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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1903
Page
3
For over thirty years Chamberlains Cough Remedy has been standard in croup treatment with millions of bottles used and no reported failed cures. Given at earliest sign of hoarseness or croupy cough it prevents attacks, is pleasant, contains no opium, and is safe for babies and adults. Sold by Bivens Roads.
Schedule notice for steamers and trains departing Holland and Ottaye daily with return trips to Chicmro. Connects via Marquette Ry and routes through Central and Rivers Michien area. Fare listed as 4.30 dollars with daily service and connections at Uttais Hosch.
Travel agency catalogs low rates from St Louis and nearby cities to southern and southeastern destinations. Tickets are for round trips with dates in May and June. Timetables, folders, and literature advertised. emphasis on affordable fares through key routes in the region.
Warden Fuller and Alfred Locke for the state and F W Green with John Thwaites for Ypsilanti Reed Chair Co drew up a contract to supply all Ionia prison labor at 60 cents per day. The deal will go before the board and a Ypsilanti factory may begin operations. Fuller indicated arrangements with the Wallerstein Co may continue via private agreement and the state would resist canceling or disrupting it in court if needed. A separate note mentions a woodchopper attributing forests to blue jays planting seeds in Arizona pines and a pine nut discovery in the pines near an eastern visitor.
An old advertisement extols De Witt’s Little Early Risers as a perfect remedy to cleanse the system, stimulate liver action, clear the bile, cure headaches, and leave a wood taste, touting their pleasant and effective work as superior to other pills. Bo Moore of Lafayette, Indiana, is quoted praising the product as free from griping and sickness.
A testimonial ad for Paine's Celery Compound recounts a woman from Drain Minnesota who, after thirty years of neuralgia and rheumatism, found relief and renewed vigor using the product. She credits the remedy with restoring energy, reducing pain, and enabling her to resume substantial work.
Chicago reports Earl Ellsworth aged 24 is arrested after a police sting in which he confessed to advising his father to kill Benjamin Ellsworth and his wife. The elder Ellsworth shot them and then died, with insinuations of a conspiracy to obtain $8,000 life insurance. Two Woodstock citizens named in the plot are implicated.
Dr W P Thirkield tells Evangelical Alliance the chain gang and convict lease system fueled negro crime in the South. He cites prisons in stockades with poor sanitation and notes many convicts serve short lives and are released worse than they came. He alleges thousands escaped over time, including thieves and murderers.
Regulars engage in simulated wartime maneuvers at Camp Young West Point Kentucky. Blue rear guard delays Brown advance, two hours elapsed before Brown forces cleared the defile in a training exercise.
Manila reports the sentencing of ladrones to hangings and long terms by Judge Ho Sween. A second group operates on Panay island where attackers killed thirteen residents at Ibafay. Police forces, including Lieutenant Velasquez and thirty men, faced an attack by five hundred head hunters from Nueva Vizcaya, with two police casualties and numerous insurgent fatalities.
A Marionville Indiana woman Nellie Gray, believed alias, died suddenly at a Findlay Lake hotel. County grand jury convened to probe the case. Two physicians performed autopsy. Dr Henry Chapin of Findlay Lake was arrested.
In Atlanta on October 13 a farmer from Wilcox County applied to Governor Terre for the $150 reward for Tom Canthers captured after he was sentenced to be hanged on October 16 for the murder of Henry Bord. Canthers escaped after sentencing, and officials were astonished to learn the request came from the condemned youth’s father, who provided information leading to the son's arrest as papers are filed by the sheriff.
The Chimney Butte ranch once linked to Theodore Roosevelt and band life was sold by Northern Poettic to Ferris Brothers of Modora. Roosevelt drafted writings there before moving to the Elkorn ranch forty miles south, guiding his later mountain trips.
Detective Mrs Kate M Cleary of this city, writer of novels and short stories, has been declared insane by a jury in Judge Carter's court and ordered confined in an asylum. Her illness is linked to morphine addiction begun during a fever in 1894, which allegedly unbalanced her mind.
Washington dispatch reports Justice and Mire McKenna announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Inabn McKenna to Mr Pitts DuMeld of New York. Mr DuMeld is a son of General Monty M DuMeld of Detroit. No wedding date has been set.
White Cloud Michigan Oct 13 three local youths went hunting in a boat. Jimmie Lyons age 15 stepped ashore and turned a shotgun muzzle first to reload. The gun fired a charge struck his neck and killed him, another boy uninjured watched in shock.
Washington announces the call for an extraordinary session to convene November 9, with issuance expected around November 2. The action centers on addressing urgent national matters and vetting legislative priorities for the session.
Detroit, October 1. Stansbury, sentenced to twenty four years by Judge Phelan, was moved from the county jail to prison on Monday. He sang several songs and expressed confidence he would win a new trial.
A testimonial from Mrs WW Saylor Hillard Iowa claims Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cured her severe dyspepsia and restored appetite. The advertisement touts Kodol as natural digestive juices plus tonic and reconstructive properties that cleanse purify and sweeten the stomach. Sold by Chas G Rhodes.
A group of university freshmen pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after a class rush incident. They were fined $15 and costs, with about $50 in total expenses including legal fees. Roy Baker faced assault allegations and a police officer sustained serious injuries during the disturbance.
A Chicago man extols gold deeds over real estate as wiser investments while urging kindness and help. The piece praises Cham berlain's Cough Remedy and quotes locals about staying cheerful and avoiding pneumonia. Public health officials warn of diseases listed under a new law and urge reporting of health threats.
J C Mount of Threw Mile Bay New York drove a ten penny nail through his hand while opening a hex. He applied Chamberlain's Pain Balm and later periodically to relieve pain. The balm quickly removed the pain and soreness and aided healing. Sold by Ulvons Roades.
Shen Halladay arrested John Wallace Eddy at Gaylord Sunday. It is alleged that Eddy forged the name of a well known Ionia county farmer to a note for 145 dollars. Eddy is 21 years old and his parents are highly respected residents of Portland township in Ionia county.
The advertisement touts DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve as the only pure witch hazel remedy, claiming others are counterfeits. It mentions FE C DeWitt inventing Have Salve and asserts DeWitts Salve heals bruises tetter bleeding piles and other conditions, with Chassen as seller.
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