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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1916
Page
4
The Alma Record explains format and deadlines for ads and subscriptions. It lists C F Brown as editor and proprietor and Will A Ewing as city editor and advertising manager, with a $1 yearly subscription and guidance on copy deadlines for timely placement.
A Women's National Committee of the Hughes Alliance forms in Alma with Francis King as chair. Ezra L. Smith and J. H. Greene spoke on influencing voters and detailing Charles Evans Hughes. Members pledged funds and promised to recruit women to work for Hughes.
Alma residents face a special election on August 30 to approve bonding for sewage and water improvements. Health authorities deem Pine River water unfit for bathing as it supplies the city, and a new system would bring pure water through mains, raising concerns over cost but emphasizing health and cleanliness.
Gratiot County Good Health Society held a meeting at the First State Bank to elect twelve directors. Present were C. F. Brown who called the meeting to order and introduced the slate including Dr. T. J. Carney of Alma as chairman and Mrs W P Andrews St Louis Dr E Faust Ithaca Dr W W Drake Breckenridge North Star Dr W E Barstow St Lonia Mrs C A Crans North Star Mrs Fred E Moffatt Breckenridge Dr B C Hall Pompeii and Mr F.
E Connis of Ithaca and Miss Sadie Messinger Alma attend a county directors meeting to elect officers and decide on health week or visiting nurses. The church notes cover weddings at Warren Avenue Presbyterian and various Sunday services, with multiple ministers and locations in Alma and nearby. Also reported are business leases, theater plans by Lanatsw players, Wright funeral director motor hearse service, and a local political candidate's canvassing in Rose Ashley Michigan.
City authorities warn that Pine river is contaminated and bathing or swimming is punishable by fine or imprisonment during the current condition. Signs line the river and officers monitor the banks to curb summer sickness tied to swimming.
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