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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1910
Page
2
A protest poem laments a city’s failing summer stream as officials promised repairs. The speaker questions mayors and public works, demanding action to restore the once clear mini creek that fed lawns and animals and calmed the town.
The Ottoman authorities wage a campaign against stray dogs in Constantinople. Police detachments use lassoes and wooden tongs, driving the animals away by night to unknown fates. Past efforts left dogs on Bulwar Island. recent actions grew out of renewed nuisance concerns.
New peers face costly formalities before seating in the House of Lords. Costs include patent parchment with wax seal, scarlet robes with ermine, and heraldic coat of arms. Fees total about 50 guineas for summons, with outfits and coronet purchases driving Earl costs to 600 to 700 pounds, split between the exchequer, Crown, and College of Arms.
A 1908 New England corn yield prize spurred a Worcester exposition to prove regional supremacy in corn. Massachusetts and Connecticut claim high per acre returns with notes on fertilizer needs, seed testing, and beekeeping prompts alongside agricultural tips.
European nations push incentives to raise birth rates as higher costs of living shrink family size. England offers tax rebates to fathers, France weighs cash bonuses for civil servants with children, and Schoneberg Berlin pays municipalities with three or more children monthly premiums from $2.50 to $5 for larger families, signaling a shift toward larger or smaller households.
A French inventor, Joseph Hope of Rouen, demonstrated a cotton substitute made from wood pulp at the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers meeting. The woven fiber reportedly resists bleaching and dyeing and finishing as well as cotton and offers a brighter luster.
Ned Griggs and friends join Loretta Butler to inspect a women’s home advertised as a model institution. Three male intruders disguise as visitors, three real residents vanish, a trapdoor cupola escape, and a comet sighting diverts a tense capture until the president's investigation ends with an apology and a safe retreat.
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