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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1889
Page
7
A street scene shows a seedy shopkeeper bargaining over goods and a passerby street chatter about prices and barter. An editor comments on a sharp critique while ads promote Dr. Pieren remedies, wart cures, and various tonics.
The report details Senate discussions on the tariff measure and a pot of lunch debates while the House concentrates on Oklahoma appropriations and other bills. Multiple offices report deaths, fires, and storms, with notes on international events and local calamities.
McKenzie plans to publish a book on Laster Imparse Prwbrick while the Pope reportedly urged visiting Americans to vigorously combat socialist influence among Irish Catholics in America. A large steamer wrecked near Slawrea Islands north west of Coronna, with presumed drownings and weary survivors reaching Coronna. The King of Holland is gravely ill, death expected within days.
A devastating cyclone struck Reading Pennsylvania on a summer afternoon, ripping roofs from buildings and causing massive damage across Mt Penn stove works and nearby shops. About 200 people, mostly women and children, were affected. roughly 80 are feared dead with 40 bodies recovered in hours. Rescue efforts continued as debris removal progressed.
Secretary Mairchild orders all available special treasury agents to join a thorough investigation into the port office. Appraiser McMu Join is praised for long service, while Appraiser Stearns cites enormous undervaluations and favors to certain merchants, accusing the treasury department of multi million dollar fraud.
Harry addressed a public meeting in old Pittsburg supporting his Brotherhood of United Labor and denouncing Powderly and Knights of Labor officers. He accused Powderly of poverty, challenged the officers to answer, warned of future court action, and predicted Powderly’s name would become a societal stigma among workers.
The obituary notes Owen Brown, son of John Brown of Osawatome and last survivor of Harper's Ferry, died in San Francisco at 74. It mentions his burial voyage and a mysterious Sierra Madre peak reference, followed by a garbled date.
A brickyard morning tale shows a boy named Tommy questioning ownership and labor to reveal notions of property and slavery in a frontier land. The exchange ends with the father promising to leave all property to his son while musing on mortality and bricks. A second item recalls Russian artist Verestchagin refusing honors after a wartime decoration, later humorously explained by a coat-cutting officer.
A jumble of brief exclamations and comments from multiple papers notes quirky exchanges about dizzying hammock remarks honest grocer beams balance and an amateur schoolroom definition of altar while a New York Despatch quibbles over a Mr Soker’s drinking and weariness in a social portrait.
A mixed collection of quips and witticisms on money, borrowing, investments, and social habits. It includes lines about mint jobs, lending five dollars, interest on bonds, legal help, and humorous observations on wealth, fathers, and blunt honesty sourced from a Boston Courier quote.
A 1900s advertorial note claims emulsion of cod liver oil with phosphates aids consumption scrofula and wasting diseases. It cites Dr H. V. Mote of San Mateo recommending Scott's Emulsion for children and sufferers, noting immediate relief and lasting benefit.
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