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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1891
Page
8
A garbled tale from Milwaukee Wisconsin recounts a student named Alwan OF Wouy and a web of desperate schemes. The piece mentions poverty, a friend writing from home, and a collapse into destitution amid a harsh social setting.
In Hartford Currant, Prof H A Newton of Yale cites a brilliant meteor event near Hartford. He notes the fireball's immense speed and claims fragments reached across Frankdie county Maine, with witnesses reporting stones falling and velocity exceeding sound.
A stream of eclectic 19th century oblique observations recounts Liberty Bell relics and Libby Prison tales, with mentions of public exhibits in New York, the Clingo museum, and a rumored Tate clean, plus gossip about Evulan and a Paris science exhibit. The text blends anecdotes on cultural curiosities, thefts, and social commentary, referencing figures, places, and events in a fragmented style.
A New York Telegram summary describes an invention with a novel water propulsion concept. The text outlines a bow arrangement and a deep well in front of a device to draw water through side channels to power propulsion.
Delayed ten year or longer in the deluge of the Bales of Rilatel aid Ireland, at Coated', Droninoude, Clute and other balers were uneartfell any' held in daauminel. Jewelry and valuable items may be restored to rightful owners per the Chamber Journal report.
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In a Nashville American excerpt, a prison yard hosts a mix of animals and people. Nellie guides a child through a cramped space while a gentle large dog, a greyhound pack, and dogs survey convicts. The piece blends family life, duty, and a tale of companionship amid captivity.
An article from Goldsmiths Magazine describes streams flowing from a coastal site near Arvastei, Cephalonia, bending inland then returning toward the sea before diverging underground. The current, strong enough to power two mills, is salt and steady with no tide, likely feeding an underground reservoir or connected to regional earthquakes or distant volcano activity.
An anecdote about Colours Rogers and his Bee Jodrcal before the war. A boy shouted Journal, Journal in town. Rogers chased him, seized the boy, and banned Journals from his shop. War years altered views as the Journal then appeared on streets like other papers.
A general commands subordinates to draft a defense scheme for a key port. The report, full of errors and detours, is returned months later with the blunt remark You would have needed a wider margin. The tale is framed by satirical cites from Vanity Fair and New York Weekly about corporate warnings and public notices.
Fragmentary text appears to describe a tea scene involving Mrs. Smith and Miss Seith with a seven year old child dropping a penny onto a water tack unreadable. The garbled lines resemble a historical newspaper snippet with unclear names and actions.
Whindaai Haetie Car, an insurance agent on Main Street near State, reports a near miss and clothing burns after flashes of light from an electric car struck him on the left side. The spark allegedly burned his overcoat under his unbuttoned coat and singed papers in a leather book, with wet tracks possibly guiding the electric fluid into the rails.
Vick's Magazine urges gardeners to prune trees and vines, prepare pens, and plant sugar peas once ground warms. Start onions in cold frames, sow lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, tomatoes, radish, and biennial flowers now. Plant sweet peas early, seed lawns when soil is ready, and push all spring tasks ahead for a quicker, profitable season.
The Palermo Fruit Growers association sent a large one seventh size model of the Union church from Palermo colony in Butte to San Francisco for display. The 10 by 6 by 14 foot miniature rests in the trade rooms, with orange sands and nuts used as decor. Fresh fruit will replace dried items after the orange season to keep the exhibit ongoing.
The Cincinnati Times Star notes the 1901 death toll may rise. It lists famed figures including Bancroft, Kinglake arene historian Erma Abbott Celine Montaland stage queens Meinonier Von Marcke Jervis Me Katee and leaders Windorn Stuart Bradlaugh Sherman Porter Kalakaua Abdel Rahman Khan Baron Hansmann Leo Delibos among others.
The Pall Gazette reports a new flour mill in Jerusalem illuminating with electric light near Calvary and the Damascus Gate. Arabs and Jews, amazed by this lamps glow, stand at a respectful distance as they witness the unprecedented sight.
A fragmented note discusses a wide range of remedies and tonics, asserting universal satisfaction and ready guarantees. It mocks overhyped cures and mocks modern drug ads, reflecting 19th or early 20th century patent medicine language.
An old advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a universal healer for cuts, burns, sores, and fevers with a money back guarantee. It also promotes Loosa's Red Clove Pile salve for piles and similar conditions, claiming quick relief and guaranteed pricing across the sale venue.
Fragmentary OCR text presents a soggy note about a safe investment and guarantors. It mentions threats and medical or legal terms, but the passage is garbled with typos and nonsensical phrases, leaving no clear event, names, or concrete facts to report. The readable bits do not establish a coherent person, organization, or location.
GEO. MOORE publisher of Alma News publishes a chancery notice for Francis Palmer in Gratiot County Michigan. The defendant Saxbee is a resident of the Dominion while the complainant files by affidavit. The order requires appearance within twenty days of the order with publication weekly for four weeks in Alma Record.
Definitive notice declares the mortgage of James Strong and Rachel M Strong to Rector W Martin dated March 16 1860 and recorded March 21 1860. Emma Thompson via assignment holds the mortgage. foreclosures seek payment of seventy dollars and fifteen cents plus attorney fees. The sale is September 19 at 2 PM in the Gratiot County Court House village of Ithas, Michigan, to satisfy the debt secured on the northwest quarter of section 2, township 12 north range 4 east.
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