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Mark Madonna @awesomark.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

1927

“‘Ankles now are knee high,’ the octogenarian observed. ‘The past and the present don’t near meet. How Ann Arbor has changed. The moving views offered on the campus, streets and in class rooms with the rainbow dresses, short skirts and bobbed hair certainly conspire to make a young man or even an old one, to quote Oliver Wendell Holmes, ‘love to look on a scene like this’.’”

Mark Madonna @awesomark.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

1912

“Ann Arbor has changed wonderfully since the first paper was published here, and each change has been reflected in the character of the papers of the city. As the hamlet grew into a village, then took on the aspects of a country town and finally became a city, the newspapers grew with it, keeping step with the progress of the municipality. As the city has grown bigger and better, so has the Times News grown better and bigger, until today we believe we can say without egotism that our patrons are receiving the best paper ever published in the city.”

Mark Madonna @awesomark.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

1909

“Ann Arbor has changed greatly in the past few years, and the idea has evolved from these changes to show the alumni over the city and point out to them things as they now are, in contrast to what they have been. It is an interest that is common to the university and to the town, and the people are asked to co-operate in the entertainment of the alumni.”