February 1896, young Journalist Milton J. Carmichael watches from the newsroom of the Detroit Evening Journal on Larned at Shelby as convention attendees arrive on trains at the Detroit’s Union Depot and the Michigan Central Station – both on Fort St.
What next happened is documented by hospitality industry experts such as Business Management professor Robert Ford of Central Florida University who wrote:
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