Monday, May 11, 2020

Ghosts of the Twentieth Century...

Plymouth Mail, March 19, 1897
Ghosts of the Twentieth Century...

To all Political, Literary, Dramatic, Artistic and Historic Ghosts, and to the Spirits of Events, Ideas, Customs, and Things belonging to this Century.

FELLOW GHOSTS You are summoned to Penniman Hall, Plymouh, Mich., on Tuesday evening, the 22nd of October, at four hours before midnight. Appear in costume appropriate to the occasion. Old-time apparitions are politely requested to absent themselves.

Assemble at the foot of the stairs and then rise.

Spook march at 9:00 o'clock. Come prepared to participate in the mysteries and rites of HALLOWE'EN.

Lady spooks, free. Gentlemen sppoks are expected to donate 55 cents to this ghostly gathering. Spirit of the Occasion,

Underwood Dancing Academy

Sunday, May 3, 2020

How Detroit Police Solved Baffling Murder of 'Count'

Detroit Free Press, June 30, 1929 (enlarge)
Although he was an auto worker by trade the self-ascribed count Andrew Kaczmarek, a Polish national, was killed for his small fortune as he sought to retire in his native Poland in 1925