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Monthly Archives: March 2013
The Great Unwashed and the People’s Washing and Bathing Association.
“Cleanliness is conducive to health,” notes an entertaining and illuminating 1853 committee report, which continues, Who can tell, but that disease was kept from our city, the last summer, in a great degree, merely by this one establishment? Thirty-eight thousand … Continue reading
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The end of the world and the arrival of steam in Detroit.
The anecdote below is drawn from an address delivered in 1848, fairly well along in retirement by the Michigan Whig William Woodbridge–second governor of Michigan, friend to Lewis Cass, son-in-law to the Revolutionary poet John Trumbull–to the Detroit Young Men’s … Continue reading
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