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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1901
Page
7
A garbled collage of mock dialogue and jokes from humorous columns. It features a suitor asking a father for his daughter, wry exchanges about spinster lectures, elephants in omnibuses, bank cashiers and umbrellas, and several concentrated quips about manners, thrift, painters, and dramatic novelties. The piece reads like an incidental montage from a city paper, with name checks and period humor.
President McKinley congratulates Taft as civil governor of the Philippines and outlines four executive departments. Taft vows to push a treasury surplus and future development while MacArthur retires amid public demonstrations. Chaffee receives military authority. Taft and Chaffee greet officials as Taft assumes office before stepping into new duties.
A Great Northern transcontinental train No 3 was hijacked at Wagner Montana by three masked men who blew the express car safe with dynamite and stole 83000. The daylight robbery occurred about 4202 Wednesday afternoon, prompting a 5000 reward for the capture of the robbers.
On the Hudson at Poughkeepsie July 3 Cornell led the Wareily Fight with a time of 18 68, Georgetown second, Wisconsin third, and Pennsylvania fourth in a varsity eight. Freshmen events saw Penn lead, followed by Yale and Cornell as crews challenged existing city records under challenging water conditions.
Des Moines Iowa July 6 S R Daweson released from years in prison for involvement with Walter Scott, son in law, on Christmas night 1805. He purportedly mastered Damiscus steel making and copper hardening while incarcerated. Capitalists backing a Jawson processes venture cited his alleged mental strain at the time of the shooting as basis for parole.
A man described as a demented Swede named Christ Jensen is accused of killing two women and injuring a child, Carrie Kinport, in Denver. Jensen reportedly barred a room, harmed the child, and fled to a vacant lot where he slashed the body. Police fear lynching attempts.
Charles G. Dawes tendered his resignation as comptroller of the currency to take effect October 1, seeking to run for the United States Senate. He cited the impracticality of canvassing for election while continuing to administer the demanding post. The note frames a transition amid political ambitions and official duties.
In San Juan on July 5 Porto Rico marked its first general Fourth of July celebration with the passage and signing of a free trade resolution aimed at ending the tariff with the United States. The assembly, in a three hour session, voted unanimously as Gov. Allen spoke in support. The crowd cheered the result and a similar call to end the present system by July 25, the anniversary of the American flag's arrival, was noted.
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