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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1889
Page
5
A Fairfield County dairy writer laments high dry cow rates across New York and the nation, detailing costs to feed dry cows versus milking cows. He recounts managing a herd through a year with calves, milk, cream, and butter production, noting the heavy losses when cows go dry and the difficulty of sustaining milk every day.
Tenry Roethe of Grant county argues in favor of creameries over direct butter making. He notes cream sells for higher prices in summer, estimating a net gain of about five cents per pound and potential yearly savings for Grant county residents of thousands, supporting local creameries.
A rustic breakfast event features fern decor on veranda tables with climbing ferns, mosses, and delicate maidenhair placed around china and centerpieces. Attendees wear fern green attire while guests discuss marriage ceremony humor and a joking pledge echoed by Uncle Rastus about a mock legal ceremony.
A report on alcoholism and crime notes high shares of drinkers among vagabonds and thieves and a majority among assassins incendiaries and violent offenders. It cites percentages from a study and includes a dialogue about urgency and returning home.
A fragmentary meditation on dissembling and social masks. The narrator laments the need to conceal inner thoughts, critiques public pretenses, and warns that exposing private fears could unravel society. The piece reflects on marriage, parenting, and the burden of restraint in a cautious age.
An old discussion extols flowers as humane and social enhancers. A physician recounts calming a nervous patient by arranging fresh flowers, arguing that such simple acts rival medicines for tempering agitation and promoting social refinement.
A reminiscence describes the U S Treasury as a vault of vast riches with $600 million guarded by armed sentries and time locks. It details security, watchmen, and routines, noting past raid attempts and the impenetrable defenses guarding the money in the main vaults and subterranean halls.
Detroit Free Press recounts a man who misplaced his wallet on a Baker Street car. Passengers noticed, but no one spoke until he realized the loss and began to accuse luckless fate. A token of sympathy was proposed as he faced possible charges and bills. A separate incident reports Mrs. Strauss escaping flames and a mysterious incendiary origin. Also a Georgia man, from Americus, mistakes a clock for a moon during a drunken stroll, prompting astonishment at the courthouse.
The document lists multiple railroad lines and connections across Michigan and neighboring states, naming routes from South Lyon to Toledo, Ann Arbor, North Michigan, and Grand Trunk networks. It includes divisions, points like Saginaw, Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Cadillac, Petoskey, and Mackinaw, with managers D. McLukes and W. A. Oszers noted.
Daily train connections listed from Hoes diversity Munhatten to various junctions including Alexie Milan St Louis and Durand with multiple lines and divisions. Stops cited include Manhatten Junction Watash Durand St Louis and Alma with numerous agents and branch associations noted.
In New York a calm morning after a small storm brought sun and a red white and blue rainbow. A traveler recalls a cottage gate with a once beautiful woman, and a young Grant who loved her and would have died for her if she spoke. He rests today at a tomb in Riversite Park near Mistress M Sullivan.
A Portland speaker proposes a $25,000 federal appropriation to establish a system of traps along the coast to boost herring supply. He advocates 82,000 traps at Worthend harbor to supply Maine and Massachusetts, confident the scheme would pay for itself.
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