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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1909
Page
6
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Mr David Currell of Farwell visited his daughter Mrs A Miller on Tuesday night. Grover of Coe township stayed with his sister Mrs Mell Sharrar Friday night. Felix Fea of Summer were entertained at Rollin Woods Wednesday. R E Clark and wife of Sumner visited West Branch friends Friday night. Mrs Alvin Miller and daughter Lain visited her parents Mr and Mrs David Currell on Saturday. She also called on friends near Mr Pleasant and Shepherd returning Monday night. Mrs Will Godfrey visited niece Mrs Odessa Schranb of East Arcada on Saturday. Schranb is very ill with tuberculosis. Jasper Nevens and H Morse have tile laid on their farms. Miss Mildred Clark, who stayed with grandparents Mr and Mrs H C Clark, returned home in Sumner on Saturday. Frank Keefer and wife spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Will Kiser at Cherry Hill farm. Vern Bamber returned Monday from a business trip to Elmwood Corners Midland county.
Real estate transfers recorded including Mary Elmer administrator widow quarter sections in Sumner Alma Seville and Meth counties. Transfers list McBride to Sweet Evans Miller to Peters Peters to Butler Phelps to Sabin Hall to Redman Hammond to Hurd Weller to Argersinger with various nw ne sw and other fractional parcels totaling multiple amounts. Names include Mary Elmer RJ Froker S D Evans A Peters H Butler DV Phelps WC Hammond C H Hurd CE Weller and others with sections 5 8 20 25 6 and unseen plats. Omitted details as readable text limited.
The Shepherd Republican reports plans for a major wrestling contest at the Alma opera house featuring Ernest Fenby from the area and a challenger from Bull Olsen Kid Cutler The Mysterious Conductor or John Patterson the Terrible Swede Each fighter weighs 175 to 200 pounds and holds national renown Fenby is set to wrestle The Terrible Turk in Toledo Ohio on April 24 for a $500 purse.
At an April 19 informal Clinton County board meeting, fixed assessment values for personal property were announced. The list includes best horses, colts, cows, cattle, store hogs, hay and grate, with prices noted as market value where specified. The statement appeared in last week's Clinton County Republican and was signed by County Clerk Clark A. Patt.
The list shows names including Mrs A Brookens Miss Margeret Carlson Annie Crissie Ella Crowell Mr A EB Daniels Mrs Ro Eastcutt Mr C W Gale Mr W 3 Jonny Mr Henry Leverer Mr Roye Morne Mr D E Parlitt Mrs Claude Rockwell. The notice notes items not called for by May 1 and references C F Brown P M at the dead letter office.
A roundup of Michigan items reports Charlen Stack’s two year sentence for assault on a policeman in Ionia, fish hatchery stocking near Standish, Mrs. Weber’s tuberculosis death in Menominee, and several court actions including Riness at Ionia reform school. It notes a bank transition at Durand, a speech by C E B Holmes on church attendance, orchard prospects, a wildcat hunt, a Branch County school field day plan, a Bay City screw choking incident, and multiple violent events including a fatal train accident near Shingleton and a stabbing by a dockside captain. Additional items cover post office robbery accomplice verdicts, parole returns, and various local investigations and accidents.
The piece explains kidney functions, filtering blood every three minutes, and lists ailments from impure blood. It cites E Ferris of Elwell Michigan praising Doan's Kidney Pills after backache and kidney pain, with price 50 cents and Foster Milburn Co as US agents, urging readers to remember the name.
Secretary of state figures report 8524 deaths and 5106 births in Michigan for March, a rate of 15.6 per 1000. Infants under one year accounted for 681 deaths and 1178 deaths were 65 or older. Bronchopneumonia led fatalities with 95, tuberculosis 87, and March saw a notable rise from February, especially in pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumonia.
Mr. Bingham of Princeville Illinois refuses toe amputation citing death from gangrene. He uses Bucklen’s Arnica Salve to treat eruptions and sores. Salve marketed for eczema fever sores boils burns and piles, sold 26 cents at F Brown's.
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