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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1902
Page
4
The Alma record notes a Citizens Caucus request to reform the village election process. A push for a public caucus Friday night gathers momentum amid factions. calls for two-ticket balance and candidate selection aimed at improving governance and voter trust.
A historical excerpt cites Mr. Havemeyer and associates asserting dictatorial control over the American Sugar Refining Company, arguing that relief for Ontario is a mere strategy of the trust to crush competitors. It warns against foreign influence and notes stockholder figures and advised cautions to Congress.
On Washington's Birthday Alma Sanitarium Co holds its annual banquet for town clergy. Dr Good Butler served as feastmaster and delivered a genial speech. Attendees included Rev J T Hafer who could not attend, with many program offerings and tributes.
McMullen and McCollough, famed cigar makers, wed spouses on the same day in Durand. George McMullen married Minnie McGuire at her home, while BON McCollough married Gertrude Baker, a Derrand Rapids native. The newlyweds will reside in Alma, joining the firm’s new residence, as the business partnership expands.
Friday events list school hon speakers including Arata and Hafer with dates Feb 18 through March 7. The notice also announces the dissolution of the hardware firm Thompson & Sanderhoff by mutual consent and transfer of obligations to Thompson & Sanderhoff with payment due by March date in Alma Michigan.
A vintage cold wind warning urges protection to lungs and promotes Allen's Lung Balsam as a fast acting remedy for coughs and chest pain. The copy claims consumption fear and asserts that few doses will loosen the cough and “cure soon follows.”
Local churches announce next Sunday's services with Rev J A Datcher at United Brethren, morning and evening sermons at Presbyterian and Methodist churches, and special meetings at the P M church on March 7. A remedy for colds is advertised briefly at the end.
An Alma resident, Samuel J. Currence of River Street, recounts decades of back and kidney pain triggered by cold weather. He credits Doan’s Kidney Pills with relief after a costly doctor’s visit and urges others with kidney trouble to try the remedy, noting his wife’s similar improvement and recommending the product through local drugstores.
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