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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1904
Page
5
Miss Velma Sharp returns to Detroit and many locals travel, visiting relatives in Michigan and nearby states. Notes include trips to Grand Rapids Toledo Detroit and Lansing, housework job ad, tax sale notices, and local shop changes amid holiday visits and recoveries.
Ithaca and Shepherd residents visit Alma while many plan moves and trips. Mrs. J F Sartor Jr and Misa Eden Schwartz return or travel, and a group of Alma men plan a Chicago and New Orleans pleasure trip. Local shops push sales on furs cloaks and gauges while Pratt Goodell barber firms split. A marriage knot is tied by Justice Palmer after Coleman rents out a horse for delivery.
Messinger visited Detroit at the start of the week and H W Springer visited Ithaca on Wednesday. A. R. Sutton of Johnson Harvester Co. travelled to Alma for business with Geo. Gargett. Two hundred boys and a men’s meeting will be held at the Baptist church this Sunday at 4 80 pm and Tuesday at 7 40 pm with special music. Delavan’s received 300 pairs of shoe samples at reduced prices. Hawleys and Brazees visited Jackson county relatives during the holidays. Torch family arrived in Dunedin on Christmas Eve and had strawberry shortcake on Christmas Day. Gage, a taremaster at St. Louis sugar factory, said it will run into February. J M Granger travels to Shawnee, Oklahoma to manage property and may move. Jay Jacobs, optician, will be at Scattergood’s from January 11 for two weeks. Obos Coon to sell stock and implements today at Forest Hill with noon lunch. E Chandler of Butternut assists as auctioneer. Mary McNutt’s father ill in Edmore prompted her trip, returning with Mr. McNutt. Francia King of Chicago may relocate to Alma for business and lodge at the sanitarium with plans to buy a residence.
The Alma lecture series presents Dr Edward McDowell Itins talk on the Great West scenery Thursday evening January Mth. A letter from Slayton Lyceum Bureau assures safety, noting an expert from the Art Institute of Chicago accompanies McDowell. Reserved seats for the final three events go on sale Monday at O H Rhodes drug store with a coupon system to ensure fair access.
A very pleasant family reunion occurred at Mrs. Sarah Taylor's home in Park at New Year’s Day with five sons gathered for dinner. Charles lives in Toledo, William B from Standing Stone Pa, Burton G from Sioux Falls Dakota, Eugene L from the local area, and Geo O with his mother. The gathering marked a rare moment of unity after many years and losses, including the passing of the father, two daughters, and a grandchild born twenty years ago last October.
An old advertisement touts One Minute Cough Cure promising relief in one minute by killing the microbe that triggers cough, clears phlegm, soothes inflammation, heals lungs, wards off croup and other conditions, sold by Charles for both young and old.
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