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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1916
Page
10
The Old Perrington Bank, adeptly run by W H Davis, reports sustained success from inception. It conducts general commercial banking with loans on approved securities, offers 4 percent on deposits, and provides prompt collections. The management extends every favor consistent with sound, conservative banking and financier prudence to patrons.
Perrington Milling Co in southern Gratiot county announces a campaign to promote its well equipped mill operated by Schulz Lucas. They advertise the famous White Race and White Wonder blend flour, claiming strong consumer satisfaction and custom grinding services for farmers.
Perrington Elevator Company promotes its well equipped facility run by L Bawdish and highlights high market prices for grains seeds hay wool and coal. Ray Weaver leads the cheese factory noted for pure full cream cheese and fair milk product payments using modern testing methods.
The Perrington blacksmith Harrier operates a central shop opposite the hotel offering forging plow wagon repairs and specialized horse shoeing. Lumber merchants Hooker & Son run well equipped yards with rough and dressed lumber, laths, shingles, cement and building materials with Cloyd Hooker providing estimates.
This notice presents Will H Sewelis as Perrington’s prescription druggist with a fine stock of chemically pure drugs and patent medicines, perfumes, stationery, post cards, candy, cigars, smokers’ articles, vanity and traveling bags, and select compounding of physicians’ prescriptions with accuracy.
C F Otto Hardware and Implements in Perrington highlights a wide range of heavy and shelf hardware. Owner Mrs F Otto oversees a well stocked store offering tools, cutlery, stoves including Garland stover and ranges, oil stoves, the New Era, Acme Quality oil products, Oliver implements, Little Giant cultivator, Superior drills, mowers, pumps, pipe, tanks, fencing and more. The article notes the store is ably run by the capable lady proprietor and emphasizes quality and pricing.
J B Kinney and Son are cited as prominent traders amid a period of wartime success, with local reports highlighting their firm standing and steady business despite broader market disruptions.
The notice promotes a well stocked shop with wide parries of ry and fane seeds, lceries, notions, men s work clothes, gloves, groceries, canned goods, tea and coffees, stationery, garden seeds, fruits, candy, cigars, orchard products, butter and eggs. It highlights exchange with farms and an excellent assortment.
Mr M E Sheridan of Washington operates a live and poultry deal in butter eggs and poultry. He keeps in touch with current market quotations to pay the highest market prices and conducts larger receiving business with tests and methods praised by farmers.
E K W Deitrich Garage presents a practical blacksmith and repair business in Pertington. Longstanding expert artisan offers general blacksmithing forging plow disc wood wagon work and repairs. Specializes in auto repair and horseshoeing using scientific principles with guaranteed customer satisfaction.
LH Richard features a well chosen line of dry goods including ginghams calicoes and wash goods. He also sells mens work clothes gloves hats shoes and Lambertville Snag Proof rubber goods. A full grocery line with butter and an exchange service with farmers completes the offerings.
An advertisement claims Sloan's Liniment eases rheumatism neuralgia back pain and stiffness for 25 cents. A testimonial from a Clare Woolley of Romeo touts quick relief after years of suffering. Buy at any drug store and feel better today.
Kansas station promotes cowpeas as a versatile soil improvement and forage crop where alfalfa fails. Prof Ralph Kenney notes cowpeas adapt to many soils with moisture and good culture, yield comparable silage to corn, and offer nutritious mixes with sorghum. Hay quality varies with harvest timing and curing. Cowpeas seed production is unreliable in Kansas weather.
Missouri Station advises careful seed testing and bed preparation to ensure uniform germination. Use properly selected planter plates and discard kernels of differing sizes to avoid uneven drops and poor stands.
Trial plantings across Kansas indicate Sudan grass a viable hay and pasture crop. Western counties report drought tolerance and higher yields than millet, while eastern areas show potential as a substitute forage. New lime guidelines improve soil conditions for alfalfa and clover rotations.
The text outlines ancient gardening practices for marking and spacing beds using simple tools. It notes that trees face threats from insects and weather, and that health depends on balanced nourishment, air, and water, arguing that even with favorable factors trees can still suffer decay.
London Telegraph quote shows a husband presenting an enormous bill for a ball dress. The wife recalls a green robe worn at an introduction last year and questions whether she must pay for the trap in which she was caught.
Mise Gertride Patterson of Ann Arbor daughter of Professor and Mrs GW Paterson of the University of Michigan will marry Carroll Haff of Keasses City Mo on April 26. Haff graduated from the university in 1914. L Stone Battle Creek philanthropist has aided the Young Women's Christian Association building project by offering to pay an additional 6000 for the Hickman property, part of the site.
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