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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1886
Page
7
A lyrical meditation on love and betrayal unfolds in archaic diction. The speaker laments a dream that reveals how pride and desire wreck hearts, with references to courtiers, power, and the ruin of men and women. The refrain “Save in a dream” echoes regret and social judgment.
Fragmentary OCR listing names and phrases creates a noisy card. It mentions Sandorf and various scattered segments such as Omtr Moox and MICTARS sTRonoFF with cryptic references to twenty out letters and Panks. No coherent event or clear entities emerge.
In Valetta harbor the Doctor contemplates Sicily run while Luigi and Maria join the voyage aboard the Perrate. Carpena moves among Manderaggio villains to enlist a band for a Sicilian power play, as Pescade and others spy and report back amid tense, perilous plans.
Marion Taplin and a guest list discuss tasteful visiting rules for rising and retiring, avoiding long stays and unnecessary social pressures. The piece warns against early morning visits, lingering in living rooms, and failing to respect hosts time and attention during meals or breakfast. It contrasts polite restraint with selfish overtones and cites an anecdote of an overly eager guest who played piano too early each morning.
A collection of quips and aphorisms including Sue Veneir praising a good girl, a remark about burdensome yolks on bad eggs, a note on genius needing energy, a young buck planning to take a hatchet to the woodshed, and lines comparing headlight necessity to a locomotive.
The Chinese merchant class and many clerks in San Francisco largely read English, but four Chinese language papers publish regularly with about 2500 copies. Me Recorder from Man Kee & Co ledgers 18 years, Oriental by Wal Kee Co, Wheily Creek by Horn Hong, and Chim Shoo by Chim Shoo Co. circulation ranges from 200 in city to 500 in the interior. The American and Chinese Commercial News, started by Luey Kee & Co, failed initially but now circulates about 700. Printing uses native movable type and transfer sheets. one side of 400 sheets per day, five days for 1000 copies. Advertisements run about five cents per word, with red ink for New Year editions.
Alice May writes of a bizarre plant called the Jvatide Piela or Caricature Plant. Heavy leafed with purple blow sams and light yellow centers, the leaves bear cartoon like faces. The piece imagines its use for caricaturists and notes its hardy nature and potential in a conservatory.
Two hundred years ago Sir Thomas Lynch sent a vegetable necktie to England made directly from tree bark. A Jamaica lace tree, Laget ty lntearia, yielded twelve sheets per bark strip as workers stretched each into an airy lace three feet wide. The natural lace impressed observers with its snowy whiteness and delicate gossamer texture. In Jamaica and Central America the tree’s lace serves the poor as fabric and the rich view it with disdain for mere ornament.
In a clipped exchange the doctor asks if the dog was mad when it bit. Solomon explains the dog was rabid rather than angry, noting the conspicuous bite and the tense scene as a dog incident unfolds.
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