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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1899
Page
2
Porter notes memorial services in Breckenridge and visits from residents to Alma and St. Louis. Various locals attend funerals, visit relatives, and discuss events such as a coal company talk, a new barn, and farm updates. Community announcements include social events, church activities, and upcoming reunions with names of residents and nearby towns.
Disjointed notes describe residents at Arcada Center with people chanting about corn and others planting. A potato bag frozen off phrase appears. Mrs Oscar Clark learns news from a sister in Ohio. Several children kept from school due to a Whoopstur cough. Mrs Birmingham injures her ankle. Thursday and Sunday events mentioned for Vesta Brizee and Inst Thureday.
Last Wednesday May 31 neighbors the Breckenridge Aid and the St. Lola Court of Honor gathered at Mrs George Hime taugh with provisions and entertainment. Wilber X Burns spoke for the group presenting Mrs Mumebwugh a berry spoon and fruits of Dr Watson and wife, a chamber set from John Parrish and wife, and minor gifts. The gathering ended with a large feast and a sense of lasting memory.
Mrs Bert Hamilton and daughter spent the weekend with it. W Griffin of Seahton and other locals visited at C8. Shue's Saturday evening Wm Bowery and family visited Acends in St. Louis Sunday. Several St Louis visitors joined the lady Maccabees Saturday. Children’s day exercises Sunday evening were a success. Local social groups met at Mrs Sprague's Thursday. Silas Moody plans sugar beets planting on 20 acres. Doane Mey Wicks and others traveled with C J Siven to Detroit to care for inners. Cage Wood planted potatoes and expanded acreage. Trey Hooper preached a sermon on remaining a rest for the people of Gide. Dr Davuleon, a respected local, was praised for skill. Thomas Courter planted melons, signaling a warm, busy weather spell.
Eugene St Johns is home after working on a farm. Breckenridge resident John Parrish visited town Monday. Bert Sibley and a friend from Indy stayed in Saginaw county over the weekend. Wells of St. Charles spent Sunday with Townsend. Hoyt couple visited Thompson’s Sunday. Robert Clark and wife visited relatives Sunday. Twins reported at Joseph Gilbert’s. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised for dyspepsia relief and stomach support.
Fragmentary health ad copy urges quick action to cure ailments. It extols liver and blood health with a miracle‑working product and sarcastically praises luck over care while musing on dyspepsia, fatigue, and unnamed remedies.
Fragmentary notes describe a tonic named Hoods Sarsapa villa ge re and a mention of Moods Park. The text references a liver cure and a cathartic product to be taken with another substance. No clear event or persons are identified.
Obscure, fragmentary local items mention Mrs James Clarke, Barrett Ward, Meriha Linghant, Ray Metal, and numerous families in a sequence of social notices. The text covers visits, travel, church events, and a quarterly conference, with scattered references to weddings, Sunday school, and renovations. Names and places are garbled but indicate a mid-20th century small-town reader notices section.
Rev Fred Cadwell at the Presbyterian church delivers the third sermon in a home life series. He argues the saloon is the arch enemy of the home, citing ruined families, bribery, disease, and crime as direct consequences. He laments legislative inaction and warns that drunkenness devastates wives, children, and communities.
A speaker warns that the saloon wrecks homes and harms wives and children. He urges all who value virtue to oppose it, noting how pastors learn of the misery and how daughters and fathers can be harmed. The talk ends with praise for the W. GC. 9. U. presence.
The town hosts its annual reunion on June 15 with volunteers and citizens contributing to the event. Community members line the route to honor attendees, while organizers prepare activities and reverence for the bygone era.
One fare rates offered for trips to Cincinnati Cleveland Petoskey Mich and St Louis for events including National Saengerfest Knights of St John G A R Encampment Elks conventions. Dates vary late June through June 27 to 27 with return options and prices noted.
A fragmentary notice invites a wedding trip on i. & O. steamers in the Island of Coot Beemex with state rooms and parlors. requests a two cent stamp for illustrated information and provides garbled publisher details.
A farmer near Wood Corners describes persistent backache and kidney trouble after long days in the fields. He notes relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills, with improved sleep and reduced morning stiffness. Sold widely, 60 cents per box or six for $2.00, via Foster-Milburn Co. in Buffalo, N.Y.
Detroit area timetable notes arrive and departure of trains on the Grand Trunk system between Detroit and Milwaukee. Details list arrivals, departures, and platform notes for daily service.
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