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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1888
Page
3
A serialized tale blends autumn imagery with a family curse from the Lynn line. Morton selucidly swindles love, Zorah curses the Lynn house, and a river bridge disaster tests survival as Ethel races to signal a train. The tale concludes with a claim that the Lynn line fades into the Carrington line through fate and coincidence.
In Moerecco a dull gold ring holds a moonlit opal with a red heart stain. Ethel wears it, the band refusing to budge despite soap. Aunt Ellen warns of a cursed fate linked to a verse about Zorah Delmaine, a gypsy girl, and a doomed Life for Morton's.
A Marianna Florida Alliance report notes rumors that a town in Alabama quarantined itself to delay collectors and buy time to raise funds. The pattern involved allowing the grip-sack figure to take a cut once enough money was collected to cover liabilities.
An in-depth Paris profile of M. Deibler, the king of the guillotine, detailing his routine at La Roquette Prison, the machine he operates, and his reflections on capital punishment. The article covers his background, installation duties, and his views on death, memory, and law. It notes his resignation and salary, plus mentions the Abbe Faure and a discussion of methods of execution and the moral questions surrounding them.
A local account describes the Blacksnakes as dangerous predators feeding on live prey including birds and small mammals. It recounts a five foot snake found guarding a fledgling song sparrow, and a large black snake near an orchard nest. The piece questions reports of man-eating snakes and clarifies that no verified cases exist of snakes entering humans.
A fragile youthful cat dominates the scene as a playful muse in a poetic nursery mood. The youngest cat moves through rooms, drawing reactions from a painterly household and shaping the mood with lively mischief and charm.
A New York reporter interviews the president of leading light companies on car bon production. Two thirds of the daily 150 tons are made in Cleveland in twenty carbon furnaces. Boston once produced all carbons in one room six years ago. Carbons are derived from oil residues and natural gas deposits. Current price is 27 dollars per thousand with anticipated hikes.
A St Louis reporter quotes a cavalry major describing long experience chasing plains Indians. He notes how mounts, supply, and endurance shaped campaigns, the Kiowas and Cheyennes, winter marches, and the hard fate of troopers amid storms and fatigue, with lingering respect for tribes and the combat prowess observed.
Mrs Blood greets the colonel returning from a duel and learns he has killed a valuable mule from an adjoining lot. He laments the need to pay for the animal as a consequence of the confrontation.
At Baldwin works four soda fueled locomotives nearing completion will be stopped in two weeks for shipment to Minneapolis where steam engines are banned on city streets. Copper boilers hold five tons of dampened soda, producing heat to drive steam. after six hours saturation, a superheated steam purge restores operation. Built under German engineer George Kuehler, these engines match New York elevated rail power and aim to run in tunnels like the St Gothard, where ventilation limits steam use.
A vivid description follows a woman in native attire, decorated with silver pins and bracelets to attract men in a ceremonial setting. The observer notes her artificial darkening, jewelry, and posture as she sits by a spruce log near fires, then moves to an old tent. The scene captures cultural display and unfamiliar courtship rituals observed during an evening gathering.
In a swampland afternoon near a pond a man struck a muskrat with a pole. The wounded rodent cried out and drew others from the dam as five muskrats with open mouths charged in anger. They chased him briefly and he fled, later returning to find the pole gone and the area quiet. He believes the struck muskrat was not severely hurt.
Henry Dees in Chicago News describes Tennyson’s method as mechanical. He claims the poet crafts a personal alphabet of rhymes and then places the manufactured line first, using the second word to bear the meaning, as seen in Locksley Hall.
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