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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1897
Page
8
Alma College activities span Alpha Tau Omega and other societies with weekly meetings, select speakers, and a push for caps and gowns. The campus reports football wins, library additions, guest preachers, and plans for forthcoming exhibitions, concerts, and public events.
High Potts of the Detroit Journal visited nwa midweek. A W Wright and family moved through Saginaw and Traverse City while Rev Bates helped Alma friends. Webb returned from Detroit. Tickets for the TID Parity at the opera house on the 27th are selling fast. Rev Mille of Chicago plans a lengthy stay at The Alan. W Case of Brighton teams with Claude Chadwick again this week. Plumbers install hot and cold water at the Sanitarium. Mr and Mrs Wo Damas welcome a son born last week. Pollasky and Harry Moore conducted visits to Grand Rapids and Lowell for business matters.
Grand Rapids prepares for a grand carnival with a vast midway and many attractions. The event will feature humorous acts, tightrope performances, trained horses, and street exhibitions. Parades will showcase the military, fraternal groups, labor organizations, and factory products. Nighttime displays include searchlights and fireworks. Invitations extend to Governor P ingree, Senators McMillan and Bureaws, ex governors, and Secretary of War Alger. Low excursion rates will apply during the week.
A chaotic OCR fragment describes a carnival style event with references to three shoe stores and a parade route near Canal and Lylevels. It mentions a central location on a busy street with crowds and a landmark termed the Tree dae uf visitors, and a known shoe establishment in Meehan.
Alma village council convened October 1 1807 with trustees Glass Tinker Dean Wilson Ironbaker present and Bagley Molay absent. Minutes read and approved. Reports listed water works highway and new purchase of a hose. Voting recorded Ayes Glass Tinker Dean Wilson Pollasky Brewbaker, Nays none. Meeting adjourned. President Bagley Clerk Tonner Ferrin.
A collage of sale notices offers a 40 acre farm near Alma Michigan with improved land or exchange for mortgages, plus a house and parcel in Alma known as the Pritchard property. Other ads promote Yukon gold field compendia, mail order cures, and various patent medicines. Multiple firms and individuals including W. Banas J.8 Weidman and Bivvet & Rhones advertise.
A new grocerable product Gradno, made from pure grains, is advertised as a coffee substitute that even delicate stomachs tolerate well and which many cannot distinguish from coffee. Priced around four dollars per package, it is promoted for general consumption and claimed to relieve throat and lung soreness when paired with Foley’s Honey and Tar products.
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