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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1917
Page
20
Fragmentary medieval history note recounts the 1214 Christmas festival in which barons pressed King John for Magna Carta rights. It mentions the French emulation, the susurrus of liberties, and the 1215 royal charter confirmation amid political tension and shifting loyalties.
Card of thanks from Mrs Wilkin Anderin and Mr and Mrs William Gee to neighbors friends and minister for flowers and comforting words after a bereavement. Mentions Douglas Fairbanks in The Man from Painted Post at Idlehour Sunday and Monday with some garbled names and details.
Local notices recount visits by Mike Downing to Ypsilanti and Smith to St John, motions to Huntington for church business, and theatre ads featuring Hart, Arbuckle, Pickford and a Red Cross benefit. Upcoming visits include Genesta Keiler and Miss Campbell Williams. Fire department responds to a small blaze at Republic plant as staff transitions occur.
Zeta Sigma members brave bad weather to attend a large banquet at the Wright House. Gen. Stlake Milter led the program with speeches by Earl Coleman and O. M. Andersen. Freshman Lee M. Sharrar, Bud Marsh, and a quartet performed, while Doane and Galtney praised the Alpha Theta sisters and Adelphice of Oliver. Captain George Johnson spoke for Oliver, and veterans Rodino and Lampman added reflections as the gathering closed with the Zeta Sigma song. Over ninety attendees including alumni, notably Lauderbach Goodrich Anderson McFarlane and others, were present.
War department rules require all registrants not already in service to fill a new four page questionnaire dividing them into five classes by liability for service. Gratiot county boards will mail these after December 15. return within days or be labeled a slackER and lose rights. Moved residents must notify local boards. then questionnaires go to the correct address. If returned due to no forwarding address, registrants may be placed in class 1 liable for immediate call. Alma Ithaca and St Louis lawyers offer free help preparing forms. If draft age and not yet called or exempted, seek a questionnaire before December 20 at the draft office. A separate note reports Sumner Fare of Forest Will jailed ten days for truancy after a justice court trial in Ithaca.
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