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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1901
Page
2
Local items report visitors and movements in Ithaca and surrounding towns. People from Ashley Bancroft Alma Ovid Mt. Pleasant and North Star travel for family events work and social visits. Notables include Reverend Langs transition and wool buyers, with a new birth noted in the Crawford family.
May 1 brief from South Arcada reports beet drilling by farmers, Archie McFaul's family recovering from scarlet fever, and a social gathering with Mrs. J W Clark. Next meeting set for May 2. Will Holliday moved from Marion to his farm. Mrs Axom Roberts visited Perrinton. New houses nearby progressing. anticipation for Mr Hezekiah Parks new house event Thursday evening.
May Lt W Parras moved to his new quarters. Miss Maggie Randie is at home again. Charlie Carter moved to Mr Harvey's place near Sumner. Mr Davis and wife visited Mr and Mrs Hines Sunday. Frank Martell and family of Mc Bride moved into Mrs Hulett's house. Miss Harvey spent weekend with Myrtle Johnson. George Argents of Asia passed through en route to Mr Boorti's.
Galloway May 6 reports social visits and family gatherings. Mison stayed in Saginaw for a few days. Mr and Mrs Pool hosted. Blackburn, chilinei, and Mr and Mrs Wo McAlister spent Sunday with relatives in Wheeler. Mason and Myrtle visited Adams. Alias Dotinson ill. Mintle Trusek from Sauluaw visited Fallaway. Johnson and GC Mason with children visited B Bow in Lakefield.
S. W. Pine River area news from May notes visitors and calls. Chas Yuriis was in Mt Pleasant, Mrs Curretive returned from a three week visit, Mrs Bert Church visited her parents, Miss Nora Johnson and Miss Florence Coulter are noted for activities. Local travel, visits, and family events are mentioned along with a few minor injuries and construction updates.
May 14 North Star reports Miss Addie Gladstone and Mrs Gray spent Sunday in town. Murdock of Detroit visited over Sunday. Mrs Win and Dillon returned to Sunday School. North Star plans decorations with help from the Post and citizens. Ray Coleman is learning uk. EA Millpaugh helps as another girl buys shoes. Rev Beers and family spent last week in Matherton. Mrs Hattie Belding returns home from Perrinton.
W Sullivan of Hartford Connecticut recounts a leg injury from years ago. Despite doctors urging amputation he used Electric Bitters and Beckton's id tag log, claiming cure for inflammation, blood disorders, and sores. Sharrar & Mulhol holland offer guarantee for $0.00 trial.
J Riley the Grand Rapids Hearth agent worked on our RR F D route last week securing about seventy five daily subscribers. M E Everett and wife visited relatives near Lansing and at Help. Dr Crawford's brother from St. Louis visits. Mrs Amon Stone returned home from Lyons. Mrs G M Somers of Lansing visiting Mr Barstow's in Ithaca. Richards and Mrs Vannatta were in Ithaca Monday. Dan Batyeat in Middleton on business. New post office building receiving paint. Joto Paliand fatthered Monday. Burchard has frame up for a new house north of the railroad. Pettit family in Sumner last week.
Deputy Owen checked St Johnson business on Monday. Viarry Graham is hostel as the hotel pew. W W Herrington’s new house is ready for plaster. Eugene Parr’s is framed and partially enclosed. Moss of Chicago visited his parents. Town sees new walks and repairs. More locals, Hants and Prients, attended funerals. Sears of Lunsinn stopped by views over Suiabiy Gon. Duncan and wife visited Elsie Sunday.
May reports from Bridgeville detail on the Maple flats the laying of steel for two bridges and highway designation along the section line between 23. Township finances and township canvassing by Dixie Mall show countywide interest. A Rochensparger builds a new barn while Munson completes a 40 by 80 foot barn. Maple area work continues with minor constructions and some promising catches reported.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Sati Bradley and others involved in a fatal incident, with scattered references to a new day, a mailer startup, a wall in a store, and local names including Harvey Wood, Frank Smith, and Chas. Me. The text also notes Barras’ transit to Detroit for business and land staking by Frank Smith and associates in North Star.
