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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1897
Page
3
An aged London press item misprinted as Sir Robert Peel and companions shooting peasants in Ireland. The true passage used the words friends and peasants, and the quip mocks sensational misprints of the era while promoting a skin remedy.
The 6t. James Gazette notes Westminster Hall has remained shut to visitors since dynamite explosions 31 years ago and urges ending police presence to permit free entry. Mentions One Minute to Wil the time to decide from personal experience that One Minute Cough Cure lives up to its name. Authors W H Rennels of St. Louis and B S Webb of Alma listed.
The Detroit Free Press highlights Mic Philley's standout figure and a $3,000,000 figure as part of a notable display, noting the impressive performance and significance in the profile.
Warning against catarrh ointments containing mercury and urging prescriptions from reputable physicians. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney Toledo contains no mercury and is taken internally. Genuine Hall's Catarrh Cure sold by druggists. price per bottle.
agitation for wide tires spreads from the LA. W. to Peoria where the council orders all wheeled vehicles on streets after January 1, 1906 to use tires at least 2 1/4 inches wide. Cleveland follows with a similar ordinance as reformers push the issue forward.
An advertisement urges quick action against a lingering cough to prevent lung illness. It promotes One Minute Cough Cure from W H Rennels of St Louis and B S Webb of Alma as a preventative remedy. It frames coughing as a threat to lung health and positions the product as a safeguard.
A curious fact notes it is impossible to move the eye while looking at its reflection. The eye, though highly movable, seems fixed when one tries to observe its motion. Hence a person’s expression before a mirror differs from the one seen by friends.
The first session of the new Congress begins with the Dingley tariff bill under consideration. The measure aims to raise revenue and protect industries, while seeking reciprocity with foreign markets. Debate centers on wool, lumber, sugar duties, and the balance between protection and moderation.
Byron Ferris of Athens dies at 64. Grass fire damages Morton cemetery trees and monuments. Erwin E. Wellot Macomb named First Assistant Chemist in Washington at 1500. Michael Eliuth of Owosso missing. owns home and nearby farm. Calhoun wheat and clover survive winter in green April-like condition. Jackson County shifts senior aldermen to Board of Supervisors. Parkville Moore Park mail route extended to Mendon from March 14. Only eight attend Michigan Good Roads League meeting in Lansing. Tramps loot Cass and Van Buren country schoolhouses. Mrs T N Winehell of Downgrade injures throat in grief. Duplex Printing Press wins U S Court of Appeals suit. injunctions dissolved. New soldiers monument dedication planned. funds due. Michigan health board lists polio, enteric, bronchopneumonia, tonsillitis. diphtheria at thirty, scarlet fever thirty, typhoid seventeen. I L Darvis of Benton Harbor elected, bought defunct Jayne plant, to publish Benton Harbor Times April 1. Manistee Planning Mill Company files incorporation with 40 capital. Lilly panelion plant moves to Lilly for capacity 40 workers.
A violent Friday night brawl near Menton Harbor involved Hatfield and Kreiger. Hatfield reportedly swung an iron cuspidar, wounding Kreiger’s healer, while Prettyman wounded a woman with a knife. Both Prettyman and Hatfield were arrested.
A fragmented ad-like note claims that Dandrui forms when glands weaken and baldness follows. It touts bball's Hair Renewer as the best preventive against hair loss.
A housewife boasting culinary skill probes her husband Willie about a mince pie he ate, noting he has had three pieces. She jokes she cannot judge its quality until tomorrow morning, recalling a past mince pie that pleased her yet failed to make her dream.
The text notes the cat as the most graceful domestic animal and the duck as the most awkward bird, then abruptly cites Indiana factories employing 124,849 people with an output of 224,425,0b9. It blends whimsical opinions with numeric production data, though the latter appears garbled.
The message stresses immediate fire suppression and prompt use of Ayers Sarenparilia for blood illness. Delay in either emergency or medical treatment increases danger to sight and life. The ad counsels choosing Ayers for cure and warns against alternatives.
The W C T U column praises temperance work and sisterly influence at fairs and expositions. It notes efforts to curb alcohol, defend Sabbath observance, promote women’s rights, and protect women and girls. It outlines affiliated groups including Woman’s Temperance Publication Association and related publishing house run by women.
The Union Signal official organ leads temperance propaganda worldwide with sister groups Young Women and Young Crusader promoting L T L ideals. The Temperance Hospital opened in May, moving from Cottage Grove to Diversey avenue in Chicago, offering better facilities and sanitary care for workers.
A sales pitch asserts a tired stomach signals disease and touts the Shaker Digestive Cordial as a remedy. It claims restory the stomach muscle restores digestion, promises nourishment with no work by diseased organs, offers test bottles for 10 cents, and cites Laxol ia as the children’s medicine doctors recommend instead of Castor oil.
The text glimpses a transition from private life to fame as the world watches. It mentions a turn toward public recognition and city life, with a note that life changed as notoriety grew and attention intensified.
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