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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
3
In a fragmentary local clipping Henry Pielding criticizes tyrannical minds and servility among people. A second item, a notice about Mrs. Jones’s cat, describes neighborhood annoyance from pet killings and Dwight the street boy posting a warning that reads This le for Jouer ont only.
Summary of scattered items including a pastefice worker’s oil spill at Re cheater causing a $60 loss, Aldrich Inke’s party switch forming a Youth Men’s Democratic club, a missing husband found dead after breakfast, A C Kingman nominated for state senator, Maud Jones suing Bly 000 over a theater car wreck injury, Bay County Agricultural Society officers elected, Mrs Seymour Rockafellow’s hair fire causing a house blaze, and a note claiming oxygen prevents rust on pure iron.
European capitals react to Bulgaria's independence proclamation in Tirnovo as Austria Hungary momentum grows for new borders. Britain and France urge caution while Turkey faces pressure from Serbs and conspirators. Incendiary fire in New York claims ten lives. a financier survives fall from a carriage in Scituate.
Governor Warner calls the statewide recount a farce and says sentiment across Michigan is disgusted. He asserts no fraud is shown, ballots are discarded for minor technicalities, and that the Bradley gains stem from disputed precincts. Recount must end by Oct 14 for ballot printing.
Coldwater Michigan October six. John B. Jones, jailed after a Quincy widow marriage and alleged stock fraud, faces a second, more serious accusation. Mrs E. L. McLaughlin of Logan asserts Jones was married twice before marrying her and not legally divorced, prompting a federal charge being prepared to try him for bigamy.
Benton Harbor Mich Oct 5 The coroner s jury in the Elizabuth Baker case finds death by carbolic acid unclear and deepens the mystery. Witnesses say symptoms suggested poisoning but doctors cannot prove the acid caused death. A second item notes Charles Zimmerman fifty five ended his life by jumping into the canal after telling friends his plight. A coroner s jury will probe surrounding circumstances.
A woman neglects to wake and shut windows during rain, failing to notice the weather or prepare for her husband’s arrival, an unusual domestic lapse noted in a compact report.
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