A damaged telegraph line near Lisbon Ta is repaired after a fierce flood, with a survivor recalling standing waist deep in water and coughing fits. The patient credits Dr King’s New Discovery for relief from chest symptoms after multiple hospital consultations in Oakland Nebraska Sioux City and Omaha. The text notes the product’s claimed success against coughs colds and lung trouble with a medical miracle tone.
Mrs Sebring moved in and Henry Collett moved to Frank Himes place. Mrs Chas Dodge of Perrinton ill. her mother Mrs Jarrett and Mrs Otto Mey of St Louis visited. Ladies Aid meets May 21 with Mrs Henry Winiager. bring needle and thimble. Fulton Center Farmers Club meets June 4 with Mr and Mrs O N Chatin. Dan Webster buys a new buggy at Maple Rapids. John Leslie to raise new frame barn today. South Fulton Farmers Club had a successful meeting with 10 visitors. next June 13 with Mr and Mrs W L Merman. Infant death near Allen Wilber on west state road. buried Paine cemetery. The infant but the state road death?
Community briefs cover construction plans by Ervin Davis to build a house and T. J. Hoxie planning a new paint job, while Austey Hicks reports wool sale of 1528 pounds to a yield around 222 dollars. Detroit business trip for Burros and Chia McCutcheon, and Miss Maud Slayton visiting Portland.
Lebanon May 15 reports Mrs Tidy slowly improving under medical care for three weeks. Mrs Gillet and Mrs Pewers of Mathol ton assist. Ed Cospri is home from St Johns. Rev J Seeley Beers and wife of North Star visited Matherton. Mr Bod Wheeler of Ithaca visited daughter Mrs C J Fowler. Beers preached at Bhevareh Matherton. J D Hoag of Exsex visit sister Mrs C H Fowler. Bardock Blood Bitters promoted as remedy.
Langport notes update residents with visits and guests including Miss Della Eustrean at Mrs HE Davis Merrill and Miss Orpha Van Nese South Wheeler. Reports mention Mrs Olive Eastmag Merrill and Della and Marie Soow from Breckenridge. Local events include an ice cream social by the Gleaners at W. Wirth’s and Grandma Benjamin’s surprise birthday with a rocker gift from visitors.
A chaotic OCR fragment lists real estate transfers and scattered notes. includes names such as Hale, Johdips, Seaver, Kamurett, Bennet, and Gallagher amid garbled phrases. Mentions purchases, gears toward property actions, and includes stray dialogue from unrelated items like jokes and readers’ letters.
Fragmentary OCR describes a medicinal product claimed to ease fevers headaches and stomach troubles with vague health promises. Mention of a drug store run by Sharrar co Melholland and references to vitality and relief appear but details are unclear.
In olden times a barber sign indicated cupping and bleeding practices that caused harm and death. The piece cites malpractice deaths, bloodletting to treat ailments, and a modern patient Mr Calvin Wilson from Niles Michigan describing back and loin pain from long hours. It notes remedies like Dout's Kidney Pills and DeWitt's Little Early Risers as advertised cures.
A seven month old baby in Farmer City Illinois improved after using Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin sourced from Hud's Drug Store. The letter from A Li Jackson Sharrah & Mulholland notes the infant's weight gain and restored health after about a month of treatment. Sharrar & Mulholland advertise the product’s benefits in a testimonial style.
Marion Rooke of T. M. Thoupeen reports severe weather gave her a dreadful cold. After seeing a milliner improve quickly with Cham berlain’s Cough Hennessy she bought it and soon recovered fully. Local seller No work of brave in offers acres.
Fragmentary ad claims Bucklen's Amnic Salve cures itching piles and skin eruptions with thousands reportedly helped. Also promotes Dr Caldwell's Pepsin laxative as a remedy, with limited purchase details and scattered seller hints.
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