"Yesterday" Articles - Index

     --- From the Zeeland Record, April 15, 1993, page 1 ---

"Many of our subscribers have called and written, stating how much they have missed the "Thumb Nails" column which was written by Toni Van Koevering prior to her retirement from writing in June 1992. After we approached several people to write a historical column, Case Karsten said he would try it. To many of the people of Zeeland, Case was "Mr. Zeeland" while he managed DePree's Furniture and ran the Zeeland Chamber of Commerce from his desk by the front door. We wish to thank Case for attempting this new venture and encourage you to call or write to Case to give him ideas."

 

We are pleased to present an index of these articles, which were written from 1993 - 1998. With a Howard Miller library card (aka bar code), you may search the The Zeeland Record (1893-2006) by entering the date in the advanced search field. Articles were located on page 1 unless otherwise noted.

 

Note: If an article is missing the book and page number, we do not have it in our collection but you can find it online at the Zeeland Record (see above).

 

The "Yesterday" articles listed below are located in the Zeeland Museum's research room.

 

Compiled by Suzy Frederick - April 2016

Updated: 


 
BOOK PG TITLE KEYWORD DATE
4 20 “Small Fry" in Church   9/26/1996
6 8 1960 Remembered Downtown Businesses 2/26/1998
3 44 50 Years Ago \ Fulfilling Your Motoring Needs Gasoline Stations 12/14/1995
3 13 60th Anniversary of Zeeland: Part II   3/9/1995
3 12 60th Anniversary of Zeeland: Part I   3/2/1995
3 19 A Drayman and More Amsink, Gerrit 2/16/1995
1 16 A Honeymoon – 1940 Baker, Karsten 9/2/1993
2 11 A Runaway Olive Township 3/17/1994
2 32 Ads from the Past 1927 8/11/1994
2 38 After the Honeymoon Early 1940s Karsten 9/22/1994
5 38 American Legion Buys Ground for Athletic Field Baseball 7/17/1997
5 4 An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away 1927   1/30/1997
1 24 An Education Raising Doves 10/28/1993
    An interesting letterhead used by one of our business firms in 1917 - CK 1917   12/12/1996
1 13 An Old Settler’s Monument: Part II   8/12/1993
    An Old Settlers Monument: Part I   8/5/1993
1 10 Beat the Heat   7/15/1993
3 11 Big City Experience 1937 Detroit Tigers 2/23/1995
3 7 Bill Diemer  One of Zeeland’s Colorful Characters Blacksmith 5/25/1995
3 53 Blizzard Snarls Traffic, Industry Storm of 1977 2/29/1996
5 31 Borculo Church Burns: Part I   6/5/1997
5 32 Borculo Church Burns: Part I – Con’t   6/5/1997
5 34 Borculo Church Burns: Part II   6/12/1997
2 16 Bosma Wounded by 2 Fleeing Yeggs Fire Chief 4/21/1994
6 2 Burglars Enter Two Places But Get Little Cash 1926 Wells, Depot, Boes 1/15/1998
3 50 Business Acumen and Thrift Aid in Building Zeeland: Part I   2/8/1996
3 51 Business Acumen and Thrift Aid in Building Zeeland: Part II   2/15/1996
3 52 Business Acumen and Thrift Aid in Building Zeeland: Part III   2/22/1996
1 22 Busy Borculo Recalled: Part I   10/14/1993
