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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1891
Page
3
Fragmentary verse text describes dark skies and a moaning sea as a speaker laments vanished love. Phrases suggest wandering, lost guidance, and emotional struggle across a troubled landscape with repeated references to steering, driving, and aging years.
A narrator in a third story watches a distant neighbor through an alley and window. He admires a landlady kept window and a pretty girl who tends morning glories, exchanges roses, risks social norms, and contemplates love, seizing moments of chance and mutual curiosity despite risk.
In a rural setting Tina Costello and Sir Philip Darrell share a tense yet playful exchange during a village visit. Darrell reveals charm and danger as Tina’s flirtation with him unfolds amid concurrent rumors of a dangerous river weir and the arrival of a mysterious horseman.
A mother struggles with a heavy baby on a crowded Madison streetcar. A crippled young woman gives up her seat and gently takes the baby, later revealing she is the sister of a Cook County judge. The scene contrasts urban hardship with unexpected kindness amid a snowy chase scene and rifle misfortune.
A fragmented historical sketch recounts Antoinette de Bourbon disciplining young nobles by denying supper bread after their hunt through corn fields. It then shifts to musings on Hannibal Hamlin’s long public service and lists contemporaries, interwoven with odd anecdotes about an overweight Indian woman breaking a sidewalk and a street commissioner’s note to adjust her future visits.
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