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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1898
Page
2
A fragmented town page recounts visitors, marriages, and town happenings. Mentions Miss Maury Hare visiting St. Louis, Eltons Aultman ill, and a Maccabees installation at the opera house. Notes on school attendance, road conditions, and a farm feed mill project appear alongside scattered names and town positions.
North Wheeler and nearby areas report the Flanders family content with a soon arrival. Mrs. Flanders ill, A W Slane sick. Jackson Street Church plans for a new preacher. Lectures in Wheeler praised as first class. Lena Hoyt and Tom White ill, Mrs. Will White injured. Canvassers attend school of instruction. Mrs. Goyt of Newaygo visits. Arthur Mulford hurt, now home recovering. Mr. and Mrs. Markham plan move to Clio. Reunion at Daniel Seamon’s held with good cheer. Mrs. Minnie Sweet returns from St. Louis. Children’s meeting at Gracie Strickland’s Sunday at 2:30. Lou Porquer visits Stanton. Mrs. Brant Clark still ill. Wesley Markham visits father Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Story return from Meveste visit. Local notices compact with names and small town events.
The Janney gathering at Mes Therera Vane Hewheek’s Pleasant home featured talks on hog cholera prevention and farm ethics. Speakers cited Purdue expert Dr. A W Bitting, urging pure water, dry clean conditions, and avoidance of filth, with a focus on feed quality and straw as fertilizer.
Detroit lawyer and judge Comstock endorses Hood's Sarsaparilla in a testimonial letter praising its blood enriching and health restoring claims. The letter lists physicians clergy and professionals praising Hood's product and urges readers to try it after other aids failed. An address in Detroit is provided as the signer.
A jumbled OCR styled account covers a February 1898 meeting with poems, recitals, and debates on Hawaii annexation. It cites Miss May Chapin and Miss Freda Patti, and references discussions led by C. A. Bush, L. J. Chapin, and Geo. Acker. The program includes songs, prayers, readings, and a question box followed by dinner and further talks on dairying and farm topics. A Farmer’s Institute in Elwett Waist Tigon y hosts talks on butter quality, cow comfort, and private butter sales with Brown and Drews presenting.
Incoherent text fragment mentions a hall, money, and refunds. No clear event or identifiable persons or organizations emerge. The readable parts suggest medical or financial phrases but lack coherent facts for a proper summary.
Fragmentary OCR text references trains departing Alma Norte and names such as Bennet Von Hollenbeck Gen. Pann Ayn Avent Aime Toles. No clear event or dates emerge. summary notes scattered names and phrases without coherent report.
Partial OCR reads a dated timetable for the Grand Train Ry System with eastbound connections from Detroit to Toronto and New York. It mentions parlor cars, extra charges, Pullman sleeping cars, and connections at Durand and Buffalo, with routes toward Chicago, Port Huron, Saginaw, Bay City, Grand Rapids, Grand Haven, Milwaukee, and Detroit dock connections.
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