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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1887
Page
5
A collage of quirky jokes and anecdotes about manners, misprints, and misheard lines. It reels through snippets on a boisterous mother, telegram jokes, a burglar question, a large hat, and a barber’s quips. The tone captures a lively parade of small city humor and comic misunderstandings.
A jumble of brief observations reports magnetized pens in Los Angeles a magnetic storm explanation for it and a New York pavements tale recounting William Vanderbilt's front step the largest fig stone cost nine thousand dollars and total pavement forty thousand dollars plus a schoolmistress critique of students jokes and a glimpse of fashion and poetry from a Boston area column
Advertisements boast health tonics for sleep nerves and lungs, tonics for asthma coughs and digestion, and dozens of remedies from Kemp’s Pile Suppositories to Bucklen’s Arnica. Local store B.S. Webb pushes Dr King’s, Acker’s, and Pennyroyal products with testimonials and guaranteed cures.
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