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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1909
Page
6
An investigation reveals an efficient factory system that eliminates waste and saves on materials. The result is high quality garments with superior wool and tailoring at low prices. Clothcraft touts style, value, and large production. Visit today to see the astonishing clothes.
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State briefs report the J. B. Arney Novelty Co starting in Port Huron with August 8 operations, a Cadillac Chautauqua planned for July 15, and pneumonia cases in Crisp near Holland. Other items note shrubbery contracts for Marshall parks, open air speaking in Flint, a 16 year old assault case in Jackson, and a Saginaw M G armory bid of 22 dollars. The Dunkley Co reopens after bankruptcy, Cadillac drunkenness arrests drop, a Kalamazoo head ache powder incident leaves a woman unconscious, a Meenomie mad dog scare ends, and two prisoners escape Greenville jail by dynamiting cell floor. Also reported: Muskegon Heights and Newark siblings reunite after 52 years, a Bancroft farmer dies after a runaway wagon incident, coroner’s verdict on a locomotive death near Rathe Creek, and various local misfortunes including a broken arm and a missing sidewalk.
Twenty counties voted to abolish licensed saloons while seven kept them. Washtenaw, Monroe, Ottawa, Berrien, Huron remained wet amid a Jackson recount request. 668 saloons must close and license revenue loss totals $142,000. Washtenaw stays wet due to university location.
The drys won in most counties, closing many saloons by May 1, with 508 to shut permanently and seven counties opting to keep licensed saloons for two more years. Washtenaw and Monroe counties, home to a university and German voting blocs, shifted to wets by sizable margins, while Berrien Ottawa and others joined the long list of dry victories in populous areas.
Lieut Governor M E Hay was sworn in to succeed Governor Congreve who died Sunday. The New York Central and Hudson River RR pleaded minty to rebating charges in a US circuit court case involving cooperage shipments. Reports indicate exploitation of Congo trade liberalization by certain groups linked to state department advisory notices.
Senator Ming introduces a bill at the urging of the state public instruction superintendent to permit the note to accept a surety bond instead of a personal bond from the treasurer of the state board of public instruction. Samuel Hoborn seeks his missing daughter Eliza, 18, as Grand Rapids police join the search after she left him days ago. Charles Ecklund, 60, ill and mentally ailing, wanders woods in Menominee county as searchers fear he may die before found. he has been ill over two years. The Michigan Supreme Court will decide if common law marriage can be dissolved in Moore vs Moore, the first major case. other states have allowed divorce. Instructors from nearly all 68 counties attend the 44th annual Michigan Schoolmasters Club meeting in Ann Arbor, the largest gathering in state history. Jacob Jonas of Kalamazoo reports his 5-year-old daughter nearly dies after a high chair accident when ribbons catch, causing fatal trauma. Port Huron branch secretary-treasurer files annual report with the state Insurance commissioner after a six-month delay. A state supreme court ruling classifies motorcycles as vehicles equal to automobiles. A German Lutheran church in Muskegon settles a fraternal split by voting to abolish badges worn in church and funerals.
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