1 23 Busy Borculo Recalled: Part II   10/21/1993
6 19 Busy Men in a Busy Town – Con’t   6/18/1998
2 39 Cascade Gardens in the 1930s Jackson, MI 9/29/1994
2 40 Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Settlement of Vriesland   10/6/1994
5 67 Changes Clothing, Fashion 12/11/1997
3 19 Cheese and Model Ts   4/20/1995
    Chick Center of the Midwest (1945)   5/9/1996
2 35 Chick Chick Here Quack Quack There In the 1940s Hatcheries 9/1/1994
3 29 Chicken Lickin’ Geerlings, Jake 8/10/1995
    Chicks Travel in Streamliner - Navy Buys 1,000 Pullets From Zeeland Farm (1945)   10/3/1996
2 10 Chicky Restaurant 152 E. Main Scholten Shoes 3/10/1994
1 32 Christmas Mid 1920s   12/23/1993
2 27 City Dump Hidden Treasure   7/7/1994
6 3 City Park in Sight; Council Buys Ground Shoemaker, Lawrence 1/22/1998
2 20 Class of 1909 Zeeland High School   5/19/1994
2 22 Class of 1911 Zeeland High School   6/2/1994
    Class of 1912 Zeeland High School   9/21/1995
5 29 Colonial Manufacturing Co. 1974 Spiker, Miller, Kemp 5/15/1997
5 39 DePree’s “The Wares That Wear” Klunder, Gordon 7/24/1997
5 40 DePree’s “The Wares That Wear” – Con’t   7/24/1997
4 25 DePree’s 1878-1981   12/19/1996
2 26 DePree’s Destroyed by $175,000 Fire   6/30/1994
4 6 Did You Know That . . . (1974)   4/11/1996
3 39 Difficulties to Overcome by our Forbearers: Part I Netherlands to America 11/9/1995
3 40 Difficulties to Overcome: Part II   11/16/1995
3 41 Difficulties to Overcome: Part III   11/22/1995
6 9 Diphtheria Quarantine! 1922   3/5/1998
4 4 Downtown Zeeland – Saturday Night in the 1950s   4/18/1996
1 26 Dr. Cornelius E. Boone Olive Township 11/11/1993
“The Country Doctor”
    Dr. John Masselink, M.D.: Part II   5/6/1993
5 19 Dr. John Masselink, MD: Part I   4/10/1997
5 20 Dr. John Masselink, MD: Part I Cont   4/10/1997
5 21 Dr. John Masselink, MD: Part II   4/17/1997
5 22 Dr. John Masselink, MD: Part II – Con’t   4/17/1997
4 3 Dr. Thomas G. Huizinga Memorial Hospital - 1951   4/4/1996
2 21 Drenthe at the Turn of the Century   5/26/1994
5 52 Early Cars 1920s, 1930s   9/25/1997
3 38 East Main Avenue   11/2/1995
1 17 East Main St. in the Late 1920s: Part I   9/9/1993
1 18 East Main St. in the Late 1920s: Part II   9/16/1993
1 19 East Main St. in the Late 1920s: Part III   9/23/1993
1 20 East Main St. in the Late 1920s: Part IV   9/30/1993
2 49 Edward Rycenga Zeeland Chief of Police 1927-32   12/15/1994
2 37 Electric Line Has Become Mere History Railway 9/15/1994
2 14 Electricity Extended Consumers Power Co 4/7/1994
3 2 End of Landmarks   1/19/1995
Buildings give way for new Post office
5 63 Escalators and Elevators 1940s to 1960s   11/13/1997
1 4 Everywhere a Peep, Peep Hatcheries 6/10/1993
1 5 Everywhere a Peep, Peep – Con’t   6/10/1993
5 35 Excerpt from the Grondwet 1912 DePutter 6/19/1997
5 12 Excerpts from the VanMalsen Letters   3/6/1997
5 10 Excerpts from the VanMalsen Letters 1847 – II (b)   2/27/1997
5 11 Excerpts from the VanMalsen Letters 1847 – III (a)   3/6/1997
