Early Alma growth fuels mills and commerce boom
The article touts Alma Michigan as a budding hub with a lumber mill and lath mill capable of eight million feet per year, a steam grist mill, a saw mill and planer, and multiple dry goods, grocery, boot and shoe, drug, hardware, and cabinet shops. It highlights water power, promising woolen mill, foundry, and tannery ventures, and claims Alma will soon outstrip rival towns through local citizen capital and rapid growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ir. Wm. Case
Norwalk
Olio
Clark
Alina
Michigan
Dras
Alma
Wthern
Almalin
Alma High Notes Fire Drill And School Board
Alma school notes report a fire drill with all pupils out in eighty seconds under Mr Rockwell and teachers. Absent and tardy contest offers a half holiday. seventh and eighth grades close. A school news board of editors chosen by the superintendent will meet Mondays. Yale Schools official Clinton Kellogg visited Alma High. Third to fifth grades received new readers last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma
Ely Conte
Rotkwell
Rockwell
Lew Board of Policers
Edna Abbott
Myrtie Creaser
Blaine Strong
Lester Mead
Ethel McGrath
Albert Hudson
John Dunham
Supt. Rockwell
I T
Clinton Kellogg
Yale
Alma High School
Hertha
Annette Me
Laren
Durand
Trapp
Young
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Wala Village
Aperin
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Bor
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Abbott
Maine Strong Kithel Meterwtt
Ards
Myrtie Creuser
Maine Strong
Hindsoss
Will Hart
Yao
Parse Medicine Co
Femia
Peffer
Chas. Rhodes
Tre Ud
Roqutey
Robbise
Noriez
4. W. Holmes & Son
Premecre
Turnadore Atene
WSA
Wright House
Great
Lantic Ani Pacific Tet Co
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W. W. Kinch
Record Office
Laster
S. H. Epler
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Humphreys
William & John
Central Drug Store
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Honlimac
Seaver
Presat
Aaid
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Bewring
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tIeur
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AunMarin Odell
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Brant
Merlee
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