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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1887
Page
7
A frost bitten weet rose and barren winter blooms are depicted as hardy symbols. The verse contrasts decayed summer flowers with resilient pansies surviving snow storms and tolls, urging brave effort over sloth to conquer fear and hardship.
Jack Avery and his wife Bess face money worries and begin a plan to save, reduce expenses, and build a home. Through careful budgeting and self restraint they track small sacrifices, surprisingly saving enough to buy a cottage, with Bess secretly contributing to the effort and Jack cherishing the result.
John McLean editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer once tested a beggar on Twenty-ninth Street in New York by paying him a quarter. The man gratefully claimed the debt, joking that perhaps the payment was more than owed. McLean learned not to pay debts at sight unless demanded, a tale of generosity and prudence.
A portrait of George Alexander Ivan Kaulbars, a Russian general and diplomat of Finnish descent, detailing his aristocratic bearing, linguistic fluency, and brutal temper. The account covers his early cadet days, a disputed duel, clashes with Afghan figures, and a notorious banquet incident where he whipped a servant, illustrating his ruthless loyalty to the czar and controversial prominence in imperial policy.
WW A Draper argues throughout his New York Academy of Medicine address that alcohol’s role as a food is overstated and its nutritional value is limited. He says moderate use harms health, contributes to functional derangements and degenerations, and that professional opinion is moving toward restricting alcohol as a dietary item.
An eyewitness recounts a brutal struggle between a bear and a puma. The puma circles the bear, then bites and rips at the throat, and the bear fights back with ferocity. The fight ends with the puma disemboweling the bear in a graphic, savage exchange of claws and teeth.
A clipped, reflective quotation discusses Oliver Wendell Holmes and his inability to comprehend his own writing. The note muses that some men rise beyond their ordinary capacity and become inspired, hinting that such individuals appear to possess an inner illumination or genius.
A London correspondent cites immense yearly food and drink volumes for the metropolis, listing oxen, sheep, calves, wine, fowls, fish, oysters, fruit, wheat, beer and more. He notes water removal for drinking leaves the actual supply meager, posing a dire contrast to the lofty totals.
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