5 13 Excerpts from the VanMalsen Letters 1847 – IV   3/13/1997
5 14 Excerpts from the VanMalsen Letters 1847 – IV – Con’t   3/13/1997
5 8 Excerpts from the VanMalsen Letters 1847 – Letter I   2/20/1997
5 9 Excerpts from the VanMalsen Letters 1847 – Letter II (a)   2/27/1997
1 15 Factory Picnic – Jenison Park Furniture Factory 8/26/1993
    Farmers Picnic 50 Years Ago 1946   5/16/1996
3 35 Farming the Old Way: Part I Olive Township 10/5/1995
3 36 Farming the Old Way: Part II Olive Township 10/12/1995
3 37 Farming the Old Way: Part III Olive Township 10/19/1995
5 68 Fire Greatly Damages Knitting Shop 1926 VanLopik 12/18/1997
5 51 Fire Strikes Zeeland 1860   9/18/1997
4 15 First Plat Fails – Zeeland’s Original Main Street Loses it’s Distinction 1911: Part I   4/25/1996
4 15 First Plat Fails – Zeeland’s Original Main Street Loses it’s Distinction 1911: Part II   5/2/1996
    Flying A Kite - In the 1920s   12/8/1994
5 65 Food Then and Now   11/26/1997
4 22 Fountain and Marker Dedicated in Zeeland    
5 24 Geared for Progress – Recollection of 1938-40 LaReine, Dutch Woodcraft, Hubbell 5/29/1997
2 44 Getting Married in Early Days in This Area was Serious Business   11/3/1994
4 23 Grand Old Lady at a Grand Celebration Holkeboer, Angie 12/5/1996
5 15 H.J. Heinz Company 1979 Pickles 3/20/1997
5 16 H.J. Heinz Company 1979 Con’t   3/20/1997
2 31 Habits and Actions of Downtown Merchants 1930s-1940s   8/4/1994
2 42 Habits and Actions of Downtown Merchants 1930s, 40s and 50s   10/20/1994
2 29 Habits, Savings, Actions of Downtown Merchants in the late 1930s and 1940s   7/21/1994
5 61 Hatchery man Chaperones Car of 70,000 Chicks to Chicago 1926 DeKoster, C.J., Hatcheries 11/6/1997
5 62 Hatchery man Chaperones Car of 70,000 Chicks to Chicago 1926 – Con’t DeKoster, C.J., Hatcheries 11/6/1997
2 9 History of Prayer Day   3/3/1994
1 27 Hoekje Home of H.P. Karsten 11/18/1993
    Homecoming in the late 1920s   8/17/1995
4 14 Howard’s Barber Shop 1919 Rybarczyk, Deur 8/1/1996
2 50 I Heard My Mother Say These Words   12/22/1994
6 18 I Saw Them Tearing a Building Down, Busy Men in a Busy Town Bank, VanRaalte’s, Downtown 6/18/1998
3 45 Ice Cream and Hot Fudge Sundaes – Then and Now DeKruif’s, Bosch’s, Frank’s, Staals 12/21/1995
3 49 Ice Fishing in the 1920s   1/25/1996
6 1 If You Can Recall This You’re Over the Hill DePree, VandePels, Madderon, Elenbaas, Wiersma, Lekas, Holleman, DeWeerd 1/8/1998
3 22 In the Beginning: Part I Allendale 6/15/1995
3 23 In the Beginning: Part II Allendale 6/22/1995
4 24 In the City – on the Farm 1920s   10/10/1996
4 10 In the Good Old Summertime Baarman, Hieftje 6/6/1996
5 33 Jarrett N. Clark early 1900s Attorney 7/10/1997
3 3 Kids Stuff in the 1920s   6/29/1995
    Life Among the Colonists - It's About Time "Of Nineteenth Century Pilgrims" 6/1/1995
3 3 Life Among the Colonists - Their Nourishment "Of Nineteenth Century Pilgrims" 4/27/1995
3 46 Like an Heirloom: Part I Hotel, VanEenenaam 1/11/1996
