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	<title>The Spokesrider &#187; Branch County MI</title>
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		<title>Smoke gets in your eyes (and your house, and your yard)</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/06/23/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes-and-your-house-and-your-yard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m off on a bike ride today.   It rained most of the day.  If I had known it would be like this, I wouldn&#8217;t have gone.  But I&#8217;m glad I did.   The new Ortlieb panniers did their job of keeping out water.   I put on my rain jacket only a mile from home.   Late in <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/06/23/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes-and-your-house-and-your-yard/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fictitious Railroad</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/06/20/fictitious-railroad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spokesrider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In yesterday&#8217;s post (Maiden voyage of new panniers) I referred to two railroads crossing each other a few blocks to the east of the present-day depot/Mexican restaurant, in the direction where this train is headed.    I had tried to interpret the scene shown in this photo in terms of the 1872 atlas: This snippet shows <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/06/20/fictitious-railroad/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Maiden voyage of new panniers</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/06/20/maiden-voyage-of-new-panniers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spokesrider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Branch County MI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got new panniers last week &#8212; a set of Ortliebs from Wayne Boroughs at TheTouringStore.com These are the Bike Packer Plus and the Sport Packer Plus. I took them out for an overnight campout this weekend.   My goal was to get in 100 miles on the two days, but I ended up riding 120 <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/06/20/maiden-voyage-of-new-panniers/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Branch banks of Branch County</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/06/07/branch-banks-of-branch-county/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 04:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spokesrider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coldwater MI (5 June 2011)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the way to Coldwater this Sunday, a couple of bank signs in Union City caught my interest.   One objective of this ride was to get photos of the current version of Clyde D. Randall&#8217;s bank in Coldwater, as well as some of the sites of previous buildings where it was housed.    But it turns <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/06/07/branch-banks-of-branch-county/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Free banking and the Michigan State Public School at Coldwater</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/06/06/free-banking-and-the-michigan-state-public-school-at-coldwater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spokesrider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still haven&#8217;t found any evidence that any of the stories about &#8220;free banking&#8221; in Michigan in the 1830s are myths, but I&#8217;ve still been concentrating only on the story about the Coldwater bank, which may also be the only one I know about.   The information as reported in the Branch County histories seem to <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/06/06/free-banking-and-the-michigan-state-public-school-at-coldwater/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Loren Marsh, Indian trader and bank director</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/06/01/west-of-the-root-beer-drive-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spokesrider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Branch County MI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coldwater-Sturgis (22 Oct 2005)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Back on April 26 I posted a photo of Allen&#8217;s Root Beer Drive-In, from a ride through Coldwater in October 22 2005.    I&#8217;ve since found a web site, Roadside Peek, that has photos of a number of old Root Beer places and Drive-In eateries that are still doing business.    It&#8217;s fun to browse there, <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/06/01/west-of-the-root-beer-drive-in/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Miscellaneous mill connections in Branch County</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/26/miscellaneous-mill-connections-in-branch-county/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/26/miscellaneous-mill-connections-in-branch-county/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spokesrider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in December, after hearing the news that the Hodunk Mill had burned down,  I posted a couple of photos (Hodunk Mill has Burned Down) from the same October 2005 ride that took me past the Newton Grange.    Here are a couple  more.  This is downtown Hodunk, looking back toward Union City. Here is another <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/26/miscellaneous-mill-connections-in-branch-county/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Newton Grange</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/24/newton-grange-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/24/newton-grange-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spokesrider</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Calhoun County MI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After putting up the last post about the town square in Coldwater, I looked to see what else I had from that ride on October 22, 2005.    I saw that I had never gotten around to learning about this building from my first photo stop of the day,  at the intersection of D Drive and <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/24/newton-grange-3/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Coldwater public square</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/19/coldwater-public-square/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/19/coldwater-public-square/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spokesrider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Branch County MI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coldwater-Sturgis (22 Oct 2005)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I looked up this old photo from October 2005 because the place shown in it has been in the local news, with headlines like these: Town Bans Tea Party Signs in Public Park : Lawsuit filed against Coldwater for resolution banning signs deemed &#8216;too controversial&#8217; Tea party group sues over sign ban in Coldwater I&#8217;m <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2011/04/19/coldwater-public-square/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hodunk artists</title>
		<link>http://www.spokesrider.com/2010/12/23/hodunk-artists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spokesrider.com/2010/12/23/hodunk-artists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spokesrider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As far as I can tell, my last photos of Hodunk Mill were taken on a ride to Girard on July 24, 2008.   The above is one that didn&#8217;t turn out as well as I wanted, but now that the mill has burned down there won&#8217;t be another chance. While looking up information about Hodunk <a href='http://www.spokesrider.com/2010/12/23/hodunk-artists/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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