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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1887
Page
3
An OCR damaged collage of verse fragments traces lovers, poets, and vision across shadowed landscapes. It invokes renewal, forgiveness, and transcendence through mythic figures, marble imagery, and ritual imagery, ending with a fading plea for heavenly illumination.
The arrival of Cousin Mary disrupts the household with a dramatic entry, a trunk up the stairs, and a tense search for legitimacy. The narrator’s family grapples with Aunt Mary’s American accent, hidden histories, and concerns over trust, amid telegrams and a failed first impression.
A Chicago dispatch reports Morphiamania, a morphia addiction outbreak, spreading through France. Bellevue Hospital has opened a specialized unit to study the disease and treat victims, with cushioned rooms and careful observation. Women and doctors are among the hardest hit as morphia use grows despite advances in treatment.
A church mouse in a White Plains Methodist church disrupts a prayer session. During Brother Platt's prayer, the creature crawls from a pew, misjudges a joke, tangles with Brother Jackman’s trousers, and is fatally crushed. The scene ends with the mouse dead in the snow and the gathering dissolved.
Washington Letter notes Mrs Cleveland explaining she speaks only her mother tongue and gently rebukes attempts to speak foreign languages in the White House. Mme Romero, wife of the Mexican minister, and Mme De Strave, wife of the Russian minister, are cited praising or criticizing language use by American social guests.
A fragmented text deflates claims of cure for Bright's disease and other kidney ailments. It critiques doctors who deny incurability while profiting from elixirs. Advertisements praise Warner's Safe Cure and Pardee Rheumatic Remedy with testimonials from workers and factory foremen.
A French surgeon Dr. Datousquet-Labordiere grafted frog skin and human flesh to a worker with a large foot burn. Four strips from a thigh and four from a frog covered an eight by four inch area. Wounds healed quickly, frog skin proved soft and elastic, human grafts slightly stiff and irritable, patient resumed work.
In a playful exchange, a husband and wife debate New Year gifts. She teases a silver sard-tray and a bronze Hercules for math, plus a Russian table roll near her dressing case, while he jestingly promises a new shaving brush causing light conflict.
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