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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1889
Page
7
A detailed, aged essay extols United States Marines as a vital yet underappreciated Navy force. It contrasts Marines with sailors, notes strict discipline aboard ships, and highlights their roles in security, boarding actions, and combat readiness as described by contemporaries.
Fragmented prose critiquing theorists who rely on abstractions over observation. It argues human reason is prone to fallacy, warns against claiming infallibility, and urges near‑correct thinking with caution. References include Yankes Bada and lines about Oklahoma.
A tirade from the Saint Louis Globe-Democrat criticizes alleged weak-minded descendants in New York, arguing that if the founders had shown their sullied spirit there would be no centennial celebrations or any day worth honoring. The piece laments modern attitudes and the vanity of celebratory days.
A Philadelphia Record item notes a humorous misunderstanding about a daughter who plays and sings. The exchange centers on a returned tourist and the mother’s insistence that she is married, not available.
A midnight tale recalls a Blue Ridge set in Shenandoah memory where two young soldiers, a Georgian and a Mississippi man, fall into a fatal duel over a dance injury to a belle of the valley. The duel ends with the Mississippi man dead by a shot to the eye, as the moon rises over the surrounding pines.
A young man and his circle joke about courting a girl while hinting at a theft. In a parlor scene a deception unfolds as he presents a large empty morocco pocket book, claiming it is the object of his visits and indicating a future absence of the romance.
A seven year old Johnnie often walked home with his government clerk father after four pm and noted a splendid state coach near a restaurant on Pennsylvan ia avenue above the War Department. He observed the Spanish envoy dining there as the regal carriage passed Seventh street.
A Texas man named A Rippey drew five hundred dollars in the last Louisiana State Lottery drawing. He told a reporter he plans to invest the winnings in real estate and more lottery tickets. He said he has been buying tickets for some time and was paid hourly in his job as a dispatcher in the Southern Pacific depot.
A garbled fragment discusses White Mountains to Bar Harbor travel via Niagara Falls and steamship links to Montreal and Thousand Islands with a request for a summer tourist rate brochure. It includes unrelated odds and ends about medicines, patient cures, and anecdotes, reflecting a mixed-era miscellany page.
A church statue of the Virgin Mary atop the Immaculate Conception Cathedral remained untouched as a tidal wave wrecked the surrounding hall and submerged the structure. Reportedly, Catholics hailed the scene as a miracle amid destruction and confusion.
A Lewiston merchant recalls a whimsical tale of a boy who traded a cony of Sxlother Goose for a napkin and returned with the same item missing its covers yet claiming it worth six cents. Two New Sharon women trade in town for a similar oddity and a tin trumpet swap escalates to a new toy sequence. The night chatter includes a weary mother and a baffled shopper testing a strange microphone device with a snake-filled home scene ending in a puzzled family question about prayers answered.
The article highlights progress in evaluating vegetable remedies for rheumatic relief, stressing purification of blood and healing of the liver and kidneys. It promotes Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup as a practical, proven combination of effective medicines for the afflicted.
Fragmentary overheard dialogue shows confusion and misheard phrases about pigs and items, with characters Kate Lil and Lily expressing uncertainty and rough intentions in a muddled scene. The text reads like garbled OCR with inconsistent capitalization and punctuation.
A brief ad promises relief for dyspepsia sick headache foul stomach and biliousness by a nourishing food product. It notes a price of 25c a box and states druggists sell it. If a storekeeper is out, remit to Radway and Co. New York.
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