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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1920
Page
7
Mighty Elephant Act Feature of Big Circus
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows open season at Madison Square Garden with a vast elephant herd. The touring circus presents 30 elephants in a single number, using hippodrome rock and full arena stages for the first time. A quarter million pound elephant act culminates the ensemble along the main tent side. Alma exhibits Thursday, July 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ringling Brothers
Barnum & Bailey
Madison Square Garden
New York City
America
Alma
Four Cent Bargain Promises Alma Newspaper Value
The Record offers a week of all neighborhood news for four cents, detailing births, deaths, social events, theatre programs, church services, prices, and local bargains. It promotes public utility, urges community support, and invites readers to co operate to make the paper the best in Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma
Michigan
ENOUGH IS PLENTY
The piece laments repeated broken promises and political graft, urging voters to seek sound business policy and distrust grandstanding rhetoric. It warns against chasing schemes and calls for private effort, stable governance, and prudent fiscal policy to avoid disaster. It adds reflections on daily resilience, domestic happiness, and personal responsibility.
More Food Dry of State Fair and Deserted Farms
A note warns that Michigan could become a New England of deserted farms as ten years pass. Rural decline and continued drying trends threaten countryside populations and agricultural activity across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
New England
Michigan State Fair to Spotlight Food Production and Manpower
The Detroit fair aims to show expert use of manpower to boost 19000 furs to productivity, avert a food shortage, and balance Michigan cities with farms. Secretary George W Dickinson says the event will stress farm vitality, with a complete farm show highlighting under-waving machinery and manpower efficiency in agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Detroit
George W. Dickinson
Dickinson
Dutie Wly
Michigan Agricultural Collage
United States Department of Agrculture
State Fair Costs Going UpMinn. Charges More
Hamline Minn With operating costs rising 50 percent the Minnesota State Fair announces a new admission schedule General grounds admission rises from 50 to 75 cents while management aims to keep in gate attractions affordable Detroit Mich George W Dickinson secretary manager of the Michigan State Fair comments that the rise reflects a policy to have fairs pay their own way and suggests Michigan will raise prices rather than cut quality
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Russia
Hamline
Minn
Minnesota
Detroit
Mich
George W. Dickinson
Insect Musical Instruments and Wing Vibration Study
A fragment discusses insects producing musical sounds via wing vibrations and compares these to human or artificial strings. The text hints at a main idea about sensory or artistic use of insect wings and rhythms, but many words are garbled, leaving uncertainty about specifics or outcomes.
Modern Unrest lecture by McGibeny at Redpath Chautauqua
Well known writer and lecturer Donald H McGibeny brings wide experience to discuss The Modern Unrest. He studies bolshevism and its aims, with investigations in Washington into the national society of Nearchists. He is an author with stories in Ladies Home Journal and has a new novel Hallett Proof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redpath Chautauqua
McGlheny
America
Hik
Washington
National Society of
Ladies’ Home Journal
Bmc-Giheny
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