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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1910
Page
3
A whimsical verse depicts Henrath and Cistle beneath a mistletoe at the car pet square. Snow falls softly as a sleepy scene unfolds with a cheerful cry of heigh ho and a sudden kiss.
Port Union woman seeks seven dollars from a ten dollar bill after a relative’s unpaid 1869 bat purchase surfaces in a shop at Port Huron. Notably, Port Huron reports Mrs. Henry Middlemist’s death at ninety seven. In Lansing, Loren Millard, 21, son of the state railway chief clerk and Governor Warner’s nephew, dies of consumption. Other notes include smallpox case in Bagmnaw, Napoleon Carpenter’s death in Grand Rapids, and various incidents across Michigan towns. A Canadian ferry tragedy near St Marys River claims four lives with three rescued. A Paris-born Lennox claims a jail stay in Charlotte over car affairs, while Menominee spotlights an orphan-ship transport. Multiple minor legal and accident items, including a shooting in Howell and a senatorial figure’s accident in Mayville, fill this round of Michigan briefs.
A Lansing official says lawmakers may abolish the state railroad board and replace it with a general utilities commission of five non partisan members appointed by the governor. Railroads allegedly back the move with corporate support while state finances strain. Emergency funds are urged as deficits widen across Soldiers Home Requisitioned funds and university payments await approval.
Customs official quotes a Mexican commander reporting Francisco I. Madero was shot from his horse near Guerrero during a fight with government troops. The Diaz government orders confiscation of Madero’s property while troops pursue insurgents and a local rebel city government reportedly exists in Guerrero.
John EB Schwartz, former copper country newspaper man and Copper Country Press Club secretary, was arrested for forgery in Utah. In default of 2000 dollars, he was sent to jail. He was detained by Under Sheriff Sheridan while traveling with a theatrical company.
Twenty officers and committeemen of the Southeastern Underwriters association were found guilty of malicious and wanton disregard of the public right by a Southampton County corporation court jury. Each was fined 400 dollars after a month long trial for increasing fire insurance rates in Newport News Virginia. In other items the French cabinet rejected temporary abolition of import duties on foreign wheat, Rev F D Reagan accepts a call at Grace Presbyterian Saginaw, and political notes cite nominating conventions for a successor to Senator elect Edwin G Fox due to gaps in primary law.
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