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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1911
Page
6
A brief note highlights the long use of Humphreys Specifics for over fifty years with public satisfaction and mentions a medical book sent free to readers.
President Taft plans to visit Michigan to attend the State Fair in Detroit as guest of the Detroit Board of Commerce. He will spend an afternoon and evening at the fairgrounds and address attendees, with dates between September 2 and 6 under consideration, likely with cabinet members and Michigan delegates present. Governor Osborn will open the fair on September 18.
Governor Chase and Osborn will press the opening button in the morning at the Michigan State Fair. He will officially open the grounds and later address the assembled crowd on the fair’s grounds.
A vintage ad extols Electric Bitters as the best blood purifier improving digestion and red blood cell health. It quotes C. T. Budahn of Tracy California praising the tonic and notes a 50 cent price at Rhodes Drug Co Wheaton & Son.
In Gratiot County Probate Court Amanda Hicks deceased. The court notes CA Hicks as proposed administrator and sets August 1 at 10 AM for hearing. Public notice to run in Alma Record for three weeks prior. Judge Thane S. Seaver presiding.
In Gratiot County Probate Court Ithaca on July 1 the judge appointed Alice Holliday widow of the deceased as administrator of the estate. Public notice is ordered in the newspaper for creditors to file claims by December 1 with hearings set for December 1 at ten o clock.
Daredevil driver Ray Harroun and his Marmon Wasps will appear at the Michigan State Fair track for two exhibition days, June 22 and 25. Harroun, famed for winning the 600 mile Memorial Day race at Indianapolis and the 100 mile world championship, will thrill crowds with exhibition runs in the Warp and other notable cars alongside Roy Harroun and six other famed drivers. Motorcycles and other cars will join the show, promising a high speed display and a view of top automotive talent.
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