3 47 Like an Heirloom: Part II Hotel, VanEenenaam 1/18/1996
3 33 Living For Less Travel 1930s\40s 9/14/1995
6 4 Local Hatchery Men Plan Permanent Organization 1926   1/29/1998
2 17 Lover’s Lane Lost   4/28/1994
    Ma's Old Galvanized Washtub   5/13/1993
3 48 Main Street \ Retailers   2/1/1996
5 70 Mead Johnson Co.  1926 House Warming 12/31/1997
3 44 Memories – A Baker, a Cheese Maker DePree, Dykewell 1/4/1996
2 8 Michigan ‘Belles’ Telephone Company 2/24/1994
3 4 Mocking Bird to Bid Zeeland Its Goodbye Tonite Fire Warning Whistle 1/5/1995
1 2 My First Car 1927 Model T 6/3/1993
1 3 My First Car – Con’t   6/3/1993
2 18 My Native Village: Part I Vriesland 5/5/1994
2 19 My Native Village: Part II Vriesland 5/12/1994
5 36 My Pa - A “Do-it-Yourselfer” - 1920s   6/26/1997
    New Year's Day - Mid-twenties   12/30/1993
5 56 Oetman House Old Landmark May be Razed 1926   11/20/1997
5 53 Old Groningen: Part I Scholten, wise, Boone, sawmill 10/2/1997
5 54 Old Groningen: Part II Rabbers, Kolvoord, Veneklaasen 10/9/1997
    Old Remedies   10/26/1995
3 9 One Room School VandenBosch, Borculo 1/12/1995
3 5 Our Dinner Bell   1/26/1995
1 21 Our First Karsten, Ken 10/7/1993
1 30 Our Front Porch Late 1920s Karsten Home 12/9/1993
4 12 Paul Henry DeKruif   5/30/1996
4 21 People Who Passed Through My Life at the Gas Station 1930s   11/7/1996
    Personal Service in the late 1920 and early '30s   4/15/1993
2 25 Pioneer Days: Settlers VS. Railroads   6/23/1994
3 24 Pioneer Recollections: Part I Holland, New Groningen 7/6/1995
3 26 Pioneer Recollections: Part II Kolvoord, Albertus 7/13/1995
3 25 Pioneer Recollections: Part III Kolvoord, Albertus 7/20/1995
3 27 Pioneer Recollections: Part IV Dubbink, Rev. 7/27/1995
3 28 Pioneer Recollections: Part V Kolvoord, Albertus 8/3/1995
2 1 Police Nab 2 Gunmen in Local Residence 1943, Postma 1/6/1994
2 41 Postal Service Slow? 29 Cents High for Postage? Consider the Pioneer Days   10/13/1994
5 17 Prayer 1930s   3/27/1997
1 6 Prospector Alexander Hartgerink: Part I   6/17/1993
1 7 Prospector Alexander Hartgerink: Part II   6/24/1993
1 8 Prospector Alexander Hartgerink: Part III   7/1/1993
6 6 Prosperity Note Strikes as Wolverine Plat Becomes Property of Herman Miller 1927: Part I   2/12/1998
6 7 Prosperity Note Strikes as Wolverine Plat Becomes Property of Herman Miller 1927: Part II   2/19/1998
3 42 Pumping Gas – Depression Years   11/30/1995
    Quality Fuel & Supply Co. - Member of the Month - 1978   12/26/1996
4 18 Quality Home Furnishings, Inc. 1979 DeJonge, DePree 8/15/1996
4 19 Record Shipment of Chicks from Local Hatcheries   9/19/1996
5 2 Recreation in the Natural Places Tannery Drain, DeVries Pond 1/16/1997
1 9 Remember the Band Concerts?   7/8/1993
1 11 Remember? Old Town Zeeland 7/22/1993
3 42 Retail Grocers and Meats – 50 years ago   12/28/1995
4 13 Riding Under the Stars Borculo 5/23/1996
3 8 River Boats on the Grand River in the Early Days   2/2/1995
3 17 River Boats on the Grand River in the Early Days   2/2/1995
