Christa Shopping The Busy Downtown Christmas Week
Christmas shoppers fill Superior Street as merchants stock up for holiday buying. Stores feature festive window displays and a wide array of gifts from toys to beauty items, calendars, and games. Local shops like Cushing Benedict, Gallagher's Bazaar, Wheaton & Sons, and Grover advertise seasonable goods and appealing gift assortments for all ages.
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Superior Street
Cushing & Benedict
Cushing and Benedict
Willie
O. Grover
Grover
Mr. Grover
Superior and
Woodworth
Crandall and Scott Offer Seasonal Home Furnishings Display
Crandall and Scott showcase a Christmas display at their double store front, featuring picture novelties calendars photographs and home furniture. The observ er notes the display vanishes quickly as purchasers replenish arrangements, with furniture items urged as practical holiday gifts payable in installments to ease the rush. A.C. Wyant is identified as the exhibitor.
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Crandall & Scott
Crandall and Scott
Maxwell Car Ad Urges Careful Auto Purchase
In Alma the Record column urges Christmas buyers to pause before choosing and consider a Maxwell for the family. The Maxwell line is praised for reliability and directs readers to see Mr Wyant before buying any automobile.
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Alma
Mr. Wyant
Economy Shoe Store Christmas Gift Footwear Display
Economy Shoe Store presents a large stock of footwear including shoes boots moccasins slippers and winter gift ideas. Cohen Brothers and J Cohen Brothers echo the appeal with school boy and worker footwear plus men’s attire while Mrs Bart Miller showcases cloaks furs suits and affordable gifts for women suitable for Christmas shoppers.
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Economy Shoe Store
Bart Miller
Brewer’s Meat Menu Promises Christmas Specials
E R Brewer, meat man, advertises ready to chop roast and sell a big chicken for Christmas dinner, inviting customers to the block for selection and timely purchase.
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E. R. Brewer
Hardware and music stores showcase Christmas wares
One Sanderhoff offers hardware gifts from skates to a clothes wringer and highlights ample stock. Forquer’s West Superior Street store features phonographs, records, pianos, and other music goods led by Miss Edna Abbot. Simon Messinger’s dry goods store flaunts holiday remembrances and striking displays. Chas Rhodes highlights a neat window with a miniature Christmas tree and a range of shopper items.
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D. W. Robinson
Superior Street
D. W. Rotuneon
Alma
State Street
Sanderhoff
Otto Sanderhoff
Simon Messinger
Chas
Rhodes
G V Wright Frames For Season Trade
G V Wright specializes in fine picture frames for the season. An expert framer, he guarantees his work to be satisfactory.
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G. V. Wright
Delevan Stores Offer Endless Apparel and Goods
C. L and G. M. Delevan present a wide choice for shoppers with long aisles filled with scores of clothing dry goods and notions of all sorts offering a vast selection to suit every need.
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C. L
G. M. Delevan
FIRST SACRAMENT AT SIX PROMPTS GLOBAL CHURCH LAW
Pope Pius decrees priests must prepare children to receive first holy communion at about six years old, changing the former English speaking practice of limiting sacraments to ages 10 to 12. The measure aims to spread early reception worldwide, with various regions reacting to the new rule.
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Pope Pine
Pope Pius
Progress of Road Building in Michigan at Indianapolis
Deputy Highway Commissioner Rogers outlines Michigan’s 70 000 miles of township controlled wagon roads and the split with county roads in 34 counties. He details state aid, mileage by year, costs, rewards, materials, and early efforts to resist motor car wear across counties including Wayne Saginaw and Bay.
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Michigan
Rogers
Indianapolis
Highway Department
States Highway Department
Lower Peninsula
Wayne County
Wayne
Saginaw
Hay Counties
Bay County
Mrs West Improving After Major Operation
Mrs F B West who underwent a severe operation in the south Burritt private hospital at Ann Arbor is improving as rapidly as can be expected. She is still unable to sit up but will be able to return to her home here in about two weeks.
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F. B. West
South Burritt
Ann Arbor
Tuberculosis Seals Sale Planned at Three Drug Stores
Tuberculosis seals will be on sale at the three drug stores every day next week. The public is urged to buy the tamply and thereby assist not only the tuberculosis society but the Civic Improvement league as well. The league getting a percentage of all sales made.
