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Wishing the Entire Jewish Community of Bay
City a Happy and Prosperous New Year
J. HARRY NELSON
MAYOR
BAY CITY, MICH.
SEASON'S GREETINGS
People's Commercial & Savings Bank
Capital and Surplus, $1,200,000
OFFICERS
JAMES E. DAVIDSON
JAMES R. WATROUS
GUY II. MOULTIIROI'
JAMES R. TANNER
C. II. COOK
G. II. WATROUS
RANDALL E. GRAVES
President
Vice-Pres. and Cashier
Vice-President
Vice-President
. Assistant Cashier
Assistant Cashier
Assistant Cashier
East Side, Washington Ave.
West Side, Midland Street
BAY CITY, MICH.
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
CHARLES CORYELL, Pres. and Gen. Mgr.
JAMES E. DAVIDSON, Vice-President
CHARLES A. CORYELL, Sec. and Treas.
ROBERT GAGE
COAL COMPANY
Offices: 212 Davidson Bldg.
Phones: 2068, 2300
BAY CITY, MICH.
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
Ted's Gas Station
Phone 2664-J
Third and Jackson
BAY CITY, MICH.
New Year Greetings to All
Saginaw Valley
Construction Company
USED EQUIPMENT
Air Compressors—Portable Saws—Water
Systems and General Contracting
Phone 353
Corner Dean and Vermont SG
BAY CITY, MICH.
A Happy New Year and Best Wishes to All My
Jewish Friends
MARION
Carpet and Rug Cleaning
Linoleum Laying and Cementing
Phone 1751
Tenth and Water Sts.
BAY CITY, MICH.
Best Wishes to All Our Jewish Friends and
Patrons. A Happy and Prosperous New Year
MONKS and TOUSE
GENERAL INSURANCE
Phone 14-15
296.9 Phoenix Bldg.
BAY CITY, MICH.
WE WISH YOU A IIAPPY NEW YEAR
EARL E. LYONS & CO.
A. A. A. GARAGE SERVICE
CAR WASHING AND GREASING, REPAIRING, STORAGE,
WRECKER SERVICE, SUNOCO GASOLINE AND OILS
Saginaw and Fifth
BAY CITY, MICH.
Phone 1759
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
Chet's Trucking Service
Light and Heavy Trucking
AT REASONABLE PRICES
Call 2545 for Prompt Service
307 Ninth St.
Phone 2845—Res. 38.8-J
BAY CITY—A KEY PORT
ON THE GREAT LAKES
SIDNEY FRANKLIN IS MASTER OF
SWORD AND BRUSH
Season's Greetings
An Interview With Jewish Toreador's Mother.
Bay City, Michigan, a strategic shows that crime is negligible. An
lake port, is situated on Saginaw efficient fingerprint system facili-
Bay, an arm of bake Huron, where tates the work of this department.
By THE GIRL WITH A SMILE
The health affairs of the city
the Saginaw River empties into
"Que hombre!" exclaimed 13,000 bullfighting was the only sport,
the bay. Surrounded by a rich and are directed by a board of five, Spaniards at the Madrid arena with the attitude toward it that an
productive farming section and consisting of the mayor, health of- when Sidney Franklin, American American boy has to baseball, not
located in the industrial center of ficer and three physicians.
Jewish matador, mode his debut as one of them would have said, "It's
Municipal Air Port.
the United States, it is a natural
Bay City has completed a mod- a bullfighter in Spain. easy to do," not one of them would
gateway to the west and north-
of H m dreamed
aa,, of himself in the role
"What a man!" re-echoed the hased
west via Milwaukee and Mackinac ern musicipal air port of 175 acres,
and to the east through the Port located just one-half mile south of man of the New York street as he
Huron tunnel, with no congestion the city limits on a 40-foot con- read of the exploits of the first , "You have to he born to it," they
, told him. "There's a special kind
crete highway. It is fully equipped Yankee bullfighter.
of freights.
Originally Bay City was a lum- with a brick and steel administra-
There was one, however, who did , of suple swiftness necessary and
ber manufacturing center second! tion building, permanent hangars not join the shout of the throng. [only a Spaniard can possess it.
to none. This industry, as well as and machine shops and otters full He IN her son and she views with', Sidney did not mind their taunts.
the manufacture of salt, induced a facilities for aero and hydroplanes. mingled feelings the tales of his With a determination and method-
ice! precision, he sought out a lead-
rapid growth in wealth, population The field has been given an A-I glory.
In the front room of a drab ing matador and arranged for les-
and importance. Today as a key rating by the Department of Com-
port of the Great Lakes system, merce and is completely lighted apartment in one of the poorer . sons in bultighting.
