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September 11, 1931 - Image 37

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1931-09-11

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PAGE FOUR

TilEY)enzonlionsmPIR011ICIE

May the New Year 5692 be One of
Happiness, Joy and Prosperity to
You and Yours. May it bring all
the rewards of honest endeavor.

New Year's Greetings from Prominent
Merchants of Lansing

LANSING'S BANK TOWER

City National
Bank

Oldest Bank in Lansing

"Sore to Spend"

THE BANK

THAT

SERVICE

BUILT

A Happy and Prosperous New Year

THE EDINGTON RUB CO.

B. C. EDINGTON, Proprietor

Phone 2.2461

LANSING, MICH.

CENTRAL
Service Co.

Better Gasoline, Oils and Fuel Oils

WHOLESALE—RETAIL

LANSING, MICH.

A Happy and Prosperous New Year to All
Our Friends

MICHIGAN
Sheet Metal Works

FLOYD B. HARRINGTON, Pres. & Mgr.

Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors

116 South Larch Street

Phone 2.9411

LANSING, MICH.

Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All Our Jewish
Friends and Patrons

J. W. KNAPP
Company

DEPARTMENT STORE

LANSING, MICHIGAN
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New Year's Greetings to All

CENTRAL WELDING SUPPLY CO.

Contact Pipe Welding—Welding Supplies—Oxygen

214 E. Howard St.

CAPITAL BANK TOWER, LANSING

Phone 2.3631

Acetylene

Phones: 2-0415, Res. 2.8507
LANSING, MICH.

Two hundred bankers from all
parts of the state met in Lansing
in April to attend the unofficial
opening of the Capital Bank
Tower, the highest building in
Michigan outside of Detroit, built
by the Capital National Bank, one
of the most important units of the
Kuardian Detroit Union Group,
Inc.
R. E. Olds, president of the
bank, said: "I have built the Cap-

MANUFACTURE OF CARS
LEADS LANSING FIELD

Industrial establishments are
the backbone of Lansing's pros-
perity.
With scores of manufacturing
plants listed among the city's busi-
ness institution'', the livelihood of
a majority of the city's residents
depends directly or indirectly
upon Lansing's industries.

In periods of normal business
conditions, according to national
statistics submitted to the Cham-
ber of Commerce, approximately
three-fifths of Lansing's salaried
workers are employed directly by

New Year's Greetings t:
All Our Jewish Friends

ROBERT MARTIN

Manufacturer of all kinds of

CEMENT BLOCKS

Fireproof Chimneys, Standard )
Septic Tanks, Granite Block. ■
Specialty

"Build With Concrete Blocks"

1400 East Main Street
Phone 5 - 2933

_ Lansing, Mich.

Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for a Happy and
Prosperous New Year to Our Jewish Friends

Lansing Oldsmobile Co.

Oldsmobile Distributors for Ingham, Eaton and Clinton
Counties

Oldsmobile Sales and Service

315 S. Capitol Ave.

LANSING, MICH.

ital Bank Tower as a monument
which I hope citizens of Lansing
will take a pride in and something
which I sincerely want to reflect
credit upon the city. The new
building is, I hope, an expression
of my faitth in the present and the
future."
The Capital National Bank is
25 years old and has resources ex-
ceeding $13,500,000.

Phone 2-7031

its 18 largest factories and its
scores of smaller plants.
Automobile plants employ more
than 70 per cent of the total num-
ber who work in manufacturing
establishments, Fred A. nutty, in-
dustrial commissioner for the
Ch amb er of Commerce, declares.
Factories and foundries putti ng
out products pOrtaining to the
automotive industry employ close
to 90 per cent of the entire per-
sonnel in manufacturing, accord.
ing to the impartial survey made
by engineers of the Michigan Bell
Telephone Company.

Many Products.
Products made in Lansing are
so numerou s as to be unknown to
many of the city's inhabitants.
Among the chief commodities
made here are automobiles, motor
trucks, radios, aircraft, paint, air-
plane engines, commercial en-
gines, lawn mowers, screws, re-
frigerators, agricultural imple-
ments, automobile and foreign up-
holstery, oil stoves, oil heaters,
cabinet heaters, tools of every de-
scription, store fixtures, pumps,
hoists, metal castings,
metal
stampings, motor car wheels, auto-
motive crankshafts and wheelbar-
rows..

Chief Industries.
Chief industries in the city, with
the largest exponents of each type
ted by the Chamber of Com-
merce are as follows:
Auto and truck plants: Oldsmo-
bile, Rea, Durant, Duplex truck.
Auto bodies: Fisher, Hugh Ly-
ons, Hayes, Durant.
Auto wheels: Motor Wheel.
Auto upholstery: Burton-Dixie
corporation.