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Tuberculosis Society
Civic Improvement League
Second Regular Round Table Meeting Held In Alma
The Centre Michigan Round Table, a group of educators from central Michigan, held its second regular meeting at the Wright House last Friday evening with forty to fifty members present. Prof W H French of Michigan Agricultural College spoke on agricultural education in public schools, tracing its history from the Morris Acts of 1862 and noting the spread of agriculture courses from colleges to high schools and normal schools locally and nationally.
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Centre Michigan Round Table
Central Michigan
Wright House
W. H. French
Michigaan Agricultural College
East Lansling
French
Minnesota
United States
Michigan
Wes French
Superior College
Superior College Reieeeete School and Seem Ee Fe Develvel
Feton
Education and agriculture in high schools debated
Prof French argues agriculture should be taught as an applied science in secondary schools, possibly as part of graduation credit. He notes half the workforce are farmers and urges specialist instruction, elective courses, and a focus on practical agrarian education to yield better farmers, with a Round Table discussion led by Prof MacCurday.
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United States
French
Holdter Election At Ithaca Grange No 787 Officers Elected
At a meeting last Saturday Ithaca Grange No 787 elected W M M G Lake W O D D Odgen W L Mrs Celia Coleman W S C A Van deventer Ass t Steward Geo H Lake Chap Mrs C E Webster Treasurer J B Miller Secretary Sarah E Lake Gate Keeper Henry Ceres Mrs D D Ogden Pomona Mrs J B Miller Flora Mrs K Clark L Ass t S Mrs Nellie Lake The annual feast will be held Jan 2 with installation of officers by Brother Sharrer of Arcadia Grange.
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Ithaca Grange
W. M
M. G Lake
W. O
D. D. Odgen
W. L
Celia Coleman
W. S
C. A. Vandeventer
Geo. H. Lake
C. E. Webster
J. B. Miller
Sarah E. Lake
Henry Ceres
D. D. Ogden
Pomona
Flora
K. Clark
L. Ass't S
Nellie Lake
Brother Sharrer
Arcadia Grange
M E Sunday School Elect Officers in 1910 Methodist Church
The Methodist Episcopal Sunday school board elected officers and teachers for the coming year on December 12 1910. Names include Sutp Carl Washburn Hansford McCurdy Merrill Stuckey Edith Hooper Pearl Turner and others across Primary Junior and Adult departments with substitutes noted. Local notes mention teachers and visitors in Pine River Jackson County and Owosso area.
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The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Carl Washburn
Hansford McCurdy
Merrill Stuckey
Edith Hooper
Pearl Turner
J. N. Day Sr
Kittie Danham
Temperance
F. K
Chas. Hooper
Dallas Brook
Frank Parker
Treas
Marcella Adams
Penton Fishbeck
Cora Hearn
Carrie Johnson
Etta Hearn
Esther Smith
Edna Abbott
Flossie Clark
Marjorie Delavan
Vida Greig
W. P. Chediater
Carrie Shaw
Myrtle Lewis
Clara Johnson
Celia Creaser
Grace Dubois
Wm. DeLong
W. F. Price
Clifford Cummings
Poultry Show Opens With Broad Regional Entries
The first annual poultry and pet stock show opened Tuesday in this city, drawing hundreds of birds from Howell to Clare and Kent City to Saginaw. Gratiot display expected to contend for top premiums as Judge Otto scores entries. A midway attraction by Mr. Fairburn showcases a monkey, coyotes, mice, guinea fowl, guinea pigs, dogs and more. The exhibition runs daily until Friday evening when premiums are awarded.
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Howell
Clare
Kent City
Saginaw
Gratiot
Otto
Fairburn
R. Y. Otto
Alma Poultry and Pet Stock Association
Tax Collector to Receive City Taxes at City Hall
W Holmes the tax collector will be at the city clerk's office in city hall each weekday starting December 1 except Mondays to receive taxes until further notice.
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W. Holmes
City Hall
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Christa Shopping
Gallagher’s Bazaar
A.B. C
Gallagher's
Wheaton & Sons
Wheaton and Sons
A.C. Wyant
Man
Cohen & Brothers
J. Cohen & Brother
Cohen's
Delevan's
Mrs. West
W. Hi. French
Holdter
M. E. Sunday School
H. Stoddard
Fd, Amebury
Mr. Frite
B. L. Walker
Hi. L. Smith
H. B. Ward
Pine River
P. W. Creaser
H. McCurday
Charlie Robins
Owosso
Wright
W. E. Doty
Wm. Mee
Rabee Lee
L. M. Sweet
Subin Jackson Co
Mae Eyes
Shepherd
C. F. Wright
Carson City
J. A. Wee
Zier
Bhp Adge
Midway
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