Humphreys Medicine: A Century of Folk Remedies Declared Effective
An old advertisement claims Humphreys Medicines have satisfied users for over 60 years. It lists numerous ailments and products such as cough syrups, vertigo relief, nervous debility, and throat cures, with prices and “sent on receipt of price.” The ad promotes free medical books and ships from New York, urging readers to request by mail.
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Ron Prive
Meetin
Quincy
Dreggteta
Humphrys’ Momeo
Alma council approves bonds and insurance and names election officials
Alma Michigan regular council meeting on March 11 1913 approves treasurer clerk and constable bonds sets insurance on City Hall by Sharrar Moore Spinney Swigart and others assigns election commissioners Spinney Johnson Goggin and inspectors Innis Schwartz Ewis Smith and Swigart authorizes auditing committee Cook Olmsted approves claims including Alma Grain and Lumber Co Hole Kiser National Meter Co and wages adjourns with Easter dinner notice by Ladies of the W R C for March 22 at five pm
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City of
Alma
J. M. Montigel
Fuller
Olmsted
Palfrey
Cook
Kehn
Fraker
Sesson
Montigel
John D.spinney
D. L. Johnson
Charles Goggin
John Innis
John F. Schwartz
John T. Ewis
P. M. Smith
Cook and
Alderman Cook
Yeas
Pulfrey
Praker
Sharrar & Moore
John Spinney
John Swigart
Francis Palmer
Kel
Nlfrey
Net
D. W. Adams
Drowned Ray Webster Revered in Lansing and Local Deaths
News from Northwest New Haven reports Ray Webster formerly of the area drowned in Lansing. Samuel Bennet died Saturday night. funeral at Spencer church Tuesday at two. M Newman injured on a cement trough with a cracked rib last Wednesday. Other local notices include moves, illnesses, visits, and social calls among residents such as Mrs Hoxie, Jeff, Maude Horton, Maggie Church, Emory Mulford, and various family visits.
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Ray Webster
Lansing
Spencer Plank
Samuel Bennet
Spencer Church
M. Newman
G. M. Easterday
Crystal
New Gas X3 Baffles Element Grouping
London reports Sir Joseph Thomson announced a new gas heavier than hydrogen and seemingly inert. The gas, provisionally named X3, does not fit current element groupings based on properties and atomic weight. Earlier discoveries of helium neon argon krypton xenon prompted a new inert-gas group.
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London
Joseph J. Thomson
Joseph Thomson
Mars Inhabited Claim Sees Harvard Professors Weigh In
Boston reports Harvard scholars dispute claims Mars hosts life. Professor Menderson supports Lowell view with reasoning on planetary atmosphere and chemistry. They cite Earthlike diameters and historic atmospheric conditions as factors potentially enabling life on Mars.
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Menderson
Harvard
Boston
Lawrence J. Uederson
Dereion Lowell
Mars
Henderson
Aly
Lowell
Earth
Speelf
Mrs as Title for All Women Urged by Chicago Suffrage League
In Chicago the No Vote No Tax league urged using Mrs as the title for all women including the unmarried. Belle Squire, president and never married, set the example with engraved cards. The group endorsed militant suffragists tactics including brick burning and window smashing.
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Chicago
Silver Joint For Monkey In San Francisco
Dr Francis Milton Clark of San Francisco fitted a pet monkey with a ball and socket silver and diamond shoulder joint after previously providing a dog with a silver joint with gem berings. An attempted theft followed the operation. G Wes Orders Still Good. Washington supreme court upholds building regulations for the capital ruling a party wall may stand on an adjacent lot but not close a bay window as a party wall.
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San Francisco
Francis Milton Clark
G. Wes
Washington
George Washington
Supreme Court
Florida and Georgia Trip Recounts a Colorful Southern Tour
Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Shepherd and daughter Miss Juno return from an extended Florida and Cuba visit, detailing stops at Jacksonville Daytona Beach and Havana. The narrative highlights old fort ruins Everglades Palm Beach and encounters with notable figures, plus Cuban cemetery customs and a graphic note on burial practices.
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V. H. Shepherd
Juno
Alma
Florida
Cuba
Nashville
Chattanooga
Michigan
Jacksonville
St.gwustind
Shell Rock
Old Town
McKinney
Bay City
Everplades
Palm Beach
Daytona
G. Tuttle
Ithaca
Cuban Travel Tales and Odd Local Habits
Mrs Shepherd relates impressions from Cuba noting yellow streets, caparisoned horses, iron shutters, and scarce glass. She observes crowded courtyards, animals in homes, chickens in restaurants, narrow streets, and unusual streetcar rules. The pair are pleased to return home to Milligan.
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Cuba
Old Milligan
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Ugashe
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Tuttle
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Osborne Tedder
H.p. International Gas Engine
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J. D. Helman
M. L. Perrigo
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