sabbath | Reformed Church responds to desecration of Sabbath |
Harbor / lost valise | Funny story of man who lost valise in Grand Haven channel |
Pier / fatality? | Boy lost on pier while fishing up log |
Ships / Indian Bill | Capt. Bean of Indian Bill hits sailor |
Recreation / bicycling | Huge article on bicycling - history - inventions, etc. |
Harbor / description | Big editorial on Grand Haven harbor |
Highland Park / opening | Wm. Morse Highland Park business to open for season - description |
Industry / fishing | More fishing violations |
Recreation / bicycling | Call for participation in bicycle lantern parade |
Industry / fishing | Fishermen fined again |
Phenomena / pony | Shetland pony with 13 foot tail arrives in GH |
Industry / fishing | Story of Capt. Fisher and his nets |
Ships / Indian Bill | Indian Bill transfers ownership |
Ships / Indian Bill | Capt. Bean of Indian Bill sued for hitting sailor |
Drownings / water safety | Very few drownings around Grand Haven - Grand Haven boys are like fish |
Industry / Sand Mining | Indiana glass manufacturer negotiates for sand dune |
Pier / collision | Schooner strikes pier - slight damage |
Recreation / bicycling | Toledo unicycle - drawing |
Transportation / automobiles | Horseless carriage a novelty in Chicago |
Recreation / bicycling | Grand Haven forms bicycle club |
Recreation / sledding | Capt. Walker has a toboggan slide in front of his place |
Recreation / bicycling | Sidewalk ordinance lifted for Highland Park residents |
Artifacts/ Indians | Indian bones found near Dummy Line tracks by lighthouse |
Phenomena / camels | Camels are the only animals that cannot swim |
Highland Park / property taxes | Highland Park cottages up for sale in protest of property taxes |
Ships / Indian Bill | Capt. Bean in court on assault suit - amusing - 2 articles |
Recreation / bicycling | Boy pedals velocipede down Washington Street |
Ships / Indian Bill | Capt. Bean 'squares off' with Lillie in front of post office |
Ships / Indian Bill | Judge rules against Capt. Bean on assault suit |
Ships / Indian Bill | Bean explains fight with Lillie |
Pier / accident | Bicycle goes off pier - rider saved by fisherman |
Storms / Tornado | Historic tornadoes and cyclones - drawing |
Ships / wakes | Waves in Spring Lake bayous caused by passing boats |
Pier / accident | More on pier/bicycle mishap |
Dummy Line / accident | Man falls from Dummy train at Capt. Walkers |
Life Savers / personnel | Many of the Evanston crew are college students |
Ships / drowning | Man sleep walks off steamer and drowns |
Recreation / bicycles | 5-person bicycle - drawing |
Military / leadership | Bold Cuban general |
Horse Racing / races | Horse races at driving park on July 3-4 |
Ships / Indian Bill | Capt. Bean hauls up Indian Bill for repairs |
Newspapers / ad | Ad: Grand Rapids Press delivered for 12 cents a week |
Fire / Match Factory | Match factory catches on fire |
Aviation / balloon | Balloon ascension at Bee Hive tonight |
Lake / rescue | Dog found alive out in lake - rescued |
Bicycles / invention | First peddle action bicycle ever built 1868 - drawing |
City / sidewalks | Cement walks in GH increasing |
Highland Park / cottages | Only three unoccupied cottages at Highland Park |
Fashion / lapel buttons | Lapel buttons popular "If you love me, grin." |
Invention / perpetual motion | No less than 20 men are working on perpetual motion machine |
Crime / piracy | Free-booters and pirates locked on board Nyack |
City / clean air | Grand Haven has clean air |
Highland Park / pavilion | Highland park pavilion expanded for orchestra |
Highland Park / picnics | Take your lunch basket to Highland Park and enjoy breezes |
Highland Park / Fourth of July | July 4th festivities at pavilion: orchestra, balloon ascension, fireworks |
Highland Park / bicycle use | HP resorters will petition city for bicycle use on Lake St. sidewalk |
Robinson Township / gold | Gold nuggets found in Robinson Township |
Recreation / bicycles | Bicycle path to Holland proposed |
Crime / piracy | 3 of 4 Nyack pirates released |
Life Savers / city service | Life savers adjust letters on court house weather vane |
Horse racing / races | Trotting races postponed |
Recreation / bicycles | Drawing of bicycle torch parade |
Highland Park / bicycle use | Petition for bicycle use on Lake St. sidewalk approved |
