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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1897
Page
8
A scrambled OCR page features medicine ads touting One Minute Cough Cure sold by B. S. Webb, plus a string of short humorous bits about travel, wit, and a lame joke about an engineer and field glasses. The tone resembles a late 19th century column of miscellany.
In a small town, Miss Nancy reluctantly contemplates her niece Margery's engagement to John Markham. After a tense confrontation over money and status, Nancy plots to keep the union alive, then unexpectedly concedes and deeds Margery a south 40 acres, hinting at future security as Margery and John rekindle their plan amid family scheming.
A brief stage excerpt shows a hesitant lover and a decisive partner, revealing affection in a witty back and forth. The dialogue hints at a quiet romance and aUtf theater tone with a hint of humor.
A fragmented note reads as a domestic dispute over money with names Whfe-Darling Hashand-Why Hariem and a request for forty dollars, indicating financial tension and a personal quarrel. The readable text hints at an unsuccessful appeal for funds and perceived status.
Fragmented obituary note for Mary Lewis of Belson New York, nee Belson. It mentions long suffering for twenty years and references medical remedies and a life linked to Gatwell residents. The text is garbled with names like Lin Milne and various medical terms.
In Spencer Michigan Berry, a well known teen, testifies to using DeWill’s Hazel Salve to treat a long history of piles after trying many remedies. He claims the product finally worked and offers to verify his statement if requested.
A narrative recounts a father comforting a girl who asks God to hear her faint voice from heaven. He imagines God pausing heavenly praise to hear the child’s whisper. Also mentions warnings against colds turning to pneumonia and promotes One Minute Cough Cure.
The fragment recalls Wagner calling Schurmann an imaginative musician yet impossible. Schumann’s account aligns, noting Wagner’s tireless talk and Schurmann’s reticence. The text also advertises cures and products amid miscellaneous notes on tobacco, Cascarets, and winter fires in China.
A garbled 19th century fragment discusses horse weights from 860 to 900 pounds for light carriages, weighs a mount up to 4050 pounds, and mentions Hartford the chestnut gelding owned by Henry Reney. It cites Thomas Nelson Page, French military riders, English jockey Barrett, and various equestrian facts with scattered names and places, including Vermont and Scotland.
The text presents a premature apocalypse scenario where a dying sea dries the land, a giant comet wrecks the solar system, and humanity regresses to a plantlike state by year 1000000. It envisions Earth’s cooling, polar ice expansion, gravity shifts, and eventual uninhabitable overlap, ending with global overcrowding and collapse.
A letter from M C S Locum M D of New York proclaims a hermetic cure for consumption throat and lung diseases. He claims the remedies restore flesh and health, urges readers to request his three bottles of its newly discovered medicines, and asks writers to mention the paper.
An advertisement in Alma Record touts Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a kidney remedy. It describes urinary trouble and offers samples by mail, promising a sample bottle and a free booklet. It urges readers to mention Alma Record when writing to Kilmer & Co.
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