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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1913
Page
5
A compact listing of tobacco product brands including Prince Albert Tuxedo Velvet Stag Old English Duke's Mixture Briar Pipe Peerless and paper Lucky Strike. Mentions tins and weights such as 23g oz with various brand names like City diab and Durham Duke's Mixture.
A fragmented OCR item presents a string of cigarette brands and descriptors including Naturals Melachrino Helmar Turkey Red Egyptienne Straight Turkish Trophies Nebo Hassen, with unclear context or structure. The list appears as a catalog of names rather than a complete report or story.
A fragmented OCR style listing presents chewing tobacco varieties such as FINE CUT Sweet Burley and Uncle Daniel in light or dark, plus PLUG Boot Jack and several brand-like nouns including Piper Heidsieck American Navy Spear Head Yankee Good Kismet Honest Scrap Peachy Scrap Union Scrap and Scrapple SCRAP.
Bruce Alberta resident Otis Sprague returns home while Senator Francis King visits Sag inaw. Alma sees Barnum & Bailey circus June 5 and local residents visit relatives in Mt. Pleasant Saginaw and Mt. Pleasant. Several residents travel for visits, sales, and repairs as the community reports on illnesses housing work and moves.
Local items from Alma include F A Leonard cultivating a sugar beet patch at Mechanic and Lincoln, Alma-Albion ball game with Alma winning 17 to 4 on Da Field, and Geo Bahlke crew wiring a front for Alma State Savings Bank building. Also noted are fishing trips, piano ads, outings to St Johns, and the high school dedication set for May 29 with Governor Ferris to speak. Twins born May 9 to Julius Christians. Moore at Alma Savings Bank at Flint for Industrial Savings Bank opening. baptisms at Church of Christ. autos on local streets. teachers’ institute in Ithaca. James A Gardner moving to city. births, parties, and illness updates. Phil O’Boyle’s April 16 Ithaca marriage to Annie Merchant. couple living on groom’s farm.
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