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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1909
Page
3
A distorted notice from Alma Record notes publication by subscription and a postal entry at Alma. It mentions transmission ranges and multiple unclear references to Keeee and clase matter, with sparse legible names and dates.
The World's Work reports on a country life commission appointed by President Koomvelt urging a comprehensive survey of rural life. It emphasizes communication education and organization as keys to strengthening social and industrial fabric and preserving rural life as the nursery of strong families and virtues.
Martin Putnam of Muskegon, age two, great-grandson of Israel Putnam, died while playing snowball with children. He leaves a daughter in Manistee, a son in Portland, Ore., and a daughter in Pentwater. The report also notes local civic issues and mining developments in the region, including Alderman Dowsett under antitrust scrutiny and a tour of copper properties with water power use.
Oklahoma moves to overhaul its bank deposits guaranty amid fears of wildcatting. A bill limits bank openings by city size, requires at least 15000 cash capital, and keeps the guarantee fund in cash while investing other state funds. Banks must not hold over 10 percent of reserves in state chartered banks. Depositors have already paid 1 percent. future assessments are 0.25 percent yearly until 1 percent is reached. Certificates bearing 1 percent interest would be issued if bankruptcy occurs, funded by incoming fund money. The reform aims to set a model for neighboring states considering similar measures.
The 1905 survey notes 11 000 saloons closed nationwide and 840 000 miles of dry territory added. It lists eight dry states Maine Georgia Alabama Mississippi North Dakota Kansas Oklahoma and North Carolina and anticipates nine more. Countydry figures spread across Ohio Arkansas Michigan Kentucky Maryland Oregon Nebraska Missouri and California.
Fragmented OCR text claims a reward for locating someone named Cateret or Cheney over many years. The passage includes nonsensical pricing and unclear names and dates, with garbled place references and illegible signatures. The readable parts suggest a misplaced personal claim rather than a formal public notice.
Wittleven Leaghts, a pioneer dry goods merchant of Mt Plemsant, died Sunday morning in Murroe County New Yor. He had moved to Isabelle county in tea years earlier. his wife died 12 feure mene, leaving son Ho. Dongbte, a member at the state board of corrections mind ates, as the surviving family member.
State news briefs recount Adam Friend crushed by a falling tree near Camden, Fannie Joynew and Tillie Levy injured in factory and shaft accidents, and James Holbrook run over in Ann Arbor. Other items note Potterville converting a residence to a school, fairground funding in Osceola, power outages in West Branch, and local divorces and crimes alongside ongoing political chatter and spring farm activity.
A Philadelphia Ledger piece recounts Lincoln early romances and heartaches, detailing Ann Rutledge and Mary Owens as pivotal figures. It notes Rutledge's death, Lincoln's grief, and his later dilemma over the marriage proposal to Owens, shaping his personal history.
The narrative recounts Abraham Lincoln's youth in New Salem Illinois as a clerk and postmaster, his courtship of Ann Rutledge, then his engagement to Mary Todd. It notes Lincoln’s education in Springfield, the push to study law, and his eventual marriage to Mary Todd on November 4, 1842, at Ninian Edwards’s house, detailing their children and later roles.
The report notes a county convention held at Stantis Frider where Eliworth and others addressed issues. Resolutions favored constitutional reform and a statewide writary law while Davis of Lenin drew attention for supreme court action. Died last week in Del Rien, with marriages and probate efforts mentioned in the same notice.
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