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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
2
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A Michigan item notes Johnny Belt, aged around 80 in reality but appearing teenaged, weighs 74 pounds and cannot read or write. The report also mentions Marie Oskin sky, born near Moscow in 1808, believed oldest Michigan resident at 106, plus other local incidents including a fire bug hunt and a lineman’s close call.
Newport’s large snake killed by Charles Johns measured three feet four inches. The last log cabin in Calhoun County home of James Baker in Mareneo township burned to the ground with household goods following a defective chimney. The family escaped in night clothes through a bedroom window. Loss estimated at 1500 dollars with no insurance. Otto Hinkleman, Gustave Hinkleman’s one year old son, died suddenly near Benton Harbor after hearing of the Tilley shooting. Ute Bernard Embree’s body lay four hours before discovery. he was electrocuted by a live electric pole grounding into a charged wire.
Gov War reappoints Richard Fleischer as state labor commissioner under the ww Inbor department bil. Grand Rapids aims to outpace rivals in tuberculosis fights with a sanitarium and X ray plant for diagnosis. Sidney Retoor and wife, deaf mutes, killed by a Four passenger train at Eau Claire crossing.
Prisoner Morris from Detroit attacked Hallmaster Thompson and Keeper Larmie at Jackson state asylum in a violent assault after being returned from Ionia. Thompson, hurt but overpowering Morris, will recover. Larmie suffered a scalp wound. Morris had been detained at the asylum for criminal insanity and was recently deemed unstable again.
Captain William B. Kalmback of Co B leads the nine member Grand Rapids battalion in preliminary rounds, aiming for one of the 15 spots to represent Michigan National Guard at Camp Perry. Lieut. W. H. Comboy posted the day's high score, with 9 of 10 hits at 100 yards, as eliminations narrow to the top 35. Meanwhile a severe cloudburst floods Grand Rapids, damaging basements and streets, with three inches of rain in an hour and widespread damage. A boy struck by lightning suffers injuries, and Eaton County faces a cash squeeze as autumn taxes approach. In Bay City, report of a man dying after drinking raw alcohol follows a separate incident, while a worker is killed after being struck by a train in front of a switch engine.
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