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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1902
Page
4
Detroit based Dr G A Munch promotes cure all ailments with five diplomas and free consultation. He lists diseases from catarrh to sexual disorders and private illnesses, offers pay when cured, and notes appearances at hotels in St Louis Alma and Detroit with dates in May.
St Joseph April 24 The postmaster at Barn Corners Allegan county reports postal notices from Washington bar the mails to Lizzie Coffee a bridal candidate claiming 60 000 cash and a congenial partner. Investigators find she has one husband and no money beyond daily visitors and that mail fraud operated for two years drawing letters from across the United States and abroad. She left Michigan for unknown parts with a farmhand and her husband in Grand Rapids remarried. Four hundred proposals remain at the village post office.
London November 1914 British War Secretary Broderick told a London banquet that Boers were concealing their tracks by murder and that Lord Kitchener reported natives slain by the thousands. He claimed 0 Howrs in custody in camps and on islands with about 10,000 Boers in the field as the country braces for further mobilization.
Washington April 2 The river and harbor bill passed the senate without amendments after the house approval. It authorizes the secretary of war to contract up to 125000 for a new cut from Kalamazoo river to Lake Michigan at Saugatuck and increases Grand river improvement funds from 125000 to 140000. Also notes Ward family financial ties and a horse sale for the British army in South Africa. Includes a woman’s cautions about whooping cough remedies and Chamberlain's Cough Reweds anecdote.
The sixty-sixth Semi-Annual Teacher’s Association of the county promises a strong program with Dr. Leonard, president of the State Normal, delivering the evening lecture. Commissioners Lightfoot Townsend Graham and others will speak, with county examiners and over a dozen teachers on the agenda. The event includes a full schedule of talks and demonstrations and adjourns with Friday and Saturday sessions featuring papers on reading, arithmetic, and psychology.
The criminal calendar is incomplete and no chancery cases read for trial. Jurors excused until next Monday the 18th. Some chancery business will be attended to this week. People v Hawkins continued. People v Coon burgarly continued. People v Wiles burglary charged. People v Boyer uttering forged instruments. People v Rock polygamy pleaded not guilty. People v Schemerhorn indecency pleaded guilty. John Walls furnishing liquor to a minor pleaded guilty with fine. People v Butler larceny pleaded guilty. Luke Sawyer and James Woolston cases noted. Phebe Bell Hakes v Village trespass verdict. James Spear v William Naldrett continued. Naldrett v Elizabeth Creat appeal settled. Elizabeth Ornt v George Stambaugh trespass set. Herrietta Willard v Village Alma trespass settled.
A letter from 4 little Sumner girls to their teacher recounts a cross country trip from Seatrice Washington to Port Townsend Seattle Chicago and Oregon passing landmarks such as Des Moines river Council Bluffs the Dells of Oregon and the Columbia River with notes on mud bridges tunnels and a ferry ride, concluding with a sight of wild towers at Lake Washington.
Mrs Ellen Harrison of 500 Park Ave Kansas City Missouri writes about her two children suffering a severe bout of whooping cough One child fainted and nosebleed occurred They tried many remedies before calling a family doctor He prescribed Foleys Honey and Tar and the children improved after the first dose She warns to refuse substitutes Sharrar and Mulholland.
An old time ad sheet extols Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a universal healer for ulcers scalds burns and skin diseases. It also promotes other remedies including DeWitt's pills Folsy's Kidney Cure and various tonics. The piece ends with a cynical quip about whiskey and moral virtue.
An old advertisement claims Foley’s Honey and Tar cures pneumonia by stopping coughing, strengthening lungs, and preventing attacks when taken promptly. It cites sham substitutes and labor routines as common causes of illness fueling work absence.
A resident of Gerasutown, Gal says he suffered sciatic rheumatism for fourteen years and found relief after using Chamberlain's Pain Ball. He reports immediate relief and a cure, with no recurrence since. The product is sold by Bivins & Rhodes.
A cashier from East St. Louis testifies after twenty years of constipation relief from Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. He praises the medicine as the finest for stomach troubles and notes sales by Sharrar & Mulholland in Monticello Illinois. A brides marriage certificate is mentioned as a separate line.
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