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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1913
Page
5
Breckenridge hosts visitors from Wheeler and Alma. parsonage rental, hospitalities, and church notices fill village events. Fires, farming, sports, and school counts appear as community life centers with births, marriages, and obituaries noted alongside sermons and civic gatherings.
Alma resident Mrs Charles Vine attests Doan's Kidney Pills relieved dull backaches and kidney weakness. The ad promotes Doan's as a trusted kidney medicine, with Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo as U.S. agents. For sale by all dealers at 50 cents. Remember the name Doan's.
A compact list of residents and visitors to Ithaca recounts a weekend of relatives from Rosebush, Ashley, North Star, Sumner, Battle Creek, and Lansing calling on friends and neighbors. Many went to Alma, Owosso, and Mt. Pleasant for business, fairs, or circus events, while local townspeople hosted, traveled, or moved between homes and nearby cities.
The Ann Arbor railroad will run a low fare excursion on Sunday June 22 toward Beulah Frankfort Cadillac Lake St George Mt Pleasant. Special train departs Alma at 6 08 am with round trips priced at 1 50 to Beulah and Frankfort 1 00 to Cadillac 90 cents to Lake George and 50 cents to Mt Pleasant.
Mr. Charles Stinchfield of Birmingham Michigan guest of R J Lathrop recalls his pine removal work along Pine River and at Edmore. Lathrop’s forestry exhibit at the Chicago World’s Fair is credited to Stinchfield’s kindness. Stinchfield now backs 9,000,000 feet of remaining Oregon pine and manages a large Birmingham farm. Mrs Drake Phelps and Mrs Claude Phelps of Riverdale visit Elwell lodge with Taylor’s ice cream. Otis A Hamp, veteran stump puller, averages 40 to 70 stumps daily, has cleared 100 stumps per acre on some land. Mrs Laura Keyes closed her Elwell school and treated pupils to ice cream. Taylor has 365 acres of beets contracted for Alma Sugar Co. Putt Fisher Bros. finish basement for a 36 by 60 barn with 16 foot posts and curl roof. Barn will house 100 sheep eight horses 15 cattle and a silo, becoming a local landmark with views across eight to fourteen miles.
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