View of the east side of Railroad Street in Channing, Michigan

East Side of Railroad Avenue, Looking South, Channing, ca. 1908: Photographed by O.A.K. and printed for R.E. Boll & Company, this postcard view, identified as “Channing Looking South” and postmarked Channing, September 25, 1908, shows the east side of Railroad Avenue looking south from the northern end of the street. At the far left is the Railroad Eating House, operated for many years by Mrs. W.M. White, who sold her interest to Wilbur McClure in mid-July, 1912. The occupants of the next four buildings have not been identified. The building with the long front porch was Mrs. E. Vermullen’s hotel and saloon. The next building was R.E. Boll’s general store, followed by the Belsch building in which Paul Khoury opened his general store in mid-March 1910. [William J. Cummings]