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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1906
Page
7
A fragmented OCR listing church services and lodge meetings across weeks and months. It mentions morning and evening worship times, Sunday school, prayer meetings, and midweek gatherings, plus various Masonic and veterans groups with scattered dates and room names. Entitled figures include pastors and lodge officers, though many names are garbled.
County residents report visits and travel last week. Fred Smith travelled to see grandfather J. Cohoon while Henry Adams of Alma visited S. Adams. Vira Fleming returned home from Alma. Ralph Kernen of Kalarmazoo handled a letter, and Mrs. 3. Wright from Alma spent the week nearby. HL Mayes and son Charlie with families shared Sunday at A. Wilbur’s. Mrs. Dudley Hoyt improving. Haggans sold timber to Hooper and Clark. Wrights visiting daughter Mrs. A. Slayton in Bolding this week. Wm. Veeder family from Mt. Pleasant visiting father M. Veeder. M. Cohooti of Isabella county visited relatives here. Henry Jones and son Tim sold property and plan leasing for Tennessee.
A sensational claim from Paris reports a diamond cure for consumption. The ad touts Dr. King’s New Discovery for coughs and colds with quick relief, urging readers to try a trial bottle at a local store, priced and guaranteed. It cites testimonials from W. T. McGee of Yanker Tenn and an unnamed patient who suffered fourteen years.
Mike Jonnie Briggs visited Minnie Buchholz and Jacob Buchholz with his daughter, while Mrs. Augusta Adams of Mt. Pleasant joined relatives near Twiner. Sam Barnes left for Ohio on a short visit, Effie Fritz and children stay near Twining, Louise Fenner recovers at home from a wrist injury, Rosa Kehl returns to St Louis high school, Fred Schultheiss injured a finger, Wesley Deline and wife visit Clas Kapp and wife of Breckenridge on New Year’s Day.
The text compares impoverished soil to impoverished blood and suggests a chemist can diagnose soil fertilizer needs and a doctor can prescribe nutrients for blood. It argues fat as the missing element in the body and mentions tonics or concentrated fat foods, noting no fat food is easily digested and assimilated.
It will nourish and strengthen the body when milk and cream fail to do it. Scott's Emulsion is always the sane, always palatable and always beneficial where the body is wasting from any cause, either in children or adults.
Beebe Mrs Charles Johnson returns from Toledo to spend Christmas with family. Walter Weston returns to Jonta after visiting parents. Elmer Severance and Rana return from Ohio. Mrs P Miller travels to Gilsonburg Ohio on business. Aumangher family and others spend New Years in Ovid and Lenawee. Irving and Rosebush trip. Birth announced December 27 at home of Dougie Purvis. Emma Smith returns to East Tawas after mother’s death. Emerson MBE Sunday school board elects officers January 1 including N M Showers as superintendent and Mary Roos as teacher.
A reader cautions against imitation celery teas and urges the use of Celery King, a valued medicine priced at 25 cents. The message warns it prevents danger to life and promises reliable results.
Mrs Dudley Hoyt shows little improvement while Eleanor Fleming resumes school after a vacation. W S Sullivan and daughter Maude return home after a week away. Eliza Fleming and children visit J Fleming. F Wright visits Belding to see the newborn granddaughter at J’s home. Albert Slayton and family. Erwin Fleming hosts Willie Wright. A crowd attends W Chareh auction. reports say it went well. Elvira Fleming visits sister Cora. Ralph Kernen stayed at D Hoyt’s. G H Hansan recovers from kidney trouble, credits Foley’s Kidney Cure advised for trainmen.
Herb Warren remains very ill at this writing. George Ward and family are caring for Ed. Clark this winter. T C Houghtaling and family spent New Years with her parents. Orin Bailey had his phone removed. The Xmas tree at the school house on Xmas night was a success and reflected credit on those who organized it.
An advertorial claim states Orine Laxative Fruit Syrup cures chronic constipation by aiding digestion and stimulating the liver and bowels. It promises immediate relief, notes pleasant taste, and warns against substitutes, attributed to Geo EB Sharrar.
Miss Clara Ransom from Potoukey visits Pearl Dick for New Year harmony rings, while Mr and Mrs Charles Taylor of Alina see Marvin Follick. The Elwell Social Club held a banquet with all reporting a good time.
Rev L Blanchett and wife return from Canada where he visited his mother with reports of frigid fifteen degree weather. Mrs Daniel Childs hosted New Year dinner with relatives including Herbert Caf ford Gordon and wives and Ms Geo Aldrich of St Louis. Lemon entertained guests from Saturday to Monday, including M L Dunham of Grand Rapids and a Detroit niece. E Ashworth and Grace Niece return for holidays. Various locals, Dr and Mrs Abbott, Emory Fuller and others visit relatives in town and nearby farms.
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