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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1907
Page
3
An old advertisement promotes Dr Shoop remedies for kidney pains and back ache. The copy urges readers to try products claiming to relieve kidney issues and restore health despite garbled wording. It highlights a supposed success with a recommended remedy.
An Ohio Farmer writer argues hogs need warmer quarters in cold weather as test breeds grow thinner hair with improved pork production. The piece covers winter housing, rope handling for vicious hogs, winter pruning, cow carding, and a tarantula incident ending in a fatal shooting at a mine camp reported by the San Francisco Examiner.
In London Clubland a strict rule forbids addressing a member without a ceremonious introduction. A newly joined member violated this in a Pall Mall conservatory by remarking on the weather to a stranger. The recipient hissed a sharp reply and the offender retreated, awaiting further decorum advice.
A fragment urges readers to save half of their fuel bill and mentions A. W. Brock & Co as the source of the suggestion. The note is brief and lacks further details or context.
Aunt Judith Wellman arrives from Indiana and tells Minnie Henderson’s family a swift marriage is needed with Joel Davis. Minnie, 20, and Joel, 27, have dated three years but Joel is shy, while Judith schemes to spur a decisive proposal and wedding soon.
A verbose advertisement in an old newspaper touts Dr Filerce and a "Golden Medical Discovery" claiming universal medical endorsement. It describes benefits from Golden Seal root and allied ingredients for stomach and liver ailments and mentions promotional items like Pleasant Pellets and a free “Common Sense Medical Adviser.”
The corn root worm is described as pale greenish and nearly uniform in color, about a fifth of an inch long, with larvae four tenths of an inch. It ranges from Nova Scotia to Nebraska, injuring corn mainly in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio, and Missouri. It feeds on pollen, damages tassels, and may cause partial fertilization loss. control relies on crop rotation and keeping soil fertility high via manures and fertilizers to bolster plant resilience.
A published diagram shows a harness adjustment to curb a kicking horse. A heavy strap from the KICKING PREVENTED collar runs under the flank to a ring, with a rope M attached to hind straps to restrain kicking. Worn gradually, the method aims to permit walking while preventing kicks for easier driving. Also notes hog cholera in Nebraska and fruit shipping boxes improving yields over turrets and dealers.
A vintage advertisement page promotes Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets and Dr Colwell Egyptian Pile Cure with a money back guarantee. It touts Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar for coughs and colds, sold by Chas Rhodes, urging bowel evacuation as the best cold cure and featuring various tonic products and remedies for indigestion headaches and renewed vigor.
A period advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a scientific wonder curing piles, burns, sores, ulcers, cuts, and more. It favors Sharrar drugstore prices and claims of rapid healing, while recommending Foley and Kennedy cough syrups for lung and cold issues. It also promotes Pine resins medicine Pineles and Dean's Regulars for digestive relief, plus teachers contract books at the Record office.
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