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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1907
Page
8
Historic notes recall Michigan land frauds where swampy plots were sold as valuable tillable soil. Modern experiments at Michigan Agricultural College show low lands yield high mint oil, suggesting swamp lands can become profitable with peppermint cultivation and strong markets.
Fragmented OCR hints at dairy buyer activity and a possible grant reference. Names and places are unclear, but the text references milk and customers. No explicit outcome or dates are readable.
Mrs Clara Connelly formerly Clara Bartlett and wife of George Hudgkinnan, was sentenced by Judge Stuart in the superior court to not less than land not to exceed four years at the Detroit House of Correction. The judge reduced a longer term after noting defense and counsel, and Mrs Connelly plans to appeal with hopes of a new trial.
Newswire from New York to Charleston reports the De Forest wireless station near Fort Fisher picked up signals from the Connecticut battleship group. Returns indicate good morale among officers and crew as they prepare for social events in port.
Reading fragment mentions Christmas timing and a New York reference with incomplete names. The text is garbled, offering no clear subject, group, or outcome to summarize into a full news item.
New York speakers from the Y M C A warn that the country is becoming a harmful place for boys. Myer Scudder notes many undesirable men drift to farming and it is easier for a boy to go wrong there than in the city. He urges revitalizing country life with a force like the Y M C A to attract youth and revive the rural church.
Evangelist Torrey told a West Northern theater audience that after resurrection believers will have human bodies able to eat and work without fatigue. He claimed visitors may be able to perform vast tasks at once and speculated on the nature of future bodies. Separately, workers planted trees around the McKinley monument in Buffalo, aiming to shade and beautify the area, with spectators noting the growing grove over time.
A Chinese merchant named Chan Tal Yuen is approached by a Chinese company offering to pay the government four thousand one hundred dollars yearly for the monopoly of collecting all the wante paper in the Kwongchow and Shtching prefectures to manufacture firecrackers. Also advertised for sale five milch cows at the Caple and Soule Hardware Company store.
A stream of property transfer entries shows Stephen K Jobmon and others conveying partial lots and parcels in multiple sections and additions. Names include Clark W T Barnett, Fred D Amsbory, Andrew J O Boyle, Benjamin Ray, Chester Conk tin, William B Canoan, Roy D Letts, Alma Harcyson M Cannon, William Tr Keltnerney, and Peter Hestand among others, with locations such as North Star, Seville, Arcada, Alma, Elbe, Mall Sharrer's add, and Newark referenced.
A Lincoln County Advertiser note from December 20, 1907 argues stores must address customers through advertising or risk losing patronage. It condemns non advertising shops for presumed self sufficiency and lack of effort to inform customers about offerings or new items.
The Treasurer of Pine River township will be in St Louis at independent office Saturday December 14 at Forest Mill Tuesday December 17 in Alma at Holmes store Thursday December 1. Will be at above places from Gates until January 10. Sun V. Behler.
Notice to taxpayers states taxes can be paid at the city clerk’s office in City Hall on weekdays until January 10 with no extra charge. After January 10 a four percent addition will be applied. Dated January 9 in Alma Michigan. City Treasurer.
The annual report shows 660 male and 22 female parolees released from state prisons. During the year 454 convicts were returned to custody. Over 20 percent of released parolees violated terms, with most breaches due to failing to keep promises made at release. Indeterminate sentence support is urged by board members. Michigan notes deaths and other local items including a Riverside preacher promoting a self-proclaimed divine claim and a Benton Harbor death by heart disease.
I Harry Carter, a deserter from Fort Reno, Mont, walked into police headquarters and surrendered. He said he felt freer now after more than four years on the run, since deserting in April 1908, and related his arrest to a recent marital distress.
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