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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1903
Page
7
M r T A Pier of Drummond Texas touts Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a cure for dysentery without a doctor noting it never fails and is pleasant to take. The ad also promotes Power s Extract of Wild Strawberry for summer ailments and Rocky Mountain Tea at 35 cents with various exhortations.
The article extols fertile lands along the Lonsville and Nashville tracts in Alabama West Florida and Mississippi as bonanzas for fruit growers and truck gardeners. It cites multiple high yield examples including radishes from one acre, 4 acres yielding 1462, and 300 barrels of potatoes from 3 acres producing 1548 with net 492. It notes successive crops and replanting on the same land and references strawberries yielding up to 12480 quarts per acre.
Louisville area report notes a notable incident involving General Hinetebal and Domulgerns Lion at a local venue. Details are sparse but the event drew attention from residents and officials. Further confirmation pending from available records.
In a neighborhood feud between farce ara, William Cooper and James Cooper, two Coopers are dead and Barrett Dar cett severely wounded after James Cooper shoots Barrett in the face and Barrett retaliates with a shotgun. In Perry Michigan lightning kills Mrs M Colby aged 42 while she removed clothes from a wire clothes line leaving four children.
San Francisco reports Champion Jeffries weighs near 230 pounds and trainer De Lanoy predicts a quick finish against Bob Corbett next Friday. Corbett counters with a new short arm defense, vowing to stay on the attack and end the fight with telling blows.
Cantrell, a kingpin serving time for robbery, confessed to former superintendent Myver at the Indiana State Reformatory, exposing a three year criminal gang known as The Stew of the Cross. He claims 12 Indianapolis murders were committed by the gang, previously unsolved.
The American Express company sues in U S circuit court in Grand Rapids seeking return of 124467 dollars paid under protest as part of a dispute over taxation under Michigan railway laws. State Treasurer McCoy and Auditor General Powers are named as defendants in a broader challenge to the tax scheme.
When you want a physic that is mild and gentle easy to take and certain tact, always use Chamberlain Stomach and Liver Tablets. For sale by Bivens Roades.
A Grand Trunk Western train wreck near Durand Michigan at 3 to 4 AM killed 22 and injured about sixty. The accident occurred when section No 2 failed to stop and rammed the standing rear section as airbrakes failed. Among the dead were circus personnel and several railroad officials. an improvised morgue was set up in a freight car and survivors were treated at the Hotel Richelieu and nearby towns.
In Wilanaburie late Monday afternoon Italians attacked American mine workers at O Neill coal mines. Pistols shotguns and bows were used. A battle followed, with thirty to forty shots heard. Lewis Cortes was killed. Lewis Chappand wounded. another Italian shot but not seriously hurt. Enlistment high and further trouble may follow. President Pardons Follis. Washington January 11 The president granted a pardon to William Follis of Texas in a murder trial where the co-defendant is James Follie. Follis claimed to identify the dead farmer McDonald, a Henderson County ferry-tender, but his prior Detroit correctional sentence for counterfeiting made his testimony incompetent until pardoned.
In St Louis on August 11 at City Hospital surgeons removed the heart from Alma Toomey, a 1-year-old girl, after she was stabbed by Thomas Haines. The heart was laid on her breast, examined, and returned uninjured. Dr Doyle then removed it with forceps to inspect for injury, found none, and replaced it. The operation involved cutting through the rib and lifting the lung.
Readable bits describe a traveler or vendor and a price of 35 conte possibly for tea or goods. Names and places are unclear in the damaged OCR but reference to men women and a market setting appear. Limited concrete details prevent full reconstruction.
Paris reports indicate eighty two bodies recovered with death toll expected near ninety after a Metropolitan Electric Railway wreck and tunnel fire. Firemen faced dense smoke delaying entry as trains burned. several working class victims recovered while many more remained unaccounted in the tunnel.
Danish poet and philologist Jens Waldemar Borechinino, long known in literary circles, dies in Albion after a two day illness. He arrived in the United States in 1869, studied English at Wisconsin University and completed his philological studies, later teaching in Albion.
A hurricane tail wet the eastern end of Jamaica Monday causing damage to banana properties of Tutted Fruit Co. The extent of injuries is unknown. The storm appears to move northward toward Cuba.
Dowager empress of China seeks to smooth the reform shock amid anti reform threats. In Tokio a nonpartisan group urges Russia to end conflict and secure peace guarantees. John Malon a coal dealer in Altoona Pa dies when his horse falls on a mountain road. A London Times Russian strike note claims half a million workers are affected and the government is overwhelmed by the socialist momentum.
A dramatic note from Sherrar and Mulholland's rag store claims J RB Orne, known as Frankin Gruwe, suffered a severe leg ulcer for four years that resisted doctors. Hucklen's Arnica Salve allegedly cured the patient, with parallel praise for burns and eruptions.
An old advertisement promises immediate relief and cure for all forms of piles or hemorrhoids with Humpreys Witch Hazel Oil. It asserts external internal blind bleeding itching and fissures are cured with a single application and offers postage prepaid samples priced at 25 cents per three slees.
An old advertisement promotes Humphreys Humoral No 28 as a remedy for nervous debility prostration and overwork. It claims forty years of use, offers vials for one dollar and a five dollar package, with mail order via B S Webb in Alma Michigan and medical consultants William and John Streets in Alma.
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