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Newspaper

The Alma Record

Location

Alma, Michigan, United States of America

Date

Feb 18, 1887

Page

2

Good Samaritan Hall Aims To Build Library Nucleus In Detroit

In Detroit a Good Samaritan Hall run by 70 year old Jas Holdsworth aids at risk residents. He seeks 1000 books as a nucleus for a city hall library and asks contributors to send volumes. The piece also notes remarks by Mrs Kate Ford and Mrs Tone Hartwick Thrope and includes diverse vignettes on culture, education, and public life.

Detroit Good Samaritan Hall White Cross Movement Jas. Holdsworth Holdsworth Holtsworth Tone Hartwick Thrope Thrope Cirfew Elocutioniste Lily Tadal Bette New York

Floods In Michigan City Cause Severe Damage And Loss

State news from Michigan reports drastic flooding after a January thaw in Grand Rapids and surrounding areas. Cold Brook Creek and tributaries overflowed, inundating low districts, washing away culverts, bridges, and rail lines, with many residents evacuating to upper floors. Dozens of families sought higher ground as water reached record levels and property damage mounted across Lyons, Hudson, and nearby towns.

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Fragmented COSDENSEL State News Highlights Local Fatalities and Crimes

A garbled COSDENSEL state news column reports multiple deaths from railway and street incidents, with names and places including Concord, Cheboygan, and Austin. It notes an arrest for bigamy and seduction, plus a lawsuit for 800000 claimed by Ida Jones of Bay City against Walter Dyer of Blandish, Arense county.

Traiter Thewego N.V Dorlinger Chaid Apis Warth Nourdganne Nether Woods Grand Maple Concord Jackson County Beriohor Tunner Antrian Austin Mehigan Wan Saginaw County Manistee Bay Mason, Son St. Clair Midland Hurron Charles L Campbell Illedate Chio Ida Jones Bay City Walter Ki. Dyer Blandish Arense County

Leprosy fears and sensational trials haunt Hawaiian shores

A Honolulu physician recounts leprosy’s horrors and the native plight, detailing contagious fears, island quarantine, and a gripping tale of a doctor’s near infection and a doomed romance amid a leper colony. He warns of annexation risks and the vanish of native life under disease and colonial pressures.

That Accounts For It. Whittrock as Jim Cummings Robber

The Dallas News notes Whittrock once a coal dealer known as Jim Cummings robbed express agent Fotheringham. He had long held up the public and viewed stealing from an expressman as no great wrong, reflecting a shift in his scheme over winters.

Frederick ‘I. Miner Honolulu Haw New York Vermont California San Francisco Tormont Sunis Ullenese Tiwure United States France Hawadi Hawai Uhraidh Narhor Whittrock Jim Cummings Fotherngham Dallas News

The Girl as a Mariner in the Chronicle

The Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph quotes De Wiggs and Le Diggs on the modern female reader likening her to a schooner captain. The exchange imagines a woman as skipper, reflecting changing views of women in literature.

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