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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1921
Page
6
A quoted passage from John Condes Dean in the Indianapolis News explains astronomical scales. It asks readers to imagine a sun sized shell filled with Earths, estimates light speed, and notes how even nearby stars send light across immense distances, challenging human comprehension.
The article recounts Moro attitudes toward Americans, noting a rare claim of marriage offers by the sultan of Sulu to an American princess and describing Moro gallantry. It also critiques a questionable method for increasing egg production by delaying feeding hens until after roosting.
Popular Mechanics describes a new gasoline driven Interurban car with an auto type gear shift and shaft to rear wheels. The 35 passenger body resembles a standard street car with a long hood housing a 6 horsepower engine, air brakes, electric lights, and a hot water heating system. The craft completes a 40 mile round trip in about 2.5 hours, using roughly five and a half gallons of gas, about one gallon per seven miles.
A Birmingham Age-Herald snippet captures a fallen baseball star wiping a tear and lamenting that he did not think of the young fans singing Take Back Your Gold, prompting a sympathetic friend to ask about the tune.
Dr Copeland health commissioner warns insanitary housing may raise TB mortality and erode morals and mental health. Nearby ad notes offer fall shrubs, Holland bulbs at 1004 Eastward Street Alma and Canaan coal samples from Brown Ward Co with phone 27-60tf.
Jonathan Brace recounts Alabama’s colonial claims from De Soto to statehood in 1819. French Fort St Louis and Mobile’s founding shaped early settlement, with east Mississippi Territory joining later. The name Alabama, possibly meaning Here we rest, reflects Native origins. The Martation State covers about 61 998 square miles.
A brief note on the fish John Dory or dory of the mackerel family famed for two vivid red spots on its sides. Tradition links the spots to the coin story of St. Peter. Also mentions fresh checked and baker eggs for sale and Swift Co containers.
An ad explains catarrh as a constitutional ailment requiring constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and claimed to act on mucous surfaces by destroying the disease’s foundation and boosting general health. Circular free from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio.
A woman with six youngsters and a lone oldest child ride a day coach. The conductor demands full fares for some children, the mother insists the oldest is under five. The piece shifts to Polish melodies praising Chopin as a national composer with richly embellished tunes and sad yet interesting character.
The Countess Potocka, born in 1768 to a Constantinople Greek shoemaker, rose through beauty and poverty to influence in Poland’s decline era. Her marriages to a Russian general and Count Stanislaw Fotocka led to exile, scandal, and banishments ending with her death in Berlin in 1822. A parallel note exaggerates Potocka wealth and a separate elopement scandal. A concluding advertisement promotes coal by Brown-Ward Co. with a phone number.
A 15,000 year old wall painting of a lean figure with joined hands, masklike stag head, and a horse tail reins was found in the Three Brothers cave at Montesquieu central France. Professor Begoem calls it a primitive sorcerer as the cave may have been sealed during a volcanic eruption long ago.
The examination for teachers will be held in the Ithaca courthouse on April 28 29 and 40 beginning at 8 oclock p m each day. Commissioner Howard Potter of Schools issues Bulletin No 16 in connection with the event. The notice ends with a promotion for Butter Cup bread wrappers.
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