Bay City is having a rapid indus- with beacons, flood lights and! sections of Brooklyn, a woman of ' The Jewish boy, city horn and
trial growth along diversified lines boundary and obstruction lightsI50 sat on the edge of a sofa. Her bred, who had perhaps never lie-
with more than a hundred different This airport was a gift to the city, work-knurled hands, interrupted fore seen a bull (unless on a rare
commodities manufactured and made possible through the genet, in the midst of preparations for trip to the country) dared to aim
zlistributed by her people.
osity of local citizens and repre- the Sabbath, rested in her lap. Her at being a matador!
The following are facts about vents an investment or more than 'I eyes tilled with tears as her hus•
After some weeks of training.,
$150,000.
Bay City:
I band, black moustached And vigor- I Sidney went to a ranch where prize ,
I ous, arriving with a fresh batch bulls for the ring were raised.,
Air Mail Service.
Altitude.
600 feet above sea level. Ideal
Because of its airport and itsj of afternoon papers, read the lot- dare he practiced and became wise
climate. Cool summers and mod- willingness to co-operate in every'' est news of Sidney's exploits. "He's in the ways of the bull.
,
erate winters. Normal rainfall.' way in this new means of trans-, the talk of the town," declares Ab-
When he actually made his ap-
portation, Bay City has been made, rani Franklin, retired policeman, pearance in the arena in Mexico
Floods are not known here.
Area.
the northern terminal of the Bay , reading aloud how Sidney slew a city, his friends' surprise was
11.05 square miles of incorpor- City-Chicago and the Bay City-I bull with one sword thrust and, matched only by their chagrin.
ated territory with numerous sub- Cleveland air routes. I for his unusual skill, bravery and For seven years Sidney Frank-,
Air mail posted in Bay City be-, the cape-work, was accorded the lin, whose brothers are a police-
urbs and 17 miles of river front-
fore 4 p. m. reaches Pacific coast, rare privilege of circling the hull man and an accountant, whose sis- '
age.
points
the following afternoon, ring to receive the frenzied plaud- tors are stenographers and a teach-
Automobile Registration.
In 1928 there were 14,400 auto- and is delivered not later than the'[ its of the spectators. Pride flick- er, continues as a matador of Mex- !
morning
of the second day. Air: ers over the mother's face when ico. On a visit home he saw his
mobile licenses issued in Bay City.
mail posted in Bay City before 7 the report points out her son's mother's anxious eyes and said,
Population.
p. m. will reach its destination in bravery. But she shakes her head "mom, for your sake I'll give it
The population of Bay City is New York City on the first city de- and lingers a cablegram:
up." But soon he went hack again !
approximately 54,000, an increase . livery the following morning.
"Don't worry, Mom," it says, to Mexico City. "I can't help it," ,
of 14 per cent over the enumera-
Principal
Industries.
"don't
believe
the
papers.
I'm
all
he
wrote. "I can't give it up. It's ,
l. tion of 1520. According to a
Bay City industries send their right." It had come after reports the only thing I like to do. I could
population survey of the city, the
products
to
every
corner
of
the
that
on
Sunday
in
Lisbon
Sidney
tight
three times a day."
,
characteristics are as follows:
"There is more art to bullfight-
Population . .... ....54,211 civilized world. Among these in• had been gored in the arm and leg
dustries
and
their
products
are
the
by
a
bull,
in
g than being fin artis t" , says Sid-
Males
27,234
Into this brown room with its nay Franklin. Yet, he still paints
Females
26,977 following:
furniture shrouded in faded ere- --chiefly pictures of the arena, of
Housing.
Alcohol,
automobile
bodies, tonne,
the
Girl
with
a
Smile
wan
the bull, of the matador in full re-
Dwellings
11,774 automobile
parts,
automotive
Families
12,542 equipment, automobile tires and admitted. On the walls were galls, twirling his cape.
framed enlargements of family And while the descendants of
Traffic Conditions.
tubes, automobile inlays, awnings,
Perfect. Drive or go where you boilers, boxes and box shooks, groups, a couple in European at- those who drove the Jews from
like, free from congestion. Wide bridges and culverts, cement, con- tire, the man with earlocks. But Spain, cheering his skill and bray-
streets, beautiful drives.
crete vaults, carbonated beverages, the one spot of color in the room cry, /1 Jewish mother sits in
was an unframed oil painting of a Brooklyn and thinks of her son,
City Government.
cement blocks, cranes, coal, canned
The city is under the commis- goods, chicory, cigars, crates chlo- bullfighter flaring his cape before o f the Jews' inherent revulsion to
u
sion-manager form of government. rate of potash, display figures and a bll.
" I s t h at your son?" the Girl with blood, and shakes her head. "Er
k loch a Yid," she says.
