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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1888
Page
4
Practical guidance on keeping animal stalls clean to protect health, plus egg storage advice. Includes step by step kitchen recipes such as Trousehold Iints, Sauce for fish, boiled or steamed pudding, macaroni au gratin, mange and rice boiling, and a chocolate meringue pudding with lemon sauce.
A mixed fragment presents a poem about fatigue and longing with lines about love and freedom, followed by a storytelling vignette of a Times Democrat editor and a young man debating poetry versus prose. The piece hints at the era’s casual literary banter and publishing quips.
The Practical Farmer advocates small fruit culture as more reliable than large fruits. Berries yield annually and respond quickly, while pears apples peaches and plums fail every few years. If space allows large fruit trees should be planted wide apart with constant cultivation and manuring, though adoption may take generations.
A bill proposed by E Robertson MP for Dundee would extend the £20 exemption from seizure to debtors not bankrupt when goods are seized by bill of sale or distraint for rent or other legal process. It would cover necessary household furniture and books for daily life and children's education, applying to occupiers of entire homes and parts of them, including furnished or unfurnished lodgings.
A Birmingham report describes an experiment on a steam tram engine fitted to prevent harm to children near rails. Inventors tested various gentling devices to lift, trap, or push children aside, but certainty over safety remains elusive. Longevity via salt is discussed, noting Burggrave’s claim that salt regulates life and can prevent certain maladies when blood lacks salts, with a Saxony epidemic example cited.
A correspondent describes an uncanny bell ringing in her room despite moving the clock, with varied tones and universal hearing by servants, while a medium hints at future musical powers from harmony. A London Lights item notes a girl’s scrapbook as a curious, self curated collection built from pressed flowers, poems, wedding gowns, cards, and mementos.
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