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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1896
Page
6
A scribbled collection of verses and brief quips from early American periodicals. The fragmentary text includes playful lines about bees and roses, a Lucy Mayo note in Newton Budget, a clerical exchange from the New York Tribune, and a pun on First catch your hare attributed to Mrs Glas Cook Bool, plus a Bomerville Journal quip about rheumatism.
An article extols digestion as the key to health, warning constipation as a leading cause of illness. It touts Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a gentle, positive cure, claiming relief from headaches sour stomach flatus dizziness biliousness and heartburn. A free sample offer is presented through the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo.
The article recounts a harrowing account from Detroit involving a mother and doctors, detailing a medical crisis, the trial of the patient, and public attention as efforts to cure a serious condition unfold. Names of doctors, patients, and institutions appear amid the fragmented text.
Paris faces a flood of omnibuses with ads plastered on station windows rather than vehicle panes. Conductors here set down passengers but cannot pick them up, forcing riders to wait at stations amid rail rivals and too few omnibuses. Passengers endure cold and rain while waiting for the right vehicle.
The excerpt blends literary reflections on Tennyson Thackeray Shakespeare Scott and Byron with a fragmentary note on Dakota factory employment totaling 446 workers and a patent offer report listing 600 styles of pencil wire. The text juxtaposes art, ambition and industrial activity in a rough composite portrait.
A tangled, garbled passage discusses spring needs and feelings, mentioning water, bowls, and vague events. It references greetings, teas, and pacing through ambiguity, with names and places obscured by the OCR mess. The piece reads like a damaged personal reflection rather than a clear report.
The Alpha, skippered by an unnamed crew, defeats rivals in a New Orleans Yacht Club regatta while a mysterious anonymous letter hints at intrigue. A later Philadelphia regatta features Ladybird, John L. Trewbridge listed as owner, winning by a slim margin.
A Louisville Western Recorder item describes a man praying for a good neighbor in destitution. The boy volunteers to act on the prayer, telling his father he will go to Mr. Smith's house and answer the prayer himself.
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