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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1906
Page
3
WyeatWocealixy, led by officers including Capital, Surplus, and Cashier Lalas, seeks deposits with interest. The notice mentions safety, financial terms, and related commitments, urging customers to entrust funds.
Graham and Morton line advertises steamship and rail connections between Holland, Ottawa Beach, Grand Rapids, and Chicago. Timings show daily departures from Chicago at 9 am and 5 pm, with ferry legs to Holland Rapids and connections via interurban car and P. M. train. Fares listed include 1.50 to Holland Rapids and 2.00 to Grand Rapids, highlighting a direct route.
Daily passenger service between Benton Harbor and Chicago with Teave St. Joseph departures at 7 30 a m and 10 30 p m and Chicago departures at 6 30 a m and 11 20 p m plus 12 30 noon. Berth rates 750 for upper 2 00 for lower 1 75 for stateroom.
Germain Piano Co announces the 18th annual Ohio excursion by Ann Arbor Railroad. Mis Antal Olio Excursion departs Wednesday in October with return valid until October 1. Round trip to Toledo priced at 4.94 with lower rates to other rail points. services include Wheeling & Lake Erie, Wabash, Ohio Central Lines, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Detroit Toledo Ironton, and others. Agent contact for travel details. Also a pharmaceutical ad for Kodol Digestive Aid follows.
Pub patron claims a money back guarantee on Dr Colwell’s Egyptian Pile Cure for piles. Seller CHAS RHOADES promises full refund if not satisfied.
Endorsements from medical writers back Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets for chronic ailments. A lettered extract promotes a book of eminent medical authorities and a 1008 page Common Sense Medical Adviser. Send 21 cents postage for mail cost and a cloth-bound copy.
James S. Sherman as campaign chairman calls Republicans to fund a nationwide effort with one dollar subscriptions. The plan centers Theodore Roosevelt as a key figure and requests support for a Republican Congress through subscriptions and distribution of campaign texts and committee documents from New York mailing address.
A dated dairy column discusses balanced rations and water content in butter, noting admissible water limits and adulteration rules. It covers cow breeding, progressive quality improvements, feeding practices, and warnings about poor genetics and overworked cows. References to J. Th. Detrich and local sources appear amid advice on feeding and milk quality.
The piece argues that dairy profits depend on actual milk yield rather than pedigree. It cites butter prices and cow yields from 325 to 490 pounds, showing values of 30 to 50 dollars. It urges farmers to evaluate cows by output, pay for high-yield stock, and cull cows under 300 pounds of butter.
Ice house not only serves dairy farms as a cheap practical adjunct but also stores ice for dairy and household use. The dairy division of the Bureau of Animal Industry offers guidance on specifications and assistance for such buildings. The article also notes a monthly honor roll letter from a cheese factory inviting patrons to report cow performance, highlighting test averages and herd data.
A fragmentary note discusses separators and dairy processing myths, then shifts to calf care. It warns about deceptive practices in separators and emphasizes humane calf management. Calves need clean airy housing, regular water, access to salt, and daily grass or green content in measured portions with feeding intervals.
Biography of John J. Pershing detailing his West Point education service under Chaffee and Miles in Indian campaigns teaching military science at the State University of Nebraska his Philippine service in Mindanao and Jolo his diplomatic tactics with Moros including capturing forts without battle and being named datto by the Sultan of Sulu. He later joined the general staff in Washington and was promoted to brigadier general and married Hele Frances Warren of Wyoming.
Mil e Manche Allarty, a Paris native who has spent much of her life in Tangier, arrives in New York as the country’s only female camel trainer. She is famed in Paris as the queen of camels and performs with the camel ar med Sirdar, a gift from a dowert chieftain years ago, traveling thousands of miles with her herd.
An example Kidney health article explains kidneys filter blood every three minutes and remove about 600 grains of impure matter daily. It cites Mrs. D B Perky of Lincoln Street praising Doan's Kidney Pills for back pain relief after a long kidney ailment and notes Foster Milburn Co Buffalo as US agents with price 50 cents.
Annual low rate round trip excursion via Pere Marquette on Thursday October 25 1906. Tickets good to return through Monday October 29 1904. Ask agents for train times. H F Moeller GPA.
Tekonsha Michigan resident G. J. Welsh reports using Ducklen's Arttia Salve for his family’s cuts sores and skin injuries and finds it perfect. Advert enters claim of fastest care and best heating salve with price two cents at Sharrar's drug store.
An old advertisement claims Blood Poisoning stems from chronic constipation and can be cured quickly by Dr Kings New Life Pills. It asserts the pills remove poisonous germs, refresh the system, cure sour stomach nausea headache dizziness and colic without griping. Priced 25 cents and guaranteed by Geo Shorrar, druggist.
One way second class colonist rates to points in the West Northwest and California. Ask agents for particulars. Tickets on sale every day until October 1906.
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