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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1891
Page
4
The state considers a parole system allowing release on ticket of leave for prisoners who prove immediate employment prospects. The governor oversees the prison records and monthly reporting, with some concern about the governor's duties but praise for the aim of restoring inmates to honest work.
The Dominion Illustrated prize draws offers 100 cash and goods prizes from $5 to $760 in gold plus items like a Heintzman Piano, Bell, Karn and Cornwall Organs, and gold watches. Send 12 cents for a sample copy and full details to The Sabiston Litho Pub Co Montreal. Hamlin and Green opened their table factory last Wednesday.
Delegates of the Lans ing District Ministerial Association of the Michigan Conference M E church visiting Alma April 28 29 1591 thank the people for entertainment and hospitality The association especially acknowledges Mr A W Wright proprietor of the Alma Sanitarium for his courtesy and kindness in entertaining the group The resolutions were ordered printed by the council.
A compact note traces the rose of Sharon to the anemone coronaria and Narcissus Taxotta, noting wild roses in Palestine are scarce and mostly found near Lebanon. It highlights Fide P. Brewer’s claim, the Ettrh of the term in Solomons Song, and early misattributions of biblical flora with regional cultivation and historic translations. The piece cites the Mustrirte Garten-Zeitang and Ebers Guthe.
Visitors at a sugar factory recount an Arab Punch and Judy show with Punch in a turban and Judy veiled, a spectacle that ends with Punch hanging the district magistrate in a vivid, humorous street performance. The piece also notes tall-tale quips about actors’ salaries and a string of miscellanea from a late 19th century paper.
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