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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
12
In our west window a Goodnight spring and a See See inner spring mattress are shown for perfect rest and comfort. We invite you to call and learn the real merits of this rest producing bed from our staff.
An itemized grocery list from Ellison's Grocery featuring Blackberry Jam in 1% tins, Peeled Peaches in small packs, two for 20 cents, canned peaches at 36 cents each for an eight-pack, fancy Maine Corn, Our Pet Milk in large cans, Monarch Corn Flakes, Quaker Oats in large packages, Walnut Meats, Calumet Baking Powder in 214 Ib cans, California Lima Beans by the pound, fancy red Salmon in 1 Ib cans, Raspberry Jam in a jar, Lily White Flour per sack, Coffee Farm House by the pound, and Tea Farm House by the pound.
Readers learn of social calls, church gatherings, and civic updates in Alma. Items include theatre ads for Fatty Arbuckle and Geraldine Farrar, travels of Mayor Murphy, the Inter church movement, meetings of W B Q and Odd Fellows, a planned pavement petition for Woodworth avenue, a Masonic band funding request, and Army recruitment updates with Lt Meurney and the 14th Infantry at Camp Custer.
Pauline Stahl of St Louis visited Sunday and attended church. Reed Bahamon and family visited at Floyd Packer’s. Mrs James Anderson of St Louis visited her daughter Mrs Fred Gay. A boy was born to Lee Leonard’s family last week. Belcher family moved back from Alma for the winter. Ewart Leonard and family moved to a farm west of Shepherd. Grant Leone moved into the Stahl home, and A Harter moved into the L L Wood house. C Alexander bought the A Leonard farm and will move soon. Jim Myers rents the Alexander farm. Fred Gay rents Will Johnson farm. Floyd Packer buys forty acres near Church Corners for farming. Regular Sunday School and church services planned despite bad roads. Albert Cline visited Merritt Leonard. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy recommended for coughs and colds.
Fragmentary notes mention 126 specimens of flowering plants and a reference to Geraldine Farrar in The Plane of the Desert. The text is garbled with names and phrases scattered. core idea notes plant specimens and a public figure in a film title.
Zeta Sigma held a stag banquet with toastmaster Floyd Krueger and speakers Scotty MacDonald Miller Hicks Sharrar and Marks delivering humor and remarks. The event featured readings by Pug Sharrar and a plan update from Chet Robinson on a fraternity house, after a lively repast at the Wright House.
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