5 23 Robbers Enter Dekker Store: Get Big Loot Robbery 4/24/1997
4 1 Roller Skating in Depression Days   3/28/1996
5 46 Royal Casket Company 1976 VerPlank, 8/21/1997
3 30 Saturday Night Downtown   8/24/1995
3 16 School Daze   5/4/1995
5 69 Sermons Remembered Kok, Rev. 12/24/1997
1 29 Shivaree Olive Township 12/2/1993
2 23 Skunk Scores Harrington, Cappon 6/9/1994
2 28 Small Town Boy Makes Good Bouws, Russell 7/14/1994
5 59 Snapshot Gras, John 10/30/1997
5 43 Snapshot – 1920s and After DePree, Bert 8/7/1997
5 44 Snapshot – 1920s and After – Con’t DePree, Bert 8/7/1997
5 60 Snapshot – Con’t Gras, John 10/30/1997
5 49 Snapshot 1940s to 1950s Winkels, John 9/11/1997
5 50 Snapshot 1940s to 1950s – Con’t Winkels, John 9/11/1997
4 26 Snapshots Boschma, Walters 1/2/1997
5 18 Snapshots VerHage, DeFeyter, Jaarda 4/3/1997
5 27 Snapshots Veenboer, Gerrit 5/8/1997
    Snapshots - Here and There Brouwer 10/24/1996
5 28 Snapshots – Con’t Karsten, Bill 5/8/1997
4 19 Snapshots 1920s – 1950s DeVries, Brandt, Bosch, Dekker 9/12/1996
    Snapshots 1920s-1950s Van Loo, Van Eenenaam, Ozinga, De Koster, Tresias 8/29/1996
2 51 Snowplowing Westenbroek, Allyn 12/29/1994
5 3 Some Early Historic Facts   1/23/1997
2 36 Staphorst 1847-49 Hulst, Jan 9/8/1994
3 1 Street to be Named After Case Karsten   6/22/1995
4 22 Style Beauty Salon 1979 VanderPoppen, VanDyke 10/17/1996
5 47 Summer Crops – Some Good, Some Flops in late 1920s   8/28/1997
3 6 Sunday – 1920s   6/8/1995
2 13 Sunday at Home Kroodsma, Robert 3/24/1994
2 45 Thanksgiving – the Pilgrims Taught Us to be Thankful by Example   11/23/1994
2 48 The American Indians Who Lived Here Were Neighbors to the Pioneers   11/10/1994
3 10 The Barbershop in Late 1930s and Later Lokers 2/9/1995
3 31 The Butcher – The 1920s VanHoven, Gil 8/31/1995
2 15 The City Receives Public Services Gas, Sewer, etc. 4/14/1994
2 46 The Country General Merchandise Store Olive Township 11/17/1994
3 14 The Ford Model T – “Tin Lizzie”   3/16/1995
4 11 The Fourth of July in the 1920s Plasman, Chris 6/27/1996
5 30 The Medicine Show in the mid 1920s   5/22/1997
3 15 The Milk Route: Part I Hoffman, Claude 4/6/1995
3 15 The Milk Route: Part II Hoffman, Claude 4/13/1995
3 18 The Neighborhood Grocery – Late 1920s   3/30/1995
2 34 The Nurse Emma Hendricks, DeWitt 8/25/1994
1 14 The Ol’ Swimmin’ Hole   8/19/1993
1 28 The One Room School   11/24/1993
3 20 The One Room School: Part I   5/11/1995
3 21 The One Room School: Part II   5/18/1995
5 45 The Outhouse   8/14/1997
4 13 The Power of Persuasion   7/25/1996
3 34 The Raleigh Man Jurries, Albert 9/28/1995
3 49 The Rocking Chair   3/7/1996
6 10 The Saxophone Nifty Sixties 3/12/1998
    The Talking Machine   3/14/1996
5 55 The Train Pere Marquette 1920s to 1960s   10/16/1997
6 11 The Way It Was 1954: Part I Softball 4/9/1998
6 12 The Way It Was: Part II Legion Field 4/16/1998
6 13 The Way It Was: Part III Legion Field 4/23/1998
6 14 The Way It Was: Part III – Con’t Fastball 4/23/1998
