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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1897
Page
3
An article claims Queen Victoria could dissolve parliament, declare war, grant peerages, and pardon ministers, using royal prerogative to control government if needed. It frames these as hypothetical powers the sovereign might exercise with government advice.
An ad touts Shaker Digestive Cordial as a fast acting aid to digestion and stomach comfort, claiming immediate relief for dyspepsia and digestive woes. It promotes sample bottles via a slow seller and urges a small trial investment. Laxol is presented as the preferred remedy for children, recommended in place of Castor Oil.
A humorous wedding in Harwich Logland features a curate unsure how to proceed as guests mock the ceremony. The bride and groom ride to the church with about 30 attendees, while the church party eye a playful wedding outcome and playful banter surrounds the event.
Gold can be welded into place while cold and pressed into small cavities. When a cavity is cleaned and filled properly with gold, the union between tooth and filling is nearly perfect without heating. A gold filling can be built up to nearly any size or shape required and is unaffected by secretions of the mouth or stomach.
A 19th century tonic advertisement warns of persistent throat coughs and hoarseness often mistaken for ordinary colds. It urges remedies that enrich the blood and strengthen nerves, citing SCO' EMULSION or Cod liver Oil with Hypophos as nourishing, healing, and lung-protective, with local druggist price details.
The article outlines ongoing debates over Cuba and Spain, cabinet shifts and possible resignations, a looming presidential transition, and Militia concerns. It also reports a Detroit crime sentence, bank fraud, and local election tensions shaping state politics and security.
The long overdue steamer Scandinavian of Allan line from Glasgow to Boston is feared sunk with a crew of forty. various notes report Cuban Spanish tensions, Brazil may recognize the Cuban government, and Greek insurgents attack in Olympos. Also covered are Japan’s treaty revisions, US naval officers sold at Lima, Madagascar slavery abolition, Turkish incidents, Balkan troubles, and recent fires and train wrecks with substantial losses.
Electric lighting plant improvements at Hyron Arnold Wilkes Pearle area damaged by a bursting slat gun during a hunting trip. Totnes, 5, Totnes, killed young Totescaiet Gani Hoppin in a separate incident. Kirby sentenced in Caledon County to prison for forgery. Allegan business men optimistic about a new St. Atomph Valley font project. Winter sports venue planned for basketball and baseball in a new facility. Fire departments in Copper Country assist Upper Peninsula communities. An Owosso resident poisoned by tainted mushrooms. poison spread through game while skinning.
A fragmented OCR snippet hints at medical or speculative terms like conception and cold, with surreal wording about borders and peasumption. The readable content references incongruent phrases and does not identify clear persons, places, or events, yielding a compact but ambiguous record.
The text notes multiple spelling mistakes by various individuals including Had Spellers Farah Bornhard and Oliver Wendell Holmes. It discusses mis-spellings in a mutograph or contest, mentions Biemarck and Ailyrenee, and cites errors in the word indispensable with a cited quotation.
An advertising piece extols Sure to Wen medicine and Hood products promoting merit in medicine. It touts Sarsaparitin ore and Dipan Ointment as relief for piles and other ailments, urging readers to trust established brands and buy from local dealers.
Bank of Minerora at St Mad rmnize opens for business. The Tonawanla NY high school has been totally destroyed by fire with losses estimated between 50 000 and 75 000. Spain denies piracy charges against the Three Friends crew. Six miners killed in Indiana from a coal mine shaft explosion. Great Northern Railway tunnels through the Casmite range at a cost about 4 000 000. St John NF reports herring fishery collapse with 4 000 people facing starvation.
A Bristol vessel reports the destruction of Juda Pernamies Island by a Welemnne jet near Cape Horn, claimed sightings by captains and scientists. Captain Powell of a British ship in Newcastle notes widespread gossip but doubts the event, while a photograph allegedly documents the ship’s deck. Some masters visit Newcaleth deny the claim as they hear rumors of the isle’s loss.
A Denver New York Sun account describes a 60 foot rock pile near Fort Laramie Wyoming marking the graves of thirty one soldiers after a fatal young officer misjudgment during a search for the cow killer Indian incident. The tale recounts frontier tensions between Ute, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Sioux and Pawnee groups as Brigham Young’s trek loomed nearby.
A garbled report recounts a tale of supposed benevolence and coercive control. The narrative describes a man facing moral doubt, then a coercive scene near a depot, with an officer intervening as a nursemaid figure and a suspect implied victim.
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