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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1894
Page
2
The article recounts Senate and House actions on tariffs and appropriation bills, mentions a Chinese immigration treaty proposal under consideration, and notes adjournments and investigations. It covers domestic incidents, weather, labor strikes, and political personalities with many named places and people.
A fire wrecked the South Evanston public school on a Wednesday morning. About five hundred pupils and teachers were inside as flames and smoke trapped many near upper floors. Several childrenJumped to the ground and were injured. reports list New Himmels, Ella Sagert, Percy Bends Jey, Kevher Burden, Lucy Huxtotle, Carrie Johnson, Frank Jotinaen, Samuel Muck among the injured. Firemen wrestled to rescue others while parents urged the trapped to cling or exit safely.
The article outlines projected tariff bill revenue near 891 million dollars, noting a 15 to 14 million cut from prior estimates due to changes in internal revenue rates, duty adjustments on tin plate, and fruit scheme revisions. It also reports extensive flood and washout damage across Memphis rail lines, with several tracks destroyed or submerged. The state seizes about 2,000,000 feet of logs in Minneapolis amid a lumber theft crackdown involving the Shevlin Carpenter mill.
The Syracuse Standard reports a Madison County case in Solsville where Philander Hyde, aged near 70, recovered mobility after using Williams Pink Pills. Physicians called his condition cramping paralysis. after starting the pills his strength returned, enabling him to walk with a cane. The article cites other local users and explains the pills’ claimed nerve and blood benefits.
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph item recounts a Sunday school incident where pupils recited the day’s golden text in concert. When asked to self recite, a girl misheard and offered a mischievous paraphrase about wearing pants, highlighting how collective recitation can lose nuance.
A collage of 19th century snippets describes an energetic landlady and her widowed brother running a boarding house in New Hampshire, a distressed-house probe by Associated Charities, a transposed remark about remnants, and a comic tale of an automatic steam engine failing due to a worker’s trap, plus stray lines about dances and second pair of tents.
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