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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1912
Page
3
Listing notes a coal burner for sale in working order. The garbled text mentions names M J McPhee and Messingers, a Sunday visit, Shriner gathering in Saginaw, and newspaper agency arrangements with bills due from Sunday September onward. The fragmentary wording limits precise details.
The report by TM Smith, local observer, notes mean maximum temperatures around 62 degrees with a low near 32. Total precipitation is 0.7 inches, greatest in 24 hours on the 16th, with 12 days seeing measurable moisture. Clear days 10, partly cloudy 10, cloudy 10, and 28 thunderstorm events recorded.
Health note urges treating nervousness with a nerve tonic not stimulants. Recommends Rexall Nerve Tablets as best cure for nerve ailments, asserting relief in many cases and enhanced appetite and blood. Money back if no improvement. Price 15 and 1.00. Sold only at Grow Drug Store The Rexall Store.
South Arcada residents Fay and Mrs Fay Palmer return to Sparta after two weeks visiting relatives in town and at North Star. Ariin Roberts finished baling his day last week. Virgil Barnhill and wife visited his parents James McFanl and Alma, Archie McFaul and wife. Lune Burt Church plans a chicken shed expansion on their property. Road graveling is planned near the Davis school house next Tuesday. Mrs S M Sykes travels to Lyons to visit daughter Perry Frye for a week.
An old Rexall Lesporine advertisement urges women with sex related diseases to obtain the antiseptic to destroy infection and aid recovery. It promotes use as a wound wash for cuts bruises and sores and claims it relieves sore mouth throat and nasal issues. The copy offers a money back guarantee and notes it is sold only at Grover's Drug Store The Rexall Store in the community.
William Alden Smith born Dowagiac Michigan May 12 1859. He moved to Grand Rapids in 1872, studied law and gained admission to the bar in 1883. Dartmouth honored him with a Master of Arts in 1901. He served as a state legislature page in 1879, won seven consecutive Congress terms, then moved to the U.S. Senate in 1907 to fill the Alger vacancy and secure a full term. He supported woman suffrage and urged constitutional amendment in November.
The piece argues women should vote to uphold moral law and human progress while criminals vote less. It notes women are a minority in criminal classes in Michigan and form a majority of those advancing humanity, urging voting for the equal suffrage amendment in November.
A political call argues that women’s rights now match men’s in education and profession. It cites 125 years since the constitution, noting advances like high school graduation, college enrollment, property rights, and joint guardianship in several states. The piece urges a Michigan vote Yes to grant woman suffrage.
Congressman Edward T. Taylor of Colorado, speaking in Congress on April 24 1912, urged equal suffrage. He declared universal franchise for women would be the greatest step in civilization, noting no good law in Colorado in nineteen years had passed without women’s active work.
The text notes women voting in several states and suggests suffrage will be voted on in coming months in Michigan and others. It frames the outcome as uncertain for Michigan while predicting wins in Oregon Kansas and Nevada, urging the voter to decide.
A string of last Monday and weekend visits spans Ithaca Breckenridge Lansing and Bay City with business callers Miss Bessie Holmes and Earl Poster among those noted. Goggins travels to Detroit and Pearl Eyre visits Ashley teachers in town. Leop Stinchcomb returns from Sunfield and the Ellisons of West Branch visit briefly. Vandette manager Weese hosts a free college show drawing a packed crowd and student yells.
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