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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1913
Page
2
Heavy gusts in Sumner township loosened a barn roof 38 by 56 feet from its anchorage and threw it to the ground. Wind velocity was estimated at sixty miles per hour. Eaton Rapids High, coached by Foster Fraker, defeated Hastings High 17 to 0 on Saturday.
Residents and visitors frequent St Louis Saginaw Alma and Breckenridge with noted trips Friday Saturday and Sunday. People named include Bert White Mrs Frick Miss Hale Randolph Root and Jay Ellsworth among others in Wheeler Alma Elm Hall Oakley and Forest Hill. Community notes describe visits, travels, and the start of the Wheeler lecture course with two musicales and three lectures despite severe weather.
Town Line News reports a flood of local activity with residents traveling on business to Elwell and Lansing, visits among Alma Sumner Forest Hill and Vernon friends, opera house events in Alma, and numerous family gatherings. Denton, Currence, Handley, Nelson, and McKinney names appear amid trips to Ohio and Michigan towns.
Mio na tablets advertised for stomach relief amid a local items column detailing visits and comings and goings across Alma Forest Hill Vernon and surrounding areas. The page also promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills for headaches and digestive issues, with local store endorsements.
Michigan Probate Court in Gratiot County Ithaca fixes hearing for Elisabeth Crie more estate. Judge J. Lee Potts presides. T. Swigart petitions to admit alleged last will and testament. John T. Swiger is named administrator, hearing set for the next September date with public notice to run for three weeks in the local newspaper. Clerk Belle Jeune certifies copy.
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