Alma Engine Visitors Praise McVicker Plant Quality
A Kentucky sales team and visitors from Woodstown Hoosick Falls Utica and Louisville toured Alma Manufacturing Co and praised the McVicker and Alma Junior gasoline engines plant calling it the most complete factory of its kind in the United States with up-to-date automatic machinery and a large staff They noted strong southern and eastern demand and lauded leaders H C Richardson D C Evans and F A Ruggles The visit included remarks on farming efficiency by A B Cook of Owosso and featured praise for Alma and Kentucky hospitality though the writer notes Alma is technically dry.
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Alma
Alee Forte
Walter AL Wood Mines
Hoosick Falla
New York
McVicker
W. TL Lippinestt
Woodstown
N. J
Uties
HS. Scott
Winfield
N. Yo
H. J. Gant
Eric Penn
W. R Price
Louisville
Ry. C. Cunningham
Lexington
Kentucky
Alma Mig. Co
United States
South
H. C Richardson
D. C. Evans
F. A. Ruggles
Argada Institute Opens With Cold Morning Attendance
At Arcada Grange hall on January 12 the Argada Institute met for a morning session despite frigid weather. President Allen F. Hubble called the meeting to order as the orchestra played. Fat Titus presented a humorous reading, The Independent Farmer, hinting at broader truths about farmer and businessman. Mrs Titus delivered a vivid recitation of pioneer life, and Lamont Woodig read to finish the program.
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Farmers’ Institute
Arcada Grange Hall
Allen F. Hubble
Fat. Titus
Titus
Moner
Lamont Wood Ig
Alma voters consider $69,000 bond for street paving and water mains
Alderman R J Fraker explains a binding proposition to issue bonds for paving Alma streets and replacing iron water mains. City would pay $21,000 with property owners covering frontage costs. bond schedule extends to 1926 to avoid higher taxes, with women voters and all qualified residents urged to register.
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Alma
Almas
R. J. Fraker
Church to Move to Pine Avenue Site in Two Vacant Lots
Members of the Christian church have bought two vacant lots north of Geo W Pringle’s residence on Pine avenue. They plan to relocate the church by removing the tower and moving south on Prospect to Center then west to Pine and north to the new site, to be completed before February 15.
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The
Christian Church
Geo. W. Pringle
Pine Avenue
Prospect Street
Center Street
Center
Reverend Soule to Preach at Alma Baptist Church
Rev Frederick J Soule Ph D pastor of the First Baptist church of Somerville New Jersey visits his parents and will preach at Alma Baptist Church next Sunday morning.
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Frederick J. Soule
First Baptist Church of
Somerville
New Jersey
Alma Baptist Church
Christian Science Healing Talk At Realty Opera House
William Rathvon spoke at the Realty Opera House under the First Chapel Christian Endeavor, praising Christian Science and its healing claims. He urged open-minded study of Science and Health and noted testimonies in Christian Science publications while inviting skeptics to midweek services.
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Relty Opera House
Wma Rathvon
Bowie
Alma Church
Rathven
Materia Medica
Christian Science Church
Mary Baker Edy
Simon Messinger Announces January Clearance Sale
Simon Messinger started a 2012 clearance sale last Saturday with a thronged store and many bargains. The sale runs through January 27 as advertised in this week’s Record, urging readers to pRead it.
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Simon Messinger
Messinger
Alma gains line of furniture and fine ambulance carriage
Crandell of Crandell and Scott returned from the Grand Rapids and Chicago furniture show with a large and high quality stock to serve Alma. A steel gray ambulance carriage weighing 1550 pounds, 19 feet long, with cot and nurse chairs, will be loaned free to the poor. The unit arrived this week and other purchases reach Alma in February. The Presbyterian Fortnightly will meet at Mrs. Hira C. Moore's home on State Street Tuesday January 23.
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EC. Crandell
Crandell & Scott
Grand Rapids
Chicago
Alma
Crandall
Michigan Hearse and Carriage Co
Michigan
The
Presbyterian
Hira C. Moore
State Street
Cries Class Legislation and Michigan Prohibition Laws
The Eberle Brewers appeal to the U S Supreme Court challenges Michigan prohibitive laws as violating interstate commerce. Attorneys Price and Whiting argue the statutes restrict manufacture and sale of a commercial product, with recent Michigan Supreme Court findings cited. The case involves Stephen Carel and storage of deer hides, with expectations of oral argument in about three months. The suit path followed state court to federal court, noted as advancing in Alma, Michigan.
