Fourth of July plans in Alta promise grand day
Citizens raise over $1,000 to fund events including a two-flight aviator display by Mr Barlow and a morning parade at 9 30 with floats automobiles and a marching band. Civic Improvement League converts free reading room into a rest room. Notables travel guests and local teachers relocate for summer duties while Alma Military Band performs in Wright Park and town hails numerous community activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alta
Barlow
Gratiot County
Civic Improvement League
Methodist Church
I. W. Race
Toledo
McMullen
Hits
Hicksville
Race
Carlyn C. Delavan
The
U. of M
Cam
UDGAL HAPPENNINGS Velma Sharp Family Arriving in Alma
Velma and Mary Sharp with brother Lester are due in Alma tomorrow and will spend the summer with their father L. A. Sharp. Ray Swigart, principal of My Pleasant High School, is visiting his city home this week and will return to Mt. Pleasant next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pa Pacific Railway
King Lumber Company
British Columbia
Harriette McGreaham
St. Louis
Shepherd
Evanston
University
Shawne
Paul T. Delavan
National Observatory
la Platte
Buenos Ayres
Argentine Republic
Uth America
Greenwich
E. C. Poppleton
Houghton Lake
Alma
Bradford
Rcada Township
McGreaham
Ruth Bennet
James Bamborough
James
Ionia
YMC. A
Torch Lake
Lillian
Beatrice Jackson
Wright Hall
Detroit
Glen Crisp
Hudson
Ypsilanti
Mistes Velma
Mary Sharp
Lester
L. A. Sharp
Ray Swigart
My Pleasant High School
Mt. Pleasant
Curious historical penalties from early New York and beyond
Odd punishments span 1640s New Amsterdam to 18th century Scotland and England. Peasants faced shaming tokens, soldiers endured stake and praise of example, while others paid fines or wore signs. The article catalogs varied, sometimes humorous, methods from public penance to corporal-style shaming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New Amsterdam
Thomas Cornel
Jonas Jonassen
West India Company
England
Newcastle- on-Tyne
Scotland
David Leyns
Bairheddit
Balrfuttit
Salem
John Gatshell
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ronan
Lilah Lancashire
A. W. Weight
Oral Misenar
Fast Jordan
Misenar
Newberry
Leslie P. Koepfgen
Allene Brown
Mart
Trew
County Normal
Evert
Alma Military Band
Wright Park
Florence Hood
Mina
St. Charles
Rapid City
Dakota
W. L. Hood
Allen Hooper
Maude Hooper
Eumonton
Alberta
Maude
Roden
Allen
Marshall-Wells Hardware Company
Ann Arbor Railroad
Owosso
Ann Arbor
Ann Avor
UDGAL
Kemp
Litchfield
M. L. Perrigo
Forest Hill
Michigan
W. A. Macy
Joseph B. Bowles
Cushing & Benedict’s
Cushing & Benedict
Mich
Alita
PMICH
Ben Greet
Ben Jose
Cal
Our
Chautauqua
Be Rors
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!