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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1910
Page
3
A local Co-Operative Booking Exchange launches a novel contest with voting ballots on season tickets to choose a girl or woman to receive a free box for three attractions. Nomination blanks, voting coupons, and season tickets carry vote values. top contestant earns invites for four friends and prizes from noted authors.
Ida Woodworth returned to Merrill after visiting her aunt Mrs Frank Keefer. Clark and Keefer families hosted guests including Ralph Clark and Mrs Rollen Wood and Mrs M C Lake of Newark. Rodney Parvis of Alma visited with Mrs Wm Godfrey’s family along with Emery Alverson of Alma and Henry Miner of Alma. Alvin Miller and family visited New Haven with Lee Townsend. Alonzo Bailey with wife and daughter Selah spent Sunday with the Godfrey household.
A Kirkland resident declares severe strain did not cause a breakdown thanks to Electric Bitters. The tonic medicine is sold by Wheat and Sons for 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed.
Mrs. H. Glover remains ill while Miss Cora Wixson assists Mrs. Earl Hooke of Riverdale. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Parks relocate to Elma Hall. Tressell Gee and Carrie Bailey resume high school attendance. Mabel Billsby visited Alma Friday. Harry Shaffer duo departed for Ohio Saturday. Ruby Seitz and Ivah Kress visited Alma Tuesday. Edd Hannah and wife visited her mother Mrs. R. Gee Sunday.
Watertown Wis resident J A Swensen recalls ten years of eczema that 15 doctors could not cure until Bucklin's Arnica Salve healed his skin. The ad claims it is infallible for eruptions, eczema, salt rheum, boils, fever sores, barns, scalds, catarrh, and piles. Available 25 cents at Wheaton and Sons.
Forest Fill ed notes Noffsinger attends Grand Rapids fair this week. Mrs. Camfield hosted her brother Rev B Huffman wife and daughter from Winter Cal and relatives from Akron Ohio last week. Huffman preached Sunday evening. Will Small in Lansing this week. Myra Courter visited from Belding last week. Mrs. ONeil returned to Farwell from visit to Homer and Mrs. Leonard Tuesday. Mr Glockzin and wife called to Stanton Friday by death of his brother struck by lightning Thursday. Graveling north mile from Forest Hill nearly finished and tile west reaches one coal of gravel.
A vintage ad advises paying grocery bills by prayer and hens, touting Marvell's Condition Powders as a long standing product. It claims a standard over seventy years, no waste, full weight, and price 2c a package from Wheaton & Son.
Velina Parkinson Rockwell attends school in Ithaca while Ralph Richardson and family visit her parents in St Louis Sunday. Earnest Humphrey from Foxgrove helps Jesse Berry for a few days as Berry hosts a birthday party last Saturday with his Sunday School class. Henry Eagleson, previously sick with pneumonia, is reported to be better. Gracie Packer and Edna Bailey attend school in St Louis.
The sloop Portsmouth built in 1843 will leave Hoboken for San Francisco around Cape Horn to become a naval museum. Once active in the Mexican War and later the Civil War blockade, the Portsmouth earned the nickname Black Devil after aiding in Canton and firing on Chinese forts. Now 680 tons with 22 guns and a crew of 101, she will be moored in San Francisco as the Tonopah arrives for Jersey naval reserve training.
Thursday market notes list grain bids for Wheat, Oats, Corn, Beans and specialty seeds, with live cattle and hog quotes, dressed meats, poultry, hides, and produce. Prices cover potatoes, butter, eggs, lard, honey, and various livestock values, reflecting a rural commodities snapshot.
Sumner Grange No. 893 reports a successful August 27 meeting and plans aOctober fair with a Sept 10 program including songs recitations and a drawing contest. The record also notes a bank embezzlement case at Merchants and Farmers Bank involving E C Vermilion, a local prominent church member, who vanished and left a missing shortage awaiting expert audit.
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