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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1896
Page
2
Community items recount visits travels and routines with names like Mrs Payior and Hetty and references to a pay at a night bar room. Mentions of political party activity and local figures, plus a potpourri of household notes and health promotion for Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Herbert King attends University of Michigan to study certain topics. Hass Ketan of Ovid visits 1. I. Covert and Remeber Mastodon minstrels. Rogers and son return from Tym Lake after four weeks of fishing. County teachers’ association meets Friday and Saturday November 6 and 7 at Wompell with Rev. Lynd delivering the evening address. Thomas’ Electric Oil praised for cures. Local notes and advertisements.
Local society notes mention Fred Carey and his wife at the home of Sir Halvert and Miss Ane Jewett of Saginaw visiting relatives. The item references a four week heating trip north woods and a change in a local store ownership. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is touted as a cure for chronic ailments.
Fragmentary OCR records show a community shift in healing efforts with names like Wie Weak finding Det and Alvin, plus mentions of Lars Lavin OU Acker and Catherine Weldhest. The text references Newark, Pine River, St Louis, and local property or allotment notes. Several figures appear, including numbers and monetary sums, but specifics are unreadable.
Fragmentary notices list transfers between Nathan Heyer and Mary Fisher and other pairs, with references to parcels in Alma and Marcellas Welling. A lingering ad touts Dean's Ointment promising cure for “night's horrid plague” and lasting relief.
The section records community updates including retirements, school events, encampment reports, and travel notes. It mentions Mrs. BAL Throgg retiring, Miles Meath, B. J. Monnet and Ralph Pettit in Battle Creek, Delia Burden traveling to Springfield Mass, and Adeline Pee visiting, plus various local social and church activities. The piece notes many residents in and around Ithaca Sparta and LaClair, with travel by Ann Arbor train and references to sermons, sales, and fundraisers.
Union veteran and survivor group announces next state encampment to be held in St Louis with visiting officers and executive committee members named. The event aims to unite members, with officers and guests from several states listed, including Capt. Gen. Mead and others.
An old style health advertisement urges keeping blood pure through nourishing foods and mood balance. It touts Mood's Sar saparinla and Uood's Ville as post dinner aids, claiming to prevent distress, fatigue, and headaches amid overwork.
A man recounts falling through an open register into a narrow heating pipe while inspecting a display. He describes the cramped, hot crawl, the chaotic scatter of tools, and a perilous exit by kicking the pipe open to reach the cellar below. He ends by noting he gained no prize and even added his own tools to the mess.
A torn, garbled note discusses the Pyemmid Liege pyramid ritual and a medical state following its assent. The piece mentions two to three days of distress after initial action, with worsening on day two and gradual recovery by day three, plus a stray remark about a split point pen.
A historical discussion outlines neuralgia causes from nerve compression to systemic factors like malaria and arsenic. It notes varied attack patterns and cautions on treatments from local applications to quinine and morphine, stressing rest and nutrition. The dialogue recalls Miss Sim ons and Mrs Flat commenting on Theodore Thomas’s prominence in a Boston Commercial Bulletin edition.
Prolonged nervous derangement harms brain and mental powers and can cause heart complications. The account notes a case treated with Dr Miles Nervine and hints at a personal note from a writer dated December 1.
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