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2017
Charming 3 bedroom, 1 ½ bath home at 292 Ottawa Dr., in Pontiac Michigan’s historic Seminole Hills. A gem of a house that reveals renovation, hardwood floors, crown molding, original wood accents, fireplace and more. It's a great family home or investors can purchase with tenant in place, could g...
08/29/2017
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The problem many mortgage brokers and loan originators have is competing with larger "nationwide" mortgage companies. It's not that smaller brokers can't compete, fact is most are extremely competitive. Many can't help a borrower with a loan unless it's for a property in states they're licensed....
08/21/2017
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August 11th - Today in American History1874 - A patent for the first practical sprinkler system for fire protection was given to Harry S. Parmelee. Objecting to high insurance rates he had determined this was the best way to protect his piano factory and reduce his rates. 1896 – Bridgeport, CT i...
08/12/2017
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August 10th - Today in American History1821 - Missouri became the 24th state to join the Union and the first located entirely west of the Mississippi River.1846 - The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by the U.S. Congress. (pictured above)1885 – America’s first commercially operated electric ...
08/11/2017
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August 9th - Today in American History 1854 - Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden, one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American, as a social critique of the current contemporary Western World, with its consumerist attitudes and its distance from, and destruction of nature. 1892...
08/10/2017
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August 8th - Today in American History 1876 - Thomas Edison received a patent for the "Autographic Printing process," which consisted of an electric pen to create perforated stencils and a flatbed duplicating press, later refined to become the “mimeograph”.1899 - The refrigerator was patented by ...
08/09/2017
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August 7th - Today in American History1782 - George Washington created the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle, it would later be renamed Order of the Purple Heart. 1888 - Theophilus Van Kannel received a patent for a “storm-door structure,” later called a “revolving door,...
08/07/2017
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August 4th - Today in American History1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger, printer of the New York Weekly Journal, who had been charged with seditious libel by the corrupt royal governor of New York. The jury decided that "the truth is not libelous."...
08/05/2017
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August 3rd - Today in American History 1777 - During the Siege of Fort Schuyler the first U.S. flag was officially flown during battle, that consisted of only thirteen stripes, an early version of the Flag of New York, or the Grand Union Flag. 1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. is founded by Harv...
08/03/2017
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August 2nd - Today in American History1790 - The first United States Census is conducted, population is 3,929,326 and recorded only the names of the heads of household and a general demographic of the remaining members of the household. Beginning in 1850, all members of the household were named o...
08/02/2017
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