Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-01-23
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FIVE MEN were killed and four in
jured by the explosion of an eight inch
gun in the forward turret of the battle
ship Massachusetts, off Cubelra Monday.
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THE largest breakwater in the world,
miles long, protect ng the largest ar
tifcial harbor in the country, covering
sixteen hundred acres, has just been
completed at Buffalo, n. Y.
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FIVE carloads of soft coal were looted
by gang of POO men. women and child
rem at Toledo, Saturday. The police and
officers of the company watched the fam
inc stricken people help themselves No
arrests were made
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TEXAS oil companies are almost daily
being placed in the hands of receivers,
being unable to fulfill contracts on ac-
count of wells drying up. Oil which
could be purchased one year ago at l0c
per gallon, is now worth SOC
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INDIGNATION meetings are being held in
Boston and vicinity owing to dispatch
from South Bend, Ind. announcing that
the coal famine people Of that section are
burning beans for fuel There is talk of n
protest being ldressed to Congress.
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but one end in view, and that il the
grave. f. b. Manhattan. at one time a
striking figure in Iowa politics and a
leader of society at Des Moines, died on
a miserable cot at the police station in
that city Monday from over indulgence.
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JOHN MITCHELL President of the
Mine Workers Union, bitterly denoun-
ces the operators and claims bad faith in
locking out three thousand miners in de-
fiance of the agreement with the coal
commission. He says that the present
scarcity OF coal is due to the failure of
the companies TO supply cars.
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MARIE DREssLER, the actress, whose
childhood days were spent in Saginaw,
is seriously ill in New York. Miss
Dressler s mother died about six weeks
ago and an effort was made t. keep the
sad news from her, but in some manner
it reached her and an attack of paralysis,
which occurred soon after, was undoubt-
ly caused by grief.
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IN THE prohibition city of Montpelier,
Vt, 900, 600 drinks, or three per day for
every man, woman and child, were sold
at the Governor Bar" during the past
year. Legally the only way to get liquor
in that city Is through physician pre-
scription, which cost 90 cents each, but
from the showing of the annual report
it is evident that the law is not being
rigidly enforced.
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THE American liner St. Louis steamed
into New York Harbor Sunday morning
week over due. relieving the suspense
Of thousands Of people who, having
friends and relatives aboard, had almost
given her up as lost. The cause OF her
delay was leaky boilers, and the passen.
gers framed set Of resolutions censur.
ing the company for sending the vessel
to sea in an unsesworthy condition.
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Kiro
Edward, then Prince Of Wayles, was
anything but favorite among the peo-
pie Of England, but after many severe
attacks Of sickness in which his life was
often despared, and his chivalric con.
duct at divorce trial, in which he was
named as CO. respondondent, he has won
the hearts of his people. After listening
to his testimony at the trial, the judge
remarked "a man who can lie for a
lady is gentleman and good fellow,
and from that day he has been the most
popular member Of the royal family
of Great Britain and Ireland.
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PALo MoNTEGAZZA, OF Italy is evi.
IDENTIFY keen observer of woman, for he
has this TO say of her woman fire.
quently has a finer ear, a more delicate
sense of touch and of smell than man
because her skin is finer, for she doei
not smoke or at least does not abuse to
bacco. Woman is the fret 10 respond
to certain impressions. She is the frs
to cry with fear or enthusiasm, the frs
to redden from shame or wrath, the frs
to laugh, the first to weep with tender
ness or from pain, the first TO speak i
questioned, Experience, intelligence
education, have taught woman the in
! finite value of mimicry. Compare tn
walls OF child that wishes to be takeI
to the theatre with the weeping of a wo
man who wishes to vanquish the resist
. ance OF q sweetheart. The almost alb
solute incapacity Of women to keep
secret also depends on this organic defec
. of the feminine nervous system. Ere