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Saginaw City Directory 1921, 1921
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1INTRODUCTION
3The volume presented herewith embodies R. L. Polk & Co.'s 1921 edition of the Saginaw City Directory. It has been compiled with care after a thorough enumeration of the citizens and business concerns of the city. The publishers have sought to maintain the high standard established in previous issues, and in this endeavor have utilized their unrivalled organization and efficient methods, desiring to offer the community what is best in this most necessary and indispensable of reference works in business and social life. The Directory is devoted to the advancement of all of the city's vital interests, and has in each issue kept pace with its progress. The publishers offer the assurance that no effort on their part has been omitted to insure completeness and accuracy, thus affording the best Directory service. The statistical data, which follows this Introduction is impressive as showing the expansion in civics, commerce and industry, of this wealthy, prosperous and progressive city.
5The five essential features of the work are set forth in the order following:
7The Miscellaneous Department is contained in pages 32 to 46; it comprises data concerning city and county officials, Federal officers, banks, building associations, cemeteries, churches, clubs, courts, hospitals, homes, libraries, schools, convents, newspapers, parks, public buildings, halls, postoffice data, etc. This department covers every phase of civic and social activity.
9The Buyers' Guide is embraced in pages 49 to 112 inclusive. It gives the progressive business men represented therein an opportunity to describe their lines more fully than is possible in the necessarily condensed descriptions in the body of the Directory. It shows not only the more progressive and alert business men, but in compact form it becomes a "Who's Who" in the business life of Saginaw.
11The Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders is included in pages 113 to 248. This Department embraces a list of all the Streets and Avenues in the city alphabetically arranged; the houses and buildings being arranged in numerical order, with the name of the occupants or householders placed opposite each number.
13The Alphabetical List of Names of citizens and business concerns, is embraced in pages 249 to 774.
15The Classified Business Directory is contained in pages 775 to 853; this department exhibits the various manufacturing, mercantile and professional occupations compiled in alphabetical order by headings and this feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business interests of the community. "The Directory is the common intermediary between Buyer and Seller."
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