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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1903
Page
7
A vintage advertisement promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as strengthening digestive organs to transform foods into nourishing blood for nerves muscles and organs. It touts improved digestion, blood quality, and overall vitality. Also praised is a Bitter tonic claimed to build the system and purify the blood.
A testimonial ad extols Paine's Celery Compound as a cure for nervous debility and general weakness. It claims the tonic purifies blood and strengthens nerves, restoring energy after failed treatments. Aanned testimonials praise recovery from back pains and long illness.
A speaker urges farmers to move south to work outdoors year round. Alabama and Florida are cited as cheaper beef and sheep producers. The piece discusses stock feeding, land use, and opportunities in fish farming and native crops like velvet hemp and cassava. It invites readers to seek further information.
Grace Winthrop and Gladys Darrell clash over two unsigned letters from a secret book, while Gladys frets over an engagement and a possible match with Harry Lamar. Grace confronts Gladys about honesty, and Lamar clears a misread telephone message, exposing mistrust and motive in a small town social web.
In a tense scene, Grace discovers a letter to Gladys Durrell that exposes Jim Lamar’s evolving feelings. Lamar notes the letter’s source and suggests the revelation might have brought Grace and Gladys closer as friends, while Jim seeks reassurance from Grace and awkwardly expresses gratitude with a kiss.
Port Huron Michigan July 13 Lewis Gretur intoxicated during the night lost his life in an early morning wager swim across the Black River. Tirefor and Jai Faulkner drank together and stripped to race. Gretur was seized by a cramp and drowned. Faulkner swam to shore. No rescue was attempted and witnesses recall the tragedy.
Morris of Mich was found dead in his bed at 640 last evening while resting after feeling ill all day. The prominent citizen had been overseeing a new house under construction. The coroner reports heart disease as the cause.
July 14. W F Bernie was seriously injured when his horse was startled by an automobile and dragged into a ditch. The buggy was torn and wrecked in the incident.
Mrs Alice Miller of Morgan Texas recounts a six year battle with severe diarrhoea. After trials and substantial expense without relief she tried Chamberlain's Colic Diarrhoea Remedy and reports complete improvement. Her account credits the remedy with ending her agony and permanent cure.
It is exceptional to find a family without domestic ruptures but these can be lessened by Dr. King’s New Lie Bills. They ease stomach and liver troubles and are sold for 25 cents at Sharrar & Mulholland’s drug store.
An advertisement promotes Humphreys Witch Hazel Oil as a permanent cure for piles or hemorrhoids including external internal blind and bleeding types with immediate relief. It urges samples mailed free and lists price and ordering details from Mutphreye Medi Co at William and John Streets New York.
Nervous debility and prostration from overwork described as the condition treated by Humphreys Homeopathic Specific No 28 a remedy used over 40 years advertised at one dollar per vial and eight dollars for a special package with purchase through a druggist or prepaid mail order from William and John Sta Alma Michigan B S Weber.
A testimonial touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a cure for heart trouble caused by indigestion. It claims most heart disease is linked to digestive issues, and that the product digests all food to relieve stomach strain and heart stress. The ad features a Nevela Ohio man and a $1.99 bottle price, prepared by DeWitt & Co. Chicago.
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