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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1906
Page
8
A student asks how grafting started and Senator Sorghum quips that Adam in Eden was a grafter, noting the mythic origin of grafting. A collage of 1920s ad snippets and quotes follows, including patent medicine pitches and a Persian proverb about two races in one empire.
The text traces the history of human dissection from ancient Alexandria with Galen through Bologna's revival by Madonna Manzeling and Vesalius, noting mob attacks on anatomists and 18th century grave robbing fears. It ends with a playful stanza about triplets named William Willie and Bill and a mountain tea anecdote.
The Record emphasizes a limited time subscription deal offering Woman's Home Companion Review of Reviews and the Cosmopolitan for 3.00 now, with total value 6.00. Readers urged to act quickly as the promotion may be withdrawn anytime and requires advance payment.
A fragmented ad style note touts Dr Humphreys Specifics as the sole remedy for LaGrippe and related ailments. It claims the 77 system covers all diseases from infancy to old age, promising comfort from its use and mentioning baby colic and feeble seniors.
Church groups meet Tuesday through next week with speakers and topics on music and literature. Alma Art Club plans a music day with quotes. The Woman's Club gathers Monday at 2 45. Regular services at Preal church Sunday. Ladies' Aid invited to Presbyterian day out on Tuesday January 23. Sunday evening program at Baptist church. Presbyterian supper January 25 at six with missions offering. Local ads promote remedies and felon treatment devices.
A Philadelphia Press snippet records a tramp reading an advertisement for table board and a reply at a back door. Mise Starvem questions the tramp about his intent as he notes the notice in the morning paper.
Ray Chatfield visited friends at the college over Sunday. Officers were installed in Zeta Sigma and Phi Phi Alpha with Howard Potter and others named. The basketball team to play Mt Pleasant, Morey chapel talks continue, and local oratorical contest plans unfold. Mrs Holiday of Arcada dies after long illness. funeral held at Ithaca with Alma friends attending.
A miscellany of sea lore and quips recounts how lowering bottles into deep water chilled champagne but left only salt water due to pressure. A brief medical ad touts Dr Thomas selectric Oil. An 1821 Vienna hospital deathbed scene ends with a joking soldier’s punchline about eight bullets.
A mishmash of clipped phrases and old notices appears, including remedy pitches, a pharmacy ad, street chatter, and a probate notice. The garbled text references Stanard's Central Dry Store, a medical tonic, and a January 1906 county affidavit requiring creditors to present claims by May. It also mentions Molly, Twaddles, and Joss in chipped dialogues.
A Leslie's Weekly excerpt describes hotel staff wages from linen room workers earning twenty dollars for two months with room and board to parlor maids earning around eighteen dollars plus tips. It outlines duties of chambermaids cleaners and scrub workers, notes social hierarchy among staff, and mentions a New York hotel permitting early morning access to staff dining for tea and a light lunch as a perk.
Concord Kentucky man B F Leek reports 20 years of agonizing upper lip sore pain preventing eating. After futile remedies he healed it with Bucklen’s Amica Salve bought at Geo E Sharrar’s drug store, praised for burns cuts and wounds.
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