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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1911
Page
6
Mothers teach virtue through play not correction. As a child learns to dress and undress dolls she gains gentleness patience and order. This hands on dressmaking and doll care fosters graceful hosting. patterns and millinery follow, guiding early domestic aptitude and joy in helping others.
A family builds a 100 foot long play room rich with entertainment options including a billiard table a piano and card tables. The piece explores adult discomfort with lively playful children and argues a gentle approach to avoiding stares and overbearing attention toward kids.
Regular meeting of Alma Michigan common council on April 19 1011 with Mayor J M Montigel and aldermen present. Committee reports include rejecting petitions for lights on Orchard Lincoln Center and approving moving a light on State Street. Also approvals for uniforms and sidewalk petitions and budget transfers to civic improvements, sprinkling fund, and jailhouse/bridge decisions. Adjourned to May 1.
For dyspepsia this ad invites all troubled with indigestion to obtain Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets. Made with Bismuth Subnitrate and Pepsia, they soothe the weak stomach, strengthen digestion, relieve nausea, and improve nutrition. Money back if not satisfied after a trial. Three sizes 25c 50c and 1 90. Available only at The Rexall Store.
Advertising copy promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure all, claiming to convert weakness into energy and relieve ailments such as constipation headache chills dyspepsia and malaria. The pills are priced at 25 cents and advertised at Rhodes Drug Store and Wheaton & Sons.
A large crowd plans an excursion to Detroit on Sunday May 7 via Durand and the Grand Trunk Railway. Special train leaves Alma at 4 a.m., arrives Detroit 11:30 a.m. Returning, Detroit Brush Street Station departure 6:20 p.m. Round trip fare is $1.50. Miss Elgie Bond has accepted a history teaching post in Grand Ledge High School for next year after success in Reed City.
The Board of County Canvassers of Gratiot County Michigan certifies Howard A. Potter was elected School Commissioner for four years, starting July 1, 1911, based on votes cast across townships during the April 1911 election. Signed by Chairman W. F. Markham and Secretary RK Highhs on April 12, 1911, at Ithaca.
George Basil Randels class of 1906 will hold the Alma chair of pedagogy and psychology at opening college next September. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the German University of Jena and now teaches at North Dakota State Normal Valley City. His addition strengthens the faculty and expands the J. W. Exeby Memorial library resources for students.
A landscape gardener reports six trees within cement walks at the campus front of the administration building have been cut and removed. Students lament the loss but agree the change is for the better as old grads visit in June.
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