Republican Caucus to nominate village ticket in Alma
Alma notes a Republican caucus will meet in Poliusky building on Monday night March 7 1885 to nominate a village ticket and handle other business. The column discusses McKinley’s conservative stance in Cuba Spain and the Maine disaster, tariff debates, Dingley law effects, and shifting cotton mill statistics, with reference to political strategies for 1900 and silver debate. Wheat prices and market reactions are also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poliusky Building
Village Ticket
Oxpex Com
R. B. Moble
Alma
Will Kimball
Riverdale
John Greig
Edwin Langin
Mr. Tinkhaim
Dave Hoxerhyde
Grand Rapids
Wm. Henry
St. Louis
Klondike
Fred Burleson
Melee, Smart & Co
Saginaw
Vandermark
James Benner
Dave Woodward
Allegan County
M. C. Lathrop
Wilkinson
Musselman Grocery Co
Madison Patterson
C.E. Going
J. B. Adams
Viva
Leo Going
St. Charles
Somers Coal Co
Keys
Euterpe Club Evening Studying Gounod in Alma
The Euterpe Club met Tuesday March 1 at Miss Bertha Stevens home under O E Scott with a program drawn from Gounod. Items included Ave Maria and a sacred tenor solo with violin obligato, plus duets and reminiscences on Gounod in Italy and Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euterpe Club
Bertha Stevens
Charles Francois Gounod
O. E. Scott
Gounod
Steves
McLaren
Merere
Beckner
A. Sherp
Salo Vorsaprann
Nicoud
Moige
Italy
Germany
Scott Uo Forte
Brveces
Niele
A. W. Beckner
Printer in Owosso trusts Hood's Sarsaparilla for health
G A Hildreth of 116 South Shiawassee street Owosso Michigan dated March 2 1898 states that he once a well known printer now a telegraph operator depends on Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify his flood in the spring and build him up for summer He says it cured him of dyspepsia and the grip and made him a healthy man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owosso, Mich
G. A. Hildreth
Shiawassee ‘Street
Hood
Great Oaks From Little Acorns Grow Ad Warn Ad
Warning about kidney trouble and disease growth from small beginning urges care. Promotes Dr J H McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm as a cure for kidney weakness. Claims trial convinces its potency. Price one dollar per bottle. For sale by B W Warn.
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J. H. McLean
Allen's Foot-Ease Promises Quick Relief for Feet
An old style advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder to soothe painful swollen feet and bunions, claim fast sting relief and comfort in tight or new shoes, with trial package offered and mail order available from Le Roy New York.
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Allen
Allen 3
le Roy
N.Y
The Colored Brother and the Southern Tenant
A critical portrait of the African American tenant and Southern landlord relations. The piece argues that many farmers rely on and enable a seasonal gregarious life, noting the tenant’s caprice, the landlord’s risk, and cycles of work and social gatherings. It likens the American negro to ancestral roots and stresses the social and economic tensions of tenancy.
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Lippincott
Woman's Soprano Voice and the Scientist Who Found It
German born Mia Hintna Seiler studied anatomy after losing her voice to discover why women reach high head tones while men cannot. She identified two wedge shaped cartilages near the larynx as key to the highest human tones. Her work, praised by her physician brother, is housed in the American Philosophical Society. She authored The Voice in Singing and The Voice in Speaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mia
Hintna Seiler
Wurtzburg
Len
Seiler
American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia
The Tame Fawn and the Close Escape of an Old Dame
A Badminton Magazine tale warns that a fawn makes a pleasant pet only briefly. A roe deer follows children through an old castle and its rooms. As the animal grows, its horns turn dangerous and a tame buck nearly drives an old woman into the Crinan canal during a close encounter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Badminton Magazine
Duntroon
Crinan Canal
Parrot Diseases Hit Ports In Early 1900s Outbreaks
In Genoa a bronabial pneumonia form linked to parrots, vaicotosis, caused 14 cases with eight deaths from a single import of two Brazilian parrots. The health board warned against harboring parrots at harbor. In Berlin a veterinary study of 174 sick parrots found four with tuberculosis, noting heredity and voyage stress worsen the disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genoa
Berlin
Europe
Queer Funeral Mass Shifts Toward Marsaillane Grave
A Vincennes, France funeral featured polkas and maxurkas before a Marsellaine procession at the grave. The deceased lived 60 years and left orders observed in a quiet ceremony. In New England, cultivated land has shrunk from 11,350,000 to 10,740,000 acres over two decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes
France
Lew Enaland
New England
Local Advertisements and Coupons Offer Wholesale Goods
The printed notice catalogs drug, millinery, hardware, dry goods, clothing, and groceries with coupons on cash sales. It lists Bivins & Rhodes, Alma Mercantile Co., Win Wilson, Messinger & Co., J. M. Nichols, Chas. Grooms, and others, offering Atlas Checks and various consumer items at discount with purchases and coupons.
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McKinley
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de Lome
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Murphy
Crouker
Smith
New Jersey
Justice Parker
New York
Bryan, Bailey
HOFAU
Chicago
C. BE. 5
Mich
F. E. Pollasky’s
Model Shoe House
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Rand McNally’s
Universal Atlas
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Alma - Mich
J. M. Montigel
INES
Lana
Oliver Chilled
Rusell & Co
Andrew B. Spinney
Ion Alt
Keoney
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Wright House
Osu
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