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Local Alma items note theater ads and civic updates
Alma and surrounding area provide daily notes from theater listings to weather, taxes, and local business moves. Fatty Arbuckle and J Stuart Blackton films are advertised alongside town news on merchants, soldiers, and residents including Charles Murphy Mae Marsh and Chase S Osborn visitors. Local infrastructure updates mention thaw, gutters, and a basement well while real estate firm Shep herd and Crapo plans new offices near the post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Murphy
Elwell
Mae Marsh
Idlehour
J. Stuart Blackton
Freedom of the World
Republic Truck Company
John Wright
Detroit
Alma
Fatty Arbuckle
Hart
F. Chant
St. Johns
F. W. Goodes
Francis King
Chase S. Osborn
Michigan
Model
Theodore Kress
United States Army
Archie VanDyne
Gaylord
C. J. Barnes
Shepherd & Crapo
Western Union Telegraph Office
Union 406
Bell 102
Woodworth Avenue
Theers
Muskewon
Battle Creek
Boston