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Alma Local Notes Snapshot of Community Life
Alma newsroom rounds up a flood of names and places from nearby towns. Bert Gibbs and Dr E G Sluyter drop in, families vacation at Chippewa lake and Mt Pleasant, and many residents visit Alma from Saginaw Grand Rapids and Bay City. The Republic baseball squad plays Owosso in Owosso as a tribute to umpire Green. Corporal Marsh re-enlists in Grand Rapids district while Buck Freeman moves to Boston Americans in a record Mint league sale.
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G. J. Maiers
Bert Gibbs
Shepherd
Alma
Maier’s
Frank Bennett
Chippewa Lake
Bergdorff
The
St. Louis
Paul
Clifford Lake
A. J. Smith
Mt. Pleasant
Verne Colburn
Edwin Johnson
George L. Fitch
E. G. Sluyter
State Savings Bank
Hull
Middleton
Homer M. Dunham
Bay City
Hugh Bartley
Mason
Daisy Call
Ingham
Christopher Brock
Thamesrod
Ontario
A. W. Brock
Dallas Brock
Grand Rapids
Hah Phillips
Owosso
Hughie van Norman
Ashley Price
Durand
William Strong
Larry Loney
Rip” Hagerman
Bill” Hunter
Earl Dunckle
Philip Chouinard
Houghton Lake
J. P. Losey
George Titus
Peter Mates
California
Los Angeles
Republic
Green
Charles E. Marsh
Coast Artillery
Panama
Corporal Marsh
Corporal Justice
Denver
Colorado
Buck” Freeman
Saginaw Michigan