City / water pipes | Grand Haven's old wooden water pipes sold |
Highland Park / Fourth of July | Fireworks preparations made for display on small Highland Park pier |
Piers / bicycle safety | Danger of riding bicycles on pier - many do it |
Highland Park / Fourth of July | Good 4th of July at Highland Park |
Ships / Christopher Columbus | Bicycle track installed on deck of whaleback Christopher Columbus |
Highland Park / bicycle use | Pedestrians on Lake St. complain of careless bicyclists |
Toys / balloons | Two dozen toy paper balloons sent up on 4th |
Crime / dog poisoner | Dog poisoner around again |
Lighthouse / personnel | Lewis Bon, assistant lighthouse keeper, services no longer needed |
Life Savers / exhibition | Notice: Life saving exhibition on 9th |
Accident / bicycle | Driver runs bicycle into ditch - fined $40 |
Highland Park / bicycle use | More Lake Ave. bicycle complaints |
Recreation / bicycles | Bicycle paths being built all over state |
Recreation / bicycles | More plans for Grand Haven bicycle path |
Recreation / bicycles | Ladies bicycle club formed |
Shipping / car ferries | Steam barges contracted to carry train cars from GH to Milwaukee |
Publications / Grand Haven | Headlight Flashes being prepared at Grand Haven 2 articles |
Business / fruit basket company | Proposal for fruit basket company at Grand Haven |
Recreation / bicycles | More on bicycle paths |
Gold / panning | Many Robinson farmers are neglecting their crops to look for gold |
Phenomena / lake refraction | Mirage over Lake Michigan shows Wisconsin |
Storms / hurricane winds | Big headline story of 'hurricane' hitting GH |
Storms / tornado | Strange things that happened during St. Louis tornado - drawings |
Fatality / suicide | Drunk's body found under city docks - suicide |
Phenomena / seiche | More on storm and seiches |
Transportation / bicycles | Last day that bicycles can use the walk to Highland Park |
Storm / cleanup | Cleanup from storm |
History / Mill Point / Spring Lake | Some early Mill Point and Spring Lake history |
Phenomena / lake refraction | A mirage was visible over Lake Michigan last Sunday |
Recreation / bicycles | Grand Haven to get bicycle path - complete story - big article |
Highland Park / party | Description of big party at Highland Park |
Recreation / bicycles | Bicycle stands are becoming as important as horse posts |
Entertainment / Wild West show | Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to be at Muskegon Aug. 11 |
Recreation / (Dewey) sand hill | Shooting the chutes on the big sand hill |
Highland Park / city revenues | Highland Park brings in $20,000 per year for Grand Haven |
Crime / Highland Park | Torchlight vandalism at Highland Park pavilion |
Life Savers / exhibition | Life Savers drill at station |
Storms / tornadoes and cyclones | Description of tornadoes and cyclones |
Piers / fishing | John Kooiman gets fine string of black bass at pier |
Gold / mining | More on gold mining in Robinson Township |
Humor / drunk chickens | Chickens got drunk on brandied peaches |
Amusement / tightrope walking | Capt. Walker to stage a tight wire walk on trolley wire |
Life Savers / wreck keepsakes | Life Savers keep name boards of wrecked vessels |
Gold / find | Gold found in Brown County, Indiana - diamonds |
Gold / find | Big gold nuggets found in Bass River |
Transportation / free bridge | More on free bridge |
Delinquency / GH girls | Many Grand Haven girls on the streets at night |
Drowning / Mona Lake | Boy steps into hole in Mona Lake and drowns - can't happen here |
Drowning / Spring lake | Woman's body found in Spring Lake - suicide |
Phenomena / tidal wave (seiche) | There was a tidal wave on west shore of Lake Michigan last night |
Publications / Grand Haven | Headlight Flashes publication coming along splendidly |
Gold / mining | Gold underneath Grand Haven? |
(Dewey) sand hill / view | Great view form top of big sand hill |
Awards / life saving | Grand Haven man has silver lifesaving medal from Dutch government |
Life Savers / Evanston | Evanston life saver swims 4 miles out into Lake Michigan |
Entertainment / street music | Italian with hand organ and monkey on Grand Haven streets today |
Highland Park / street lamps | Highland Park buys up all of Grand Haven's old gas street lamps |
Life Savers / rescue | Life Savers stand on pier hallowing in fog to direct ships into harbor |
