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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1903
Page
2
Ithaca Mad Myers of St John visits Ed Bartranard family. Elsie Hulbert hosts Leon Torey of Alta. Roy Smith visits mother. Mather of Cadillac guests of J M Sowersby. Numerous townsfolk travel for visits and business in Ashley and nearby towns. Catarrh cure ad closes the page with medical claim.
West Pine River notes show residents visiting relatives and friends in Alma St Louis Saginaw Bay City and Ithaca. Entries mention illness recoveries school reports attire and social events including a Masquerade Ball and local institute attendance.
Grant Mouser on sick list. Gante family tulimp Ges Wheeler and family arrived from Iancroft. Don Matadis and two friends visit Miss Hatadis aunt. About twenty five friends visit John Wheeler and bride. Bert Lepsey’s horse ran away Sunday injuring him. Fowler family from Penamo visit Wheeler parents. Jun Wheeler wed Nettie Chalker February 15 leaving John Tarver alone. R J Wheeler surprised by sleigh party of thirty two with music and socializing.
The town reports a funeral for Mrs Bride at the Crystal house with Rev Stine presiding, and Orlando Berkard buried at Stane church in New Maven with Rev Sam Teed officiating. Revival services continue nightly at the Hope church. Ladies' Aid met at Sherwin home. Ray Otter's horse frightened and threw him from a cutter near the state road. horse injured.
A moral meditation on knowing the future contrasts with hope and energy, noting risks of foreknowledge. The ad proclaims Electric Bitters can restore health, strengthen vigor, and aid weakened systems, with a money back guarantee offered by Sharrar & Mulholland, druggists.
Alma visitors include N Hayes and Miller visiting relatives. sick list members improving. The Ladtex Aid Society to meet February 24 at the town hall. Elders Lown and Drew conduct meetings with local residents. Hamiltons of Coe visited their son and family. Vedder and Cap Wright hosted by Billotts. Ad notes Dean's Ointment for scalp eczema.
N. E. Lafayette reports Grandpa and Granda Benjamin exchanging letters. A Giltke and wife took a trip to Tabaca Friday. Le Benjamin and wife visited in Wheeler Friday. B Holtmyer spent part of last week in Breckenridge. Chas. Myers bought a fine horse, as did L. Benjamin. John Coleman visited his mother Mrs. Derry in Edgewich on Saturday. Lilo a climber of the farmer is hauling logs to the mill to build barns. Mrs. Phl Borough and son visited her sister Mrs. Herbert Bingle of Ithaca last week.
A crowded string of items records people named Emerson Ralph Cook Martin Bloss and others in Ithaca St Louis Owosso and Durand visiting spending Sundays and Saturdays with relatives. It notes several illnesses and recoveries plus social calls and mill work. A scientific discovery is cited for Kodol digestion aiding stomach relief.
An advertisement for Dr G A Munch of the Detroit Medical and Surgical Institute touts expertise across a long list of ailments and claims pay upon cure. It offers free consultation and testimonials as references while noting appearances in Ithaca St Louis Alma and Detroit and monthly visits to various hotel parlors.
News notes from St Louis report a baby boy born Sunday to Mr and Mrs Henry Brown. Mrs Jas Robinson of Lansing visits Miss Myra Henry. Mr and Mrs J J Faulkner host a large progressive Pedro gathering Monday. Levi Bishbeck, longtime St Louis resident and veteran, died Sunday after a long illness. Ciara Bernard hosts a progressive Pedro meetup. Prizes went to Miss Myra Henry and Jota Burns. Barstow of Ithaca, working at a chemical plant, fell twenty two feet inside a tower, breaking both bones above the left knee. Presbyterian choir contest Friday evening lauded as a leading winter event with Pay Salisbury judged top, Nina Hull top in grammar, tie between Helen Stillquin and Fat Word in primary.
Elm Hall notes report Miss Addie Bayley visiting North Star, the planing mill at Riverside under repairs, and Mrs Hattie Gurbin from Edmore visiting town. Epworth League social and church services in session, H.R. Pattengill and F. Pike visited Cedar Corners and Elm Hall schools, and Sherman Romine’s house fire caused limited damage. Fred Elliott surprised by forty youngsters with a music and games evening.
Forest Hill reports Fred Bigier back from the north as revival meetings continue this week. Pat Manion visited Ithaca on business last Saturday. Mrs Deming’s mother Mrs Mure pho visits. A birth is announced for Bert Mates ton on February 1. The German Medicine Co. hosts events at the town hall this week. Silas Moody joined the farmer's round-up at Owosse Wednesday. W E Gibson, Grace Sly and Olive Hafer attended the teachers roundup in Ithaca Saturday. Miss Kittie Kemp, formerly here, lost her millinery goods and furniture in a fire last Friday night. millinery woods estimated at 2000 with 400 insurance.
Wheeler and surrounding residents attend social events visit relatives and exchange greetings. People named include Bessy Swope Jothar Allen Mrs Adams Prof Bonesteel Mather Bradford J. Phelps Erve Wood Charley Allen and R don son. The Buck Grocery Co began stocking goods and the Maccabees met at Henry Vancpps home. A lecture by Hl Ry Patvengill drew attendees and a birthday surprise occurred for Charley Allen.
A local dramatised ad touts Dr King’s New Life Pills to keep a pale figure healthy. It claims the pills gently stimulate many organs to improve digestion and prevent constipation, urging readers to buy at Sharrar Mulholland’s Drugstore for 250.
The article discusses using salt pork as a traditional remedy for consumption and promotes Scott's Emulsion as a modern fat feeding treatment. It argues fat aids digestion, supports the weak lungs, and that cod liver oil with hypophosphites enhances the remedy.
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