Local Notes Mix Births Farms and School Funds
Mixed local items report births and farm moves, with new price subscriptions and community happenings. Names include Charles Marklam Ashley Nancy Lang Sumner Edgar St Louis Ella McIntire Lewis Sumner James Welch Hamilton Minnie Dutcher Lafayette Minturn Kinney Hamilton Tate Youngs Hamilton William Hough Alma Elsie Lamberton Grattan Ella Root of Eaton County and more. Also notes a nine pound boy born to John Dunlap and mentions improvements to farms and church activities. A semiannual school fund distribution lists 6800 school age children and total funds of 497 628.00 with Ceratlot County receiving 36 624.48 for 9,298 children.
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Lewis King
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Sarah Ostrander
James L. Welch
Hamilton
Minnie Dutcher
Lafayette
Minturn Kinney
Tate Youngs
William L. Hough
Alma
Elsie M. Lamberton
Grattan, Kent Co
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Inshington
Wheeletic Co Casual Totaly Co
No Tobacco For Boys bill passes Michigan legislatures
The Rogers tobacco bill prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors under 17 has passed both Houses and awaits the Governor's signature. The act makes it unlawful for any person to sell or furnish tobacco to a minor without parental written order and prescribes fines up to 250 dollars and possible 30 days in jail for violations.
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Alma village council minutes May 21 1850
Alma village council met in regular session with President Montigel and Trustees Bagley Tubbs Tinker present. Absent Trustees Adamstand Danham. Claims approved and ordered paid when funds available. Special committee Adams Dunham to settle with Village Treasurer. Upcoming train fares announced for Sons of Veterans and Knights of Pythias events.
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Mich
Montigel
Bagley
Tubbs
Tinker
Adamstand Danham
Alma Building and Loan Association stockholders meeting
The Alma Building and Loan Association will hold its annual meeting at Fireman's Hall in Alma Michigan on Monday June did 1889 at o clock p m. Offi cers will be elected for three years and one director for one year. Proposals for amendments and other business will be transacted. WNEY Secretary.
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Alma Building and Loan Association
Alma Building and Lawn Association
Fireman's Mall
Alma
Michigan
WNEY
Sec
Edison Phonograph a Great Future Prophesized
A discussion of the phonograph’s potential to outperform the typewriter, enable distant dictation by mail, and print dictated text. It envisions future newspapers as phonograms with table of contents, musical reproductions, and court evidence implications, noting current limited production and optimistic 1890 sales.
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Mr. Edison
Orange
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Atlantic Monthly
Kabinda Courtship Strange Marital Customs in a Colony
A Cor. to the New York Herald describes Kabinda marriage rites with three months in a sealed hut for the bride and groom, nightly escort to the fellah man for children, and a final feast. It explains the prior palaver, charms, and gifts totaling about ten dollars, followed by the bridal procession, chalk-painted bride, gunfire, drums, and a long celebration before returning the couple to their hut.
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Cor. N. Y. Herald
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