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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1908
Page
7
The Twenty fifth anniversary number of the 1904 World Almanac promises a universal knowledge library of ten thousand facts along with a six year review of important events. It claims to tell you something about everything with no price increase, now on sale for 35 cents through the Press Publishing Company in New York.
The text seems garbled with several misspellings. It references a boat and children, along with waves and a spree. No clear names, dates, or locations are discernible to form a factual card.
Albion and Buttle Creek report severe flood damage with five Albion stores caved in near Kalamazoo river crossings, two bridges lost, and extensive property losses. The Battle Creek area faces rising water, planing mill collapse, damaged dams, and evacuations. Jackson and Muskegon report threat of flooding, with bridges watched and residents aided. A separate incident in Muskegon ends in a man’s suicide in front of his sister.
The St Louis Sugar Company will not install a Polp Dryer this summer. Polp will be supplied to farmers who contract to sell beets to the company. Write your contract at once. For sale one lot of radiators. Call at this office.
March 10 Lansing Supreme Court decides the question of submitting the proposed state constitution revision to voters at the November election rather than April. Justices Carpenter Ostrander Clair Grant Moore Montgomery Nooker McAlvey dissented. Judge Alfred Wolcott of Kent County circuit court dies suddenly in Grand Rapids from brain hemorrhage. born 1858, educated at Western Reserve and Cincinnati, served as prosecutor and judge.
Fred Ames killed his brother in law James McClelland at the McClelland farm west of Warren after arriving with his father Julius Ames. Witness Mrs. McClelland says Ames chased her from the barn and fired three shots. McClelland died from head and body wounds. Local authorities report Ames claimed defense.
Edward Retting proprietor of the Decatur Hoop Lambe company was caught in a revolving shaft and fatally injured. He was thirty six years old and died two hours later. He leaves a widow three children and his aged father.
Antonio Perretto, a prominent Italian in Miffletown, shot and killed Mrs. Jennie Russell and fired at Kitsell, wounding himself fatally. The grisly incident appears motivated by fear of losing his beloved.
A mosaic of 19th century headlines spans sorrow and power. Death from heart disease near Chicago, a wealthy horseman David Waldo dies en route to Kansas City. Taft signs for Army post abandonment at Fort Keogh. A Venezuela mutiny at Carons quashed after many soldiers die. Italy’s King meets American novelist Dean Howells amid US politics. Denver real estate operator Heath arrested in Los Angeles for misappropriation of 40 000. Ohio commissions urge a $2 600 000 penitentiary with annex for criminal insane. Veteran Captain Daniel Stewart dies after a boiler explosion injury. San Francisco defuses bubonic plague with $16 000 from Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe. A tragedy during Baleaski carnival in Portugal. Arkansas creates a national forest of about 20 000 acres. Effie Frisheorn, paralyzed for years, continues life with faith. Norfolk police tie ring to a murder in New Orleans case. A Nassau class warship for Germany launched in Wilhelmshaven, a massive 17 960 ton steel leviathan with guarded details.
An old issue promotes Dr King s New Life Pill as a health remedy for biliousness constipation and malaria. It promises relief and a cheerful price refund at George B Sharrar s drug store Cartalined Witch Hazel Salve for piles sale.
L. Miller offers two farms for sale with favorable terms and other vacant lots. Also promotes building materials and cheaper purchases. Meanwhile reports cover a near-miss by Customs Officer Henry Inbitar saving an elderly woman, a theater fire in Lapeer injuring Archie Harrington, Captain Alexander Cameron of Lansing's death, a divorce petition in Muskegon, Pontine city hospital construction funding, and a confession in a counterfeit case near Woodville.
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