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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1888
Page
4
Local paper from Alma Michigan January 15 1888 features classified ads and notices. It lists secondhand engine listings dyeing services harness shop readers names and a marriage licenses section including Homer S Hadlinger Melissa Brant and others. Also notes upcoming exhibitions at the college hall and an ice delivery notice after Tuesday the 10th by Typatan & Chadwick.
A naval party toured Portsmouth to hear the phonograph with clergy present. The first recorded words were a call for higher pay from lieutenants, jokingly mistaken for the treasurer of voc. The piece notes the device may misidentify voices, yet the pay demand scene amuses and may spark further petitions.
They have been engaged fifteen years and discuss the idea of their betrothal growing up to work for its living. The woman suggests the child learn a trade or clerkship and notes it will be able to vote in six years. They consider practical steps and marriage plans for Chivunas.
A housemaid observes a mason wasp provisioning a sealed nest with paralyzed green caterpillars. The female lays eggs on the prey while the male ferries caterpillars to the central reel hole, indicating the wasp’s clever paralyzing and provisioning behavior to feed future offspring.
Reports on cremation experiments near Paris describe multiple trials at Pere Lachaise with a stove heated to white heat. Details cover temperatures, fuel consumption, and ash weights from the first two bodies, noting a notably efficient burn and the forthcoming sale of the oven by court order. Also included are brief anecdotes and comic items unrelated to cremation.
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