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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1919
Page
5
News of our neighboring villages reported by our special staff of correspondents sketches local events, introductions, and brief notices from the area. The roundup covers community happenings, small-town developments, and shifts in local life.
A lively St Louis page notes society and church events, school updates, and civic happenings. March events include dinners, meetings, and a high school basketball trip to Mt Pleasant for a Central State tournament. The column mentions local residents, church groups, library work, and upcoming film showings at Liberty and Laberty Theatres with details on performers and schedules.
Special Correspondent reports Mrs Joseph Brownridge recovering, Mes Nettie Rose visiting Eaton Rapids, and many locals hosting guests or visiting relatives. Several names and spots appear including Elwell, Alma, Vestaburg, Isabella county, and Elwell Farm. arm injury from roller skating. various visits to friends, farm work, and business trips noted.
The readable text hints at local foods such as nuts and syrup in Gandy and mentions confectioners and manufacturers. It references water, na mas, and terms like law daileris and crepe related items. The fragmentary nature prevents a clear event or outcome.
A garbled historical snippet describes Chinese goods and remedies entering the country. It mentions free trade practices, Chinese residents, and various tonics and substances such as ground preparations, salted scorpions as antipox, and fossil crabs as an antidote to poison.
The article notes various small snakes in covens and eels moving from water to food. It highlights the banded sea snake with stripes along its body and swift movement, observed in waters around southern Asia.
Disjointed lines refer to Elizabeth or Elizabeth headlined by a Chicago Examiner fragment. The speakers discuss delays and a plan to be rid of someone, with mixed phrases about flying, timing, and seeking a method. The passage lacks clear events, participants, or outcomes.
A fragmentary remark contrasts a repaired street with a newly opened road. The speaker notes a “great difference” between a line new mouth and a city street, with facetious closures and a casual jab at repairs versus openings. The passage is obscure and fragmentary.
A garbled, fragmentary notice covers families visiting Bay area kin and returning to farms. Mentions Mr Johnson, Mr and Mrs Raymund Jolly, Mead Mee Willan Hood Hirgh, Lowly Muni, Virgs Mew, Liogil, and Arthive Smith in unclear scenarios of travel, work, and kinship.
The page blends dialect poetry urging resilience with a humorous aside about sunflowers and daisies, then shifts to ad copy for Chamhain’s and Chevyr tablets. It notes digestive relief and encourages trying the remedies, followed by a local vignette about newcomers at the European Café Alma.
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