Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21
A Lucky Texan.
Halletsyille (Tex.) New Era, May Is.


specializing in Louisiana State Lottery
tickets for some time, and have received
several good premiums and on one or two
occasions large ones, but the town was
struck dumb when 1t was found that ticket
No. q, 074, drawing the first capital prize OF
$500, 900 in the April drawing, was held
partially by party in Halletsvile II is
often said that luck falls to the unworthy,
nut interview ny Otto Won Rosenburg, the
happy possessor Of one-twentieth part OF
the ticket, we ind ii has fallen i'll the right
place. He is an Industrious young mer-
chant who has been here but "A short time,
his native home being Round Top, Texas.
The SIS 90 received by him will be partial
~ used IN his business; IL establishes him
on tlrm financial basis. IL has not turned
his head, and he will use his new found
wealth with sense and discretion Tor his
own advancement and TIE iurthcrance OF
his interest In the public welfare. He has
been inves ing in one ticket each month IL
the LOuisian State Lottery Tor about two
years and he tlinks the amount expended
was well invested. The Louisiana State
Lottery company is "A thoroughly reliable
institution, as was evidenced in this case.
Mr.. Rosenberg sent his ticket for coliec-
tion to Ball, Hutchns Il Co, of Galveston,
and it was paid upon presentation without
any discount
An investigation o. tie lumors or bribery
during the present session of the Minnesota
legislature has been begun. IL is stated
that warrants have been issued for thirteen
persons, some of them members OF the leg
islature, for bribery and corruption.
A three story brick building caved in in
Boston the other day without dong any
more damage than to k IL adog and slightly
injure "A boy who ought 10 have been fitting
himself for the presidency in 1922. That's
the right sort Of bu lding TO put up.
A suit Is about 10 be begun in the name Of
he state of Ill nois against Miss Frances
e. Willard. Mrs Caroline Buell.. and Miss
Esther Pugh, in which the le yality OF their
seizure OF the National Temperance Hos
pital last January will be inquired into.
Miss Franklin Bjornson a Swedish heir
ess, one of the passengers on the Inflated
Danmarl. came 10 this country from home
to meet her 10 ser, Hans Il. Nelson, a pros
porous pays, clan at ST Paul Mimi. Mr..
Nelson will pro 1ably be afraid to let her
cross even "a creek after this
/ Mr.. Munroe, an ex-cOnvict from the Man
itoba penitentiary, recently died in Eng
land. In his WILL he makes some curious
4 requests, including Sl0J,0JJ TO Belson, war
den of the Manitoba penitentiary, and $50,
/ 900 TO a Winnipeg lawyer named Vivian
and like amount To Rev. Canon Mathe-
son.
The father Of Emma Rath, who died
March %, at Syracus,, n. Y, became pos.
sessei Of an idea that she had been buried
| alive He dug up the body April %, and
found TO his horror that il had turned in the
cofin, that the hair was torn and that there
were finger marks on her face, as IL she had
endured fearful agony.
b slief in voodooism has not yet died out
from among the colored people of the south.
In Macon Ga, there is an educated negro
who, when he grew i'll, consulted a woman
with some reputation for cures. She gave
him medicine and cufTci him, and then
drew from his side live frogs, and worms,
and bugs He therefore began to make
mental survey of his friends to see if he
possessed an enemy, and, finding that he
did. knew then and there that it was he and
no other who had pat powdered frogs and
snakes heads into his VIII sky. The en-.
chantress keeps herself in seclusion, and
none of her patients are willing TO betray
her whereabouts.
One great cause of badness, in the opin.
ion Of a western knight OF the razor, is the
naDlI many peOpte nave VI INC
STYLE OF hair-cutting half dozen times a
year, or nearly as often. He SAYS: They
insist on short pompllour in the hottest
months, less pronounce crop in the fall,
and then wear the hair longer as the wealth
er gets colder. gradually approaching a
shave again by the time the thermometer
gets up into the nineties. Now, all this
may be very comfortable. but il is very
bad for the hair AMI scalp. 1t is best to
wear the hair short all the year round,
brush it freely, AMI trust TO nature for the
only effective substitute for pomade-"
A registering savings bank is the latest
novelty. 1t is shaped like q Saratoga
trunk. Three styles are made; one for
cents another for half-dimes, and q third
for dimes. Each, after the first coin is de-
posted, is locked until the Tooth coin is
pushed through the SLOT and as each coin
enters il registers upon dial man who
buys dime bank must put 100 dimes into
it if he wants to open IL, aud a nickel bank
can be opened only when IL contains s..
The banks are strongly made Of nickel.
plated cast iron, and the locking device is
unpickable because after il is locked the
keyhole is taken indoors. Nothing but the
right amount of coins will open it, and
when the hundredth coin enters the door
opens automatically
II afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac
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