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Eberle Brewers Company
United States Supreme Court
Michigan
Price
Jackson
Michigan Supreme Court
Stephen Carel
Carl
Tree Mnanths
Wren
Supreme Court
Gratiot County Farmers Institute Program Preview
Gratiot County farmers are urged to attend the Gratiot Co Farmers Institute in St Louis this week with a long program including talks by AL J. Dicken, Dr. C. E. Marshall, Dr. R. L. Dixon, Prof. J. C. McDowell, and others. Activities cover dairy care, tuberculosis in dairy herds, sanitation, farm management, and household economy with music, recitations, and readings. The State Round-up Institute at the Agricultural College runs Feb 27 to Mar 1 1912. Exhibits of seeds grains fruits and implements are invited with no premiums offered and owners bearing risk. Exhibits may be left with W. G. West at the Coloniel Theatre.
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AL J. Dicken
Pres. Co
Farmers Institute
Clas B
Opien
Marehall
Agricutural College
Chas. B. Cook
Arthur Finch
C. W. Yerrington
Chas
B. Cook
Burp Muscott
Adeline Douglass
C. E. Marshall
Lena Russ
Ketha Fowler
R. L. Dixon
State Board of Health
Yerrington’s College Orchestra
C. W. Giddings
Clella Godfrey
Newton Burns
J. C. McDowell
Geo. Coleman
H. H. Fulcher
C. M. Partch
Armada
H.H. Paleher
Musie
C. B. Wilson
L. L. Forsyths
Kirk Hildreth
H. H. Futcher
A. A. Glockzing
Wm. Fulcher
Agricultural College
Gratiot Co. Farmers Institute
W. G. West
Coloniel Theatre
Institute
Traverse City Fire Department Buys New Horse Team
Traverse City purchases a new five year old gelding team weighing 2426 pounds from Pompeii Gratiot county. Tom Shane and Oscar Simpson supplied the horses which arrived yesterday and are being trained with fire trucks. The team will replace the old black horses nearing retirement after many years of service.
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Traverse City Fire Department
Pompeii
Traverse City
Tom Shane
Oscar Simpson
Gratiot County
Old Pioneer Gone Beath Claimed Mrs Gordis Smith
Miss Badger, born in Warh asste country New York on April 1 1838, died Friday after a long illness in Pine River township. She was married to Gordis Smith after Elijah B Rice's death and is survived by her husband. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev Gen F Carl in this city, with burial at St Louis cemetery. Gordis Smith receives sympathy from many friends across Fyearion county.
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Chetober
Uth
Meladie Smith
Vine River Township
Apring
Betore
Jie M. Badger
Warhasste Country
New York
Miss Badger
Elijah B Rice
Gordis Smith
Hell
F. Carl
St. Louis
D A D A Show In Detroit Attracts Auto Dealers
Local auto dealers and owners plan for the Detroit D A D A show set January 22 to 27 with about sixty makes exhibited by forty dealers. In Alma, Sunday a boarder, D C Pelton of Toledo, was found dead in his room, heart failure cited after a illness. a coroner's inquest was dismissed. Dr J N Brainerd received a Christmas gift of medical apparatus from Mr A W Wright, including office furniture from the Alma Sanitarium and various instruments to aid his practice.
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Detroit
D.C Pelton
Toledo
Alma Hotel
John Ward
Suydam
Pelton
Dee
Jean
Ward
Alma
J. N. Brainerd
A. W. Wright
Alma Sanitarium
Wright
Brainerd
Fire destroys Hotel Royal Frontenac on Lake Michigan
The Hotel Royal Frontenac, a major summer resort on Lake Michigan, burned down starting at 10 15 p m causing estimated losses over 100 000 dollars. Owned by the Ann Arbor Railway Company it had been closed since September and attracted patrons from Chicago St Louis Cincinnati New York and other eastern cities. The 500 foot long three story lakefront structure housed 50 rooms and enjoyed a strong season before the fire.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Lake Shore
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Trey AD
Walter A. Wood
A. B. Cook
Owosso
Argada Institute
Grange Hall
Christian Scienge
William R. Rathvon
Realty Opera House
Sania
Noonan
Wome
Crandell
Furniture
Sines
Eberle Brewing Co
Mee Jom Lancasuire If Dertrit
Gration County Farmers’ Institute
Conmnty Institute
Hax
Cor
F McNall
Melba Werrington
Mildred Selvek
A. J. Hutchins
A. A. Glockzin
J.’ C McDoweil
Beath
Pine River
Gratiot
Fr. H. Garl
Trontemag
Ann Arbor Rallresd Company
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