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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
3
A scatter of Michigan news items reports robberies in Ashley, suicides near Ypsilanti and Grand Rapids, a fatal train accident in Adrian, and a drowning in Detroit. Other notes cover Indigenous shares court claims, a jailed Cadilane girl suspected of murder, a baby strangling, a doctor’s auto accident death, and a Paris telegraph fire causing million-dollar losses.
The largest military event yet staged by the U S War Department began in St Joseph on Monday and runs for a week with 50 000 regulars at Camp Everett Peabody on Lake Contrary. Prominent officers including Brigadier General Morton and Secretary Wright attend as prizes totaling 5000 are offered. Also reported is the Wright Selfridge air accident in which Lieutenant Selfridge died and Mr Wright was badly hurt. Elsewhere a head on collision at Weeping Water Neb injures 38 passengers and 3 crew. Philadelphia marks Founders week celebration Oct 4 10. Mrs Gould seeks 120000 alimony and 15000 counsel fees. Paris reports a thief named S Pellsdorf wanted across Europe.
At San Diego California a misused atropine residue in medicine led to deaths of three parents at the county hospital with a fourth death expected and four other persons affected, authorities report.
Detroit markets show wheat at No 1 white 980 No 2 red 1.02 5 Dec 1 05 May oats rye and beans quoted with spot prices. Chicago grain reports Sept contracts for wheat corn and oats with various futures. Chicago and Buffalo livestock prices listed for cattle hogs lambs and yearlings with range figures. End with a quotation about the strength of a lone truthful voice.
A fragmented note praises campus progression with improved instruction methods. It notes benefits to older students and the familiarity of instructors, while urging continued adherence to conditions that support the envisioned college instruction.
The forty third Alma College term opens with a large student body and bright prospects. Renovated Pioneer and Wright Halls, a spruced gym, and new faculty mark the start. Coach Carrithere, violin instructor Miss Well, and Miss Ableson in the Kindergarden room join a small but evolving faculty as Prof Adams delivers the opening address on the Lord Mayor of London.
A historic note describes a leader in London asserting precedence over royal authority, dissolving city courts and the common council, signaling a dramatic assertion of centralized power and potential constitutional crisis. The event highlights tension between municipal and royal prerogatives in the city’s governance.
A faded ad claims Dr King’s Pills relieve stomach liver and bowels with no fake cures. N Hi Brown of Pittafield Vermont is cited as satisfied user. The guarantee comes from Geo K Sharrar’s drug store.
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