A mayor, five commisisoners and fixtures,
fixtures, dredges, drop hammer
asked.
a city manager comprise the offi- boards electric welding machines a Smite
1 Coovrishi.1529,J.T.
"Yes. Ile painted it himself "I
cial family.
' electric transformers, flour, filters,
Public Safety.
fish, granite and marble work, gray the mother replied with just pride •
The city is protected by a well iron, malleable and brass castings,. for it was not the work of an ama-
GREETINGS
organized police department and a gas, hydro-electric power, hard- tour. "You will ask how does a
Jewish boy come to be a bullfight-
completely motorized tire depart- 1 wood flooring, ice cream, ice, lum-l i er.
,
ment consisting of seven station bar, leather goods, marine equip- is Well, he is an artist and that
houses modernly equipped.
men(, mattresses, meat products, [ ' is how he came to be a bullfighter."
retired with his
A review of the work of the po- monuments, molasses, overstaffed, Franklin
Mr.
to the kitchen and Mrs.
lice department for the past year furniture, baking products, paper papers
,
r
ranklin
beginning
her story in
boxes, printing, power shovels,
peanut products, readi-cut houses, the way that Jewish women always
Cream Brand Peanut But-
reed and wicker furniture, rustic I begin a story took me to the win-
GREETINGS
dow. That's where Sidney was
furniture, steel castings, sugar,,
ter. Famous Salted
h
t
r;Lrfi
.
x
Right
on
this
block.
Tvven-
The State Savings Bank of salt, show cases, sash, doors and,
Peanuts
„ 1 y ears ago. July 11th was
interior finish, steel and wood pipe,'
Essexville
stone block machinery, tents, tires his birthday.”
We went back to our seats. "He'
and
tubes,
textiles
thread
millers,
Michigan
trainers and camping outfits, ve• was always a lively fellow and he ,
Third and Water Streets
I
neer products, whisk brooms and, loved excitement. Whatever it :
W. I'. KAVANAUGH. President
Phone 926
brushes,
winches
and
capstans,
was,
he
was
always
in
the
midst
01'BERT J. GAFFNEY, Vire•Pree.
wood pulp plaster, wooden boats, of it. Years ago when the Kiddie
LEO J. NAVARRE, Cashier
BAY CITY, MICH.
steel ships and pleasure yachts. Klub had a play he took the part
E. A. HARRIS, Asst. Cashier
si
of a wolf. But how could he be a s.
Education.
Bay City has made wonderful bullfighter?" She shook her head
strides in building new schools for at the inexplicable. "I don't know.'
its children. The new Central When he was a boy he wouldn't
GREETINGS
Greetings
High School, which cost over let you harm a cat. Ile had a
$1,000,000, and the Handy Junior button from the S. P. C. A."
Her eyes fastened on the past,
High School, which cost $750,000,
are second to none in the country i Mrs. Franklin recalled. "Sidney
In addition, there are 34 other I went to public school and to He-
school buildings with a total of I I brew school. Ile went to commer-
cial High School and specialized in
425 teachers.
Representing
Special care is given the deaf art. Then he took a job with a
The Travelers Insurance children, those with retarded men. commercial artist.
LUMBER CO.
"Soon," his mother continued
I tality, and all other cases needing
Co. of Hartford, Conn.
with the understanding that conies
personal attention.
Insurance of All Kinds
A concrete stadium seating 1, of.,grearing four boys and three
10,000, financed by the business , g irls , "he got the wanderlust. It
N. HENRY and M. C. R. R.
' wartime and he wanted to en-
men of the city, ranks among the
1500 CENTER AVE.
list. But he was too young, he
finest in the country.
Phone 2447
The public school system is un- was 16 when he came to see me
Phones 264.265
and said, 'Mom, I want to go to
der the management of a board of Chicago.'
BAY CITY, 511C11.
BAY CITY, MICH.
education of nine members.
"I told him when he went that
Bay City Junior College was es-
the
door
was
always
open
to
him
tablished as a part of the Bay City
school system in July, 1922. It is to come home.
"But he stayed only six months
housed in the new Central High
GREETINGS
School building, where the class in Chicago. He was on the road
GREETINGS
again.
When he came back to New
rooms, laboratories, library, audi-
torium, gymnasium, swimming York he got another job with a
commercial artist. In the same of-
pool and cafeteria are available.
Credits from Bay City Junior fice was a Mexican, also an artist.
College are accepted by the Uni- The Mexican knew no English,
versity of Michigan, Michigan Sidney, who studied Spanish in
State College, state normal schools High School, was the interpreter.
They became friends. But the
and other standard colleges.
There are two public libraries in Mexican soon went home." Mrs.
Best Grade Coal
Bay City: Bay City library, 60,000 Franklin smiled "That was the be-
"Our Business Is Moving" volumes; Sage library, 43,000 vol. ginning of how he became a bull-
fighter. •
umes.