Ships / side wheelers | There are still three side wheelers in Goodrich fleet. |
Harbor / fog horn | Ludington to muffle its fog horn |
Recreation / bicycles | Women and bicycles - big article - drawings |
Recreation / bicycles | Grand Haven - Grand Rapids bicycle path ground breaking |
Military / aviation | Airship for war being constructed in Florida for Cuba - drawing |
Entertainment / Wild West Show | Article on Wild West Show |
Fatality / drownings | Four bathers drown at Benton Harbor yesterday |
Weather / storms | Another big wind storm hits Grand Haven |
Phenomena / tidal wave (seiche) | A 15 inch tidal wave was noticed here yesterday |
Horse racing / Geo. St. Clair | Geo. St. Clair sold again |
Recreation / bicycles | There are an estimated 250 bicycles in Grand Haven |
Storm / Wild West Show | Storm blows down tent at Buffalo Bill Wild West Show at Muskegon |
Crime / Highland Park | Highland Park bather robbed |
Highland park / picnic | Description of merchant picnic at park |
Ships / Indian Bill | Capt. Bean misses court appearance because of storm |
Sports / swimming | Swimming races at Highland Park |
Bicycles / races | Bicycle races on Washington Street |
Bicycles / path | Bicycle path completed 6 miles out from Grand Rapids |
Ships / Nellie Johnston | Schooner Nellie Johnston goes aground south of harbor |
Crime / drunk and disorderly | Drunk milkmen causes near riot in downtown Grand Haven |
Entertainment / tightrope walking | The Great Eddy tightrope walker performs at Highland Park |
Crime / drunk and disorderly | Drunk milkmen go to court |
Bicycles / invention | Bicycle skate - drawing |
Entertainment / tightrope walking | More on the tightrope walker The Great Eddy |
Cargo / salvage | Lakeshore residents pick up lumber off beach and build house |
Industry / lumbering | Trees around Rosy Mound cut for lumber |
Highland Park / bicycles | Benefit hop for bicycle path at Highland Park |
Photographs / Baseball | Tribune ball club and mascot 'Old Jake' get pictures taken |
Delinquency | Grand Haven's young 'crooks' |
Bicycles / path | Construction begins on Grand Haven bicycle path |
City / population | Grand Haven population - 5,937 |
Marine life / sea lion | Big sea lion escapes from Chicago |
Mental health / insanity | Crazy lady on Jackson Street |
Bicycles / invention | Bicycle chains and bicycle that flies - drawings |
Highland Park / hunting | NO HUNTING signs posted in Highland Park |
Bicycles / path | Bicycle path constructed to turn on Lake Street |
Business / transient vendors | Problems with transient merchants |
Entertainment / Advertising | Big ad for "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
Life Savers / publication | Excellent article in Grand Rapids Press on Grand Haven Lifesavers |
Entertainment / theater | More on "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
Life Savers / life boat | Grand Haven Life Savers have dangerous time delivering life boat |
People / Vice President | Vice President visits Grand Haven |
Shipwreck / Lady Elgin | Capt. Vandenberg reflects on Lady Elgin wreck |
People / Rix Robinson | Rix Robinson's home to be torn down |
Entertainment / theater | More on "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
Entertainment / theater | More on "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
Sports / football | First football game |
City / history | Series of Grand Haven historical articles announced - past 60 years |
Bicycles / path | 4-ft wide bicycle path to Muskegon to be built |
Highland Park / use | Most Highland Park residents have gone home |
Entertainment / theater | Eastern paper reviews "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
City / financial | Grand Haven has $7000 in it's treasury - good |
Highland Park / use | Departing Highland Park resorters give park yell as their train leaves |
Entertainment / parade | "Uncle Tom's Cabin" parade and tent location |
Shipwrecks / Ironsides | Account of Ironsides tragedy |
City / history | History of Grand Haven article #1 |
Shipwrecks / Ironsides | William Dundas - Grand Haven survivor of Ironsides wreck |
Highland Park / use | "Mayor Jack Walker" only person left at park with cat Anna Marie |
Phenomena / crawling contest | Trans-continental crawling contest - drawing |
Bicycles / invention | Puncture-proof bicycle tire |
