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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1909
Page
2
A vintage advertisement touts Dispepsin as a remedy that digests food when the stomach cannot. It claims meals will taste better and all food will digest, avoiding fermentation, gas, belching, and discomfort, promising rapid stomach health with a 50 cent case sold by druggists.
Forest Hill and Alma visitors share time at Mr. Austins. Clarence Wildey and Truxton of Ewart visit part of the week. Five farm households ship goods from Ohio to the area. John Lanshaw welcomes a son born March 5. Neighbors honor Ernest and family with a party. the couple plan move to Alma. Mrs. Packard’s sister visits from Lake County. BE Wells on sick list. Sanford Sharlow returns from the west. Avustins and Clyde Austin travel to Lake George for work. Mrs. Daniels of Hastings visits Henry Cohoon’s niece and attends services Sunday.
Ned Edwards spent Sunday with his uncle Mr Maurer of Merrill. Mrs Ed Payne and mother Mrs Geo Buck returned from Petoskey. Bila Wilkinson visited daughter Mrs John Kernon Ithaca. Misses Francis and May Edwarts visited Fanny and Mary Grover St Louis. Lloyd White family visited Archie Hamp St Louis. Vanderbeck Mills Speagas opened sugar bash. Millett and Mewitt May City visiting David Wilkinson. Millett nephew of Mr Wilkinson. H J White and son visited Alma. Harry Hawley of Detroit visited his sister Mrs James Mills.
Mrs Ida Soper of Big Pond Pennsylvania recounts a near death experience from a long standing illness. She claims Dr Kings New Discovery cured her after other remedies failed and asserts twelve years of freedom from trouble. The ad touts relief for coughs colds bronchial ailments and offers a trial bottle with guarantee by C F Brown.
Congress scheduled a special session to revise the tariff amid a heated national fight between wets and dries. Michigan counties including Allegan and Washtenaw edge toward dry or wet outcomes, with major cities like Jackson and Flint pivotal. university politics in Ann Arbor also divide. Meanwhile local items report a man found shot dead near Saginaw, wages for women in Wayne County, and other state news.
An ad touts Scott's Emulsion as a restorative food for appetite loss and undernourishment. It claims the product lifts burdens when food is hard to eat and helps digestion, presenting cod liver oil as a health aid for all ages.
A brief item notes Mrs Eliza Smith came home Saturday after a four week visit with her brother in Edmore. Several local residents are mentioned visiting relatives, including Mr and Mrs Henry Fuller in Alma and Mr Kate Church in Alma. A card party at Chris Youngs’ home Friday night ended with lunch and cheerful times.
A physician recommends a cheap home treatment for coughs, colds, bronchitis, and asthma. Mix one can of Targol with one ounce of kerosene and take five to ten drops on the tongue every two or three hours for immediate, lasting relief.
An old sea bean allegedly saved a sailor from cannibals after a shipwreck. The rare specimen, cherished by South Sea tribes for luck and love, was given to Mr. Leak of Stanislaus County after a grateful sailor recovered. Leak keeps it as a watch charm and reports no bad luck since receiving it.
It saved his leg, Swenson writes from Watertown Wisconsin. Ten years of vevema and 15 doctors failed, then Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him sound and well. It is praised for skin eruptions, revema salt rheum boils fever sores burns and cuts, advertised at C F Brown's.
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