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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1905
Page
7
A jumble of church schedules and fraternal orders appears, listing morning services at several churches with varied times, evenings, prayer meetings, and Sunday schools. The page also details lodge meetings for Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, G.A.R., and other societies, specifying meeting nights and officers.
A fragment describes throat inflammation and persistent coughing. The narrator notes temporary relief after taking a cough mixture, then continues with more coughing and irritation. The piece reads like a promotional or advertorial snippet of late 19th or early 20th century medicinal text.
An advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion as a cure for cold symptoms sore throat cough and bronchitis claiming it reduces irritation drives out inflammation nourishes weakened tissues and strengthens the body with a free sample offer including the promise of sample mailing to readers.
SCOTT & BOWNE advertises a folder with industrial openings along the Chicago and North Western line. It lists factory sites and extensions of the railway, urging manufacturers to apply for details from W. H. Guerin in Detroit. Also notes travel discounts and excursions to western cities and Montana, plus cheap old papers at the Record office and map price reductions.
Mrs Foland and Mrs McKinnon are sick while Hithe Clinkey is very ill. Mrs Ad Johnstone improves as Geo Young and wife visit Rathbone relatives. Mrs H L Sullivan returns after a week with Mrs D Sackwood. John Richards and wife leave Caro after weeks away. Geo Young to Monard City for steam shovel work. Mr Low of Stinton returns after visit with Mrs D J Ervey and others soliciting Dayton firm orders. Ritch weighmaster and Murphy foreman at St Louis Sugar weigh station. Alma Sugar Company retains same staff as last year. Dr A J Ervey and wife host sister and family from Fosco county. Alice Berry of Redstone visits town. Rad Allen installs furnace. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve advertised for skin and scalp ailments.
Arcada district residents report Mrs Fed Clark remains at a low point. Nellie Sheler works for Mrs A Roberts. Orrin Hailey and Dolph Peck visited Pleasant Valley for Gleaner lodge last Saturday evening. Mrs Will Birmingham’s Wisconsin relatives visit. Ray Birmingham and wife returned from their honeymoon and settled in. Miss Mabel Barnhill works for Jasper Nevin. Henry Daymon returned from Titian last Thursday with a wife and child. Mr and Mrs D Birmingham moved to a new home. Holdy and wife visited Saginaw last Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Frank Allen called on J C Vernan at his home Sunday. Mr and Mrs Henry Plier spent Sunday at Del Perey it Alia. Mr and Mrs Jason Carmer visited daughter Mrs Bert Ampden of Ithjaca Sunday. Grandia Saxton newly returned from care. Miss Mabel Shegrani surprised by 25 friends at her Summer birthday party. Prizes awarded to Miss Peat Lindsay and Miss Lena Havens. Hostess received a gold brooch. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea advertised by Chas Rhodes.
George Ray and wife visited her sister Sunday. Cottage meeting with Mr and Mrs B Kelley Sunday. Prayer meeting with Ther Jon Kressf next Saturday evening. Mrs Anna Kress visited Mrs I And rews of Bim Hall last Friday. Maud Mull of Belding visiting relatives here. George Dalrymple and family of El well visited Calvin Hanes Sunday. Leo Gee bought a home for his wife whom he married in Mr Pleasant a short time ago. Olive and Mrs Maury Dalrymple of Arcada were at N B Collins last week. Mrs George Ray returned from Alma after a week staying for Lerbaly foot operation by Dr Brtinent.
Robert Greenings begins a new addition to his house while George Chamberland, visiting his daughter Mrs. Lewis David, stays in Montcalm county. J L Fidler and family visited their uncle John Street of Breckenridge last Sunday as Street recovers from illness. Fred Randell is on the wick list and Henry Bittner is constructing a new cellar.
Walter Harrison Jesse Flint Augusta Marger Chas Robbins and Peter Klees visited Riverdale on business Saturday. Local calls included Rev K J Whalen from Carson City to parishioners last week, Mrs Laura Harvey of Wheatle and Mrs John Harvey of Sumner at Mrs J M Osterhout’s home. Walter Soles of Eaton Rapids visited relatives. Dr Kirker of Grams Rapids called on neighbors Friday. Mrs Mary Gregory and son Clarence of McBrides spent Sunday with Nick and Anthony Brooker. Gordon Stewns, recently in Montana, is back in the neighborhood for a short time. If you lack time to exercise, Dean's Regulats help bowel action without griping. Ask your druggist.
