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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1899
Page
7
The report details November revenue receipts totaling 22 cost, with monthly breakdowns showing various taxes and charges increasing or decreasing for the year. It also notes a train collision near West Is nersuin on the Lehigh Valley line causing casualties and damage, including four deaths and seven injuries, with cascading wreckage and halted services.
A chaotic array of notes reports diplomatic uproar over Philippines policy, US actions, and European tensions. Mentions Admiral Dawes, Miloe troops, and naval support, plus railway disruptions, public notices, and a crime bank missing $2,000 linking local fears to wider conflicts.
In a period advertisement a sick man laments lost energy and reveals how the Golden Medical Discovery from Dr. Pierce of Buffalo, a renowned nutrition specialist, restored his health after trying various tonics. The copy touts Torpid liver and constipation relief through Dr Pierce’s Pills and Pellets and warns against inferior substitutes.
A paltry garbled report claims Bailey Decker colored was electrocuted at Sing Sing for jealousy over his young white wife. The piece mentions current timing and a supposed Electric Gas of America filing articles of incorporation, but the text is largely unreadable and incoherent.
Scattered items report ongoing military strain, shipping disruptions, and cabinet notes. Mentions Count Lyall Telstar and various officials, with references to theater, ministers, and planned troop movements and medical remedies amid postwar adjustments.
A severe eastern rail crash near Belleville involved a freight collision and a rear-end fire that destroyed five cars and damaged several others. In Pittsburgh a hotel blaze was halted by heroism of R. Thompson who rescued five people from flames, property losses around £15,000.
Reports say convicts John Hubbard from Monteaia County and Charles Tracy of Kalamazoo joined Jenna Hence of Lapeer in a jail break from the Tonia prison. They allegedly used hospital ward confinement to dig through walls and earth, tunneling to the corridor and breaching the outer wall in a bid to flee.
A historical notice extols Mother's Friend as a preparation for childbirth, claiming it makes the experience virtually painless and suggesting expectant mothers should begin using it months in advance for the impending ordeal. Prominent in a period article, it frames childbirth as a manageable event with this product.
About two hundred farmers gathered at a halfway house near Mt Clemens to hear Prof. Smith of Michigan Agricultural College and Supt. Metz discuss beet culture. They outlined plans for a factory to near the Butler farm outside Hearts, owned by A. T. Fisher of Detroit. Support already pledged in Huron and Warren counties. remaining funds expected to follow with little trouble.
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