Greatest Show on Earth Excursion Bargain at Bay City
A special low round trip rate from Weston’s promotes Barnum and Bailey Shows in Bay City on August 12 and 13. Tickets capitalize on large patronage as railroads urge attendance for the event featuring 70 horses in one ring, a football-playing dog, a talking pig, all-star riders, elephants, aerial acts, and Miss Ella Ewing and Great Peter in the menagerie. Also reported is a sad accident at Elm Hall where Oscar Corbin died after a fall from a wagon, prompting community mourning.
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Barnum & Bailey
Bay City
Sagi
New York
Ella Ewing
Missouri
Peter
Elm Hall
Oscar Corbin
Mr. Corbin
Alma Growth and Civic Prospects in Grand Vision
Alma residents express joy at revived life and growth hopes. Town leaders seek to sustain labor force with expanded facilities, electric lights, water works, a sanitarium, and a college. Proposals include wood factories to attract residents and keep earnings local, aiming to outpace nearby competition.
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Alma
Rewch
Alma Wheel Club Meets Aims For Track Record
The Alma Wheel Club held a bicycle meet last Monday featuring Theodore Nelson who attempted to break the track record and succeeded with a time of 1:08. Lather events and results followed with several riders achieving notable performances in various distance races.
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Alma Wheel Club
Theodore Nelson
Alma Merchants Close Shops At Twelve Oclock P M
Local Alma business community votes to close stores at twelve noon daily except Saturday nights and the week before Christmas. Agreement lists F E Pottasky Missinen & Co Oroyike & Co A J Dixuman and others as signatories in a plan to shorten daily hours and give workers evenings off.
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Alma
Alii
F. E. Pottasky
Missinuen & Co
Oroyike & Ci
A.J. Dixuman Alma Mencaxrine Co
Jl, Muller, OL & DeLavan
Local notes and town updates from Alma area
A mixed text of town happenings includes announcements of a junior GCE event at the park tomorrow evening, a missing four stall moranda book sought by John Gladding with a reward offered, local travel for Edgar Church to Vassar for wheel races, and plans for a large county teachers institute. Also mentioned are corrections, pardons by the governor, new millinery prospects, a county house escape attempt, railroad arrangements for a national encampment, and forthcoming August Outing stories and magazine features.
Religious Notes and Upcoming Events at St John’s Church
Notes list Sunday services at St John’s Church with a sermon on The Power of Faith and an evening topic on Improvement, plus Sabbath School at ten. It mentions a quarterly meeting, a presiding officer, and a trip outline to Mackinac Island for a popular wedding voyage. Additional items advertise travel to Niagara Falls, rail/ticket details, and a variety of ads for Comfort footwear and Ely’s Cream Balm.
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Tillopmm
Ihy Church
Awg. C
Ely
ELY Bros
Warren St. N.Y
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Eprron
Methodist Society
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Rilk
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Crow Better
Bert Hayes
Stanton
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D. D. Whitesell
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Riverdale
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Wyman
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Ldrog
Bivons & Rhodes
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Plma Mercantile CO
GCE
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Ree
Frank Knowles
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Newark Township
Tonia
Pettyjohn
Bay View
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Edgar Church
Vassar
Edward
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Greenwood
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Ann Arbor
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Niagara Falls
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Price Collier
Ed. W. Sainus
A. H Godfrey
Aid. Kenealy
Amercat Monthly Review of
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Mattrom
Alaska
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Alwa
ST. John's Carton
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