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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1897
Page
8
A garbled ramble opens with jagged poetry about waves and fate, then shifts to a Washington Star report. A woman protests a divorce piece by a reporter, demanding fair treatment while recalling high notes of a stage career and a publisher’s quip about a holiday.
A long description outlines various nuts including English walnuts pecan hickory and Brazil nuts. It explains shelling machines cracking methods removing shells and partitions and drying and packaging. It notes shelling yields and export patterns and mentions rising nut cultivation and consumption in the United States. An unrelated zoological note follows about elephant viscera weights and a garden scene in Berto
Julian Ralph in Scribner's notes the widespread sale of fake Indian relics in Danvers and St Paul. He laments modern tourists buy watch pockets and matchholders shaped as war gear, while true scalp and war-trappings vanish, replaced by machine made fakes and painted calfskin objects.
Report cites Mr. F P W Warner linking longevity to heart lungs digestive system and brain. He describes palm length nostril openness eye color and ear flow as indicators and warns of life stages and hereditary influence on aging and education.
Dr. BR. L. Parsons notes in Medical Record that hunger disrupts sleep and a regular sleep habit is vital. He argues sleep cannot be forced by will, but requires a calm, indifferent mental state and relaxed recumbence. Mental strategies like repetition and counting may help, with indifference as most efficient.
The piece explains heat using a standard unit where one pound of water raised by one degree equals a defined heat unit. It notes that boiling water to steam consumes heat equal to the amount that would raise 0.067 pounds of water by one degree, illustrating the concept with a historical reference to the Louis Republic.
An eclectic dated excerpt covers Persian shahs from 1306 and Cyrus the Great, then shifts to botany on jewel weed and balsam with notes on its seeds and Latin name touch me not. It pivots to a playful tale of Milord and Neapolitan phrases and ends with a proverb about good wine and early cotton mills.
A comical reminiscence from a New York gossip page recalls a West mining young man navigating a dinner with social pretenders. Tables, forks, and clinking china frame a scene of wary manners, flirtation, and sharp judgments about marriage, advertisements, and class. The speaker notes the hypocrisies of polite society and the temptations of social climbing.
Religious notes show St John s Church holding Lenten services with Friday evening and Sunday evening sermons on Infant Baptism and related topics. The Baptist notes announce morning and evening preaching topics including The Communion of Saints and The Average Man with Sunday school and a youth prayer meeting, inviting all.
A village council session recorded several names and committees. The minutes note motions adopted, appointments to committees on streets, health, civermalitee and sewer drainage, with names including Tinker, Brown, Thompson and Radhey Pai Tomtery. The president signed off on the actions.
Advertisement offers Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as an effective cold remedy. Claims quick relief through cleansing the system with 10 doses priced 100, larger doses 50¢ and 1.00. Also includes scattered notices about a separation, real estate timber sale, and a tamarack timber for sale with orders to leave at the express office.
An obscure patent medicine claims rapid growth in demand as a laxative for children due to a pleasant taste. Dr Caliwell’s Strap Pepsin is advertised with a trial size and a regular size, attributed to B S Webb.
A curious hotel encounter leads a theater company manager to test a new imported play. A clerk agrees to give free tickets to worthy patrons to avoid a poor box office night, sparking talk of language and class in a courtroom banter between landed peers and clerks about word meanings and respectability.
A circular advertises Tun Speer NJ and Wine Co offering wines at low costs with a promotional card. It promises rich character and abundance of choices, urging readers to test the wines and compare value, mentioning specific wines and pricing.
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