Historical Newspaper Articles

This is a collection historical newspaper articles that have been digitized. They represent topics on the history of Thomas Lincoln Handy, his companies and T.L. Handy High School.

Leasing Coal Lands

Published:

1903-04-14

Several coal companies have recently had a corps of land agents at work taking up all available coal lands in the county. Handy Bros. and the Hecla Portland Cement & Coal Co. are the two most active concerns, they having now under lease practically all the coal lands in the...

Bay City’s Great Fire

Published:

1904-07-25

Bay City, Mich., July 24th -- Fire which started on the river front in the Handy Bros. Manufacturing Co.'s lumber yard caused $80,000 loss. Handy Bros. had about 6,000,000 feet of pine lumber ready for their factories, over 5,000,000 feet of which was destroyed. The fire spread rapidly from the...