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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1898
Page
3
A historical patent medicine advertisement touts a cure for chronic dyspepsia and nervous complaints. It claims Dr Miles remedies, sold by druggists with a money back guarantee, and provides the company address for purchase.
Fragmented text urges quitting tobacco forever and life fullness, referencing Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York. The garbled lines suggest a quack style ad for a remedy claiming health restoration and vitality.
The article argues for Dr. Couden and Dr. Milburn filling chaplain roles in Congress, highlighting the appeal of two blind pastors in national welfare. It notes divisions among Ruh members over prayer practices and cites Wheelmen opinions on pavement types. A side pamphlet includes jokes about public figures and a tease about a Miloost foreign change.
A curious deer case from Michigan reports a hornless buck weighing about 150 pounds. Hunters followed its trail, noting the lack of horns despite its age, a rarity cited among American and European deer records.
Feath reading, discussed in England, enters fashionable circles as a new belief. The selene is in its infancy, yet several claimed indicators include long narrow teeth implying a grasping disposition, whitel molars, uneven overlaps, and wide set ivories signaling a known character. False teeth are said to mask a reader's truth.
A Rush County couple’s tale of divorce, separation, and remarriage unfolds as the wife, living in Muncie, reconnects with James Scott after years apart. A chance window encounter sparked a flirtation, leading to renewed vows and a new life in Muncie.
A newspaper reports a staged poker trick where a Texas man passes, then reveals four aces amid four men from Buffalo. The exchange shows the crowd surprised as the stranger asserts the bluff and seeks proof of a past encounter with thieves, ending with a boastful claim and party banter.
A long description chronicles Evelyn Leal, an Englishwoman who posed as a widow of an English nobleman to marry wealthy men across provinces. She received jewelry gifts on day one and two, then stole them on day three, repeating the scheme with new victims. The fraud extended to French authorities for surveillance and possible custody.
The article describes gruesome Mexican mummies in Guanajuato with catacombs showing modern mummies and rental tomb spaces. It notes eviction of corpses after lease expiry and the damp underground chamber where evicted remains mummify or bones merge into a vast pile.
A brief tale shows an owl perched on a branch idly observing while a squirrel gathers nuts and stores them. Winter arrives with cold and snow. the squirrel remains fat and the owl, unbothered, continues to do nothing. The squirrel mocks the owl, doubting the owl’s provident nature due to its feathers.
A fable style scene depicts a blue jay observing an owl seize a fat squirrel. The owl returns to its perch and appears wiser, prompting the jay to ponder whether prudence, wisdom, or luck leads to fortune.
A dazzling new trapeze act features a young performer hurled head first through a paper target by a crossbow string, then swung to safety by a partner on a trapeze. The act, praised in the Boston Advertiser, wows spectators with a graceful arc and daring landing, ending in a soft landing into cushions.
An article in a leading Paris daily cites a correspondent debating who killed Lord Nelson at Trafalgar. Jules Clapell cites Guillemard, a sergeant who described firing the shot from the Victory while amid dying sailors, a claim linked to Toulon origins and delayed recognition.
An excerpt discusses coon dogs and their mid September revival as practical, then shifts to Rossia reducing the Turkish war indemnity payments. It notes 1878 obligation of 2a 0 per year for 100 years, 1908 offer of 160 010, and now the pledge to pay nothing while stretching the settlement over 400 years, with speculation that Turkic empire liquidation will fare poorly.
In a cloudy dispute at a coastal site, a constable faced a tense stand as a game event ended with a hen taken fairly during the race. Witnesses and a church peer offered cautious testimony, but full detection remained elusive. The incident stirred debate among locals about the contest’s integrity and safety.
Fragmentary text reports swelled markets in Stockholm with swede supply concerns and health claims. It cites mortality statistics on consumption among colored races in southern cities, alongside advertisements for patent medicines and tobacco cures.
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