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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1892
Page
5
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Local column lists a charity bazaar at Wright's Opera House and assorted ads for boots coats and spoons. Mentions John Greig as deputy sheriff candidate, train delays at Clare, and new telephone line reaching Mt Measant with Pollasky rubber sales and other holiday items.
Holiday offers flood Alma including Webb call for Xmas novelties and L H Hayt daily arrivals. Bargains on boys coats at Alma Mercantile Go and harness robes at I P Gilman. Local concerts and club meetings announced with concerts at Baptist church and Schubert concert at Webb's.
A fragment collection notes a clearance sale with bids over ten dollars for crockery, a poll ask for a lamp prize, and a Free Methodist church meeting in Alma. It mentions peppermint oil yields in Gladwin County and land suitable for peppermint cultivation in Gratiot, plus a disturbing tale of a Sheridan man’s death tied to an alleged funeral fraud involving a Greenville undertaker.
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