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Saginaw City Directory 1923, 1923
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1INTRODUCTION
3Saginaw is a city of beautiful wide streets, beautiful churches of all denominations; grade, grammar, high, manual training, trade and high schools; theatres and fine public buildings, libraries and natatorium, hundreds of acres of natural parks, wide and diversified recreational facilities, two school athletic these are results of a city of home owners. Saginaw a large number of pretty homes which are kept in fine condition their owners.
5HEALTH CONDITIONS AND AGENCIES
7The climate is mild summer and winter; the health rate is and various agencies are at work functioning toward the general betterment of humanity. In this respect the Saginaw Welfare League, a model organization, supported by public subscription at an annual campaign, has federated charities and hospitals and social agencies to such an extent that the organization has attracted national attention. Through this league the ancient method of supporting charities and agencies by tag days and such events has been eliminated and a yearly subscription takes care of all the many organizations in the league.
9WATER NAVIGATION
11Saginaw is a port located on the Saginaw River and water transportation is enjoyed by freight and passenger carriers via the Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron to many ports on the Great Lakes.
13GREAT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
15No better barometer of a thriving, healthy community can be offered than the condition of the banks and the deposits they contain. The Saginaw financial institutions reflect the great industrial community, the large number of retail stores and wholesale institutions which cover in their trade not only the city but a trade territory extending all over Eastern and Northern Michigan and embracing hundreds of smaller cities and villages. Saginaw is the financial clearing house of Eastern Michigan.
17RETAIL AND WHOLESALE TRADE
19The retail stores in Saginaw are diversified and cosmopolitan, and by the courtesy of the management and the alertness to serve, have done much to assist in building up the community and bringing in trade from points in every direction 100 miles away. Because of its strategic position, Saginaw is the center of a large urban Wholesale houses are diversified and, through a rapid of motor truck transportation supplementing the railroads electric lines, have made this city a jobbing center.
21MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
23The city is governed on the commission plan, with a mayor and commissioners elected at large, for a term of four years. They the executive and administrative body.
25CENTER OF GOOD ROADS
27This city is the center of a good roads district of permanent of hard surface type, especially the Dixie Highway which artery of traffic for business and pleasure; the Colgrove Central Michigan, Top of Michigan and
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