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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1892
Page
6
The piece laments poor modern poetry with a £1000 prize for a brief verse and cites a judge’s note. It laments waste in lumber and notes new inventions. It discusses pilgrim disease fears, self praise among Americans, and contrasts U S education with Europe. It criticizes national vanity and university growth abroad.
The Pontiac asylum suffered a major fire injuring at least one person while the ward wards were evacuated safely. Detroit fire units aided by local crews contained the blaze within an hour and a half. damage is estimated at £9000 with much of the administration building destroyed and the rest of the structure repairable.
Gevial Tom Applegate a respected Adrian editor and printer, died of heart paralysis on Sunday. Born in England, he came to New York young, learned printing, then built the Adrian Watchman, later renamed the Pittnes Expositor. He owned and led local papers, was active in education groups, and left a widow and aged mother.
In Detroit a brutal murder shocks the city as a laborer Pred Lambert is found dead in the Lutheran cemetery. The body bears deep knife cuts and skull fractures, suggesting a violent assault by a single assailant. The superintendent of the cemetery resided nearby and the crime scene lies in a ward used for cemetery operations.
Town Marshal Mayatt of Lak Sivden shot Alexander Perala and Michael Kutite during an arrest, killing Perala and injuring Hatta severely. Both men resisted arrest and fought back with knives, injuring Mayatt. Drvle was stabbed but not seriously hurt. A fire at Valenceagol building caused 411,000 in unknown insured loss, triggering town excitement.
Dr Talmage ponders Christ’s birth scene in Bethlehem with Mary and Joseph as the central figures. He argues that God honored humble animals that night, praising mercy toward all creatures and urging reverence for the nativity’s simple setting. He blends biblical reflection with art and history to elevate the manger scene.
A long, flowing meditation links Christmas night to the child in the manger and to historical milestones. The speaker invokes Naaman, the cradle, and the Bethlehem scene to argue that a divine child has shaped reform, science, and culture, urging readers to honor the child and to include the humble in prayer and public life.
A garbled collage of quotes and stray notes mentions Emma Abbott shoe fittings, fashionable gaiters for ladies, a butcher’s caution on cuts, usage of anonymous, and a female brigand trial in Serbia. It reads as fragmented chatter with no coherent event.
An old advertisement touts Shilohs Consumption Cure with claims of a universal cure for coughs throat and chest ailments. It promises free sample bottles in the United States and Canada and urges readers to ask their druggist for Shilohs Cure priced at ten cents to one dollar. It also promotes Shilohs Porous Plaster at twenty five cents.
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