The complying with story are reprinted from the Manistee Daily News for the weekSept 14-20,1923 and also are put together by Teena Kracht from the paper archives of the Manistee County Historical Museum.
“‘The future development of Michigan depends on the development of the aircraft … ’ was the declaration of Harvey Campbell, assistant of the Detroit Board of Commerce at the Hotel Chippewa reception Thursday evening for the convention of the Michigan Commercial Secretaries convention.
“Mr Campbell made the declaration right here regarding 5 hrs after he left his workplacein Detroit He included delicately that the group would certainly leave for Detroit regarding 6 o’clock today so their pilot, Eddie Stinson, might ‘saunter’ to New York this mid-day to take a group of others to the Dempsey-Firpo battle whose time was also priceless to lose on ‘creeping’ …