30 Apr 1897
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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1897
Page
1
Weather eases and business resumes as AT WINS advertises a wide selection of salmon sardines lobsters catsups pepper sauce mustard dressing and more. The shop states it pays the highest market price for produce and invites customers to visit.
E H Weston of Alma offers bicycle wheels for rent through Alma Plumbing and Housing. The notice provides a brief advertisement style lead showcasing rental availability.
A fireman named Genson Judd on the Arbor pile driver died after being struck by a freight train backing down from the east. He died about an hour after the crash at Brainard's Hospital. Judd, married with one child, was buried in Chesaning. An inquest found death due to his own carelessness and cleared the railroad company of blame.
The Alma College sopomores held their final year exhibition in the chapel, featuring orations and musical numbers. Harry Wright won the gold prize for "A Reason for Optimism," with strong delivery and arguments about American literature. The program opened with piano duets and closed with a vesper hymn, interspersed with solos and prayers. House listings and local sale notices followed, including properties and land for sale by Lamon Gee and J. S. Weidman, Weidman Michigan, with contact notes.
Sunday night close of one of Alma's best Free Methodist conventions. Meetings began Wednesday, with papers and prayer sessions, led by Rev. H F Gaffin. Notable guests included Rev. W F Hoag of Chicago and Rev. L Olmstead of Spring Harbor College. Debt on the Alma church was wiped out, opening wider usefulness for the church. Also included is a Gratiot County Teachers Meeting program at Ithaca Michigan with sessions on country schools, arithmetic essentials, and school relations.
A fragment reflecting on the fifty year Cuban crisis and US responsibility in Cuba, citing Bonsal and May Review of Reviews. Includes brief notes from College: Arbor Day plans, sermons, student recitals, and club activities with minor OCR glitches.
Alma College offers summer school with strong advantages for renter study or advanced work. Courses lead to all grades of teachers certificates. tuition set at five dollars. Announcement by Jos T Northon Ph B Alma Michigan.
Sanitarium notes list Max Grabfield of Chicago prominent attorney visiting for the week. Guests include Dr E M Eckert of Peoria Rev Fr Murray Manistee returning from Grand Rapids two weeks ago now able to ride. Other visitors: T H White Milwaukee T Smalley Maintawoe A Blanketts T Campbell Saginaw Rev Fr Murray Manistee M Brewer Pontiac Jdl 8 Morton Columbus Ohio Plate Field Grand Rapids Geo Beardaley Newark Max Gub field A D Chapman Chicago H Webber Sonia E Reed Toledo Otto Feyerabend Mrs C H Ueberroth Bay ity.
Job Sleight of Bath returned to his Alma farm while O F Brown attended a Republican Press Association meeting in Lansing. Geo Sharrar was reelected lieutenant for the St Louis Division A R E of P, and Francis King and wife of Lowell visited town with King as president of Lowell State Bank. Quilt ticket holders urged to meet at A Ro hall Saturday at two. Woman's Gin meets next Monday. Maydokovich and Steves noted. Prof GO A Davis to speak on Food Values to the club.
An enterprising citizen of this place Innis offers satirical notes urging residents to undermine local progress. It urges chronic criticizing, shopping outside town, jealously labeling merchants, withholding help to neighbors, neglecting the local paper, and avoiding town printing, to prove futility of civic effort.
A fractured 1880 letter from Orr and Temple of Tecumseh Michigan mentions ownership of Now Lith and a misdirected package. It references a "beet wisers" and "best antismo" humor, claiming an item sold over a counter with prices of 50c and 1.00. The text is garbled but indicates a promotional note for a comic item.
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