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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1898
Page
4
A scanned historical clipping lists numerous political names and offices for a county election. It includes candidates for Congress, Senate, State Senate, State Superintendent, and county offices with names such as Brown, Pingree, and Hammond, indicating a broad slate and year 1808 context.
State Senator nominee Chas W Giddings born Sherman Fairfield County Connecticut later moved to Palmyra Ohio then St Louis Michigan. He served as Under Sheriff Deputy U S Marshal and Circuit Court Commissioner with a long law career and farm work. A staunch Republican who backs equal taxation sound money and protection and has never strayed from the party platform.
The piece notes broad Republican confidence nationwide and warns of a weaker western vote in November. It cites Governor Pingree’s clash with Senator Burrows as a poor tactic that alienated voters in Gratiot county. It also highlights Detroit state convention nominations and the need for harmony with the federal government for future congressional success, urging support for W. S. Meek.
The Alma Electric Light and Power Co. defends water service management by the village and explains regulator improvements to voltage within two to three percent. It notes occasional complaints and asserts rates will drop beginning October, with a twelve cent per thousand watts meter rate and no monthly bill under one dollar. The firm pledges to seek further concessions if warranted and to provide wiring estimates and materials at low prices.
In Rongeld Alabama on August 14 195 the note extols Faley's Colle Cure for cramps and colic while a Sioux City Business College in Iowa offers a thorough mail course in bookkeeping and commercial arithmetic free of charge as part of a sales pitch.
A historical note recounts failed imperial telegraph schemes from 1663 to 1667, detailing a proposed Yukon to Europe link via Klondike and Behring. It explains high hopes, steep costs, and eventual Atlantic cable success that rendered Rieslan extension stock nearly worthless.
Howard Parker, the little old colored man who guards Washington’s tomb at Mount Vernon, has not missed a day since the estate came under new management. A former slave of John Washington, Parker lives in Washington and travels by special permit to perform his vigil, coming over every Saturday with a carpet bag like those of Reconstruction days. He is seen each Monday before the first Mount Vernon train, a decades long sentinel at the vault key, which was tossed into the Potomac after the last internment.
Andrew Bonner a simple minded Georgia colored man in College Park near Atlanta pursues building a church for his race. He uses his own earnings for lumber and nails despite lacking legal ground ownership and without professional help. After 24 months of quiet labor the structure rises as a personal monument to his memory.
The Quakertown Times lauds Bethlehem for building the United States first waterworks. At a Monocacy Creek spring supply, a wooden-pipe system conveyed pure water uphill to a woolen reservoir near the Moravian church, begun in 1754 by Hans Christopher Christiansen.
A fragmentary report describes Manitoba soil as rich and brick loam beneath three to five feet, with centuries of decaying peat creating a fertile layer. The text emphasizes arable potential in the province, noting a furrowed expanse free of stone for many miles.
The Queen has ordered the old state apartments at Kensington Palace cleaned and opened publicly. Nine rooms will be renovated including the room where Victoria slept on the morning the archbishop announced her sovereignty nearly 62 years ago. The ballroom in the Denmark wing and the birth chamber will be addressed, with the latter possibly closed to the public except by special permit.
The Boston Transcript describes a huge petrified looking elephant rock near Willie farm two miles from Malmyrn Wisconsin about 20 feet long and six to seven feet high, weighing hundreds of tons. Locals speculate it is a prehistoricly carved stone or petrified elephant. Relics and relic tools have been found nearby. The site draws visitors who share various legends of tribal sacrifices and ancient battles in the surrounding hills.
A famed duchess bred Marmaduke the Blenheim spaniel known for his glass eye. He clashed with a cat, lost an eye, then received a prosthetic. After a nervous farewell before a visit by the Earl of Blandford, Marmaduke found a new home near Woodstock but was later run over by a van.
A literary figure is stumped while defining and spelling tricky terms in a game among students. The piece lampoons elders testing youths with hard words and lists several misspelled or altered terms the group uses to probe language mastery.
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