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Alma and area notes on deaths, events and trades
Local items report deaths in Alma and connections to St Louis and Lansing, sales and ads for Gillman s goods, a Kickapoo entertainment closing, a pension for Charles Richard, a lawn social, a track site vote, identity shifts, barber and hotel services, a near-miss buggy accident, a later marriage, and various town facts including rail and school notes plus a plan for a fair track. The piece mentions Darragh Holcomb in St Louis, Ed Allison s death, and a proposed race course trust with stock pledges.
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Alma
Darragh and Holcomb
St. Louis
Wim
Clubb's
A. B. Spinney
Detroit
John D
Mr. Smith
Saginaw
W. Tinker
Francis Palmer
Charles H. Richard
Arcada
Fred Roberts
Wright House
Clay Milliken
Kickapoo Indian Company
Newa
Ed. Allison
West
Lansing
Charles Tann
Epworth League
A. O Davis
Charles Spicer
Ithaca
Rev. Thomas
J. R. McCarty
May VanWegen
Wright Nouse
Mrex G.davidson
P. J. Maveety
Ovid
Maveety
Ireland
Michigan
Maria Grover
Suydam
Smith
Gargett
F. E. Beckwith
N. J. McCullough
O. M. Everden
3. M.clum
Burton Gee
Ruccon