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... bank building and under the Arcade . It was also found in digging the west side canal . At many places within the city limits it is found within a foot or two of the surface and has been discovered in all deep wells sunk in the valley ...
... bank building and under the Arcade . It was also found in digging the west side canal . At many places within the city limits it is found within a foot or two of the surface and has been discovered in all deep wells sunk in the valley ...
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... Bank building . At Mr. Powers ' well , in the Arcade , just north of Pearl street , the lime rock was found fourteen feet thick under six or eight feet of drift . These features indicate the southern edge of the forma- tion , as shown ...
... Bank building . At Mr. Powers ' well , in the Arcade , just north of Pearl street , the lime rock was found fourteen feet thick under six or eight feet of drift . These features indicate the southern edge of the forma- tion , as shown ...
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... bank of the river three open- ings have been made to a depth of about six feet . A few brown cubical crystals were found in a limited area . " The best years for crystals were 1888 and 1889. Those were phenomenal years and I was so ...
... bank of the river three open- ings have been made to a depth of about six feet . A few brown cubical crystals were found in a limited area . " The best years for crystals were 1888 and 1889. Those were phenomenal years and I was so ...
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... bank and plowed a new channel to the waters below . Such a theory finds support in the fact that in early days there were appar- ent traces of an ancient bayou along the foot of the hills on the west side beyond the gravel hill which ...
... bank and plowed a new channel to the waters below . Such a theory finds support in the fact that in early days there were appar- ent traces of an ancient bayou along the foot of the hills on the west side beyond the gravel hill which ...
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... bank of the river , were surveyed and platted . Those excavated and examined varied in altitude from two to fifteen and a half feet , and in diameter from ten to one hundred and two feet . All were more or less conical , somewhat ...
... bank of the river , were surveyed and platted . Those excavated and examined varied in altitude from two to fifteen and a half feet , and in diameter from ten to one hundred and two feet . All were more or less conical , somewhat ...
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acres April avenue Ball bank became block Board Bridge street building built burned Canal street Cemetery Charles Charles Shepard charter city of Grand Coldbrook Common Council Company corner Creek Daniel Detroit Division street early Edward elected engine house erected feet fire Frank Fred Fulton street George George W Grand Haven Grand Rapids Grand River Valley Grandville Henry hill Indian Ionia street James January John Joseph Julius Houseman July June Kalamazoo Kent county Lake Lake Michigan land Leonard located loss lots Louis Campau Lucius Lyon Lyon street Mary Medical Michigan miles mill Monroe street mounds organized Ottawa Park Pearl street platted President purchased Railroad Rix Robinson road Robert school house Secretary September settlers Smith Society spring Thomas Thornapple River tion town trade Treasurer trees Turner Valley City Vice-President village west side William Withey
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Page 318 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 315 - Health for such city or village, to consist of not less than three nor more than seven persons, and a competent physician to be the health officer thereof.
Page 35 - Are they here — The dead of other days ? — and did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise i In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer.
Page 156 - Middlesex, shall continue to be a body corporate and politic, under the name of the city of Cambridge; and, as such, shall have, exercise, and enjoy, all the rights, immunities, powers, and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and obligations, now incumbent upon, and appertaining to, said town, as a municipal corporation.
Page 310 - Rapids; and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law, and shall be and are hereby made capable of suing and being sued...
Page 624 - Austin, on the 23rd day of February, 1910, by Allen Bond and William J. Buttfield, plaintiffs, against JL Hume, defendant, to recover the balance due upon an open account for money advanced to defendant, and paid, laid out and expended for his account, and for services rendered and performed...
Page 310 - And that they and their successors may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at their pleasure...
Page 11 - ... one mile, to the southeast corner of said section; thence west along the south line of sections five and six of town six nor,th. range eleven west, two miles to the west line of said town six north, range eleven west; thence...
Page 35 - Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them; - a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon.
Page 208 - NY, and when it became the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York in 1813 he was appointed as its president.