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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1910
Page
6
Local Rexall Store promotes Rexall Hair Tonic with a personal guarantee that customers pay nothing if unsatisfied. The ad claims the product can restore hair on bald heads except when follicles are dead or scalp sealed. Two sizes offered 0.5 and 1.00, exclusive to The Rexall Store at The Central Drug Store and Grover Bros.
A notice from The Record urges subscribers in arrears to pay promptly to avoid suspension of delivery at the pound rate. It warns that Uncle Sam enforces postal laws and that unpaid subscriptions threaten continued low-rate service.
The American consul at Manover reports it costs 7500 dollars annually to feed 5,000,000 canaries in the United States. Returns on feeding song birds at Rector's are not posted in Washington.
West Jersey and Seaport leads with 150 miles of electrified track, followed by New York Central 132 miles and Long Island 125 miles. Other notable systems include Pennsylvania 75 miles, Metropolitan London 67 miles, and Lancashire and Yorkshire 60 miles. Total American subway and elevated electrification reaches 436 miles. Interborough New York tops at 100 miles. Chicago elevated systems total 119 miles with Brooklyn Rapid Transit 71 miles and Hudson Manhattan 12 miles.
In Yuma district a tribal teacher Jose Escalate, spurned by a white girl, killed himself at sunset outside Old Fort Yuma. His people then cremated him with a costly pyre and offerings totaling about 2000 dollars including 1500 in cash and 200 from a servant girl, as a ritual tribute.
Markets will close at 6 80 p m each weekday with Saturday exceptions. Beginning Monday September 19 1910 Brewer and Co and partners William Milleman P T Banghart and Bert Eckert instruct customers of the early closing policy.
The Centerville Grange paper by E. D. Babbitt urges reflection on the United States' peaceful progress and dramatic agricultural advances. It notes record farm values surpassing imports, shift from extensive to intensive farming, population growth from 4 to 100 million, and looming meat supply challenges as western lands are subdivided for homesteads.
The article argues Europe’s rich can afford hippo farming while the poor lack access, and a government plan to introduce hippos into southern swamps aims to avert a looming meat famine affecting 19,000,000 families. It extols American advantages, urging intensified farming, rapid technological progress, and full use of diverse energy and mineral wealth.
A New York State Grange No. 311 near Rochester describes financing a new grange hall. Funds came from dues, bonds, subscriptions, raffles, and a soap-order club. The project totaled 3,277 dollars with 2,000 in bonds and equipment funded by member efforts and sociables. The National Grange met in Atlantic City selecting a headquarters hotel.
A lengthy excerpt outlines the incorporation of subordinate and Pomona granges under the Patrons of Husbandry. It describes how groups of members may form granges, obtain charters, file articles, and gain corporate status, with powers to buy sell and manage property. It notes Pomona granges as intermediate bodies and states the act takes effect immediately. It also references the largest granges in several states and local efforts in Binghamton and Fayetteville.
The expense of the trip covers two first class railroad tickets from the town of the premiums to Chicago and back, including Pullman Car accommodations. In Chicago the premium winner and chaperon will be met by a Co-Operative Booking representative and escorted to a top hotel for a week of stay.
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