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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1891
Page
6
A garbled column surveys diverse topics from food supply and famine to capital punishment for women, beggary, and farm land values. It muses on manufacturing vs agriculture, personal failure, alcohol, and the potential for long-distance telephone networks, hinting at policy debates and social experiments of the era.
A Brooklyn New York sermon by Dr. Talmage condemns gambling as a societal curse. He describes gambling dens in New York and Jersey City, details their opulence, frauds, and ruinous effects, and warns of moral decay and financial theft driven by gaming.
A late Republic note surveys widespread belief in false Christs among Northwest Indians and other impostors through history. It recounts figures like Baruchiah, Mesentrias in Egypt, Mordecai the German Jew, and various claimed messiahs from medieval to early modern Europe, noting the public fascination and costly persecutions surrounding these pretenders.
A long fragment recounts geology disproving the universal belief in death from Adam’s sin, then shifts to a sensational tale of a hoodoo doctor in Savannah who swindled Robert Fletcher with red flannel charms and fake cures. The case ends with Fletcher pressing charges and Johnson jailed after failed remedies and a tense scene at Russell’s court.
Fragmentary prose describes a mythic quarry of power tied to stevie petrol with an imagined saintly bird. The piece evokes waves and a trough of energy, glorifying a shrine-like devotion to an enigmatic force.
Tourists visit the Palace on Tones of Piearro housing a vast cathedral and gilded religious treasures. The crypt holds the stone coffin of Pizarro and a relative, with stories of conquest, betrayal, and a modern regime occupying the nearby park and government officers.
A fragmentary line shows a speaker praising nature on a glorious crag with a response affirming the mountain's peak. The text reads as a playful archaic exchange with stylized diction.
A collage of witty quips and comic exchanges from newspapers and readers. Jests travel from Philadelphia to Brooklyn and Baltimore, with lines on gout, music, politics, marriage, temper, and daily life. Names, places, and period voice color a mosaic of light humor and social observation.
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