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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1903
Page
5
Corrected market notes show corn advancing two cents in the past week while new potatoes fell from market levels per bushel. Old potatoes hold at about two hundred cents, with prices fluctuating amid harvest and shipment shifts.
The Alma band arranged with Pere Marquette to run an excursion train to Saginaw Hay City and Wenona Beach next Wednesday. Special departs Alma at 7 50 a m and returns Bay City at 7 00 p m fare round trip one dollar. Wenona Beach offers boating fishing bathing theatre picnic grounds dancing pavilion and band concerts. The trip starts from Edmore and aims to boost band proceeds.
All persons indebted to the firm of Bivins Rhodes are asked to call and settle at once. An unrelated ad promotes quick cold cure tablets and announces sale of fine building lots at low prices with easy terms. Call to secure a desirable lot at 1260 Bent Haves.
W T Davies visited St Johns, families travel to Detroit and Battle Creek, parish social events, orchard and farm notes, and upcoming auctions. Several residents travel for business, illness, or leisure, including visits to Grand Rapids and Chicago. A new Fairbanks engine powers The Record office, and local gains in music via Wagner's Military Band are reported.
Names and places fill a page of Alma area society notes listing Bert Hayes in Vestaburg Eugene Bogart in Lansing D L Johnson in Riverdale and many others visiting relatives in Detroit Newark Alma Ovid Harbor Springs and Cadillac. The itemizes trips visits shows a bustling community with physicians, lawyers, teachers, and professionals traveling to Detroit Pontiac Hastings and Frankfort with family events and local business updates. The piece notes band uniform plans a Wenona Beach excursion and several acknowledgments including fire department thanks and premium list release for the Michigan State Fair.
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