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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1910
Page
8
A new weekly Indian newspaper to be based in Muscogee Oklahoma will publish in Cherokee Creek Choctaw and other languages. Augustus W Ivey of Stillwell will edit. The issue aims to educate Indians about citizenship with no political content.
Missouri Governor Herbert Hadley proposes a rural fix to high living costs urging every family to keep a cow and chickens. He argues price spikes stem from urban reliance on farming output and advocates returning to farm practices to ease economic strain.
A speaker touts livestock as a practical aid in city households. Three cows and several chickens cut costs, and the speaker urges readers to ask Mrs. Hadley for proof. The remark emphasizes frugal farming in urban life.
From Hartley South Dakota a letter describes a 10 by 12 shack with ship lap walls tar roof blue plaster board and tar paper exterior. The writer lists home made furniture a washstand clock shelf space and two windows with cheese cloth curtains. They bought a branch for 50 dollars trained it as a horse and note a dug out barn on a hillside and a one and a half mile school nearby.
From my shack I ride Don unless the weather is bad and I board near the school house. I have an eight months school and get $40 per month to help defray expenses. We hold a Sunday school a preaching service and a literary society. A railroad contract has been let near my land. A daily stage runs to Hartley three miles away. Lovingly your niece Ellen.
Arcada Grange No 500 met in regular session February 5 with eight officers present. New organ praised, lightning rods discussed with no action. Officers and members reported on programs, readings, and music. Penny March fifteen cents. Next meeting February 19. masquerade dance postponed due to measles. State livestock conditions given and wheat marketing totals for January across southern, central, and northern counties. Real estate transfers listed for Alma, Arcada, Riverdale, and surrounding areas.
Reportings from southern central and northern counties show mixed responses on January wheat injury. Snow depths on the 15th varied: southern counties 2.8 weeks protection, central 4.02 weeks, northern 4.01 weeks, peninsula 15 weeks, state average 4.02 weeks.
The document presents the Forty Second Annual Statement for the Reserve Fund, American Table, including 4 and 3 percent from January 1908. It lists premiums, interest, rents paid in advance amounting to 10,379,648, with 46,474 in premiums, 59,610 in installments not yet due, and 71,150 in other policy claims. Accrued salaries, taxes and expenses total 25,677,60. Other liabilities total 1,993,63. Surplus is 756,683,83. Total assets 11,941,237,39 against 11,341,237,39. Signed by Theron F. Giddings, Supt. of Agencies, and WM. 3. Marshutz, Home Office Special, Detroit.
A list of parcel transfers showing A H Olmsted and wife to J Probst and wife in Newark. Cooper to Watson in Wheeler. Evans to Hal in Alma. J McWilliams to D Wiles in Ithaca. Wiles in New Haven. etc. Includes multiple estate lot descriptions and dollar amounts such as 1500, 550, 1700, and 1800.
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