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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1912
Page
7
A description of a party game where a questioner leaves the circle as others pick an object or person for her to guess by asking yes or no questions. Answers reference the left hand neighbor, creating confusion. The process includes rounds of questioning, reversal attempts, and deduction to identify who or what is “it.”
A charming Christmas party game for nursery children where a toy shop is set on a fireside counter. One child hides a toy while another guesses which toy was sold, with variations like color order and rainbow color ribbons to add challenge.
The article describes making decorative Christmas soap bubbles. Dissolve a square inch of dry soap in warm water, then mix in gum arabic, glycerin, and cold water. Add melted turpentine, then color with current juice for pink bubbles or orange juice for yellow.
Claude Extrum, an unsettled artist, hides in a Colorado cabin to forget a broken romance with Aldyce. His solitude breaks when Aldyce and her brother Hal arrive after a car wreck, bringing Christmas cheer, beans, and a fortune twist: a $3,000 check for a painting sold to NY collector Stevens, hinting at future orders. Aldyce reveals the news, prompting a playful, romantic moment between them.
The Bell Telephone company and its partners the Western Electric and Western Union Telegraph announce a 10,000,000 dollar pension fund for employees with over a year of service. It provides death and sick benefits plus accident indemnities, tied to wages and service length, with retirement options at 55 for men and younger for women.
John C. Baker of Manhattan Michigan recalls a prophecy from his sister Mary Russell, Wilsons former teacher in Tileston school Wilmington, DC, who predicted he would become president when he was ten. Russell witnessed Wilson rise to prominence and died at eighty four in Leesville, North Carolina. Baker notes Wilsons father Rev Joseph Wilson visited during the fretwork frame exchange and quipped about Woodrows temperament.
The Naval Academy reinstates a version of the chain gang confinement, placing cadets in quarters aboard the ship Reina Mercedes captured from Spain in 1808. Midshipmen under punishment are confined on deck between watches, marched to meals and back with no intermingling, reviving the old interdicted discipline.
President Butler of Columbia University announced a Dutch government backed effort to establish a Queen Wilhelmina Professorship of Dutch history literature and language. Holland leaders pledge half the funds if the other half is raised in the United States. Columbia was chosen for its historic ties to Holland and the Dutch people.
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