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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1903
Page
5
Market notes show wheat up a cent and corn steady with minor shifts hinting at price volatility. The Sunday excursion plan to Toledo is confirmed with a round trip announcement for families and children, including pricing and schedule details.
A smooth talking fakir set up a street stand last Tuesday night and sold various goods at inflated prices. The Record found he made 100 percent profit, charging customers far more than local merchants, who sustain the town’s shops and institutions.
Michigan champion Bobby Reakes will wrestle George Montgomery of Wisconsin at the Alma Opera House on Saturday night August 15. Purse is 200 dollars with gate receipts, best two of three falls, catch no catch can under Police Gazette rules. Weigh in not to exceed 188 pounds. Reakes, a famed clean-living wrestler, expects a tough match and asks supporters to attend.
Local Alma items report Miss Sarah Ward ill, births, shopping, and social visits. Betsy Depew visits Flint friends. L. Bennetta promotes jewelry with one-fourth off. A. N. Church recovers from typhoid. Delights in new cement walk and barber shop changes. Community events include Pere Marquette personnel wearing white, and preparations for the August 19 Clare firemen field day.
Mr and Mrs A W Wright attended a sale at J P Soy's where alarm clocks sold for 75 cents amid mid summer festivities received by Mrs BE A Bivins. Mrs W T Davies promotes her fall line on High Street while Miss Lila Bisa Ithaca visited Miss Gretta Bagley. L Bennett attended a street carnival in Saginaw and Bert Hayes Jr and sister Mamie visited Stanton early in the week.
The piece lists the official route for the upcoming circus parade and notes various local visits and social events. It mentions residents and guests traveling to and from Alma, Saginaw, Detroit, Ithaca, and St. Louis, plus upcoming sales, a barber shop extension for circus day, a photographer’s pricing, and a social event with a Timby lawn gathering featuring music and a trained animal show.
The Union Telephone Co updates rural subscribers in Singingala and nearby areas connected to the Alina exchange. The list includes names and numbers and asks residents to copy it into directory cards until a new list is issued. Additional connections expected by week’s end and next issue will publish more names.
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