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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1895
Page
4
The issue notes strong Republican enthusiasm for the presidency, with John Sherman predicting a substantial Ohio majority. It also reflects on Sherman’s political career, Missouri’s emerging Republican growth, and a Congregational council endorsing interdenominational unity to advance Christianity and society.
General William Mahone a Confederate fighter and later independent U S senator who held the balance of power during Garfield's administration is recalled. In Branch County a meeting of school officers with the State Superintendent discussed teachers examinations, urging that only those who pass the established questions should teach, a view widely supported by attendees.
Alma residents heard about a new daily edition in Alma in connection with the Detroit Tribune at six cents weekly, plus 1 000 copies for three days. The page lists various local happenings including visits, school events, a fatal illness, a balloon game, a planned flagpole raise, and a court case involving John Mulzack who was found guilty of stealing a lap robe and sentenced to days in the Detroit house of correction.
Local note reports Miss Scheyes from Decors Home in Grand Rapids arriving in Alma this week amid plans for visitation among community residents. Also mentions a bicycle left in VY.M Wilson’s woodshed last Saturday evening and missing by Monday morning. The piece cites Michigan statute on willful property destruction and references President Harrison writing for The Ladies’ Home Journal.
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