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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1901
Page
3
The page blends a market list with farm and town notices. It includes mixed prices for wheat corn potatoes apples pork mutton and other produce, plus notices of sales and property listings. Local people such as Harrold, Gov Bliss appointees, and residents visiting elsewhere appear alongside brief community updates and a death notice for Robert Clark.
Cripple Creek resident Dick Bowers visits, G S Ward ill for days, fine weather favors beef harvest. Minnie McCarty visits her brother in Ewart, J B Fatty departs for Saginaw factory. Ely Browbaker seen in Grand Rapids early week. Jas G Chase advances Water Street residence work. Porter promotes eyeglass care. Rona Batley clerks at Vermenton’s and Devivan’s. Albert Bahlke visits parents. William Pollok takes shoe dept post at Pollasky’s.
The Shadow of the Law by Ernest W. Hornung opens in the October Munsey's Magazine as a modern life tale praised as the author's strongest work. Also notes a local Aid Society gift of factory cloth sheets and pillow-slips to Mrs Frank Clow due to poor health, with a $1.75 weekly collection aiding her care.
Arcada Grange No 500 adopts resolutions on the death of Levi Keefer Waeneas praising his integrity and diligent work. The lodge notes loss to family and society and approves a 30 day memorial for viewing. A list of mourners and thanks follows, with notice of a future excursion to Toledo by special train from Alma.
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