Alma Booster Day honored by business men and patrons
The Record thanks Alma business men and numerous boosters for Booster Day. the issue contained 2464 inches of space with 2024 inches of live ads and 440 inches of reading matter, reflecting strong town support across nearly every business. The letter from Silas Moody recounts a Sacramento to San Francisco trip, weather, irrigation, ranches, and Exposition impressions with notes on Goone Neck pasture and early Fair observations.
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Alma
Noverdaly
Sacramento Valley
Mr. Brown
Sacramento
Williams
Southern Pacific
Calusa
Princeton
Ento
San Francisco
San Franco
Exposition Grounds
San Diego
South Shafer
Silas Moody
Rules for Correspondents in the Record
A guidance note urging detailed clear writing for letters to the Record. It stresses avoiding abbreviations, spelling out days fully, leaving edit space, giving full initials, and properly presenting names and deaths with substantial notes rather than brief mentions. It includes cautions on handling notable figures and dramatic deaths.
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EH. Brown
Mr. Brown
Mr. OD
Joneer
Physical sciences taught at Alma High School
The article describes two and a half hours weekly in the school laboratory where students keep reaction notebooks. Boys study metals while girls perform practical tests such as detecting adulterants in foods, removing staining from milk, bleaching processes, and tests for oleomargarine.
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Alma High
Bargain in Mano-Player Fine high grade piano for balance
Ad offers a high grade piano at half price to balance a contract. Address R. E. J. Record Office.
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R. E. J. Record Office
Hunters Hyding Liniment Cure for Horses Across Time
A collage of antiquated notes recounts horse liniment cures from H J Gamlin of Orwell Ohio praising Hunters Balsam of Myrrh. old ads describe window cleaning methods. notes reminisce about 15th to 19th century weaponry including matchlocks and early firearms. a traveler’s market scene frames a mid-1700s horse racing shift and the Duke of Bargandy.
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Michigan
H. J. Gamlin
Orwell
Ohio
Hunferd
Alma man’s experience aids discouraged citizens
An Alma resident shares the benefits of Doan’s Kidney Pills based on personal relief from long term kidney trouble and back pain. The testimony urges readers to consider proven remedies and to keep reliable kidney medicine on hand.
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Alma
W. J. Washburn
RF. D. No. 4
Alina
Sayn
Doan
Oan
How to Destroy Germs and Forever Cure Catarrh
A noted authority claims catarrh results from germs lodged in the nose and throat. Breathing the air of Hyomei, an eucalyptus based remedy, penetrates inflamed membranes, stops discharges, and destroys the disease at its cause. Many druggists in Alabama offer a five guarantee of success or money back, underscoring its appeal.
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Alma
Suspicious Men and Uncle Eben Warn of Honest Talk
Uncle Eben warns that some men misread plain honesty as deception and fear being tricked. He notes a new kind of suspicion that follows honest behavior, reflecting a wary local mood.
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Eben
One Thing She Knew in the Saleeman Courtroom
In a humorous courtroom moment the judge prompts a clerk with a joking question about a collar size. The exchange marks a light interlude as a husband’s attire becomes a verbal clue in a domestic dispute or sale scene.
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Saleeman
Pido
Judge
Monster Cheeses for Presidents from Cheshire to Washington
A quirky colonial tale describes a giant Cheshire cheese made in Cheshire Mass with four foot diameter and eighteen inch height. It was pressed and drawn by six horses to Washington amid cheers, costing $209 to the president. The piece notes similar cheeses given to Presidents and Van Buren, suggesting a bygone dining custom that faded with his term.
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Moga
Duncap
Netehburhood
St Albans
Four Howe
Hier
Jefferson
Cheshire
Mass
Washington
Brealer Coene
Decker
van Buren
Prophet’s Liking for Narcissus in Epigram
Mohammed praised the large flower Harciesus in a brief epigram: bread feeds the body, but the narcissus nourishes the soul, suggesting a exchange of one loaf for one narcissus when blessed with surplus.
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Prophet
Mohammed
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