Politics / invention | Grand Haven man has magic square to predict presidential election |
City / history | History of Grand Haven article #2 |
Vagrancy / proposal | What to do about tramps' meeting called |
Piers / damage | Part of Capt. Walkers Highland Park pier carried away |
City / artifact | Historical holes on Washington and Water Street recalled |
Recreation / stilts | Grand Haven boys build stilts |
Harbor / shipwrecks | Many old shipwrecks lay about Grand Haven's harbor |
Muskegon / population | Muskegon population is 23,000 |
City / history | 1859 account of Grand Haven |
Wildlife / eagles | A number of eagles have been captured or shot in this county |
Civil War / abolition | Before Civil War this county had a strong abolition movement |
City / history | History of Grand Haven article #3 |
Bicycles / path | Bicycle path to Highland Park is now nice and firm |
Ships / Christopher Columbus | Captain of Christopher Columbus gets license suspended |
Ships / Hinton | Francis Hinton is off the Fruitport route - superstitious circumstances |
Horse racing / Geo. St. Clair | Geo. St. Clair to retire? |
City / history | History of Grand Haven article #4 |
City / electricity | Only one to vote against electricity in 91 was gas company employee |
City / history | Letter of correction to Grand Haven history article |
Harbor / shipwrecks | Slow year for shipwrecks - few storms, deep water |
Railroads / artifact | Train bell removed to regret of Havenites - history - two articles |
Bicycles / use | Overweight bicyclist - drawing |
City / history | History of Grand Haven article #5 - D&M railroad connection |
Horse racing / Geo. St. Clair | Geo. St. Clair still racing |
Ship Captains / death | Capt. Kirby dies |
Bicycles / path | Wagons, cows and horses are ruining new bicycle path |
City / history | History of Grand Haven article #6 |
Bicycles / path | Ordinance against abuse of bicycle path in council |
Recreation / nut gathering | Many small boys in woods gathering beech nuts |
Military / battle | Indian battle on Drummond Island |
Football / game results | Results of inter-city football game |
Business / telephone | Telephone rate war in Muskegon - 2 1/2 cents per call |
Shipwreck / history | Tragic marine disaster of 1861 recalled - fishing smack hit |
Sports / football | Grand Haven High School football team is good |
Highland Park / wildlife | Highland Park is infested with squirrels |
Treasure / gold | Bag of gold found upriver? |
City / sidewalks | Havenites prefer to walk on south side of Washington Street |
City / history | History of Grand Haven article #7 newspaper |
Bicycles / path | Bicycle path protection ordinance |
Highland Park / use | Highland Park is deserted but beautiful |
Ships / car ferry | Ludington car ferry to start |
Entertainment / theater | Description of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company |
Shipwrecks / Antelope | Graphic description of Antelope tragedy in Life Saver's book |
Ships / strandings | Record of vessel strandings last 10 years for Lake Michigan |
City / history | History of Grand Haven article # 8 |
Business / advertising | Photograph clothing ad |
Industry / sand mining | Sand taken from White Lake done for business experiment |
Horse racing / Coopersville | Harness race at Coopersville |
City / leaf burning | Property owners prepare to burn leaves |
Bicycles / invention | See-saw quadricycle - drawing |
Crime / gangs | Gang of burglars in Grand Haven |
Sports / football | Grand Haven High School team to playing big team |
Piers / collision | Pier being repaired from Atlanta collision |
Entertainment / theater | New ad for 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' |
Grand Rapids / toll roads | There are still 8 toll roads leading into Grand Rapids |
Entertainment / theater | Uncle Tom's Cabin' only goes as far south as Louisville |
Crime / burglars | Watch out for burglars |
Entertainment / theater | Reviews of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' |
City / history | History of Grand Haven article # 9 |
Highland Park / crime | Thieves hide out in Highland Park |
Lost Items / money | Capt. Cavanaugh lost an $80 roll of bills near pier |
People / Senator Ferry | Senator Ferry dies - obituary - history |
Sports / football | Grand Haven football team player list - ad |
