New Buildings Boost Alma Business District
Alma grows its business section amid rapid construction. Modern brick and steel structures replace aging wooden fronts. Notable additions include Merchants Building on State Street, Local 1.0. F. lodge expansion, Alma garage, First State Bank front remodeling, Superior Bakery plant, and multiple two story blocks. Further growth remains needed to prevent empty stores and sustain prosperity.
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Indust
Alma
Tusv
State Street
Merchants Building Company
O. F. Lodge
M. Komwaos
Busineses
Piret State Bank
Wright
Superior Bakery
Wy & Plant
Bartley
Idlehour
Alma Frines
The Liberty Theatre hosts a string of 10 reel films
The Liberty theatre shows a May 12 10 reel feature The Honor Syster by William Fox about an ambitious youth fighting graft in Southwest life. May 14 Clara Kimball Young in Shirley Kaye and other chapters and comedies follow with Pauline Frederick The Hungry Heart and Between Me Hart in a Mack Sennett comedy. A Matinee continues with The Moor Below starring Mabel Normand and Tom Moore, while Idlehour features His Majesty Bunker Bean with Pickford Friday night.
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Liberty ‘Theatre
Ben
William Fox
Honor Syster
Liberty Theatre
Southwest
Clara Kimball Young
Shirley Kaye
von Kenney and
The
Wom
William $. Hart
Mack Senne
Seasue Mayukawa
Idlehour
Bunker Bean
Saturday Evening Post
Harry Lean Wilson
Times
Paramount Screen
Back Pickford
Bunker
Rames
Napoleon
Young Pickford
Mabel Normand
Tom Moore
Jack Pickford
Ann Pennington
Adv
Gas Company Sparks Growth in Alma Region
The Gratiot County Gas company, Alma founded four years ago with 25 000 capital, expanded to 40 000 and now serves Ithaca St Louis Breckenridge and Alma from a well equipped Alma plant. It operates a high pressure fifty mile pipeline system delivering gas for lighting cooking and heating to about 100 current consumers with plans to reach 1 500 by summer. The firm also produces 2 800 tons of coke annually selling it locally, aiding fuel shortages last winter.
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Gratiot County Gas Company
Alma
Alnaa
Ithaca
St. Louis
Breckenridge
Ite
Land
Change Hats Amid Fire and Mystery in Subway Car
In a tense New York Times report a subway car overheard a muttered plan as two men argued over hats and a coded gesture. A witness with a cord and ink finds a clue while participants speak of changes and orders in a cryptic exchange.
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Mint
New York Times
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His Majesty
Forest Hill Elevator Co
Elmer N., Post
Pres
Forest Hill, Michigan
J. A. Gerhardt
Bartling & Holmes General Contractors
Union Phone
Michigan
Bell
the Theatre
Pauline Frederick
David Graham Philips
Wm. S. Hart
Mack Sennett
Zis
Aaa Roe
Samily Raeeled
M. Montigel
Mien
Lyman H. Howe
RED Cross
M. E. Church
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