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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1888
Page
5
In this fragment from February 38 1888 the Alma Record discusses a new anesthetic derived from the honey locust pods. It recalls early medicinal use and social intoxication from honey margins and reports Dr W B Fletcher recalling Stevens Woods and a March thaw.
A hod carrier on a new house at the corner of Michigan and Maybury avenues in Detroit drops a brick from the scaffold. A carpenter sees it and a man named Hook falls, breaks his neck, and then escapes a pursuing carpenter. An ambulance brings the injured to a sanitarium and home. Neighbors panic when Hook is seen in the ambulance, causing a viral misinterpretation. The incident attracts the fire department after an overturned stove.
A rich man’s son unable to manage money hatches a drowning ruse for a windfall with a swimmer. The plan collapses when the father exposes the plot, saving the son from harm. A Paris suicide tale is cited to color the narrative as old but plausible.
A fragmentary dialogue centers on a woman named Tammy who insists she is engaged. Her sister confirms the engagement but notes Tammy cannot see others, while Tommy and De Smith shuffle in and out as the scene ends with questions about Tammy’s future.
In a clipped tale the heroine, stylish and proper, spurns a suitor who follows to a theater. He tries charm but she remains distant, planning to wed a man who already wears a different mark of status, leaving the pursuer rebuffed in a quiet resolve.
A narrator recounts his night in a near Brattleboro hotel with traveling companions when a sly counterfeiter Samuel duped him. The hoax used Uncle Sam money, a hidden bag, and a beguiling test of the notes, leading to a months-long chase across cities and a desperate search for Samuel at races and shops.
An old advertisement extols Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a universal cure for skin ailments, fevers, and other conditions with a money back guarantee. It also promotes King’s New Discovery for consumption, Electric Bitters for liver and kidney issues, and Malaria remedies, listing Webb’s Drug Store as a supplier and giving prices in cents per bottle.
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