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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1887
Page
5
A fragmented page from The Alma Record presents mixed items including poetry verses, literary lines, and stray notices. The readable text references authors such as Whitcomb Riley and appears to blend public notices with verse, lacking a clear single news event or cohesive article.
The account recalls General Sherman hosting Henry Clay Dean in Washington, a tense visit over Dean’s appearance, and a later scene where Dean’s initials on her garment spark controversy. The narrative intersperses cholera remedy jargon and warnings about quack cures, reflecting era concerns.
A sprawling excerpt covers kerosene lamp care, wick cleaning, and oiling, urging weekly oil changes and fresh wicks for bright light. It moves to dining room decor with carpets, wallpapers, draperies, and cheerful surroundings, then details carpet care and cleaning, then touches bridal attire and wedding customs, furnace work and urban plans, ending with costs and crematory notes.
Readers are urged to beware sudden hearts troubles often labeled rheumatic or neuralgic in origin. The ad promotes Athlophoros and Athlophoring Mills as cures, recounting a January to May illness with paralysis and recovery claims, and notes physicians’ failure before using the advertised remedies.
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