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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1897
Page
2
Local notes report visits and travels across Missouri towns and nearby counties. Residents including Mrs Frank Rome and Mr Bush’s party are mentioned with social calls, trips to county seats, and community events over Christmas and New Year period.
A late piece on glass innovations notes CW McLown of Lew Torn as a prolific inventor with patents in glass devices. It anticipates glass houses, glass bricks, glass clothing, glass slippers, and other translucent technologies, imagining a future where homes and wearables are built from glass and related materials.
An obscure note from Pope Pine Texas describes a person or item tied to a risky bargain. It mentions a red cloth, a solid gold chain, and strict terms not to part with the item. Details are fragmentary and unclear, with several garbled phrases surrounding the main objects.
An evocative reflection on aging and youth, contrasting the vigor of the young with the weariness of the elderly. The speaker recalls a life spent in service of future generations, acknowledging fatigue yet affirming that the world remains for the young. The poem ends with a plea for understanding between ages.
A narrator recalls opening a store, facing bankruptcy, and selling candy from a jar as coins dwindled. The piece describes failed ventures, debt collectors, and a customer’s rare appearance amid dwindling stock. The speaker laments misfortune, credits Providence, and notes repeated bill collections by a persistent creditor.
An account of a tiger encounter near Doypoora where multiple hunters track, corner, and fatally shoot a large tiger. The narrative covers the plan to fire together, the tiger’s final collapse, and the observers’ cautious retreat from a cave den with the animal’s remains and skin discussed as a trophy.
Jobo A. Wallace of Kalamazoo testifies in a cross examination piece that he suffered nine months of kidney pain and backache. He credits Doan's Kidney Pills with relief, reduced pain, and a belief in a permanent cure, urging others to try the remedy.
A fragmented 19th century piece extols Boer skill in managing oxen for wagon teams. It recalls a river crossing where oxen were realigned under a driver’s command, noting the craft, discipline, and ritual of whip and store. The text also switches to modern political satire and market chatter, mentioning a campaign, a backer, and a price bargaining scene.
Fragmentary OCR item notes a railway related detail involving Grand Rapids and Western Railroad with unclear names and dates. The readable portion suggests a transport or scheduling context but lacks complete facts for a full summary.
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