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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1891
Page
6
A bizarre item reports a new plant species at the Botanical Garden that traps and drinks animals in pitcher shaped vessels, with sharp thorns forcing frogs and insects to drown. It notes feeding habits, habitat in a green house, and the curious, deadly design of the vessels.
A jumble of clipped anecdotes describes real estate schemes in San Francisco promising sixteen favored lots to “knowing persons,” a nervous first trip on a rattling English railway, a guard’s calm reply to a daring traveler, a rancher’s hotel room mishap with an improvised lamp, and a blunt farewell sermon about love and money.
The Zurich Dispatch notes a congressman’s remark about a man from his state who lived two years in the Alps collecting spiders. He left a 28 000 specimen collection, labels, and even two volumes explaining his obsession. The tale portrays a spider crank amid gold dressed Sumatra women.
A desert romance unfolds from a telegraph station near Yuma where a railroad agent and operator fall in love after a feverish period of hot days and wire chats. The nurse on a train becomes the beloved partner, the pair reveal a comic misunderstanding about boots, and they wed with the Southern Pacific losing one operator while gaining a groom.
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