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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1905
Page
2
A late 1905 Alma issue comments on postal savings, forest fire losses, and forestry policy. It notes adhesive stamps for deposits, warns against extravagance, and urges forest preservation. It remarks on Spain's decline, town physicians’ duties, regional crop prospects, frosts harming fruit, and spraying benefits for orchard yields.
A fragmented report cites variable crop conditions across Michigan. It details wheat marketed totals of 14,08 and 408 bushels at mills and elevators, with regional breakdowns. corn planting delays loom and may shift to beans. oats and barley sowing figures are unclear. potato planting and harvest prospects remain uncertain amid late-season work.
About eighty five attendees gathered in St Louis for the Pattengill Keonlon tennis event. The rainy evening saw hearty handshakes, old songs, and a supper hosted by the Estes. Readings and business letters followed, with nine new officers elected for the coming year and a gold watch awarded to Mr Pattengill’s long-time secretary and treasurer Lewis Marvin.
The Gold and Silver Working Palace on Wheels is a 72 foot long advertising car built for Pawnee Bill. It carries a chef two assistants three waiters and a porter under a car manager with a palatial mobile office. The car features steam powered paste production and modern appliances for on site promotion. Also promotes Woan's Ointment claiming instant relief for itching piles at 25 cents.
Incomplete murmured note explains why part of the week’s news did not appear in the Record due to delayed correspondence. The excerpt mentions Celery King and a “great blood vitalizer” with a price reference, reflecting period advertising language.
A vivid narrative excerpt depicts Lot fleeing Sodom as divine judgment looms. The city’s prosperity masks moral decay while messengers warn of destruction. Lot confronts drunken crowds and his family’s defiance before he hurries to warn his daughters and escape into the night. The scene merges biblical dialogue with urban bravado and looming catastrophe.
Mrs Byron Lewis died last Thursday at her daughter's home after a long illness. She is survived by her husband and one daughter. The funeral was held at her home with services conducted by Bey Caywool of the FM chunk. The interment occurred in Reiverside cemetery. The Lewises had early ties to Apouria and were well known in the community.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a guaranteed cure for piles and a political assembly with garbled names and strings. The readable bits show unclear references to an assembly, a lane, a pins a pepecatann gli, and stray letters without concrete facts or dates.
The scene shifts to Lot in turmoil as he contemplates his duty and the fate of the city. A grave inner struggle erupts over leaving his family to the judgment to come, and the weight of responsibility presses on him as he recalls his past failings and fears for the innocent. He laments that they will not heed his warning and wonders how to save them.
A fragment notes a Michigan reader in Iminy City recommending Pine Cough syrup after a long cough lasting about May. The writer cites trying many cough medicines with little success and mentions relief only after using a neighboring remedy.
In Moolay varkiis and related cases, petitions for administrators and guardians were filed with hearings scheduled on June 2 and July 1. Debts and commissions were noted for Bradford, David Bruniel, Celin Pollasky, and Helin Bargis estates, with claims sent and adjudicated and several hearings adjourned indefinitely.
A claim asserts deafness may be cured only by constitutional treatment, detailing how inflammation of the Eustachian tube and mucous membrane issues cause deafness. The text warns that once the drum or ear structure is damaged, deafness becomes permanent, and asserts high cure rates with the method.
A noisy historical OCR fragment lists multiple names and places, referencing Wing Wy allel, Hayesau, Ashley Viena, Dan't F Weaver, Fouda, Prank G. Ruee land, St. Holcomy, Keane, Tom M Wise, and others. The text hints at dates, locations, and transactions but remains largely unreadable.
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