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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1889
Page
3
A vivid portrait of how lawmakers and judges spend leisure hours with whist poker, fowling, fishing, and hunting. Senators Frye, Kenna, Beck, Platt, Gorman, and Cameron among others are noted for cabins, boats, beagles, and rugged outdoor pursuits.
A San Francisco tale recalls Henry Root who under Crocker’s Market Street cable enterprise built patents on the road’s devices. Paid a modest salary, he refused Denver, then faced retrenchment and sued for rightful compensation. He forged patents in his own name and later capitalized on extensions, turning a fortune.
Aiim's ruler faces secessionist pressure as a new monarch is foretold to ascend the Throne on the eighth moon of the year. A Kuangtung merchant, long resident in Sism anil, was sent to Gantoe to purchase rosewood cabinets and embroideries worth 10,100 tacts, and presented with carved Soarae praising the King as favored by Heaven.
A long collage of patent medicines, notes on rheumatic plasters, and various shouty claims. Mentions Emperor William joining Goethe Society, a San Francisco Chinese doctor income, a Warsaw land dispute ending by arbitration, and a Connecticut veteran pensioner. Also references lottery luck, a railroad dream, and local restaurant proprietors.
The Sukkur Lansdowne bridge over the Indus features a main span of 820 feet, with three additional spans of 278 238 and 94 feet. Completed stages ran from 1849 to 1853 under engineer Sir A M Rendel, built by Wortwood and Baillie, costing 128800 pounds to carry the Indian State Railway over the Indus.
A New York Weekly note cites science recognizing a condition called tintoxication by radiation with many cases where victims appeared drunk without touching alcohol, simply by being in the company of drinkers.
The advertisement touts Hibbard’s Rheumatic and Liver Pills as scientifically compounded and safe for both adults and children. It claims to ease sick headache constipation dyspepsia billousness and act as an appetizer while promising no equal in care, despite an odd digression about a calf with ears.
Report notes Salvation Oil as a remedy to frostbite with a claimed two day cure. Mentions druggists and a product named Porsalent. References local figures De Witt Talmaine receiving pay for lecture and active political preparations for an upcoming campaign. Includes greeting about De Hulls Cough Syrup and general confidence.
An old advertisement lists Castoria as a remedy for children and notes a challenge to prove Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure catarrh. The text mentions Toledo Ohio publishers Cheney Co and claims a reward for a vase of catarrh cured, with broken phrases about literature and politics interwoven.
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