EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette.

30 years ago

MARQUETTE — Ten Northern Michigan University professors have received $31,500 in Faculty Grant Awards. Frank A. Verley, professor of biology, was awarded $3,500 to study the effects of disease on a gene in mice; William L. Robinson, professor of biology, received $3,400 for ecological studies of woodcocks and wolves; David M. Pierce, assistant professor of music, was awarded $3,474 to arrange Erik Satie’s “Sports and Divertissements” for woodwinds on a computerized music recording and mixing system; Mary Ann Norton, associate professor of nursing, was awarded $3,500 to study the relationship between parental lifestyles and health behaviors of two- and single-parent families; Phillip B. Watts, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, was awarded $2,950 to study high-altitude mountaineering performance; David W. Kingston, professor of chemistry, received $1,710 for analysis of PCBs in Manistique River fish; Gail Griffith, associate professor of chemistry, was awarded $3,457 to study microorganisms that take away chlorine from PCBs. Mekhlis Y. Zaki, professor of economics, was awarded $3,350 to study “Project Integration Between Egypt and Sudan”; Ronald L. Johnson, assistant professor of English, received $2,914 for “Part Two of Anton Chekhov: A Study in Short Fiction;” Bernard C. Peters, professor of geography, was awarded $3,345 to edit for publication the 1840 Lake Superior field notes of Douglass Houghton.

90 years ago

MARQUETTE — The American Legion is going to give an entertainment program at 8 p.m. Friday night in the Louis K. Kaufman auditorium. It is to be a benefit for the bugle and drum corps, the proceeds going to pay for new uniforms. They intend that everybody in Marquette should know about it, too. If you are downtown tonight between 7:30-8 p.m., you’ll hear a raucous barker voice shouting, “Hear ye, good citizens of Marquette. The finest, best, jazziest, most amazing vaudeville bill in captivity will be trotted out to entertain you next Friday night in the high School” or words to that effect. Billy Gray will be the barker and he will ride atop a truck, which will meander around downtown this evening. It will carry, too, a regular circus band, the kind every ballyhoo should have. The truck will stop for a few minutes on Washington street while Billy struts his megaphone and tells the world what the program is all about.