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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1902
Page
2
Fragmented text references questionable claims about health and wealth tied to a dollar, critiques pseudo medical devices like Pierws Golden Medical Discovery, and mentions consumer deception. It appears as an excerpt with garbled OCR, listing names and topics without clear narrative or dates.
Ithaca notes list numerous residents visiting relatives over Christmas and New Year. Figures include Mrs Brodword, Mrs Kida, Syd Meharob, Miss Myra Ware, Mr and Mrs Henry Webster, Mrs Elizabeth Simmons purchasing the Clare Kirby farm, and various trips to Alma Mt Pleasant Alma Bay City and Youngstown. Several returns from Christmas visits and travel plans are noted along with banking and legal matters involving A. W. Lockwood and John Meyers.
Breckenridge reports a string of brief notes on residents and visitors. Mentions Maud Kirg Sheri Partish Miss Nellie Stevens A. K. Milligan and others visiting towns around Saginaw and Port Huron with families and local gatherings.
A local Fulton reader reports on district changes and farm progress. John West purchases Crownley’s forty acres, Waiter Sealy harvests grain from the farm, Frank Woo completes a new kitchen, and Alley family recovers from illness as Dan Keller plans a spring home build. Fulton Center Farmer's Club ends, Grange grows to about fifty members meeting at Center schoolhouse biweekly.
Ed Harden and Erma Keight are on the sick list. Ruby Balliet suffers from poem mania. Vernie Buttrick visiting Owassu, Me. John Aldman of Olin visiting friends here. Simon First made a lying trip to Saginaw yesterday. Grace Townsend helps care for her mother Abbie Yewen of Hillsdale while visiting her parents. Hoyle and Mrs Puller of Millsdale spend winter with sister Mrs Frank Counsellor has sold property to Wolf McFarland. George Harris and wife visited Maple Rapids Sunday. Ernest Cogley hurt loading joes dad remains confined to the house. Mollie Bonniefeld and Neale Cowles visited JH. M. Towpers Sunday. Hoyle, Yewen and Fuller spent Christmas with J. W. Smith of Maple Rapids. Bert Creaser returned from Lansing after days with Fred Hike.
Mr. B J Worthington is not well. Schultheiss visits Merrill friends. Swartz of Alma spent Monday with Le D Baker. Fred Bare and Edith visit in St Johns. John Eichorn couple visited Saginaw. Robert Gamble visits Breckenridge friends. George Huntoon and wife of Rapid City visit relatives. L W Fiddler and William Burton spouses visit in Ohio. Nelson Waddell surprised at Christmas by his father. Shaw couple return from Jackson County awaiting move. L Davis and son Earl go to St Charles for coal. Methodists host old fashioned fireplace and Santa Claus as church fills.
Inquiry ad urges calling for cure evaluation from Francis Bormings Quacks to Detroit Medical and Surgical Institute. It invites letters for information if Dr Munch cannot be seen, noting monthly visits and planned dates around January and February with names and locations obscured.
Local column recounts visitors and gatherings in and around Breckenridge. mentions relatives visiting in Alvin Grand Lodge and Lansing, Mrs. Wells holiday plans, Mr and Mrs James Helison in Lansing, Elmer Biler improvement, Milton Perrigoe family welcoming a baby girl December 27. Meetings planned with Rev Lawn and Rev Farrar, cordial invitation extended. Others: Muscatt, Wab, McNuil, James Whitear party, and Rosa Ostrander returning from Saginaw after month-long visit.
New Century Comfort. Millions daily find relief in Buckten's Arnica Salve which eases pain from burns, scalds, bruises, ulcers, fever sores, eruptions, rheumatism, boils, corns and warts. Priced at 250 at Sharrar and Mulholland's drug store.
Fragmented local items list residents visiting friends and attending dances in Wis place and Kin Mal Ciartey Homes, with several names and towns. Includes marriages licenses for Woodward Pine River Nelle Fishbeck and others, plus notes on a North Star town event and various residents spending time at home or traveling in Chiton county.
A garbled OCR summary lists numerous property transfers among individuals and entities including Prank G Kneeland, WH Weed, Mary Howells, Lafayette Wins Turck, Harriet A Lewis, Louis Lip Dee Bist Andrews, Peter Zimnivernan, Donen, Lengthy lines mention various parcels, streets, and additions like Newark, Lafayette, Newton's add, Arcade Chase, and John Stem tang te Jiras lL Crabben with scattered dates and lot numbers. The legible items reflect a broad real estate transfer ledger rather than a cohesive article.
Auction announced at the old mill and local observers report the event near Ashley. Mentions Curatseunirg Peters Lewis and Beddinger. partnerships dissolved. farm moves and family gatherings noted amid a jury case on cutting cards of three wood.
Editor O H Downey of Chutabuseo Indiana proclaims a new cure for consumption and coughs claiming Dre's New Discovery for consumption is infallible for weak lungs. The ad guarantees relief and cures with a ten dollar bottle and free trial bottles offered.
A vintage advertisement urges parents to use Scott's Emulsion to help undernourished children grow stronger, eat better, sleep sounder, and play more. The ad claims the product boosts physical development and invites readers to request a free sample via mail order from Scott & Down.
A garbled paragraph mentions bowel health, testing, and remedies with scattered names and places. The readable bits cite Little Marly Rivers, Green Depauw, and Bivins & Rhodes, but details are unclear and no coherent event or result is stated.
A cluttered ad section touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for digestion, Foley’s Honey and Tar for coughs, One Minute Cough Cure for coughs and croup, Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for chest pains, and Dr Caldwell’s Syrup as a pediatric remedy. Testimonials credit relief to these preparations while local merchants Bivins Rhodes, Sharrar Mulholland, and Monarch Oil feature in the sales copy amid claims of immediacy and safety.
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