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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1906
Page
7
An odd trading post style note touts Kennedy's Laxative Honey as a cure for coughs congestion and cold. It claims to clear bowels and relieve allergies with a sweeping list of symptoms and multiple misplaced proper nouns.
A long promotional blur lists Buckley’s Amica Salve curing piles and burns, Foley’s Honey and Tar preventing pneumonia, Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar, Bee’s Laxative Honey and Tar from pine-derived tar, Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, and Dr Thomas liniment. Advertisements tout cures, prices, and store names like Geo. Sharrar and C. Rhodes, with generic claims of remedies for coughs, colds, and aches.
A.Trlvols experimental station circular details records of two cows Rose and Queen. Rose, bought for 50 dollars as a four year old, produced 260 pounds of butter fat plus 73 526 pounds of skim milk over sixteen years, with seven calves. Queen produced 1 062 pounds of butter in six years. Rose averaged 448 pounds of butter per year. Queen 177. The article argues many cows like Queen drain resources while producing little value, urging culling of underperformers.
A United States Department of Agriculture official urges dairymen to maintain daily milk yield logs and fat tests for each cow. He notes records should include productive history and descriptions, with composite sampling to obtain accurate averages.
The piece urges dairy farmers to stop small leaks that erode earnings, blaming get rich quick thinking and poor preparation. It covers feed quality, hay handling, milk room cleanliness, cemented floors, proper milk buckets, and the importance of attractive packaging to sell value.
A short piece explains that profit hinges on an easy going cow and a well arranged barn. It emphasizes comfort for the animal as the key to profitability and steady farm routines.
Miss Hattie Shefflin, a thirty eight year old spinster with a reforming zeal, journeys to New York to aid a downtrodden man. She guides a hungry former tin horn to a fresh start, but the plan ends in violence as he robs and ties her. The once well meaning philanthropist becomes a furious old maid after the assault.
An antiquated text fragment discusses purification rites aimed at cleansing defilement. It references Avesta secrecy, holy water sprinklings, and ceremonial detail to banish impurity, noting Lucian’s mockery of Magi rituals and Pythagorean cleansing during life.
A bronze statue of Pocahontas will be erected on Jamestown Island to honor her role in early Virginia. The project, supported by the Pocahontas Memorial Association, has raised funds and aims to place four bas relief tablets depicting key scenes from her life. Willan Ordway Partridge is to sculpt the statue with an October Jamestown pilgrimage planned for site selection.
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