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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1896
Page
5
The peach season begins with shipments from orchards to stock general groceries. Next week will bring the best goods and direct-from-orchards shipments. Prices promised to be right and orders filled with fanciest fruit and groceries at the lowest cost.
advertisement announces a Saturday sale with je Grau sugar pork coffee rice soap oats tobacco and other items priced per pound or per unit, inviting customers to examine the big stock and promising good service and customer satisfaction.
Webb's offers Home and Vicinity Choice cigars while Fink's runs a two fifty weekly day board. Miss Abbie Da advertises North Bradll. Mr J W Robinson of Vestaburg visits Alma Monday. Various ads note baptisms, sermons, baptisms, weddings, teaching posts, and farm damages from storms. A widow dies at 24, a barn burns near Alma, and community announcements cover schools, clergy, and auctions.
Readable snippets describe shipments to Buffalo, sales at Pink's, visits by George A. Thi of Almont, and various local happenings. Mentions include Mrs. M. Brighn of Lansing visiting son, Alma mills operating night shifts due to low water, school and church notices, and numerous short social items about residents, visits, and minor incidents in Gratiot county towns.
Alma Roller Mills announces storage arrangements for wheat starting after July 1 1896. Conditions apply for receipt, weighing, grading, and transfer of ownership upon storage.
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