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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1913
Page
2
The Alma Company lists subscription at $1.00 per year. C J Brown is business manager. TheRecord mentions postage mail at the post office and the standard second class mail status.
I E Redman County Drain Commissioner will bid for No 400 Drain in Fulton township Gratiot County Michigan on May 29 1913 at 9 o'clock at the residence of Geo Osborne. Specifications cover survey, stakes, slope and width, right of way, and sectioning for 80 rod parts. Also notices that assessments and lands in the special assessment district will be reviewed and hearings held.
Local column lists visits and errands from Mt Pleasant to Alma and Ithaca. Names include Charles Kernan Bert Lepley Mrs Will Walter Mrs Gray Perth Pressley Mrs August Leader Miss Sherley Bellings and many others. Entries record weekend visits business calls and social gatherings across North Star Alma Mt Pleasant and Emerson with mentions of a piano purchase and a typhoid illness in a child.
Ithaca society notes from May recount Mrs Jessie Wellman visiting Grand Rapids for Knott's Midsummer Millinery opening and long local travel. Mentions of L. Brady family, funerals for Walter Lewis and Mrs Wells, and Mr Lewis’s family ties, with regional transfers to Detroit and Clio. Bonding vote passes for paving and civic improvements. Merlyn Kurfis dies at twenty days.
Mr FE Griffin of 12 Woodworth Avenue recalls long ago kidney trouble with irregular secretions and backache. He used Doan's Kidney Pills bought at Rhodes Drug Store and was relieved. The testimonial is reaffirmed years later. Doan's Kidney Pills cost 50 cents, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
On Tuesday Mrs. E Jennie Allis marked her 76th birthday on life’s journey. The celebration was delayed to the following day with a dinner for a group of ladies. She received several gifts and warm wishes for many happy returns. Al Beeson enjoys trout fishing up north with friends. Mrs. Forest, former housekeeper for the Brownsfield boys, returned to Ohio last week.
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