Drop forgings: Atlas, Federal,
Lansing, Melling, Lindell.
Metal stampings: Dail
Steel-
Products, Lansing Stamping Corn-
rty, and Hayes Industries.
paIro n, brass and aluminum
cast-
ings: Novo Engine, Capital Cast-
ings, Standard Aluminum Cast-
ings Corporation, Michigan B ass
and Iron Castings, Gerson &
Carey.
Machinery: Ideal Poower Lawn
Mower Company, Novo Engine,
Lansing Company, Eagle
Hoist and'
Pump Company.

Aircraft: Driggs Aircraft Cor-

i poration.

Atro•Engines.
Airplane motors:
Michigan
Areo-Engine.
Store fixtures: Hugh Lyons!
Company.
Tool and due
makers: Capital
Machine and Tool Company, Wil-
sin Machine Works.
Oil heaters: Motol Wheel Cor-
poration, Equator Heating Corn- i
pany.
Agricultural implements: John
Bean Manufacturing Company.
Commercial engines: Novo En-
gine, Hill-Diesel, New-Way En-
gine Company.
Paint: Lansing Paint and Color
Company, Sherwood Paint Com-
pany.
Radios: United Lansing Engine
Company (makers of United Lan-
sing radios).

lie who is surety for another
goes in at the wide end of the horn
and must come out of the narrow
as he can.

HOME OFFICE SERVICE

On Your Automobile Insurance

Auto-Owners policyholders in Lansing receive the advan-
tage of every Home Office facility in the sure and speedy ad-
justment of claims
Our Touring Bureau is always open and especially conveni-
ent for residents of Lansing. State or National touring infor-
mation will be readily given upon request, and policyholders
are entitled to special routing service as well.
Local agents offering our protection are always in close
contact with every department of the Home Office.

auto-Owners
INSURANCE COMPANY

615 N. Capitol Ave. Phone 2.1601 Lansing, Mich.

Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Our Jewish Friends
and Patrons

Lansing Steel Corp.

CHARLES E. BRUMM, Mgr.

Steel Joist, Structural Steel, Steel Sash, Miscellaneous
and Ornamental Iron, Electric Welding, Trusses,
Girders, Gratings, Window Guards, Fire Doors, Fire
Escapes, Industrial Trucks, Racks, Fence, Porch
and Stair Rails, Etc.

Dial 2 - 0661

LANSING, MICH.

Rosh Hashonah Greetings

Reed & Bra ndimore,

INCORPORATED
112.114 North Cedar St.
Phones 2-5815, 5-2094

At the close of that period, it is
estimated that Lansing will have
approximately 53,000 telephones.
In other words, the Michigan Bell
Company, predicts a population ROSH HASHONAll GREETINGS
growth of nearly 100 per cent dur-
ing the next 18 years, and a tele- TO ALL MY MANY FRIENDS IN'
phone growth of approximately MICHIGAN AND BEST WISHES
200 per cent. It is indicated that
FOR A HAPPY AND
use of the telephone for speedy
PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
communication purposes is out-
stripping population growth, and
that by 1948 there will be approxi- FRANK D. FITZGERALD
mately one telephone for every •
Secretary of State
four people residing in the corn-
State of Michigan
munity.

Holiday Greetings from

To the Jewish Community of Lansing we extend our beat wishes
at this season

536-600 N. Larch St.

Surveys of this nature are being
made constanttly throughout
Michigan by the telephone engi-
neers, to enable the Michigan Bell
Company in planning and building
ahead to meet growth of various
communities of the state. The
survey of the Lansing exchange
was completed recently and traces
the city's anticipated growth year
by year until Jan. 1, 1948.

Carpets, Rugs, Draperies, Linoleum and
Window Shades

W. Main St., near Viaduct

gram covering the service require-
ments outlined in the survey will
require the spending of many mil-
lions of dollars here, despite the
enormous sums spent by the com-
pany the past few years, Mr. Van
Miter says.
He points out that during the
last three years more than three-
quarters
of a million dollars worth
Lansing to Have 200,000
of new telephone equipment and
Persona by 1948, Michi
subscribers' circuits have been
gan Bell Estimates.
added to the Lansing exchange.
During 1930 alone, it is antici-
Lansing, in 1948, will be a city pated that telephone facilities ex-
of 200,000 population, estimates pansion in the community will cost
made by survey engineers of the almost a quarters of a million dol-
lars more.
Michigan Bell Telephone Com-
pany, who have been conducting a !SliailAISISIS%%%%%WilkasS%ViaiN
thorough study of the city's indus-
trial, business and social condi-
tions in view of determining its
future telephone needs, according
to Russell K Van Meter, local
telephone manager.

The telephone concern foresees
a continuing period of industrial
expansion for the city and is plan-
ning definitely to provide tele-
phone facilities adequate to serve
that growth.

