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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1888
Page
7
An old advertisement promotes W Huckabee seed house and catalog requests while pushing Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional treatment. The text claims cure for various ailments and offers testimonials and a money back guarantee.
Carlin Patti, niece of the famed singer Adelina Patti, returns to America to visit her aunt at a house on Ursuline Street. The Picayune portrays the young woman describing touring with Patti, life at Craig-y-Now in Wales, and the opulent surroundings of the castle, while noting that Carlin plans no stage return and will be her aunt’s companion and student.
The Washington Post quotes a humorous exchange as a clerk offers a red necktie to match a customer’s nose after being asked for blue. The banter highlights quick wit over fashion.
A rambling vignette describes a cheap lodging house where beds collapse into a single and four doubles, a lunatic resident named Hoziog prowls the room, and other boarders include a cough drop vender, a clock fixer, a paper salvager, and a beggar. The proprietor boasts the place runs on a tight nickel economy with improvised breakfasts for five cents per person.
Putte hi Writhing discusses the high value of written contracts to avoid litigation. He urges obtaining written guarantees for major transactions, signatures on memoranda for large orders, and written terms for hiring salesmen to prevent jury sympathy for the underdog.
A crowd filled a White House reception when Sir Edward Thornton and Lord George Montague tried to enter the Blue Room with the general throng. A duty officer blocked them, who are you, gentlemen, and reminded them they are but two small grasshoppers.
A town church member reported a contentious exchange over a religious subscription paper, joking that he could offer 65 and fool in. The world is said to be "giving 10 and fool in," as the scene noted in Cloucester reports a new spot emerging.
Reports from Montreal to Atlanta discuss Greabey smallpox, J M Wilson suspension for $21,000 missing, 1505 building permits in DC totaling $5,907,000, Wakefield mine rock burst with $4,009 gain, and tariff session plans. Also notes on railroads, engineers, a New York rider, and medicinal ads about Dr. Pierce products.
An OCR laden page promotes Balvation Oil and Hulls Cough Syrup at 25 cents, alongside masthead claims of North American union and annexation dreams. Also advertised are throat remedies, corseted fashion notes, and a free sample offer from a New York physician, highlighting patent medicines and topical tonics amid the era’s broad imperial ambitions.
Fragmentary lines imitate a lullaby rhythm. The speaker recalls names such as Casbotia Castoria Ming Castoria and Castoria in a nostalgic incoherent sequence about a child and later generations. The passage presents a playful, nonsensical reminiscence without clear context or events.
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