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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1889
Page
2
A cross-state discussion highlights New Yorks abolished contract labor system leaving convicts idle. Warden of Sing Sing warns idle prisoners risk insanity and calls for meaningful work. The piece traces rising crime penalties, prison populations and public policy shifts in the US and England, noting economic and social impacts.
A lengthy, chaotic piece describes Salvation Army street performances and derisive reactions, including a narrator’s amused observations of volunteers, a cold night outside a hotel, and a chaotic hotel room episode with a disruptive chambermaid. It blends comic theatre, public display, and travel reminiscence with assorted colorful characters and anecdotes.
A Baltimore American summary of a government study interviewing 17 427 women in 22 cities. It reports average earnings about 51 cents weekly, ages around 22 years seven months, about four years nine months in work, with most living at home and many contributing earnings to the household. The piece notes higher wages correlate with less time absent and praises employment for health and morality.
A humorous fragment recalls an evening calling on a woman where the speaker’s upper teeth fell out during a joke. The moment leads to playful dialogue about nerves and a long tale of mistaken romance. The wit notes the woman’s sympathetic kindness and a dubious marriage idea.
An exploration of a woman who feigns levity toward love while yearning for genuine affection. She withholds tenderness, masks pain with coolness, and endures a concealed struggle stronger than life itself, a private battle known only to God.
A fragment recalls advice from England about burning coal and water. It notes firemen pouring water on coal to drive off moisture, a method claimed to produce hotter fires. The writer recounts heated debates with fuel experts and compares figures and experiments from late 19th century exhibitions.
A Poek's Sun item defends Old Abe the Wisconsin war eagle against a claim by Lillie Devereaux Blake that the bird laid eggs. The piece mocks her feminist crusade and argues Abe remained a mighty male eagle, urging her to drop the egg story. It notes Abe’s memory and calls for restraint in questioning legendary symbols.
A Summer test from Surline's Magazine reports that young women ran 640 yards in loose garments and corsets. Heart rates rose from 84 to 122 beats per minute with corsets, and waist girth dropped from 25 to 24 inches. a second day showed 168 bpm after exertion, highlighting strain from tight corsets on the heart.
In a London Truth excerpt a quipry essay questions consumer language in commerce. It contrasts phrases like mourn ing neek and delightful furniture with their odd advertising usage and the peculiarity of British trade terminology. The piece notes the incongruity of adjectives applied to goods and tradespersons.
Gid Waltburn, George Woods and Frank Squire hunted at Piney after bear Sunday and brought back fifteen deer seventeen aago bone and forty two jock rabbits. George Woods killed them all, with no misses, at Eagle County Col.
The essay recalls Herodotus and an ancient Egyptian dispute on origins, noting that even 2300 years ago wisdom did not resolve mankind’s ultimate origin or destiny. It highlights a Vishi Veroatohagin painting collection at the Chimmzo Art Institute with vivid depictions and interior studies, praising its beauty and artistry. It quotes an Arkansas Traveler anecdote by R. Pritchard about a Chicago store clerk driven to theft by starvation wages, illustrating crime’s context and sympathetic factors.
A dead mountain lion displayed during the week near Daw son’s jewelry store. The animal stood about thirty inches high and six feet six inches long, weighing seventy nine pounds. It was shot Sunday afternoon by George Haymaker on J Le Ewing’s rayeh about four miles from Reeser. The carcass will be forwarded to a taxidermist in Denver for mounting.
An old Wisconsin resident known for operating a private tank was asked to publish a notice. The door of his bank displayed a statement claiming the bank has money behind it and that no one owes or plans to act against Mexico or Canada, reflecting a fragmentary public remark republished from the New York Tribune.
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