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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1918
Page
5
The snippet shows a Michigan newspaper page with subscription terms and advertising rate notes. It mentions the Brown editor proprietor, pricing for one year and half year, and references to church, events, obituaries, and a section on advertising rates and terms. The legibility is limited and contains several garbled words.
Alma College women rally for war work urging registration and participation at downtown polling places Friday and Saturday. Posters, talks by Ming Conyne and Elwell promote drives, benefits and a nautical operetta fundraiser with proceeds to the Red Cross. ticket prices listed and calls to fulfill pledges.
List of names marked to be sent to the Dead Letter Office on May 20 1918 including Mrs Archie Anderson Karl Akers Carrie Church and others. Postmaster Y P Cash notes none called for and that items will be rent to Dead Letter Office.
The article lists multiple church services including Morning Prayer at 11:00 a.m. and Sunday School at 9:00 a.m. with themes on The Fitness of the N ew per Se and Denominational Fellowship. It notes Mothers Day sermons and evening services with sermons by pastors. It mentions leaders like Marguerite Moore and Rev. Shultey and invitations to all services.
At a recruiting meeting on May 20, city officials, wartime observers, and Michigan delegates plan a mobilization rally. Detroit representatives are expected, with a diverse attendance and promises of a strong turnout to show support for the war effort.
Vity Kiko M Boras, aged 26 years, died April 2 after illness that began with influenza and developed into pneumonia. He was born in Deve fed Loniche Co Mick on August 2 and lived with his parents Mr and Mrs BR Ewing of 22 Prompec Avenue. Funeral services were held at the M E church on Monday April 20 conducted by Rev. Jacheon wleinting. He leaves his father and mother and his sister Kierdin.
A war era perspective extols the resilience of the blind through Braille reading, tactile skills, and new technologies. It also notes the scarred, disfigured veterans receiving prosthetics and plastic surgery while urging society to restore their dignity, usefulness, and happiness through medical and social support.
Red Cross workers face a daunting task rebuilding a town while removing vast barbed wire. German prisoners guard lines as wire coils stretch around trenches making a waist high maze. Pieces extend from Belgium to Switzerland intensifying postwar cleanup and danger of unexploded munitions remain scattered nearby.
In Idlehour Saturday Ady, John Bates notes that many fail to concentrate due to lack of sympathy with their tasks and with how help is delivered. He argues that genuine focus requires guidance and a sense of reassurance, warning that insistence on effort may hinder development.
A fragmented poem portrays the Red Cross vowing to heal a war torn world. The speaker pledges service to the wounded and shattered, while a compassionate Red Cross figure reassures a woman and a frightened child that aid will come.
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