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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1921
Page
8
A scattered local news roundup notes visits by Detroit and nearby residents to Alma College Grand Rapids and other locales. It mentions community happenings, school openings, church events, funerals and family visits, with brief references to local businesses and a hospital operation in progress.
Mr and Mrs EC Porte celebrate their son Walter driving to Yale Friday to visit Me and Mrs Honey Ohmet My Walter Ferris returning home Sunday with them or nearby.
East Alma reports Mrs Will Westcott from Mayes avenue was taken Sunday to Alma hospital for an appendectomy and is said to be doing well. Will Westcott, a farmer on Tev and Mrs Cherion share farm news, while Fred Hare moves to Borrien to run a fruit elevator. The parish notes a split of farm prospects, local illnesses, hospital visits, and several travel updates including Camp Grayling, Bay City, and Ann Arbor.
Residents attended the Th A S dinner at Mrs Josae Rockwell's home and many called on relatives. Several names, trips and visits around Alma, Elle Yourt, St Louis and nearby towns are noted with casual social updates and sick list mentions.
A garbled OCR item hints at a public event or performance involving a comedy farce and a parade of names and places. Amid scrambled words, references to a theater, a show, and dates emerge, with mentions of a festival or presentation timetable and assorted persons and locales.
Fragmentary OCR text refers to rat poison product names and a threat or claim about rat snapping. Mentions Veet rat poison, possible druglike additives, and names Murphy and Winslow as directors or authorities. Readable facts are sparse but indicate a public notice or advertisement format with incomplete lines.
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