A historical remark stresses kidney vulnerability with quotes from Dr. Abernethy. The note mentions Foley's cure as a remedy and attributes the statement to Geo. F. Sharrar, reflecting period medical beliefs about kidney treatment.
See trouble often ends fatally, but by eling the right medicine, is i. Wolfe, of Bear Grove, Iowa, cheater death. He says, 'Two years ago I hail kidney trouble, which caused me great int, suffering and anxiety, but T took Electric Bitters, which effected a com plete cure. T have also found them of great benefit in general debility and nerve, troble, and keep them constantly on hand since, as I find they have no equal.' Gov. HE, Sharrer, dreggist, guarantees then at poc. A few books of teachers' contracts at the Record office at a moderate price. School directors should remember this.
Mrs. Owen Donn of Bouton Ferry West Virginia recounts years of kidney and bladder trouble waking her twelve times nightly. She reports relief after using Foley's Kidney Care and notes she was cured after trying the bottle. George E. Slarrar is mentioned in the testimonial.
Mrs. Will Burgess visited sister Mrs. Will Godfrey at Grange Heights on Sunday while West Arbor team aided in degree work at Pleasant Valley Saturday night. Mrs. Alvin Miller recovering from illness. Mrs. D. J. Sharrie visited friends in Ithaca. Morse School enrolls fourteen pupils. note mentions Foley's tones and Tar for cough but unclear.
Hilsinger and family visited friends in Saginaw Sumlay and Monday. Claw Wiley attended Mr Pleasant Sunday. Fidwit Tester and family visited Mrs. Lester's mother, Mrs. P. I. Hilsinger, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Stafford visited their daughter, Mrs. John Vier, over Sunday. Mrs. Moisés left Monday for her home in Roscommon.
The piece argues climate has little effect on curing consumption and emphasizes home care with proper diet and German Syrup. It asserts free morning expectoration and better sleep from regular use, warns of dangers of confinement to illness, and promotes Herrmann Syrup as a universal remedy available in regular and smaller bottles at druggists.
OCR reads a string of property and witness fragments listing Jolie, W Johnson, Jacob Sizubte, Wels, Lees 20, and various others. The legible items reference transfers or claims, with names like Hiadly W Newton Pleita Ulla Beville Rite Vaerwe and Walter Swope, plus Robert McMillen to Charles Isham, all in unclear section notes and not enough for full details.
Erie Life Saving Billion captain and eight crewmen were towed into port after sixteen hours on Lake Erie without sleep or food following a bogus distress call from North East Pennsylvania. The party faced a thirty five mile per hour gale as they searched before learning no vessel was in distress since last Friday’s wreck. The hoax call is under investigation.
In Chicago a damage suit over the 1909 Iroquois Theater fire proceeds in federal court before Judge Landis. Eden Hunter, badly injured, seeks $25,000 from the water company and George A. Fuller Construction. The opening statement cites missing firepipes, unmarked exits, no sprinklers, and inadequate extinguishing planes.
Sr. Marcello Massarenti, who sold his famed art collection to Henry Walters of Baltimore, Md., died at age 88. He resided in the Vatican and was a noted figure. Massarenti aided Pope Pius IX’s flight to Gaeta during Rome’s 1849 republic crisis led by Mazzini and Garibaldi.
Secretary of the interior withdraws 25 000 acres from entry in Miles City Montana land district for the Ekalaka irrigation project. Strikes widen as 28 000 workers join in Leda Russia with martial law sought. Convicted killer Dy Alexander Green sentenced to life for the May 1 1900 murder of Mrs Elin Tippin in Worton. W H Harroth found guilty in Missouri for forging 700 000 dollars in bills of lading and faces five years in prison. Forgeries tied to Burlington and Quincy railroa line elements previously involved.
Read the six Morse Schools of Telegraphy display ad claiming men or women can easily learn telegraphy and secure a position, offering a path for self reliance and family support through a trade.
A Columbus Ohio man Theodore Sehnele recounts a deep foot wound from an accident that physicians could not heal. Hucklen's Arnica Salve is praised for quick relief and healing described as magical. Available for 95 cents at Geo FE Sharrar's drug store.
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