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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
5
Forest Hill events record visiting families from Ohio Seville Alma and Emerson. Mrs Post hosts Alma and Alma guests Thursday. Brown family plus Dewey Falling and others visit Bert Smith Roy Griffith Emerson. Deyarmond from Alma weekends with Richardson. Daily hosts Archie Daily from Langing.
The article lists weekend visits by Mrs. Dewey and family, Fred Towersey of Ashley with his parents, J. A. Brown on business to Mt. Pleasant, and Mrs. M. L. Perrigo with daughter Ivah Beubler visiting relatives in Mt. Pleasant. It includes basic home health guidance on appetite and digestion and recommends Chamberlain's Tablets for constipation related loss of appetite.
The piece critiques wartime profiteering and price abuses under the banner Getting the Buck. It cites hotel rates during conventions in Chicago and San Francisco, sugar prices in Toronto and Britain, and the clothing industry’s use of shoddy wool. It treats these as a broad pattern of exploiting public need for private gain.
The Pattengill alumni held their thirty-fifth annual reunion at Ithaca in Woodland Park on June 28 1920. A memorial committee urged funding a monument to Henry Romaine Pattengill on Michigan's capitol grounds with a proposed statewide drive including one cent per pupil and ten cents per teacher.
On the July 4th anniversary the writer urges a renewed Declaration of Independence against domestic injustices. They claim the nation has grown powerful and prosperous, and call for ending graft and profiteering through ballots or other means to preserve freedom and independence.
The article notes the three new Interstate Commerce Commission members chosen by President Wilson. Henry Jones Ford, James Duncan, and Mark Winslow Potter receive cabinet-level salaries and bring varied backgrounds from academia, industry, and law, with limited railroad experience cited. It critiques transport familiarity and calls for decisive action amid financial and agricultural anxieties.
SETHTON an Mrs. Roy Hurd and daughters of Jonin were here on business Saturday. Scott Payne had his new truck. Mr. and Mrs. John Jarvis were at Brice Wednesday visiting at the Joe Jarvis home. Miss Iris at Carson City, Verne Gardner and family called on Alma friends Sunday afternoon. The young people's class of the M E Sunday school held the regular monthly meeting at the home of Elizabeth and Marths Jackson Friday night. B C Cobbard of St. Louis was here and at Brice on business Thursday. Emery Williams and family spent Sunday with relatives in St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Knott have been entertaining company from Alitoin, Mrs. Hattie Hyatt has returned from Carson City where she has been nursing, Earle Wilcox, who has been working in Detroit for several weeks, has returned home, Ruby Jason has been entertaining a schoolmate for the past week. Summer Complaint in Children There is not anything Wee so many deaths from this disease now as before. Chamberlain's Callico and Diarrhoea Remedy came into such general use. When this remedy is given with castor oil as directed and proper care taken in the diet, it is safe to say that ninety nine out of every hundred cases recover. Mr. W. G Campbell of Butler, Tenn, says I have used Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy for summer complaint in children, it is far ahead of anything I have ever used for this purpose.
In a testimonial by J Tucker and R J, a nightwatchman boasts RAT-SNAP poisons a mill infestation. He claims to have cleared rats within six weeks, killing them nightly, with pets and dogs avoiding the area. The ad touts three sizes priced at 2 cents, 5 cents, and 100 dollars, sold by Clapp and…
An advertisement copied from the Indianapolis Star touts Sorbo Quastruple as effective goitre treatment. It lists names and addresses of purported users and urges readers to visit Indianapolis or contact Brunner's Drug Store for details.
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