"Lansing's Only Exclusive Rug Store"

422 South Washington Ave.

RAPID GROWTH
FOR CITY SEEN
BY PHONE FIRM

,

To accomplish an expansion pro- amossawssomwssossmiogywc

Distributors of

THE GENERAL TIRE

Modern Drive-In All Tire Service
Oil—Greasing—Willard Batteries--Simplex and
Panther Piston Rings--Vulcanizing
and Tire Accessories

LANSING, MICH.

Best Wishes for a Happy New Year

LOOK FOR THE SIGN

DIXIE OILS — GASOLINE

The Power to Pass—That's

A Happy New Year to Everybody

The Boston Cafe

LANSING'S FINEST RESTAURANT
Fast, quick service--no waiting. Whethe r you have 10
minutes or an hour, come in . . . You can dine here hur-
riedly or leisurely—a s you please. Reasonable Prices.
113 W. MICHIGAN AVE.
PHONE 5.2623
"Just East of Hotel Olds"
LANSING, MICH.
25-25252575

We Wish Our Many Jewish Friends and Patrons a Happy and
Prosperous New Year

TERRILL FLOWER SHOP

Cut Flowers—Potted Plants—Floral Designs
We'll Care for Your Flower Wants

"Say It With Flowers"

1111 North Washington Street

DIXIE GAS

LANSING OIL COMPANY

Distributors
227 North Hosmer Street
Stations on Principal Corners

Lansing, Mich.
Phone 2-4861

Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Our Many Jewish Friends

PORTER

APARTMENT HOTEL

DORA 0. TAYLOR, Manager

65 Apartments--30 Transient Rooms

All With Private Beth. European Plan, $2.50 Per Day and
Up
Cafe in Connection
Townsend and Len•wee Sts,
Telephone 2-1491
LANSING, MICH.

Phone 2.2954

LANSING, MICII.

A Happy New Year
to All Our Jewish Friends and Patrons

Rosh Ilashonah Greetings to All

LANSING S FORAGE
COMPANY

CHAS. H. KEELEY & CO.

Contractors for the Complete and Permanent Extermination
of Rats, Mich, Bedbugs, Moths, Cockroaches, etc.
Inspections and Estimates Freely Given
References Furnished—All Work Guaranteed
Offic e and Laboratory, 535 i4 E. Michigan Ave.
PHONE 2-8532
LANSING, MICH.

Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Our Many Jewish Friends

HOTEL LINCOLN

LANSING, MICH.

"We Know How"

440 North Washington Avenue

Phone 2 2672

-

LANSING, MICH.

New Year's Greetings to Our Jewish Friends and Patrons

BATES-WOHLERT COMPANY

LOUISE C. KOELTZOW, Prop.

A Fine Place to Make Your Home
Rates, 11.00 Per Day Up
Special Weekly Rates
311 ii North Washington

ST ORAGE— PACKING—CRATING

Manufacturers of

Starter Gears and Auto Parts

"A Starter Gear for Every Car"
OUR LINE IS COMPLETE

Phone 5147

700 East Grand River

LANSING, MICH.

Phone 2-5722

Greetings and Best Wishes to Our Jewish Friends

LANSING DAIRY COMPANY

"Manufacturers and Producers of Sweet Butter"

518 - 526 North Cedar St.

Phone 2 - 1619

NEW

2 TON

LANSING, MICH.

Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Our Jewish Friends and Patrons

OIL HEATING CO.

MOTOR WHEEL

Forced Air Heating and Ventilatiing
Systems
Phone or call at our display for more particulars about
these superior products manufactured in Lansing.
PHONE 5.2849
SHOWROOMS AT 218 S. GRAND ST.

LANSING, MICH.

SPEED WAGON

Reo Introduces two new P/t-ton SPEED WAGONS
in the
lowest price field!

A Happy New Year to All Our Jewish Friends and Patrons

REED-TYLER ELECTRIC CO.

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS

119 East Grand River A

Phone 24462

NORTH LANSING, MICH.

Point for point, the new SPEED WAGONS surpass all

competition. Both the four cylinder
model and the six have
smoother, more powerful engines with
larger hearings—with
more bearings and
bigger piston displacements—and
to
make for
long life, force teed oiling even to the piston pins.
longer
%heelbases,
deeper
frames,
heavy
Spoksteel
wheels,
and self-equalizing hydraulic
brakes are other features that
insure more truck for
your

money.
Inspect and test the new REO SPEED WAGONS today,

REO SALES CORPORATION
220 N. Grand Ave.,

Lansing

Rosh Hashonah Greetings

THE LANSING ICE & FUEL CO.

ICE :: FUEL—"SUNBURST COAL"

Phone 24389

911 Center Street

LANSING, MICH.

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