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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1911
Page
8
Visitors and shoppers fill Alma and nearby towns with social calls and sales. Gray & Gray markets Connor’s Ice Cream while Mrs. Gaffney and Economy Shoe Store offer bargains on pillows, doilies, oxfords, and boots. Local groups meet for church and charity events as residents plan showers, weddings, and community picnics.
Alma area notices share a testimonial from Mrs. George H. White of 208 Park Ave Alma Michigan praising Doan's Kidney Pills for back pain and kidney weakness. The ad promotes reliability and urges readers to buy Doan's at 50 cents via Foxter Milburn Co. Also included are local notices on a business dissolution Alma Sheet Metal Works and planned factory canning with job openings for 100 girls and 200 men. Additional local items report a marriage, a mail route carry, and residents Olive Pelton and Perry Pelton in Alma.
West Arcada and Mrs. Martin Marquette of West Richfield Ohio and Mrs. N A Goe visited Mrs Jennie Allis last week. Al Beeson and others from town fished Standish and brought back about forty speckled beauties. Mr and Mrs Elmer Post of Forest Till visited Will Beverley last Sunday. Miss Edith Cook arrived in Alma Saturday to spend vacation with her parents Mr and Mrs A P Cook.
Forest Hill hosts a Church of Christ dedication in Alma with many locals attending. A buggy accident on Thursday near Alma left Mrs. I. O Wood and her hog cat unhurt after a frightened horse bolted but was swiftly restrained. Community members: Mrs Roy McGregor visiting relatives in Mio, F M Brewer a Forest Hill School head, Lester Bailor from St Louis, and Mrs Fether Mills listed as sick. Lost or strayed reminders reference Pine River township Sunday School conventions.
Lizzie Slater was in Alma Thursday Ellen Fowler and Ethel Cummins of Oklahoma are visiting relatives Harry Slater visited his parents Mr and Mrs John Slater last week Worry Marvin of Elm Hall and Miss Alice Seamann have been employed as teachers for next year John Slater has again been hired to
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