Circus Visits Alma Tuesday Featuring Hippopotamus Wonder
Hagenbeeck-Wallace circus comes to Alma on Tuesday with the largest hippopotamus ever shown in America. The river horse arrived recently and is housed among other exotic acts. Lions cubs and a traveling post office add to the cosmopolitan display as crowds watch the morning parade and journey through a world of far eastern and European sights. The show includes bold costumes, animal acts, and a mix of cultures, with the crowd urged to enjoy the spectacle.
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Hagenbeeck-Wallace
Alma
Juno Ia
America
Amon
British South Africa
Maria
Hagenbderk-Wallice
Harveyville
Johnson
Wallace
Arid
Verdict on whiskey ring killings described by judge
The judge denounces foreign bootleggers in a Gratiot County liquor case, calling the crime willful and premeditated. He praises the fair trial, condemns whiskey manufacture, and vows to stop bootlegging while noting the case as the most horrendous in memory.
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Gratiot County
Nquor
Isi Darshepari
Wool graders urge early wool delivery and field notes
Farm Bureau reports urge wool consignors to deliver before graders arrive, noting long lines with forty wool rigs waiting at one location. Dates for Middleton June 6 Ithaca June 7 and St Louis June 8 are provided alongside pest notes on canker worm control.
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Middleton
Ithaca
St. Louis
Local News Items From Alma Area and Surroundings
Carnival Arcada Grange Hall and neighbors attend Decoration Day events. Alma residents visit Lansing Pinkney and Omaha business trips and social visits. Local trades advertise auto plates Paige and Overland cars while army guards prepare for inspection. Epworth League serves cake and supper. Lulu Stone to sing at Autra Vie concert. Herbert Swiss returns to Alma to work with plastics export sales unit.
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Arcada Grange Hall
Howard Hoyt
Fred Slater
Lansing
J. Tl
Stickney
Pinkney
Sharrar & Watson
Alma
Mich
Cora MacDonald
Omaha
Neb
Lillian Swarthout
E. G. Sluyter
State Savings Bank
Lma
Overland Light Four
Leary & Thompson
W. Superior St
Tom Nicholson
Michigan National Guard
Ladies Aid
Presbyterian “Church
Charles
Rhodes
Epworth League
Methodist Church
Andy
Buried With Their Husband The Barus Tribe Customs
A Congo district tribe buries a man with his wives in a brutal ritual. The chief wife is placed in the grave as the corpse is lowered, then the other wife follows. Relatives break the wives arms and legs so they cannot escape the hole. The corpse’s head lies in the chief wife’s lap and the feet in the second wife’s lap. Remaining wives are thrust in, limbs broken, and forced to sit around the grave as earth is filled. Drums and shouts mask the screams.
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Congo
Africa
In the Name of Religion Christs of Stuasin Masked Rite
A description of a queer religious sect, the Christs or Kilysis of Stuasin, meeting in churches before hundreds. After prayers they dance, shed garments for white robes, light candles, and perform a wild round of dancing and screaming. Participants disrobe and behave chaotically, ending exhausted and blood stained by dawn.
Weather Drives Birds Into English Towns And Farms
Cold weather drives birds from fields into streets and gardens across England. Green plover flock in Hertfordshire villages while thousands of rock doves appear in Buckinghamshire stockyards and paddy yards. London pigeons feed on ice, irritating gulls as starlings pick morsels from river floes and water.
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England
Hertfordshire
Buckinghamshire
London
The Boy of It on the Street Car
Three children ride a street car to school. The older sister wins the button dispute to stop the car, but her brother forcibly pushes the button and leads the group off first. After alighting, the sisters wait as the boy dashes across the tracks ignoring warnings.
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Motorama
Sugar crop loss to unseen germs in Cuban harvest
About one percent of Cuba's sugar crop valued at $1.5 million is destroyed yearly by molds and bacteria. If preserved at current rates, 878,000 Americans could be supplied by the sugar germs' waste. The sugar loses sweetness when molds conggwe the sucrose.
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United States
Unis
Marble cheaper than wood in Italian market
Ington from the far attache in Rome reports that American lumber has risen to such high prices in Italy that builders choose marble staircases over wood. The cost reflects mill prices freight and an exchange premium of four to one that Italian buyers must pay to convert currency.
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Ington
Rome
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Dream of Liberty a Warning on Liberty and Health
Fragmentary excerpt warns that dreaming of liberty while healthy portends risk of being misled and losing freedom implies shame. The archaic phrasing discusses cautions against taking liberties with others and the moral consequence of lost liberty.
New Membership Committee Meets
A meeting of seventeen Chamber of Commerce members was held at the Wright House Wednesday evening at 6 40 oclock. Fifteen were part of a newly organized special committee to contact newcomers and potential affiliates. No procedural plan was decided. date for the next meeting will be set later.
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Chamber of Commerce
Wright House
Delphian
Alma
Wm, McFadden
Pine Street
Hannah
Macbeth
Misa Angle
Win County Track Meet with Easy Victory
Report from a multi event meet names Alma Breckenridge Ithaca North Star St Louis and Wheeler with event results in sprints distance throws and relays. Alma leads with 64 points followed by Breckenridge 25 24 Ithaca 20 5 6 St Louis 36 6. Meets finishes with notes on later campus events and a literary club meeting at Alma.
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Oughby
Ithaca
Pesos
Elias
Alma
Shirley
Lake
Sartor
Bixie
Breckenridge
Spaulding
Cave
St. Louis
Wilkinson
Anderson
Nelson
Bissell
Wallace Alma
Stearns
Kennedy
Cross
Wyant
Bistell
Barton
Beard
Arnit
Moore
Wallace, Stearns
Bentley
Local Movements and Visits Patch Sunday Guests
District nee nana rena day to day district residents moved to new homes in St Louis. Dan Reinsmith and family from New Barnes visited Frank John Husted Lyons relatives. Mr Clark Wood and Mrs Orini Fletcher attended exercises in Shepherd. Lina Felch of Grand Rapids and Floyd Greiner of Sunfield visited Charles Neidhardt. Ray Beard of St Louis spent Sunday with Philip Qplrymple. Queen Elizabeth jewels remark. appeal for funds to finish sugar beet harvester project. Arthur Lippert Alma Mich. adv and old entertainment notes.
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Wen
Guy Roberts
Roy Puller
St. Louis
Dan Reinsmith
New Barnes
Haven
Frank John Husted
Lyons
Clark Wood
Orini Fletcher
Shepherd
Lina Felch
Grand Rapids
Floyd Greiner
Sunfield
Charles Neidhardt
Ray Beard
Philip Qplrymple
Queen Elizabeth
Columbus
Arthur Lippert
Alma, Mich
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Farm Bureau
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Herbert H. Swiss
Republic Truck
John N. Willys Export Corporation
New York City
Mr. Swiss
Win County
Vliss
Allen
Wheeler
North Star
Coleman
North Jup
Wee
Milo
Pailey
Kluckner
Boyd
Walters
Bradford
Parling
Dash—Allen
Northrup
Greer
Hurdies
Klockner
Oman
Marling
Dancer
Alien
Kruckner
North Sttr
Allen Wheeler
Dixcus
North Str
Wheeler A
Delphians
East Superior and
Euclid
R. G. Grubaugh
Nana Rena Day
Gon of
Tarzan
Ady
Piccolo Bros. & Biafore
Fruit Store
E. Superior St
Firestone Cord Tires
Jimmy
Prince Albert
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