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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
3
A local store touts a range of Christmas gifts including labor saving devices for the wife and an array of pictures and paintings from old masters. It promotes Hastings Cabinets and other items at all price points, inviting customers to see the full store display.
A local retailer announces a line of Rockers priced to suit every budget from the cheapest model to premium seats. Families are invited to compare options and choose the chair that fits their needs and finances.
The advertisement touts brass beds as the perfect gift, claiming unmatched beauty usefulness and comfort. It promises a complete stock across departments ready for inspection and invites readers to visit the store to see the offerings firsthand.
Court action seeks to quiet title on the north half of the northeast quarter in section eight township, with defendants Joel M. Hix and Jake Jeffery and unknown heirs. Notice requirements include appearance by April and publication in The Mina Record for six weeks. Noted officials include O. G. Puntle as clerk and George Fruchey as treasurer with tax meeting dates listed.
Northwest New Haven notes a Wednesday event with Mr and Mrs Cary Modtague and Mr and Mrs A Jewel of Crystal. The fragmentary item mentions a couple, likely a social gathering or engagement announcement, but specifics and context are unclear from the legible text.
Mr and Mrs Richard Eastman hosted guests including Mr and Mrs Harvey Toowcks and Mr and Mrs Leon Louckstrom in Bear Crystal for Thanksgiving. Frank Jarsifer and family visited D C Collie Sinitay. Ed McKinstry visits Cleveland Ohio. Mrs Effie Hoxie and son Jett stayed with her parents T J Walrin in Elm Hall. Kmory Mulford left for Lansing for work. Russel Mills and spouse joined Townsend family and others for Thanksgiving.
A vintage guide to preparing casseroles for Christmas dinner. It describes serving in decorative dishes, using chicken pieces, and presenting the dish with holly garnish. Step by step instructions include cutting chicken, frying, draining, and making broth from bones with onions, cloves, mace, celery, mushrooms, bacon, and butter.
A browned chicken is finished with a smooth thickened sauce made from mushroom liquor tomato ketchig tarragon and browning. The chicken bakes covered for two and a half hours, mushrooms added halfway, and a lemon finish before serving.
Lost between Roller Mills and Alma Elevator a horse blinker. finder to return to Record office. The Women’s Club meets Monday afternoon December 16 with Mrs. Woos Melcher at 2 State Street. The school board bought furniture Wednesday for the high school boarding from American School Seating Co of Grand Rapids. New radiators installed in the A B Angell house on River Avenue Wednesday with Walker present.
Arcada Township treasurer Earl Kuhlman announces tax collection at Alam Ste Savings Bank Deo Fore Jan 4 and Jan 28 and at Dhoen National Pak Deo Stand 41 112 and Jan 10 4. Read as a public notice of tax collection locations and dates.
Mrs Webber is very poorly. Henry and Eddie Yung returned from a hunting trip with a deer. Missilla Beard of near St Louis visited Jesse Beard. Kenry Stahlberger and family spent Thanksgiving with John and Mrs Church of St Jenis. Chris Yung and family and John Baker dined with Jesse Puller and wife of Alma. Gladstone of Newark and Semer Husted with John Baker visited Creidhardt's on Sunday.
Adame and others share visits across Saginaw Alma and Dennen as Thanksgiving events and family gatherings fill Wednesday to Sunday notes. Neighbors Wade, Owens, Villier, Raycraft, and Clark appear in various memorials and meals. A Wright district birthday gathering for about forty youths closes the column.
A brief promotional fragment for The Youth's Companion subscription offering gifts and yearlong content. It touts issues for readers of all ages, includes advice on athletics and college work, and proposes a family-friendly gift priced at $2.00 with new subscriptions accepted at 141 Berkeley Street, Boston.
Market page lists grain and live stock prices with corrections. Wheat No 1 white 97 cents, oats, corn, beans, clover seed, hay ranges, pork and beef values, lambs, veal, poultry, hides, and produce items with varied cents per unit or per pound.
Stage stars fear skin blemishes but Roeklen's Arnica Salve promises relief from eruptions sores and pimples. It claims to vanish kezema and salt hounts, heal fissures, chapped hands, chilblains, tens and bruises. Available for 26 cents at Charles Rhores Wheaton and Sons Grover's Drug Store Rexall.
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