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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1897
Page
6
The passage repeats promotional claims for Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills as cures and world leading medicines. It weaves dubious testimonials from various locales, praising ease of use and reliability, with references to other quack remedies and fragmented quotes. The text also includes garbled excerpts from unrelated articles and notices.
The account from Mr Dolotes Hummel of 198 Michigan Ave Botroitelle describes a war era injury causing back pain and kidney issues. He credits Down's Kidney Pills with stopping bleeding and kidney pain, noting prior doctors offered little relief. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents, mailed from Peter Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Detroit Tribune item notes a misreading about a colonel described as a hard drinker with humorous quips. The piece reflects newspaper voice and era phrasing, illustrating satirical or clipped commentary on wartime or social figures.
Prof Elliot and head of the expedition to Africa return to Chicago with hundreds of specimens for the Field Columbian Museum. The party gathered rare animals birds insects and archaelogical curiosities around the Gulf of Aden amid heat and scarce water. One member survived a leopard attack. Mounting and exhibition will take years.
Two patents issued by the interior department claim new methods for explosive projectiles. One freezes dynamite so it cans be fired from a gun without risk, another freezes high explosive to detonate under confinement, and a third covers non explosive ammunition when fired. The inventor asserts these charges can be more deadly.
The article notes that chief exponents of music in In are women, while many men regard their singing and playing in society as ridiculous. It reflects gender norms of the era and highlights public reception of female musicians.
The advertisement touts Witt's Witch Hazel Salve by W.H Rentels of St. Louis and B.S Webb, claiming instant relief for burns scalda chapped hands lips cuts and sores and piles. The product emphasizes healing properties and rapid soothing effects.
A jagged urban scene recalls a frightful blast at Romeo that shook the earth and nearby buildings. A dazed commuter complains about being charged again for a fare on an old milk train after a ticket was punched earlier.
John Tt. Burne, a Roebling steel mill sticker of Second and Primay streets, Trenton, is dying from a mysterious copper poisoning after 17 years handling copper. He suffered a nervous disorder six months ago, worsened by weight loss and inability to walk, with doctors unable to halt the disease as colleagues drink mineral water for protection.
John W. Clark, who cut his throat with a penknife three weeks ago, remains under care in Cooper hospital Cam den Ned. Doctors labor to save his life after a throat wound opened the windpipe, with a tube inserted through the neck to admit air. The case follows a homicide nearby involving Whitlam Clark's death.
A composite item summarizes confusion over long pikes and their origins from Savoy to Switzerland with medieval battles cited, then shifts to a tale of Dr Thomson the Archbishop of York who, suffering toothache, receives a narcotic prescription misread as an appointment to York, provoking his wife’s quip about his head.
A Mississippi resident in Maben boasts frugality and a long‑held fire, claiming he saved dollars by never buying matches since arriving in Mississippi nearly 40 years ago. He says his habit has persisted, with no matches purchased during that era.
A hazy collage describes frog catching along riverbanks by night with lanterns. Operators use red Manuel bait, fishhooks, and boats to harvest frogs for Toronto restaurants. Interspersed anecdotes touch on beer weighing customs, a Bordeaux wine scam, and scattered old news snippets.
From Dudley Massachusetts town clerk Lem Healy and Connecticut sources, five Corbin family members served in the Revolutionary War. They sailed from Delje y, Massachusetts and Woonstock Connecticut, now part of Massachusetts colony. Buried near their youth homes, the Corbins named Amasa Asa Asahel Clement Daniel David Elijah Elisha Eliphales Elba jab Jub Jonathan Mos Peter William. Also ad for Deinie Little Early Risers pills.
A fragment discusses Danny Farrar traveling abroad and receiving blunt advice from Phillips Brooks about forming impressions of America. It mentions Brooks’s American character and his warning that impressions would be wrong. The snippet shifts to a mourning note about a child and a reference to a remedy advertisement for one minute cough cure by Rennels and Webb.
Disjointed OCR text mixes an 171 bank charter mention for the Bank of North Amelia in Philadelphia with ads for DeWitt Witch Hazel Salve promising cures for skin ailments and a “One Minute Cough Cure” by W L Tennels of St Louis. Detours into attention grabbing figures and miscellaneous phrases appear, reflecting garbled old newspaper content.
Fragmentary notes from the Boston Traveller reflect on Sunday observance, charity, and preaching as a natural growth like an oak. The text quotes Wendell Phillipe Conatinatcon and mentions distant firmidaticam, regent, and dergeneent references, with cryptic phrases and erratic spellings.
Fragmentary OCR shows a water company agent named Taylor at St. Louis, with mention of Alma and Vaes or years 187 and Ree Ge. The readable text indicates an agent role and location without a complete narrative or dates.
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