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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1901
Page
2
A fragmented garbled note mulls over existence and fate using odd phrases about medicine and a meretricious tonic. The text blends Shakespearean doubt with dubious product claims, referencing a toothpaste like remedy while hinting at mortality and identity.
County Yewse Floyd Leitner secured a position at Reed City and left last week. Sheri Parrish escorted prisoners to Detroit and then to visit friends in Detroit. Numerous residents traveled to Lansing Alma Ishac and other towns for meetings, visits, and family gatherings.
Ragged local items list residents travel and events from Rathbone including Mae Pettit home from St Louis Vern Becker returning home Grace Jacobs visiting Owossa and Miss Dora Parks with sister Minnie Oak Grove school term closed by Mrs Maggie Ruslick Mattie Bitther visiting Alait Will McAllister family moving to the river and T. P. Adams planning to leave.
Elm Hall notes show visitors and illness including Mrs Miller and Florence Robbins. Severe spring flooding at Pine River caused washed culverts, damaged dam sluice, and transportation difficulties. residents aided by boaters as goods drifted and a stove and carpet floated. Elm Hall over forty measles cases. plans for Sumner Township Sunday School convention and local church services detailed with participants and schedule.
W J and Chas Hicks of Petoskey visited the Hicks family in Sumner. A March 1% gathering at Mr Hicks entertained intimate friends with a pleasant day. March 25 a young people’s party featured sugar, music and fun. Charles returns to American Express. Will stays longer.
District No 5 Arcada reports Archie Bureh a seventeen year old wounded when a gun misfired at Court Vane dereur s. B. Bo’s shot hit the right side. Doctors fear pneumonia. he may recover. Myrtle Nelson Nevins died after illness. Mrs Floyd Nevins noted as widow. Mrs Oseir Robinson of Battle Creek attended the funeral. Nathan Udell, Carl Waphers, Tow Woodward return from work abroad. School resumes Monday April. teachers examine. disease cases referenced.
Forest Hill area residents report guests from Breck enridge and Alma. Moved onto a farm recently, locals conduct business in Alma and Park Lake. Families, including Moody and Sandalls, relocate for work near Ithaca and Ravens City. Ladies Aid plans a meeting with Mrs Oberlin. Forest Hill Tent hosts Knights from nearby tents.
Lancaster resident F. Green recalls chronic indigestion and nervous debility persisting for years until Electric Bitters. He credits the remedy with lasting relief for himself and his wife, praising it as a grand tonic for weak, rundown women. Sharrar & Mulholland guarantee satisfaction.
In Perrinton on March 27 R Fyler visited town. Fred Rodgers and family moved to Ohio. Vera Myera was in Carson City Thursday. C FR Pike called on Perrinton residents last week. Payne of Middleton moved his family into the Morrow house. R E Groom of Grand Rapids visited his father Friday. D Button of Middleton moved to Perrinton Monday. Lester Wilson of St Louis visiting his father J Wilson. EB Everett in Pompeii Tuesday. William Burk rode the train to Mussey on Thursday. Washington Smith brought home a wife from Free Soil last week. Wash looks pleasant. HP Curtis leaves for Pontiac to work in newspapers. Clara Stevens home from Detroit where employed in asphalt business.
April notes from Fulton Center cover a smallpox scare visit by Willie Davis’s Middleton family, rentals on Westenhaver land, Chas Cregon hired by Roy Dodge for seven months, Cora Dodie and Edna Lyon home from Greenville, and John Salisbury’s March death. Activities include barn plans by Prank Ennis, Maple Rapids canal talk, Ardsociety gathering with Mrs Rosanna Price, and a Farmers Club reminder. Mary Bigie wins second prize for oration in St. Louis, with Mrs Boyle’s Greenville school ties.
A miscellany of town items lists illnesses and recoveries, home repairs, social events, school hiring, charitable earnings, and upcoming visits. It notes Miss Fannie Robinson hiring for spring term, Mrs. Fred Kullmann convalescing, and Adelbert Huptoun able to be out. Easter verse and several marriage licenses are included among community notices.
St Louis reports Faurot confined to home after severe pneumonia attack Monday evening. While men repaired a dam it gave way, sparing some workers by narrow margin. Easter services planned at Episcopal church with Rev Sayers of Detroit preaching. Jno Burns conducted business in Saginaw. Election activity unsettled for April with several candidates.
In S W Seville April 2 report, residents suffer colds, Riverdale dam near miss thanks to Will Sturdevant. Post house vacated, Jordan and James Frary rent P Taylors farm for sugar beet raising. Riverdale elevator stone groundwork, election over with Silver ticket winning except for highway commissioner.
South Breckenridge notices list Mr. Martin waving into Curtis farm just purchased by Jim Curtis, Mr. Chisholm’s beet acreage contract for twenty acres, Gilford Owen among residents, Slaughter moving this week and leaving after many years, Wise planning to win Breckenridge, William Gilliand visiting Sunday, Laurel obtaining material for a building project, Ed Ostrander and wife visiting friends in South Breckenridge.
An OCR fragment lists numerous names and places tied to real estate transfers across multiple towns and states. It mentions Woodwari, Newark, New Hawes, Alta, Monroe, Arcadia, and other scattered locales with unclear transaction details and dates. The readable content centers on property movements and associated individuals, but many items are garbled with illegible segments.
An advertisement extols Dr King’s New Life Pills as tireless boosters for a torpid liver jaundice fever and ache. It claims workers stay busy and never gripe, urging purchase at Sharrar & Matholland's with promotional language.
Mrs. Jno Gardner of Grand Rapids testifies to lasting relief from kidney trouble after using three boxes of Deans Kidney Pills in 1697. She describes back pain, numb limbs, and fatigue lifting, crediting the remedy with restored health and ability to do housework. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY, with U S sale agents. Remember Down’s Kidney Pills and no substitutes.
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