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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1921
Page
10
Engineers and manufacturers team up with the American Gas Association to publish guidance on efficient gas use in kitchens. Tests in many homes show common appliances waste heat. advice covers burner cleaning, flame color, oven use, minimizing heat waste, scale and soot removal, and proper water heating practices.
Fay Hunter, center on Alma College 121 football team, elected captain to lead the Marodo and Cream fighting machine on the gridiron. A sophomore from Newberry, he was a Michigan A ic All Frosh member last year and played every minute of every contest. The squad expects a winning season with Hunter’s leadership as the third Newberry man to captain a Michigan MBiove team. The Knights of Pything lodge elected officers at its recent meeting, with Lyle B Hopkins as worthy chaplain and John D Spinneys as trustee among others. The Record office remains open for Christmas greetings in its fine advertisement.
A tangle of local notes from Alma Geant Rapids and nearby towns recounts social visits church services and holiday events. Names include Dr E G Stuyter Willard Bishop and Rev BE Shputte with residents attending Mass carol services and Christmas observances.
Fragmented obituary page notes deaths and family tributes. Thomas L. Filgate, 62, longtime Middleton resident, died December 13 after moving from Canada. Survivors include widow, daughter, stepchildren, and grandchildren. Card of thanks expresses gratitude to friends, ministers, and neighbors for support and flowers.
A fragmentary account describes St Nicholas of Myra as a figure of gift giving and guardian of children. It recounts legends of his charity, his ties to stockings and thievish plots, and his enduring presence in Christmas folklore across ancient trade towns.
A New York bound film project seeks a cockatiel named Cocon with striking white feathers for a scenery role. The bird, featured in a tight production schedule, attracts the director’s interest while remaining a key prop in a Cornish tombstone scene. An obituary note for Andy ends with a misquoted verse about a virtuous woman.
A French naturalist in Malden Massachusetts named Trouvelot left a paper box with gypsy moth caterpillars on a window ledge in the early 1880s. The box blew off prompting widespread concern and ongoing costly efforts to eradicate the pest.
The author argues that true English writing comes from daily sympathy with great writers. Reading Goldsmith Austen Scott Macaulay and others trains a student to produce good and pure English in time.
Instructions to inhale Vicks vapor through nostrils and melted Vicks via spoon or cup, with nightly reapplication and nib on the neck. Claims sufferers of chronic catarrh will experience relief and better sleep, though wording is unclear and may reflect older medical claims.
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