Mrs. Franklin paused, then
Local and Long Distance
went on with her story. The Mex- ,
1311 S. HENRY ST.
COLOGNE MEETING
ican invited Sidney to come to,
Phone 3434
Phone 3458
CONDEMNS RITUAL Mexico City and, of course, Sidney
was keen to go. lie was only 19
MURDER AGITATION then
BAY CITY, MICH.
BAY CITY, MICA.
but he went. In Mexico City
he went to work as a commercial
COLOGNE. — (J. T. A.) — A artist.
mass meeting to protest against
The color of life in Mexico City
the ritual murder agitation con- appealed to the artist in Sidney
Greetings to Our Jewish
ducted in newspapers under the Franklin. This was what he had
Greetings
editorship of Deputy Ley was held been longing for. He had not been
Friends
here under the auspices of the content with New York. Chicago
Central Union of German Citizens had paled.
of the Jewish Faith.
Naturally, being in Mexico City
A large Christian audience was it wan not long before he went to
present. Attempts by the mem-
bullfight with his new friends.
bers of the Anti-Semitic National He watched the matador, heard
Socialist party to prevent the ent / his southern friends praise the ,
of Christians to the meeting-h .11 skill and swiftness of the favorites
was frustrated by the intervention of the arena. Then with the as-
THE STYLE SHOP
Fuel and Masons'
of the police.
surance of a New York boy who
Rabbis Rosenthal and Echel- had been on his own since he was
Supplies
bacher read a statement by the 16, Sidney dared to say carelessly:
Home of Good Clothes for Men
Archbishop of Cologne, condemn- "It's easy to do."
First and Sherman
ing the ritual murder libel.
How they laughed at him, his
Phone 2340
CENTER•SAGINAW STS.
Mexican friends who boasted of
Glass, china and reputation are pure Castilian blood. "Easy to
BAY CITY, MICII.
BAY CITY, MICH.
easily cracked, and never well do:" Why, not one of them, born
mended.—Benjamin Franklin.
and bred in an atmosphere where
'
W. S. Hyatt
Funeral Home
BAY CITY, Mali.
700 N. Monroe
$
Wishing You All a Happy and Prosperous
New Year
+
Weiler Auto Co.
DODGE BROTHERS
SALES AND SERVICE
•
1010 Saginaw St.
Phone 1567
BAY CITY, MICH.
..
-
New Year's Greetings to All Our Jewish
Friends and Patrons
141,.
Clapp Bros.
Dry Cleaners
607 Washington Avenue
Phone 598
BAY CITY, MICH.
MICHAELS AND
PHILLIPS
Greetings of the Season
RECHLI
HARDWARE CO.
BAY CITY'S MOST POPULAR STORES
817-819 Washington Ave.
Johnson St. at Third
1618-1620 Broadway
BATESON
HARRIS
TRUCK AND
STORAGE CO.
Phones 1150, 2650
BROTHERS
Van Poppelen
Brothers
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
DEPENDABLE USED CARS
Phone 1567
ST. LAURENT
BROS., INC.
THE
PLUM AGENCY
Phone 285
Season's Greetings
ROSS &WENTWORTH
MANUFACTURERS OF
LUMBER
Mill Wood for
Walt and
Stan
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
SCHUMANN
KUHLMAN
ELECTRIC
COMPANY
The Cleaner and Dyer
A. F. LEVINE
SONS CO.
Manufacturers of
Since 1893
Phone 402
nos. 1857
1204.14 N. Madison
Phone 2453
BAY CITY, MICH.
BAY CITY, MICH.
BAY CITY, MICA.
766 SOUTH HENRY STREET
THE KOLAT NASH MOTORS, INC.
Phone 3081
We Wish You All a Happy and Prosperous
New Year
Northern Automotive
Supply Company
H. 84 M. COAL
AND CARTAGE
COMPANY
911 North Water St.
is
Ge
COAL AND COKE
307 WOODSIDE AVENUE
Phone 128
Essexville, Michigan
rel
612-813 Adams Street
BAY CITY, MICH.
Phone 1428
BAY CITY, MICH.
Greetings
Rosh Hashonah
Sleepwell Brand
Mattresses, Box Springs,
Pillows and Bedsprings
BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR
Sale
27th and Water Sts
SEASON'S GREETINGS
THE ARCADIA
REAL CANDY
315 CENTER AVE., BAY CITY, MICH.
Phone 2822
BAY CITY, MICH.
at
Our Best Wishes Are With You for the Ensuing
Year-5690 (1929)
Garber Buick Co.
Buick and Marquette
First and Washington Avenues
BAY CITY, MICH.
Phone 219