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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1922
Page
6
Readers ponder a long quoted Atlantis myth from Scott Wilt, detailing pre Christian contact, lost continents, and imperial marvels. The piece traces speculative geography, echoes ancient texts, and blends science, poetry, and philosophy while noting modern curiosity and debate.
Alma area notices include Frank Oberst Breckenridge on business, George Ryan visiting Saginaw, Dr E G Sluyter at State Savings Alma, Russel Hext in Saginaw for Alma Elee Battery, and local social events. A grass fire, church meeting, funerals, and plays are noted along with several travels, visitors, and family updates across Alma and nearby towns.
G W Dickinson invites Michigan readers to the Seventy third annual Michigan State Fair in Detroit from September 1 to 10. He frames the fair as part of state government and an educational institution, a ten day city of 600000 people, serving farmers and industrial workers with broader educational aims and potential profits.
G W Dickinson secretary manager organizes grand fireworks spectacle at the Detroit Michigan State Fair from September 1. The Theatre Dumeld Co of Chisago will present six nights of Mystic China Chicago Fire Scrapping the Navy Pioneer Days and Overhead among other acts drawing thousands of fairgoers.
An article surveys bold claims and cautious skepticism about creating life by chemistry. It notes experiments claiming synthetic eggs and lifelike development in infertile eggs, with experts arguing the spark of life remains unproven while some scientists pursue chemical paths to life. A tangent describes a mud turtle surfacing for air before winter hibernation.
An unusual pipe arch bridge, lasting eighty feet with a seven and a half foot diameter steel pipe, rises above a concrete support system. The design, claimed unique in the country with one European parallel, carries water supply pressure high enough to require forty foot thick concrete abutments.
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