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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1916
Page
7
A reader laments the daily delivery routine from tradesmen as wasteful for households. The piece argues delivery calls raise dealer costs, passed to customers via higher prices, while suggesting fixed days for specific deliveries and advocating card systems to curb back‑door solicitations and idle labor.
A column urges housewives to gain practical knowledge of chemistry and business to detect adulterated foods. It highlights margarine as a common butter substitute and describes a melt test and a milk water test using a knitting needle to spot watered milk, stressing vigilance against frauds in food.
A vintage cooking note describes shelling fresh green peas and lining a buttered dish with lettuce. Add parsley and mint to the peas, then cover and simmer about thirty to forty minutes. Drain, season, and mix in butter for a mint flavored serving.
A garbled near-coffeehouse of recipes and rural tips, including mint julep style drinks, onion cures and plasters, boiled sherbet, onion-based meals, and guidance on feeding cooked potatoes to poultry. It notes market advice for overfat hens and efficiency in selling fowl when fat limits lay production.
Fowls should be caponized when they begin to show sexual development at ten to twelve weeks, varying with breed. The comb begins to swell and the cock's gait and crowing attempts appear in a fairly good time.
The article notes that summer freckles appear with sun exposure and fade after staying indoors, advising frequent washing with pure soap and water and a face brush to stimulate circulation, followed by cold cream. It also mentions Oshermen of Madagascar releasing a poisonous substance into waters to paralyze fish, making them float for easy harvesting.
August heat weakens hens and birds. secure comfort and ventilation. Hatch frying chickens for fall market. smoking season begins for young fowls. Discard unused stock. caponize cockerels this month. August ends the general duck laying season.
Pautine Borsber bubin met the past week with Mrs Biognily bedridden for several days. Mire Alpha migeulins visited Mire Ose ta Mt ieee, while Mrs Jaculs lao near Hoover school barn helped at a private residence. Fred Fuller and Jon Harvey called on E Loomis. Florian, recently ill, is improving. Alva Decker visited Elwell on Saturday. Purl Hil left for Alma Sunday afternoon to work at Republican Truck factory. Bertha Welch of Beaver Creek stayed with Aunt Mrs Campbell. Mr and Mrs George Barkley and Mrs W Dickinson attended a quarterly meeting at County Line church Sunday.
Riverdale and surrounding area residents shared a weekend of visits and hostings. guests included Mr and Mrs David Manley and son of Vestaburg, Dr and Mrs E M Highfield at Alma events, and many relatives from Elwell Middleton Alma Yale Greenville Seinstel Center North Star with outings to skating, church events, and family gatherings dated around early January 1916.
Dr and Mrs Norman Brownrides joined relatives in Grind Rapids for two weeks visit. Mrs George Werks visited her aunt Mrs Clinton Melson of Alma. Horace Leonard of South West Ce spent Monday with Rigmond Luchard and wife northeast of town. Riverdale M and Sunday school officers elected. Rev A E North and wife hosted visitors Miss Geneva LaMay Miss Pearl VanLeuven and Miss Rhea Seaman visited Alma and area. Mrs Amanda Barker of St Louis died aged 71. funeral held at home with Rev Albert Baker. internment Vestaburg cemetery.
Sunday school work resumed in Ely with Alma College staff facilitating. Fred Dalrymple of Montana visits relatives in the area. Miss Marie Hale visits Elsie Gallagher of Forest Hill. Orland Udell from Minnesota calls on his brother N B Udell. Ione Robertson Sundays with Clara Pouch. Gladys Duckworth returns to school. Frank Parkhurst spends Saturday with Frank Hooper of Alma.
Reading from Pine Wiver District shows late spring enrollment and a list of students including Eley Bart Medply Burt Moree Burt Arthur Williams Josephine Wittlanve Eve Cowke and Lined Calturn ant Sinnweol Fow in a district weather note and attendance update with a focus on future enrolment and conduct.
An old advertisement urges parents to inspect stools for worms and treat with Kicka poo Worm Killer. It claims the product kills worms, acts as a laxative, cleans waste, and restores health and good disposition in children, urging readers to consult their druggist.
An old US classified style ad extolls Doan’s Kidney Pills for back pains, nervousness, and rheumatic aches linked to kidney issues. Mrs Josephine Vannormar of 416 W Mechanic St Alma credits relief to Doan’s after short use, with price listed at five cents and the Buffalo company noted.
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