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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1898
Page
12
A fragment recalls a 1893 scene where a white world icon of arch and dome shadows nations. The vague text alludes to Bruce and Chicapertike and mentions a prize conferred on Ayer’s Pills by a world that preferred it.
The passage notes the long-standing public approval of Ayer's Cathartic Pills since their preparation and asserts the pills’ successful fulfillment of promises. It highlights the World’s Fair medal of 1893 as public recognition of the product’s enduring record.
Fragmentary text mentions a suitor and patterns with a Wall pattern and sale. Names and specifics are unreadable. The snippet lacks clear actions, dates, or organizations to identify a meaningful event.
A North Carolina father struggles to soothe a baby on a Washington train while fellow passengers, mostly women, try to comfort the child. The scene prompts mixed reactions as onlookers debate who should bear responsibility for the infant’s distress.
Fragmentary OCR style text appears to discuss quitting smoking and spitting, touting a “No-Tos Bee” as a wonder worker for weak men becoming strong. Mentions brands or agents like Aldon and references to Chicago or New York.
A preparatory school class asked pupils to define the aim of education. One boy said it is to be able to talk for your father and mother away from home. Another, reflecting on holidays, wrote that the object is to get out of your parents’ way, showing a witty but candid view of schooling and family life.
A fragment from Youth's Companion blends a Western judge anecdote with a moral tale about youth and restraint, then pivots to an advertisement for One Minute Cough Cure. The piece mixes humorous courtroom color with a drugstore pitch and notes Ts. Webb as the seller.
Fragmentary historic note traces a Maryland connection to early horse lens cerelage invention and a century back event. It mentions an elderly inventor, a presidential era, and a public sale context with scant legible details about persons and dates.
Fragmented text recounts mistaken leg injury jokes and a dramatized double miscommunication. It references a Georgia drummer and various era newspapers, with garbled lines suggesting misread medical advice and sarcastic quips about healing and wires.
Dayton druggist George Layton cites a case where a friend’s wife used four bottles of Mother’s Friend during labor prep and relief, noting horror at the idea of an ordeal if better options were available. The Bradyfield Regulator Co promotes the liniment as easing childbirth strain and offers a free book Before Baby is Born by mail from Atlanta Ga.
The battered tale follows Millicent May and John Biate during a perilous sea voyage and a perilous land crossing to Naples. A bandit ambush on a mountain pass tests Millicent's resolve as hunger and danger threaten their happiness and future. A mysterious Italian rescuer helps them reach safety.
A Chicago Tribune report details a Ventat card scheme in the bourse of time involving mass produced postal cards with pirate addresses. A firm now collects these cards, alters addresses with ink, and reprints new addresses at about half a cent, keeping the other half as profit.
A described method explains shaping a felt hat by a perforated cup and exhausting air to force the felt evenly over a receiver. The process creates a strong air flow that presses the material onto the frame, forming the hat’s shape.
A New York World excerpt notes widows in Brooklyn buy parrots for company, trained by sailors, as parrots replace canaries for companionship. The piece highlights a widow who purchases multiple birds after cargo arrivals, with parrots often spoken to until they mimic speech.
A Toledo advertisement claims a cure for deafness via Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for any remedy failing to cure. It mentions ear tube inflammation and calls for readers to send for a product sample and details.
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