Racism / advertising | Racist ad for Battle Ax Plug |
City / history | History of Grand Haven article # 10 |
Lost Items / money | Capt. Cavanaugh's money found |
Politics / election | Byron's 'short' visit to Grand Haven |
Politics / election | Byron's 'short visit' explained - no local contributions |
Sports / football | Grand Haven & Muskegon's player lists |
Sports / football | Muskegon football fans arrive - first half report |
Sports / football | Muskegon beats Grand Haven 36-6 |
Business / grain elevator | New grain elevator to be built on site of old one? |
People / poetry | Big poem on Senator Ferry |
City / history | History of Grand Haven article # 11 |
Recreation /"cowboys & Indians" | Boy heads off into woods to kill Indians |
Sports / football | Grand Haven football team listed: Luss, Wierenger, Sanders, Van Toll |
Bicycles / Chasing animals | Chasing dogs, pets on bicycles - drawing |
Ships / Dewey Hill | Soo City runs aground at base of Dewey Hill |
Sports / football | Grand Haven football schedule |
Sports / football | Grand Haven High School football team practicing interference plays |
City / history | Grand Haven history part XII: GH jail |
Harbor / lighthouse | Birthday party for Capt. Davidson at lighthouse |
Sports / football | Old Muskegon/Grand Haven football game recalled |
Theatre / Advertising | Ad for "The Hustler" play - good drawing |
Shipping / Pirates | Nyack pirates to be tried in Grand Rapids this week |
City / history | Grand Haven history part XIII: GH Churches |
Sports / football | Grand Haven football team reinforced |
Ships / Submarines | Article on submarines - drawing |
City / history | Grand Haven history part XIV: Schools |
Sports / football | Grand Haven football manager quits - Whitehall game cancelled |
Shipwrecks / Escanaba | Iron ore ship Escanaba aground at bridge |
Crime / Highland Park | Highland Park cottage burglars to be tried |
Crime / Delinquency | Halloween pranks |
Sports / football | Football score: Grand Haven 0 Muskegon 0 |
Shipwrecks / Escanaba | Escanaba still stuck at bridge |
Nature / phenomena | Stranger insects observed here |
City / history | Grand Haven history part XV: Akeley Institute |
Shipwrecks / Escanaba | Escanaba pulled off bottom |
Theatre / Advertising | Poster ad for Johnson Smiley Play |
Harbor / lighthouse | Another party at lighthouse - wedding anniversary |
Piers / accident | Man falls off south pier after hearing presidential election results |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XV(?) : Schools |
Bicycles / invention | New chainless bicycle - drawing |
Horse racing / invention | Trolley cars for watching horse races invention |
Shipwrecks / Wankesha | Wankesha wrecks off Muskegon - 6 die |
Old story of man delivering $7000 to St. Joe | |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XVI : Akeley Institute |
Crime / Counterfeiting | Counterfeit coins in town - made here |
Crime / Lifesavers | Former Grand Haven life saving crew member arrested in Grand Rapids |
City / history | Grand Haven history part XVII: early snapshots of Grand Haven |
Bicycles / invention | Bicycle built for 20 - drawing |
Sports / football | Advice to football team about handoffs to backs |
Military / invention | Cannon car drawing |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XVIII : Custom houses |
Crime / vandalism | Prosecution of those driving wagons over bicycle paths |
Sports / football | High School football team uses Indian calls |
Sports / football | Football very popular - footballs made from old rags |
Piers/ navigation | Red light on north pier to be discontinued |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XIX : Shipbuilding |
Grand Haven kids are enterprising | |
Shipwrecks / Wisconsin | Two life preservers from Wisconsin wash ashore at Muskegon |
Industry / lumber | First sawmill in area at Nortonville |
Sports / football | Juniors and High School football game today |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XX: Manufacturing |
Rosy Mound / lumbering | Old Rosy to lose all of it's trees |
Harbor / Foghorn | Sounds of foghorn and out going tugs cause sleep problems |
Piers / construction | South Haven pier work |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XXI: Match Company |
City / history | Grand Haven was never a village |
Lifesaving / buoys | Life buoys with lights - drawing |