6 15 The Way It Was: Part IV Legion Field 5/7/1998
6 16 The Way It Was: Part V Legion Field 5/14/1998
6 17 The Way It Was: Part VI Girls League 5/28/1998
4 2 The Zeeland Bakery Hirdes, VanEden, Ditmar 3/21/1996
3 32 This Summer Marks 85 Years – 1932 85th Anniversary 9/7/1995
5 66 Three Cars go Through Ice 1926 Meyer, Henry 12/4/1997
1 12 Threshing – Another Era   7/29/1993
6 5 Tin Cans Toy 2/5/1998
2 47 Tower Park in the Late 1920s Lake Michigan 12/1/1994
5 25 Traveling Grocer Carried Christianity on his Route 1945 Middlehoek, New Groningen 5/1/1997
5 26 Traveling Grocer Carried Christianity on his Route 1945 – Con’t   5/1/1997
4 25 Trend Clocks 1976 VanTamelen 11/14/1996
4 9 Trip from Europe to North America   7/18/1996
5 7 Turning Points – Frank Hoogland, Mayor 1963-1972   2/13/1997
5 6 Turning Points – Rev. William Kok, Pastor 1927-1940   2/6/1997
1 31 Two Firsts Sunday School Picnic 12/16/1993
    Two Sailing Vessels   8/8/1996
2 3 VandeLuyster Still Helpful in His Later Years: Part I   1/20/1994
2 4 VandeLuyster Still Helpful in His Later Years: Part II   1/27/1994
2 5 VandeLuyster Still Helpful in His Later Years: Part III   2/3/1994
2 6 VandeLuyster Still Helpful in His Later Years: Part IV   2/10/1994
2 7 VandeLuyster Still Helpful in His Later Years: Part V   2/17/1994
5 1 VanderBurgh Art Studio 1975   1/9/1997
2 12 Veneklaasen Brick   3/31/1994
2 33 Visiting in the Country in the 1920s   8/18/1994
2 43 Visits to Getz Farm   10/27/1994
4 7 Vriesland Christian Reformed Church and Pieter Harmens Karsten   6/13/1996
    Vriesland Christian Reformed Church Begets Several Churches in Area   6/20/1996
4 8 Vriesland Christian Reformed Church: Part II   6/5/1996
4 8 Vriesland Christian Reformed Church: Part III   7/11/1996
4 9 Vriesland Christian Reformed Church: Part III – Con’t   7/11/1996
1 25 We Go North Travel mid:1920s 11/4/1993
    West Drenthe Schoolhouse Undergoing a Rebirth As An Important Historic Resource: Part I   5/20/1993
1 1 West Drenthe Schoolhouse Undergoing a Rebirth As An Important Historic Resource: Part II   5/27/1993
4 16 West End Garage 1978 Hoogland, Volkers 9/5/1996
4 23 Winter    
2 2 Winter Evening 1920s 1/13/1994
    Zeeland - 1848   6/16/1994
5 57 Zeeland 1945 Industries 10/23/1997
5 58 Zeeland 1945 – Con’t Schools 10/23/1997
3 43 Zeeland a Thriving Village of Thrifty Hollanders   12/7/1995
2 30 Zeeland Historical Society 1974-1994 Preserving a Rich Heritage   7/28/1994
4 17 Zeeland Historical Society Plans to Rebuild Original Store Front 1978 Dekker-Huis Museum 8/22/1996
3 16 Zeeland Show a Big Success Poultry, Hatchery 3/23/1995
4 21 Zeeland Vets March Again – Given Memorial Medals at Centennial 1947   10/31/1996
5 41 Zeeland Will Build New $135,000 High School 1924   7/31/1997
5 42 Zeeland Will Build New $135,000 High School 1924 – Con’t   7/31/1997
5 37 Zeeland will Install 4 Traffic Lamps 1927   7/3/1997
5 48 Zeeland’s First Industry Producing Barrel Staves Keppel, Huibert 9/4/1997