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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1914
Page
7
Among the youngsters at Asbury Park’s baby carnival a boy dressed as a fishing club mascot entertains the crowd. The autowhore-like playful scene suggests he could hook a big fish, while riddles and brief notes from Lansing and Alma appear in the column.
Riverdale and surrounding towns bustle with visitors and travels as residents and guests frequent Alma Vestaburg Elwell and Saginaw. Notable entries include Dr Morey from Edmore and Miss Greta Hoxie heading to Ypsilanti for school while James Howe of Alma visits family and roller skating draws crowds. The town mourns Joseph Hudson formerly of Riverdale who died at the Grand Rapids Soldiers Home leaving a wife and six children.
Lady Beatty widow of Rear Admiral David Beatty offers her yacht Bheelah as a hospital ship to the English government and will accompany it to the base appointed by the Admiralty. She is formerly Miss Ethel Marshall, daughter of a Chicago dry goods concern.
The text chronicles Lady Beatty’s marriages to Arthur Tree and then Captain David Beatty noted as a handsome British navy officer. It highlights Beatty’s rapid rise to rear admiral by 1910, their highland estate with royal proximity, residences in London and Brooksby Hall, and their yacht Sheelah. Yachting and hunting are named as her favored pastimes.
An advertising notice claims Dr King’s New Life Pills ensure good digestion relieve constipation and act as a tonic for the body. It promises purifying blood and elimination of poisons through the bowels with a 25 cent price at the druggist.
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