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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1892
Page
7
A short reflective verse traces cycles of toil and rest from winter to spring and summer to autumn. It frames renewal after hardship with the idea that joy follows sorrow and life leads toward a heavenly end, attributed to 4M. V. Moore.
A first person narrator recalls a moonlit duel with a past foe who reappears as a pale, unaging figure. After a fatal sword clash, the narrator awakens far from home with a scar and mystery about whether the duel was real. The second tale follows a notorious hunchback peddler in rural Pennsylvania long ago, whose disappearance and later grave discovery reveal a deadly secret.
The passage claims fashions hid deformities through inventions like hoops, long coats, and large sleeves. It cites rulers from Edward VI to Elizabeth I fashioning garments to conceal bodies, including oversized breeches, petticoats, and restricted shoe width, noting a history of extreme garments and invented garments to cover deformities.
Fragmentary OCR style note describes a Scottish boatman joke about crossing a loch with whisky. It mentions hydrophobia and hydrophadia, and a distant bore in the loch head, with a reference to the Argonaut. The text is garbled and offers a single quip rather than a full story.
A Chicago Board of Trade scene ends with a broker and a country buyer, a practical joke, and a note that hints at a marriage, drawing laughter and speculation among traders. The anonymous author is praised for wit, while the intended recipient appears puzzled by the rumor and the mind reading quip.
A New York World recipe outlines selecting a ground butcher cut steak inch to inch and a quarter thick weighing 1.5 to 2 pounds. It advises rubbing with olive oil salt and pepper, broiling quickly one minute per side, then finishing with ashes and serving with water and salt.
The article states about 24 000 clerics in the Church of England plus those in colonial and missionary fields bring the total to around 27 000. It notes count includes parish clergy and those serving in wider church roles.
A Detroit Evening News report recounts Mr C B Northrop of 7 Woodward Ave, once crippled by creeping paralysis, regaining strength after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. The piece traces back to Hamilton Ontario and Lockport New York cases and praises the pills as the source of Northrop’s dramatic recovery.
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