Curious miscellany from Alma Record column at Westminster
A collage of notes cites Alma Record items on Westminster College students in New Wilmington Pa, underground roads in major cities, drug adulteration, taxation costs, dairy kitchen hygiene, Buddhist expansion, Wellesley blondes, Spinner signatures, warship gear, drilling tech, farming effort, and remarks on women's resilience and longevity from Mrs Hershey.
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Trent
Westminster College
New Wilmington
Nuemerous
All About Sausage Production and Varieties
An 19th century style explainer on sausage making from slaughter to casing. It describes meat preparation, mixing, seasoning, and stuffing into casings, noting pork and beef blends, tongue and brain usage, and the origin of terms like blood sausage and speckle balugoa. It cites costs and dietary limits side by side with rough processes and equipment.
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Friller
Box
Waslington
The Dykes of Holland and the Dutch Defense
Descriptive account of Holland dykes as sea barriers, their construction and maintenance. Explains deliberate Dutch engineering, use of straw mats to plug leaks, and the dry land protected by embankments. Vivid scene of dykes hosting roads, trees, and daily life with boats and farms nearby.
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Bat Eliberatien
Dirk
St. Nicholas Poem Hinting at Domestic Luck
A Mary Mayen line from St. Nicholas describes a cottage seen by smoke and a perched cart wheel on a thatched roof. The image suggests hoping a stork will nest there to bring good luck, a whimsical domestic folk motif.
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Mary Mayen
St. Nicholas
Fortunes in sandwiches emerge from a Bowery sandwich shop
A New York correspondent recounts a Bowery restaurant worker who rose from toasting tongue sandwiches to a street‑corner shop empire. By selling simple fare he built a fortune, becoming a fashionable figure despite humble origins and a tumultuous path from waiter to shopkeeper.
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New York
The
Clarinyatt Muguirer
Bia
Ili
Bowery
Walter
Cuiston
Harlem
Old Fashioned Harvesting Describes Widespread Primitive Threshing
In a Century magazine excerpt General Bidwell recounts early harvest methods in California. Teams used improvised tools from willow rods to iron scraps to thresh grain. The narrative covers long harvests, noisy threshing, and the labor of gathering and cleaning wheat in rough, improvised fashion.
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California
Bidweil
Kissing the Bible Held Unsafe by Doctors
A Philadelphia bulletin warns that kissing a public Bible can spread contagious diseases. Medical experts cite the lips’ mucous membrane as highly susceptible to infection, arguing the practice risks transmitting deadly microbes unknowingly.
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Caston
Iadelphia Hulictin
Aged Indians in Southern California Longevity Rumors
Charles Dadiy Warner cites Dr. W. A. Whaler and Dr. Palmer describing extreme ages among southern California and Baja California Indians. Photographs and anecdotes claim centenarian or supercentenarian individuals, with accounts of endurance, custom practices, and mission influence on cremation. The piece notes sensational portraits of aging and unusual daily tasks amid harsh conditions.
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California
Hhs Bancroft
de. W. A. Whaler
San Diego
EL Cajon Valley
Valle
Dixon
Palmer
Sean
Carey Ie
Hye
San Tomas
Renting Stows
Beat
Wrine
Charles Dadiy Warner
Hare Per's
Japanese Interiors and the Luxuries of Cleanliness
A fragment from a magazine overview describes Japanese homes as meticulously clean with white woodwork and minimal furniture. It highlights spotless interiors, movable panels, and the cultural emphasis on whiteness and order as defining luxury, noting entry customs and austere yet refined decor.
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Evarys
Gossiping on Mrs Stanley and Miss Tennant in London
The Indies discuss Mrs Thenry M Shanley and Mrs Tennent as they vary in beauty and character. A Mur ray Hill society leader calls Mel Stanley a solid Englishwoman, while critics note the contrast with African exploration and English beauty ideals. The piece contrasts athletic, robust women with pale beauty standards and comments on Miss Dorothy Tennant's noted looks.
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Indies
Thenry M. Shanley
Tennent
England
Mel Stanley
Murray Hill Society
Africa
Stanley
Mureray Hill
London
Dorothy Tennant
Blood and terror in Africa Told in blunt grisly detail
An alarming Chicago Tribune account recounts the cruel practice of slave capture and ritual killing in Africa. It describes captives chained and executed, with vivid scenes of severed heads and staged displays of violence to deter resistance. The piece cites ongoing tribal warfare and mass killing, highlighting humanitarian concerns.
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Jy Glave
Sherman House
Glave
Alayvka
Conzo
Stanley
Laltenee
Africa
Imam Sijeining
Villeze Netitta
Dance of The Devi in Loongi Town Africa
A West India regiment observers a ritual in Loongi near Sierra Leone. The crowd gathers in a chief’s courtyard as a “devil” figure dances with long grass attached, while women chant and men in robes watch. The scene features drums, rattles, and frenzied movements, with belief in the devil’s power and consequences for missteps.
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Loongi
Ballom
Africa
West India Regiment
Sierra Leone
Harte
Amd Giarklea
Gabonm
Afrien Ta Mohammedaw
Powers
What Constitutes a Nation
Forty millions of people on three millions of square miles do not constitute the United States of America The Greeks did not constitute Greece Americans do The nation requires self evolved laws literature language and life Lyman Abiylt in The Country
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United States
Americ
America
Bath of Rosen and Roman Bath Luxury
The bath of roses, once famed in Rome, now a cheaper luxury. Warm water is prepared with oat meal, glycerine, and two drops attar of roses to scent the bath. It softens skin and leaves perfume on the skin. The passage notes about 17,000 houses added yearly to London.
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Rome
A Youthful Escape From Idaho Robbers
Joanin Miller recalls a perilous winter journey as a youth fleeing armed robbers along snowbound trails from Lewiston to Walla Walla. He dodged a gang including Canada Joe Gad and Thad, used a canyon route to outpace them, and carried gold worth nearly ten shodeans to safety at the riverbank and into town.
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Lewiston
Mabe
Wallatila
Walla Walla
Nurobat
Dave Enyllet
Huing
Pia
Toque Helm
Linog
Metana
Olerokes Bol
Bile
Miersburg
Chis
Bin
Howe
Oli
Lave Santos
Dave Kaglish
Booa Helin
Canada
Joe
Layle Smallaix
Ani
Thad
Artiste Wedding Dress Showcases Alepainting by Friends
A wedding dress in Bronsin for a great Russian artist's daughter features regulation white satin adorned with innumerable miniature paintings, mainly allegorical, created by her father’s artist friends. The Favana Connworks wrecked and excavations vanish, a massive venture sunk to 400,000,000, doomed as a monumental failure of the age.
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Bronsin
Favana
Hens Ory
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Alma Record
Knows & Evenpen, Publishers
Mich
Tris
Pennsylvania
Lexpos
Berlin
Vienna
Paris
Pramacya
Colleges of Pharmacy
Japan
Wellesley College
Avroorarn
T'uore
Lhorn Terry
Patto
Drilla
Que
Maine
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Mra SF. Hershey
Jules Simon
Holland
Southern
Mrs. Stanley
Dance of the Devi
Loniloa
Idaho
Joanin Miller
Artiste Wedding Dress
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