09 Jan 1891
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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1891
Page
1
An OCR fragment lists names and terms with unclear connections. It mentions teams, places, and people in a jumbled sequence, referencing competitions and possible results without coherent context or dates. Further readable facts are insufficient to form a coherent summary.
The West Pine River column reports frigid conditions with four inches of snow needed for sleighing, social events such as an oyster supper and a New Year celebration, local sickness, church meetings during the Week of Prayer, and farming concerns. It notes Mrs. Helfer entertaining in Posters Ohio, Ed/L. Wright’s return from the Westen woods, and school progress at district 3 Seville with 35 enrolled and 25 average daily attendance including named students.
Ladies undergarments 40 cents, men's and children's underwear discounts, unlaundered shirts, shirtings, and wide stock of tires. Agents for Harri son wagon plus Kalamazoo Buggy Co cutters. Sleighing robes and horse blankets, harnesses from seven dollars, double harnesses twenty four to thirty dollars. In doors, sash, glass and house furnishing goods limited space, and stoves featured with various garlands and brands.
The February issue of the Ladies Home Journal will present articles by Emma Tharley Clara Louise Kellogg Madame Alani Campanin and Maud Powell offering vocal tips and musical guidance to girls and women pursuing singing. The items promise practical hints from renowned sopranos and teachers to aid aspiring vocalists.
The contracts for doctoring the poor of Gratiot county for the ensuing year have been set as follows: J. B. Baldwin Pine River Bethany $25 D. A. Watt Wheeler $24 Lafayette 315 Hamilton $15 Elba 2h Nord Star $12 Washington $18 J.P. Carpenter Arcada $25 C. L. Warner County House $15.50 then $15 Je. Weller Emerson $150 Newark 319.50 New Haven $1 Sumer $35.
Editor notice reports ill health in families including a W Johnson infant and a sick child at Jacob Rundie’s. School resumes after a two week vacation. Oysters and a New Year oyster supper are noted. A quilting for five sufferers and an open P of L meeting are mentioned. Santa’s wig fiasco at the Christmas tree is recounted along with multiple local movements, baptisms, and visits from residents like Jay Carter and Mrs Gleason.
The Farmers Institute to be held soon features a rich program with addresses by E. A. Bagley and Silas Movidy, plus sessions on drainage, marketing, crops, insects, wool, and diseases. Reductions offered by hotels and railroads aim to encourage attendance as the event promises valuable insights and demonstrations.
A damaged ad promotes Nerve Tonic and alterative claiming restored appetite and liver kidney health. It urges readers to try a bottle at a local drug store, naming nervous unease and fatigue as relief targets, with a persuasive sales tone.
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