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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1910
Page
3
The weekly market notes list grain and hay prices including Wheat No 1 white at 1.00 a bushel, No 2 red and oats, as well as clover seed, timothy and alfalfa hay. Live stock and dressed meats prices cover hogs, beef cattle, sheep, veal calves, and poultry with various per unit rates. Also listed are hides, tallow, vegetables and produce prices such as potatoes, butter, eggs and lard.
At a Monday evening session Sumner residents elected John Seaman and John Wood to the school board, Ralph Holcomb as director, and noted various local visits, travel, and social events including a charity ice cream social for the Dorothy family, a funeral for R. E. Moble, and several residents visiting Riverdale, Alma, and Crystal.
A nostalgic appeal celebrates boyhood pies as unmatched and muses on decline. The copy promotes Electric Bitters as a tonic for stomach, liver, kidneys, and bowels to restore appetite, health, and vigor, urging purchase at Wheaton & Lots.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable case of catarrh, claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures by acting on blood and mucous surfaces, lists testimonials from WaALpina Kinson Marys wholesale druggists, Toledo Ohio, and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Roy Davenport of Libby McNeil Libby notes a large pickle acreage with rains boosting growth of vines and cake. Davenport plans to manage a substantial early fall output as harvest approaches. Mrs Jennie S Young visits Shephard, while Dr B Gardner and his father sail July 27 on the Lusitania to Edinburgh for postgraduate study with a return expected.
The record prints a card of thanks from Mrs KR BE Moblo and family for the many acts of kindness and favors shown during the illness and death of their husbands and father.
Local notes record various social visits and motions in the Davis School District area. People mentioned include Mrs H Marvin from Wisconsin visiting daughter Mrs V Wiltse, Mr and Mrs Roland Saxton from Alma, and Frances Howell with a cousin in Ashley. Succession of family visits and church events noted with several Sundays and weekends cited.
A French doctor suggests every practicing doctor wear a badge on the buttonhole to distinguish themselves when summoned to urgent care. He notes the difficulty of finding a doctor amid haste and street bells, arguing the plan would aid those building a practice.
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