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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1906
Page
7
Real estate notice offers farms of 40 60 and 80 acres near Alma with fair buildings. Prices start at 36 dollars per acre. Office opposite the hotel invites buyers to call and visit the listings.
An old patent remedy ad touts evacuating the bowels as the best way to cure a cold. Kennefly's Laxative Honey and Tar is claimed to clear the head, relieve coughs, and strengthen bronchial tubes. Sold by Chas Rhodes.
An advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a scientific wonder curing piles for K. R. Mulford and healing burns, sores, ulcers, cuts, and chilblains. It claims endorsements and lists outlets Sharrar's drug store and Geo. E. Bunreet for related products. The copy also mocks competitor ads and promotes a King’s Diablet product for indigestion.
An assortment of medicinal ads tout coughing remedies and tonics including Foley's Honey and Tar and Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar for colds and lung ailments. Other products promise blood purification and house renovation benefits, with vendors Geo Sharrar Chas Rhodes promoting various preparations.
A historic medical advertise note touts a “strongest, cheapest miniment” electric oil as a household remedy in America for over 25 years, credited to Dr Thomas. The fragment emphasizes powerful pain relief and long market presence.
A vintage ad notes Hollister’s ocky Mountain Tea as a remedy for young ones, promising health benefits. It advertises the product at 35 cents and mentions tea or babe lets, with Rhodes cited.
The article extols courage and decisive action, contrasting stubborn hesitation with the reach for opportunity. It cites John Wanamaker delivering goods by wheelbarrow, collecting proceeds, and turning small sums into success, urging readers to back their convictions with effort and energy.
In Fergus a widow named Allen schemes to ruin George French, a young storekeeper she fears will marry him to gain control. Facing ruin, French contemplates burning the store for insurance but is halted when his bookkeeper Jennie Warder, secretly faithful, reveals her loyalties and helps him out of the plot, preserving the business and their future.
A reader recalls Rachel stepping onto Raelhe’s Phere with dignified grace and magnetic presence. The description highlights her long oval face, black wavy hair, arched brows, and intense eyes, conveying astonishment and strong expectancy from the performance.
Horn's Photographic Studio announces a holiday offer giving every customer seated before November fifteenth three extra photos with each dozen prints. The promotion invites early orders to ensure timely service and proper handling of the order.
Battle Greek plans to host the state teachers association annual meeting at the Tabernacle Sanitarium and other venues. A full program is set, half fare rates are arranged, and attendance is expected to break records as schools permit teachers to attend without pay loss under the institute law.
A long excerpt from dairy era commentary highlights a Holstein cow earning well above average local wages, with claims of high daily milk value and efficient feeding. It discusses herd strategies focused on top producers, plus testimonials praising Jersey, Ayrshire, and Holstein lines and noting notable milk and butter records from The Nebraska station and other sources.
One way second class colonist rates to the West Northwest and California. Ask agents for particulars. Tickets on sale daily until October 6 1904.
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