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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1912
Page
3
The article argues school boards must repair heat and furnish proper equipment this fall. It notes boards control funding and borrowing, emphasizing healthful, neat, and adequate facilities to ensure student efficiency, with expected countywide improvements in school properties.
Uncle Ezra quips that slight neglect of constipation biliousness indigestion or liver derangement can cause trouble. The remark underscores how small health lapses lead to bigger problems in daily life.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills offering quick results. It promotes Easy safe sure relief priced at 25 cents and lists Wheaton & Sons Rhodes' Drug Store and Grover's Drug Store The Rexall Store as retailers.
Statewide and local districts fail to secure treasurers with proper personal surety bonds. Bonds must cover full yearly cash and be signed by two sureties who justify under oath. District money must stay separate and in banks, interest to general funds. Misuse fines and imprisonment apply. Miss Star Smith visits Tonia this week.
Town Line column recounts residents visiting kin in Alma Detroit and Crystal, family health updates, travel to Detroit and Grand Rapids, work shifts at sugar factory and farms, school activity changes, road work, and weather delaying threshing as locals plan winter trips to California and Jackson.
Mr and Mrs Sawkins of St Louis called at Geo Robbes on Wednesday Irwin Way attends State Fair this week Herbert Childs hosted about twenty youths Friday night enjoying fine watermelons Mr and Mrs George Palmer returned from a fishing trip at Crystal Lake and nearby spots Threshing continues on the County line Will Gallaher and son Carl spend the week in Detroit Mr Conley and wife visit friends in Detroit over Sunday Richardson and wife visited Almond Leonards Curtis Ingraham is very sick Hilda Dolpher improving Ernestine Palmer returned from Shepherd Shong is reportedly better Allen school reports twelve certificates of reward for the first month John Palmer rides in a new bogey Roy De La Geneste made a buss Will Rogers business trip to Detroit last Wednesday
Andrew Welch and son visited Shepherd on business last week. John Smith and family leave Mrs. E. C. Bamborough's tenant house. Lyman Cohoon sells 10 acres west of Alma to Me Chrest of Illinois. sale price $12,000. Possession March first. Cohoon bought Mrs Dan Sullivan’s farm eight years ago and undecided on future home. Chrest acquires 40 acres of the William Brower farm and 40 acres of the Horton place.
An advertisement claims indigestion stems from stomach fermentation and offers MI-O-NA Stomach Tablets as the best prescription for stomach distress. It promises instant relief from gas heaviness heartburn and after dinner discomfort and guarantees money back. Available in large boxes for 50 cents at Chas Rhodes.
Elm Hall residents Mr. and Mrs. Senaca Sly spent last week in Greenville as guests of their children Mr. and Mrs. Bred Shy and Mr. and Mrs. Rome Mass. Edna Remer visits cousin A. J. Boyd in New Haven for two to three weeks. Miss Ethel Davis visits locally for a few days. Mary LaVoy travels to Ovid to stay with her husband doing mason work. John Swan and wife of Jackson visit his mother Mrs. Louisa Swan. Nichols of Riverdale dines with M. N. Smith and wife. Miss Lossie Grinell of Perris Center stays with cousin Mrs. Jennie Blair. Morrison of Tonia visits Charley Smith seeking young cattle for feeders. Jessie Birdsall and wife of Irae Rapids visit her parent. Mr and Mrs. Jones Birdsall.
An advertisement claims breathing the antiseptic vapor of Booths HYOMEL destroys catarrh germs in the lungs and heals inflamed membranes. It promises relief from hawking, spitting, and foul breath, with a 1.00 inhaler and 50 cent refills. Charles Rhodes offers money-back satisfaction.
A fragmented roster of individuals with ages and towns includes James J. Rosenberger age 22 of Louis Ruth L Arnold age 20 of Brecken ridge Clare M Butler age 21 of Perinton Mabel L Clark age 29 of Perrinton Marko Rogan age 25 of Seville Township Ida Smith age 18 of Etwell Glenn Eagon age 22 of St Louis and Charlotte Oswald age 22 of St Louis.
A fragmentary verse warns that a truth can be misread as false through gossip and moral inversion, claiming whiteness cannot be restored once blackened. A stray wartime ad line promotes the Sterling Bean Harvester for the Alma Elevator Co. sale.
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