page updated 2/22/11
page updated 2/22/11
Lansing Miscellaneous |
| Claim of
Edward Julson, 1912 The claim of Edward Julson, of Lansing, asking for payment reimbursement from the U.S. Government for damages to his launch caused by collision with U.S. Towboats Ellen and Henry Boss. Click here to read. |
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| Almost 1000
Years At Dinner, 1921 Over at Lansing recently, Capt. E.B. Bascom, observed his eighty-eighth birthday, by entertaining a company of Civil War veterans and old time residents of that city at a dinner at the Dudley House, and the combined ages of the twelve oldest guests totaled 998 years as follows:
~Elgin Echo, February 10, 1921 -contributed by S. Ferrall |
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| Lansing
Home Coming, 1928 ..... the program,
committees, activities &c ~Contributed by Errin Wilker |
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| Santa
Claus' Workshop Started as a button factory, the Lansing Company now devotes half of its time to Christmas toys... read the story, view the pictures The Iowan Magazine, Shenandoah, Iowa, January 1955 ~Contributed by Errin Wilker |
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| Lansing
Button Company ..... The Lansing Company
was founded 75 years ago on tons of clams dug from the
Mississippi river bottom to make pearl buttons which were
worn the world over. Now, the same company, still in the
same family, is one of the largest button distributors in
the United States -- an almost completely computerized
operation, which makes no pearl buttons, in fact, makes
no buttons at all........... read
the story, view the pictures ~Contributed by Errin Wilker |
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| Kee
Valley Chapter Sweet Adelines, 1981
....... photos, members,
program ~Contributed by Errin Wilker |
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