Local Notes From Alma Area Include Weddings and Visits
Alma and area residents report weddings and engagements as Mr and Mrs Adelbert Thom return from their wedding trip. Miles Heath and Miss Nettie Sutton of Ithaca visit Alma friends. Arthur Brock leaves for Rapid City for a drug store job. Rev and Mrs Jay Clizbe return from Amherst Massachusetts. Bertha Lyons travels to Jackson to see her sister. Phillip Bowers of Battle Creek visits Mrs Frank Barnes. L J Streggon makes a trip to Holly and Detroit. Max E Pullasky of Detroit visits Alma with his parents. Evaporator work at full blast. hopes for a good raw year. Tax sales designated to be published by Auditor General Dix. Nine tickets sold for Traverse City and Potuskey excursion over the Pere Marquette. Arthur Campbell returns from Mt Pleasant. Leonard Simmons, 66, dies. funeral at his house this afternoon. Rev N T Hofer rents pew at La men house on south Park. E N Chadwick marries Minnie Clymer to Herbert Salene. both Ithaca natives. G P Blanchard travels to Grand Rapids for Roosevelt reception. Hotel Edwards freshened with paint and new front. office replastered. Dr G J Sweetland returns from Chautauqua heading west. Arcada township People's party caucus set at Hotel Edwards to elect delegates to Ithaca county convention Sept 11. A S Gilson of Elsie visits Alma. brother Homer ill but improving. J Vermeulen returns from lakes trip. sunstroke in Michigan City. Doctor advised telegraph, but Vermeulen declines. returns home stronger.
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L. J. Streggon
Turaday
Holly
Detroit
Max E. Pullasky
Alma
M. Pullasky
Me. Trescott
Auditor General Dix
Traverse City
Pere Marquette
Arthur Campbell
Mt Pleasant
Leonard Simmons
N. T. Hofer
The
Baptist Church
South Park St
E. N. Chadwick
Minnie Clymer
Herbert Salene
Ithaca
G. P. Blanchard
Big Rapids
Grand Rapids
Roosevelt
Edwards
G. J. Sweetland
Chatanqua
People's Party
Arcada
Hotel Edwards
Gilson
Elsie
Barryton
Homer Gilson
Morning and Evening Sermon Themes At Churches
Presbyterian church morning sermon titled Wasted Waters and evening message Last Messages from God. Baptists invite town residents to join regular services next Sunday morning The Kingdom of God first and in the evening The way out of jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
Kingdom of God
Excursions Pere Marquette to Milwaukee and Joins
Pere Marquette offers trips Sept 10 to 15 to Wisconsin and Milwaukee with state fair visits. Depart Alma at 5:22 am, connect at Ottawa Beach to a Pere Marquette steamer across Lake Michigan, arriving Milwaukee about 9:20 pm. Return steamers leave Milwaukee at 5:30 pm daily. Poultry buyers seek chickens ducks at 6 cents per pound, dealer O. W. Rogers.
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Mulwaukee
Northwest
Alma
Ottawa Beach
Pere Marinette
Lake Michigan
Milwaukee
A. A
O. W. Rogers
Starting cantaloupes early with frost protection tips
Prof. R. S. Price of the Texas Experiment Station advises two early plantings for cantaloupes on deep sandy soil. Use hotbed transplants, protect with tin can covers to guard against frost and cutworms, and thin if both plantings survive. Early planting can yield ripe melons about a week earlier than direct field sowing.
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Prof. R. 5
Price, Texas Experiment Station
Insect Pest Threat to Apple Crop and Nursery Practices
The article warns that the railroad worm or apple maggot is a severe threat to apples, worse than tent caterpillars, with eggs laid under the skin and larvae damaging stored fruit. It cites Vermont experts and urges windfall destruction and ongoing experimentation for control while detailing nursery stock prep and grafting work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont Experiment
Odin
United States
Ducks On The Farm A duck-keeping guide from St Louis Le Public
The article extols ducks as a hardy fast maturing poultry type, noting Pekins as large white ducks that fetch high feather prices. It covers housing, feeding, water needs, egg laying in January, egg location issues, and care to maximize brood and feather value. It advises dry winter quarters, deep dry earth bedding, straw, and careful rations with coarse foods and waste scraps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iran
St. Louis Lepublic
Khaki for Anttermas in Victorian Army Reform
In 1885 Lord Roberts became India’s commander in chief and pressed khaki for field dress. He ordered khaki painted on all field and mountain batteries including wheels and guns, a move that altered the army’s appearance. The era’s khaki craze spurred jokes about painting heroes khaki before service and even a khaki horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anttermas
Lord Roberts
India
Clackwood
Won Borever’s Farewell Bread Tale Farce
A fragment preserves a dialogue where a man laments bread and a wife plans drastic change to a household loaf. The text shifts to a mention of a Chicago Times reader note about a hunted rock and an implied story, hinting at loss and domestic tension in a bygone era.
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Chicago
New Departure One Month Free from Dr Spinney in Detroit
Dr. A B Spinney of Detroit and Reed City Sanitarium will visit your town for one day offering one month of free treatment and medicines for chronic diseases and free surgical operations for the poor. He claims vast experience in catarrh eye ear throat and lung diseases and promises to assess cure potential or provide relief. He urges early visits as his crowds are large and notes written guarantees for piles and rupture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Spinney
Detroit
Reed City Sanitarium
Cleveland
Ohio
Homeopathic Medial College
Alma Anu Pailant
Sanitariuma
Arl
Sanharines
Wittels Sarge
Dr Spinney at Wright House Alma Web on Sept 12
Dr Spinney will appear at the Wright House in Alma Web on September 12 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The event invites attendance for a daytime visit with the physician at the local venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DR. Spinney
Wright House
Alma
Web
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Miss Nettie Sutton
Arthur Brock
Rapid City
Jay Clizbe
Amherst
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Bertha Lyons
Jackson
Phillip Bowers
Battle Creek
Frank Barnes
J. Vermeulen
the Lakes
Michigan City
Rone
JNSIN
Thina Jong
Thalee
Wien Hiange
Tomer Weil
Tommuce
Joonton
Delavan
M. E. Walker
Mich
Cc. E. Burns
Olybry
Galekly
Paya
Wr Linden
Tive
Shane Pe
Hen Tha Ihe
Tegette
Mane
Joe Nda Yrung
Ibn Uewern
Hae Ani Ae Beg
Amine Oy
Adams Block
John
H. Decker
Evervin
Amg
Retin
Gratiot County
Lancashire Block
W. Rogers
New Lancashire
Alma Woolen Mills
H. W. Moore
Alma Produce CO
Orc
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F. Pollasky
Cadillac
NEW Scotten Tobacco CO
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