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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1905
Page
3
A discussion of how animals and insects propel themselves. The piece compares trotting, galloping, and paddling in different species, noting that some creatures alternate limbs while others move a pair together. It invites observation to extend knowledge of locomotion in water and on land.
The passage argues that correct dress reflects self respect and social standing. It contrasts frontier roughness with modern emphasis on personal grooming, noting that well dressed men command respect and esteem through attention to clothes, hair, teeth, and overall appearance.
A New York preacher recalls a difficult pastoral duty and a green new pastor visiting a cranky church member. The clergyman’s question about prayer leads to a prompt to exercise discretion in choosing topics for prayer.
Warren Vincent led a sweeping denial of charges against him while ex deputy warden Jota Powe testified. Convicts Higgins and Savage faced discipline, with Higgins to lose status and Savage admitting inducement to escape. The prison paper Optimist will be shut, and privileges curtailed as investigations loom.
A jumble of names, properties, and parcels appears in an OCR excerpt detailing multiple real estate transfers. Names include Celia Dears, Porter A. Gilleo, Miles W. Ruillock, Solomon Campbell, Geo. H. Carli, and Jennie A. Soule, with various lot numbers and adjacent descriptions in Ashley and White River areas. The text also mentions Caple, Vine River, Woodward, Alma Jum, and Sumner Firveillal, but the garbled OCR obscures clear dates, titles, or full parcel boundaries.
An excerpt from August Lippincott's Magazine presents a whimsical neuromarketing ambiance with a mewing narratorial voice. The prose teases readers with snackable imagery and playful allusions to fiction and a poetically charged tasting experience.
Probate notices report last day for filing, hearings set for sale of estate assets, and final account submission. Names and dates are obscured in OCR but indicate continuation of estate administration for Kinney and Riclonatiel, with status of residuary legacy and closing of the estate.
Grant Ragids reports startling Kriebe affair developments implicating American Book Coca agent William White and possible former school trustees. Mayor Sweet’s investigative committee plans multiple sessions this week to prepare a report for the Mayors group and school board, naming White and others connected to the case. In a separate note from Grand Rapids, John Wo Funk seeks a marriage license with Mary M. All. officials report the bride is 19 and the groom from Plainfield and Joliet, marking a suspected runaway match.
An illustrated calendar announces cho ral union and orchestra offerings for public performance. Details include contact addresses and secretary A B for the year’s concert schedule and enrollment in arts programs.
Bay City report July 26 says a Rapid transit car from Marine City to the Great Lakes Engineering works derailed half a mile from the plant. Eight workers injured seriously, four with minor bruises as car left tracks and struck an embankment. George Thompson arrested for assault with intent to commit murder linked to a brutal attack on Motorman Frank Blessing.,
Bigier Johnson was hanged here Tuesday for the murder of his wife Margaret Johneon and her ten year old niece Annie Beajansin. The crime occurred on Boot 16, 1908, after the couple had separated.
James B. Connolly describes New York Harbor as a hand map the palm representing upper New York Bay the forefinger Hudson River and thumb East River with the harbor crowded by ships heading to distant ports from Rio to Shanghai He notes exotic cargos from rubber to ivory and opium and portrays pilots in their lofty houses scolding at wayward ships in vivid Harper's Magazine prose.
A terse literary aside notes Nell-Love and Maud at odds over affection. The speaker laments physical change and moral worth, contrasting thinner form with honest character, in a wry Shakespearean mood.
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