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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1906
Page
3
A playful quip on dairy and digestion notes that if cows produced butter directly the world would need no milk. It adds that milk is nature’s emulsion and that cod liver oil, though nourishing, must be emulsified to aid digestion.
Scott & Bowne announces Scott's Emulsion combining high quality oil with hypo phosphites to improve digestion and nourishment. Advertises as the most strengthening nourishing food medicine in the world with prices 5c and 1.00, available from druggists in New York and beyond.
Chicago and Northwestern railway boosts Seeing America First tickets. From Chicago to Pacific east points, price 873.00 for June 1. Daily trains offer enhanced facilities, including layovers and connections, to accommodate a surge in migrants aiming for the Pacific coast. The move is expected to attract thousands more riders than any previous season.
A damaged note references Chas Rhoades and Tr. Colwell in an Egyptian pile core matter. The readable text hints at action or trial but provides no clear outcome or dates. The fragmentary wording leaves key details unreadable.
The U S Supreme Court upheld Michigan's railroads tax plan. Justice Brewer ruled the state may tax railroad property at the average rate used for other property, confirming about 10 million dollars due to the Michigan school fund and addressing 27 cases challenging Act 173 of 1901.
President Roosevelt gave a dinner at the White House last night for the Governor General of Canada Earl Grey and Countess Grey. Their party including daughter Lady Siby Grey arrives from New York about 6:20 PM and will stay several days, lodging with Ambassador and Lady Durand among friends.
Two elderly women, believed to include Mrs Clara Franstort formerly of Istip Le 1, were found dead in a furnished New York apartment on Eighteenth Street Turaday. Both, over 60, appear to have died by asphyxiation in a mutual agreement. No clear cause established.
Senator Bailey delivered an extended address lasting over four hours in the Senate on April 11, addressing the railroad rate debate. The chamber was nearly full with attendees, as Hale urged a broad court review and Bailey urged respect for constitutional limits, with ongoing juristic deliberations shaping the session.
Mrs Kate B Raymond wife of Frank Kelloge Raymond a Washington interior department clerk turned on gas at 651 Selma street Hollywood locking doors and windows to asphyxiate her fourteen year old son who slept in the room She failed to take her own life neighbors detected escaping gas and police broke in The mother lay praying near the cot and doctors hope she may recover She left two letters one to her mother Martha Cooper of San Diego and another to a neighbor The letter hinted at an unhappy life and said they would be better off dead.
The French ambassador reports Paris asked St. Petersburg to urge postponement of the Hague conference date per American wishes. The dispatch signals Paris hopes Washington’s preference will influence the schedule amid ongoing diplomatic discussions. The note underscores Franco Russian alignment on international timing.
An advertising fragment notes Dr Colwell's Egyptian Pile Cure with a money back guarantee if unused medicines fail. It lists local sellers in Alma promising refunds on Greene's syrup, wool buying by A W Brock, and family health items like Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea.
Readable fragments report Easter services at Alma, family visits across towns, schooling resuming, and local social updates. Mentions Mrs L B Camfield visiting her brothers Bert and Roe Farwell, Markham hosting a Sickles brother, Shong visiting a sick sister in Clie, Groves entertaining their daughter from Ohio, and Pine River phone line No 6. Also a local ad for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea at 35 cents.
Wanted potatoes for which the highest market price will be paid inquiry to Lee Mercantile Co. Also offered four year old coach colt Kimball organ cow for part payment Edward Hrirron St. Louis R F D 6. For sale choice seed oats big four Wisconsin stock 40 cents per bushel inquire James Edwards mile and a half north of Almate2 Take your baby to Horws Stonio tf.
Reports cover a Detroit fatality from a street collision in Los Angeles, a Pontine farm incident, a German study in Ann Arbor, a prospective White City resort at St. Joseph River, a hotel theft confession, Detroit Dominican convent site, Detroit fee scale changes, Bay City shipyard 602 foot keel laying, North Tonawanda 569 footer launch, and a call to enjoy Sunday dinners at a sanitarium.
The fragment mentions 190 another health related item and lists unclear references to H R edies for one or other A. Details are incomplete but indicate an index or notice of services or remedies. Strong entities are not clearly identifiable due to OCR damage.
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