28 Sep 1900
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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1900
Page
1
Market notes show fresh wheat and oats prices, with old wheat and corn referenced. Entries include Butter and onions, live ducks and veal, with veal described as dressed. Specific prices are unclear due to garbled OCR.
The article notes railroad labor shortages with Detroit help sent and $150 daily offers, amid Coxey's Army reference. It also details Mae Luella Wetherell and Melvin Baker’s wedding near Alma on Sept. 20, 1900, describing attendees, attire, and reception, including a large token auction and horse sale announcement for horses aged three to six years.
The Southers Price Company presents Monte Cristo at the open house night with scenery by Worth Paris and a feature of The Great Chateaux Dit Dungeon. Mr Edwin Southers leads a capable troupe of artists in this widely known production based on the familiar novel.
The article lists hunting dates for wild duck geese squirrel partridge quail woodcock and snipe with season windows and daily sunrise sunset limits. It then covers a Tuesday night meeting where Rev Hafer and Mr Sears spoke, the crowd overflowed into the opera house, music by a quartet followed by civic remarks, and notes on local political activity and club organization.
Uncle Henry Stark died after months of illness from acute Bright's disease at an advanced age. The funeral was conducted at his home by Rev. JR Wooten of the M E church, with burial at Stony Creek on Tuesday. Mrs Stark accompanied the casket.
A young woman about 20 years old hugged her sweetheart on Superior Street and urged him to buy two Monte Cristo tickets for the opera house performance tonight, as local residents passed by on their way to dinner.
Geo. Quickbae advertises an auction at his farm two and a half miles east of Bun Hall on Friday October 7 starting at ten in the morning. Livestock farm implements and household furniture will be sold with land available at noon. Cash discounts of five percent offered. terms usual.
An excursion train runs Sunday September 80th from Alma at 6 42 p m to Toledo. Return special departs Toledo at 6 20 p m with round trip fare 145.
The Alma Sugar Company announces new staff: W. B. Scattergood inspector from Ithaca, John Coston weighman of St. Louis, E. J. Hasbrouck assistant weighman from Ithaca, Albert G. Beeson foreman from Burnner, and Howard Willard from Alma as assistant tare-man.
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