Highland Park / crime | Highland Park burglars have hearing in Holland |
Industry / steel | Spring Lake Iron Works booming |
Wildlife / pigeons | Old Clarion article: Millions of pigeons |
Theatre / Advertising | Nice ad for Opera House: Herr Carl - violinist |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XXII : Tannery |
Shipwrecks / Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo burns at South Haven - 3 dead |
Industry / fishing | Kenosha great for commercial fishing in the winter |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XXIII : Silas Kilbourn & Co. - lumber wastes |
Lifesaving / personnel | Grand Haven lifesaving crew described |
Sports / football | Grand Haven High Scholl football team has it's picture taken |
Fire fighting | Fire fighting bicycle - drawing |
Treasure | Gold claims at Rothbury |
Wildlife / Eagles | Eagle caught and displayed |
Lifesavers / navigation | Capt. Lysaght exhibits lantern reflector he invented |
Shipping / Crosby | Crosby freight handlers are paid 15 cents per hour |
Piers / Government Pond | Government Pond full of government ships, scows, etc. |
History / Civil War | South before the war described |
Industry / grain | Grand Haven grain elevator to be built - dimensions |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XXIX : Dake Corporation |
Lifesaving / Capt. Andres | Story of Capt. Andres, ex GH marshal / South Manitou Life Savers |
Industry / grain | Big article about Grand Haven grain elevator |
Industry / grain | Ground being prepared for new grain elevator |
Crime / vagrancy | Ingenious way tramps get whiskey |
Harbor / shipping | Winter fleet anchors down s. channel near bridge |
Invention / Dake | One of two recent articles on the Dake search light |
Industry / grain | Henry Smith, ex-congressman, is grain elevator architect |
City / history | Old news article talks about Mary White |
Ships / Pentland | Article on Pentland |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XXV : Mssng. Hancock - greenhouse |
Business / GH Daily News | Letter about editor of Grand Haven Daily News Charles Becklin |
Industry / grain | Remains of old grain elevator cleared |
Shipwrecks / Porcupine | Porcupine timbers raised |
Theatre / Civil War | Ad for "South Before the War" - articles |
Crime / larceny | Extensive burglaries in GH - big article |
Piers / construction | South Haven wants 300 foot pier extension |
Ottawa County / people | Oldest living person of Ottawa County |
Shipwrecks / Porcupine | Spring Lake full of decaying old ships - Porcupine |
City / streets | The naming of Grand Haven streets |
Theatre / advertising | Funny "Great Robbery" ad |
Wildlife / St. Joseph River | Problem with minnows in St. Joseph River |
Shipwrecks / Porcupine | Relics of Porcupine - history - story |
History / Ottawa County | Historical notes of Ottawa County |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XXVI : Cigar manufacturing |
History / Muskegon | Muskegon Chronicle now running stories of pioneer days |
Phenomena / sea monster | Sea monster / lion in Grand River |
Shipwrecks / Porcupine | More on Porcupine |
Sand dunes / Dewey Hill | View from 'big sand hill' |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XXVII : Fishing Industry |
City / history | Stories of olden times - Indians, the beach, etc. |
Sports / football | Football equipment - drawings |
Ships / Nyack | The word 'Transportation' misspelled on Nyack |
Industry / newspapers | Old newspapers are becoming valuable |
City / history | Grand Haven historical articles old and new |
City / streets | Grand Haven's early roadbed on Washington St. |
Fatalities / Suicide | Grand Haven man suicides by hanging |
Military history / Cuba | Holland man goes to Cuba to help insurgents |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XXVIII : American Novelty Co. |
City / promotion | Detroit Free Press article on advantages of Grand Haven |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XXVIII : American Glass Co. |
Robinson Township / history | Robinson Township history article |
Crime / Assault / Rape | Small Grand Haven girl victim of assault and attempted rape |
Crime / drunk & disorderly | Drunken hobos cause trouble |
City / history | Grand Haven History Part XXX : Bonded Warehouse |
Invention / bicycles | Chainless bicycle - drawing |