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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1892
Page
6
The piece discusses creating a fire coroner office in Pennsylvania to determine causes of fires, cites coal oil safety, and notes varied oddities from oblique economic and social observations. It also mentions Marl borough's late resident leaving $3165, and broad, eclectic reflections on governance, roads, and public funds.
David Cook a noted publisher of Sunday school literature was born in Kent Worcester New York in 1650 and rose from teaching in local schools to founding missions after Chicago’s 1871 fire. He launched Liverybody's Mission in a German beer hall and theater and built North Avenue Mission Take View Mission Lake View Union Schools and Grace Sunday School Elgin while expanding publications for his own and others schools.
A collage of notes on inventions, curiosities, and odd facts. Silk milla and electric Gatling guns. ancient actors with metal mouthpieces. a method for artificial mica. Japan persimmon groves. stockings’ origins. tiger values. an Indian electric plant claim. Grandin’s Paris to St Petersburg journey. a massive steel railcar built in Manchester for a Mexican railway. Napoleon’s travel chaise at Metz. a Bannockburn anecdote with a Scottish reply about damping spirits. rosin weed as a compass plant with multiple regional names.
Criefs from abroad describe Juan Fernandez Island with about 60 inhabitants tending cattle. The Uriah isles total under 1,090 islands. Pineapple cultivation in the Bahamas yields high profits. A new sugarcane variety from Upper Nigeria is large and productive and bears seeds for propagation. Berlin reports 40,900 unoccupied dwellings and a housing shortage tied to national gloom.
A physician advocates singing as a preventive practice against consumption. The article notes curious claims about tithe, oxen in water, and various plant figures, then advises that knives stay rust free if wiped with sweet oil and wrapped in tissue paper.
A lively, if quirky, chronicle of sailors crossing the equator aboard a U.S. warship. Neptune, Aphrodite, and a royal court stage mock ceremony with shaving, ducking, and diploma conferral. The event reproduces a traditional line-crossing ritual with humorous nautical pageantry.
An old West talker recounts a wild prospecting yarn about striking a pure salt vein and an out of control vinegar spring. A trove of other frontier tales follows, ending with a quip about printer Faseli and dinner. The piece mixes tall tale flavor with rugged frontier imagery.
A garbled collage of dialogue scenes shows characters in humorous exchanges. Bits mention leaving a lecture platform, a suit of wool, mislaid theater tickets, a theology student turned to the stage, a dying old wheel of something, and a joke about a lodging porter dying from fresh air.
A child recounts a daytime train ride with a kind stranger and siblings sharing seats. The boy, watching a woman and two youngsters pass, finds comfort as a gentle exchange leads to a calm ride. The grandmotherly figure helps settle Tim into bed and he falls asleep shortly after.
The passage reports eccentric beliefs and practices from various eras and places, noting a man who bathes his toga in river moisture at John the Baptist's feast, townsfolk with melting butter on their heels, and widespread use of clay and earth as medicine or sustenance. It references Sir Samuel Argoll's journal, explorers in the Rio Negro, and tribes in Central America and Germany, coloring the narrative with speculative antiquarian anecdotes.
A mixed bag of brief items: a theft discovery in Liberty County yields about 9000 in Prenah Cain. a Japanese laundry proclaims low washing prices. A Philadelphia woman's club comments on male sincerity and appetite. A Lebanon Pa bet involves a wasp and a hornet fighting to the death, both dying within minutes.
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