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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1913
Page
2
The Alma Record announces its subscription rate at 1.00 per year under the Alma Record Company and J. Brown business management. Readers may subscribe for home delivery and ongoing local coverage.
Daily notes from Elwell and nearby towns list callers, visits, and small events. Alma Sugar Co. figures and several residents travel to Elwell for business or social visits. A church supper fundraiser, bingo style rink chatter, illnesses, and housing moves color the week as residents rally for community activities.
Day by day updates from Riverdale show Roy King starting school and many residents visiting Alma, Edmore, and surrounding towns. The list records visits, entertainments, a football game in Ann Arbor, a deer hunt update, shifts in work, a move, and the death of I B Jacques with funeral in Riverdale.
H D Ely of Bantam Ohio suffered a four year foot ulcer. A doctor urged amputation but he refused and used Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a last resort. He wrote the salve cured his foot. Best remedy for burns cuts bruises and eczema. 28 cents. Recommended by Wheaton Sons Rhodes Drug Store The Rexall Drug Store.
W A Bradley suffered severe hand burns after gasoline dripping onto his hands ignited. Jack Moblo extinguished the blaze with gloves on and is praised for his courage and skill. Bradley, a former Riverdale postmaster and longtime dry goods operator, is slowly recovering under Dr Highfield care. Mrs Bowman and children visit from McBain.
The Michigan Probate Court in Gratiot County Ithaca held sessions on October 27 1918 with Judge J L Potts presiding. Petitions in the estates of Elizabeth Cris more and Addie Van Valkenburg sought probate of wills and administration. Hearings were set for November 27 and November 24 respectively with notices to be published in the Alma Record for three weeks. Also noted is a state farm sugar factory pause due to beet shortages.
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