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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1897
Page
3
A garbled OCR snippet features scattered phrases about rivals, a canal edge game, and misheard quotes. It mentions Philadelphia American, Strong In Her Specialty, and a quip about language ability. The text is largely incomprehensible with numerous typos and broken names.
A tangled OCR fragment mentions a union insurance matter titled La Puan and a payment scheme of $1 a month to heirs under age, plus scattered names like W. L. Rennels and St. Louis. It veers into promotional language about cough remedies and public speaking, with incomplete phrases about birth, death, and a 19th century civic tone.
The text notes summer melancholy and fatigue as a deficient nourishment causing loss of vital force. It stresses that it affects resistance and endurance, not just muscle. At any age and especially youth, it risks lung disease, with loss of flesh and a cough as warning signs.
An aged ad copy touts Scills Emulsion of Cod liver oil with hypo phosphites as a tonic that tones up fattens and strengthens. It claims Scott's Emulsion masks the oil’s taste making it nearly palatable like milk and notes promotional details in the fragmented text.
A London Chronicle note says the future Kaiser’s first art attempt at Windsor ended in chaos. As a four year old prince dabbed with turpentine and colors, a scratch opened on his cheek provoking pain. The painter Prith fled under a table while the prince’s guardians begged retreat, leaving the scene in disarray and anger.
A Lubec Maine civic plan urges voluntary subscriptions to fund a communal funeral service for residents. The scheme, praised by locals, would pool money to cover costs and provide a first class funeral if a member dies, with refunds as a safeguard.
Overview of shipping disasters linked to names ending with certain letters and a tobacco and rice cultivation push in Maryland and Delaware. Reports cite wrecks near Liverpool and Alaska, plus cargo losses and drownings. Separate items note rice trials in Maryland Delware and weight stats for Boston and Cincinnati residents. Explosives manufacture in Britain employs over 10,000 with 40 deaths and 167 injuries last year.
A writer argues Hungarian is not Aryan and contrasts its roots with German and English. He claims Hungarian roots are submerged by external influence, while German and English are seen as related through a common Aryan heritage, with Hungarian maintaining distinct isolation. The piece discusses linguistic origins, nomadic pasts, and cultural separation from Germanic languages and Austro-Hungarian society.
A garbled report describes a smallpox outbreak in Gloguster with many hospitalized and infected workers. It notes dirty conditions, severe disruption to trades, and efforts to vaccinate workers at home or mobile clinics, while referencing high costs and public health measures.
An 1895 population table shows Germany at 52,204,650 inhabitants versus France’s notably smaller count, with German birth rates far exceeding French and concerns over emigration or expansion into overseas territories. The piece also touches on a vendor offering living animals versus stuffed ones, English lawyers’ earnings, and deep-sea discoveries by Sir John Ross, including a preserved medusa specimen.
A fragmented vintage ad copy touts Dr Merte’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for ailments tied to weak health, bowels, and headaches. It praises the Buffalo hotel staff and physicians, claiming the remedy improves confinement pain and overall wellbeing, ending with a claim that Dr Merte’s Pleasant Pellets ease constipation without side effects.
The readable portions describe a transmission of events with mentions of a treaty or agreement and various named actors. Details are unclear due to garbled OCR, but it references a division, a fate, and servants, with names and places partially legible, set in an unspecified historical context.
The readable text references daily symptoms such as indigestion burning in the stomach and distress. Mentions of medical terms and disjointed names imply a chaotic health related note or report with no clear patient or event.
Baltimore American notes that Maryland produced the first horseless carriage in America, an invention nearly a century ago. The item emphasizes Maryland’s early role in aviation and related innovations.
A Jackson Michigan resident, A. B. Wing of 612 N Tickon Street, relates a dramatic escape from a severe kidney ailment. He credits a miracle cure called Kidney Pity 4 tent, claiming rapid relief after weeks of worsening symptoms and unsuccessful prior treatments. The advertisement promotes Foster Millipen in Buffalo NY as the sole agents and urges readers to remember the name Juan.
A textual panorama traces glove manufacture from medieval London to modern times, citing key players, places, and practices. It covers the evolution of glove materials, notable royal associations, civil customs around glove etiquette, and anecdotes about glove related legends and fashion.
A terse note alleges No-To-Tac claims to halt cure and purify the body with stated strength variations. The fragmentary text mentions a druggist and a chemist, implying a contested medical remedy market and consumer skepticism.
A garbled OCR fragment hints at tangled phrases about world cisterns Great revelations in poetry and language. Names and places are indecipherable but suggest a literary collage with references to doors and strawbery like imagery.
Fragmentary OCR text shows jumbled names and terms with no coherent event or entities. It references several personal names and scattered phrases, lacking a readable news item, date, location, or organization to summarize into a factual card.
Fragmentary text references unfamiliar names and odd phrases, suggesting a damaged wartime notice or column. It mentions individuals, places, and numbers in a garbled form, with no clear narrative or verifiable details to interpret into a coherent report.
A garbled OCR passage touts a wonder drug called Cascants Candy Cuypardee as the most wonderful medical discovery of the age. It claims to refresh the taste and positively aid kidneys and liver, cleanse the ester, and cure fever and infantile ailments, with claims it will be available at all druggists.
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