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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1888
Page
3
A fragmented poem narrates an aspiring life tale beginning with ambition and disdain for wealth. The speaker recalls burying pariah labor and seeks a fourth number while rejecting money and gold. The speaker proclaims billionaire status at forty, a dramatic tonal shift revealing satire or irony.
In a Brooklyn romance Leon Lamar presses his suit on the same woman as Geoffrey Lamar. After a threatening note and a staged invitation, Geoffrey is found imprisoned in a woodland jail. The heroine frees him by removing hinges, and Leon dies in a railroad accident, leaving Geoffrey and the narrator to begin anew at Rose Hill.
A bereaved widower speaks with a friend, noting grief cannot return Nancy who was deeply set in her ways. The fragment reflects sorrow and reflective woe in a Tribune item.
A whimsical Cleveland Press piece muses on what happens in one minute. It catalogs cosmic travel, light speed, births and deaths, sound vibrations, streetcars, and daily production from the United States, including debts, coinage, and land, all highlighting the rapid pace of modern life.
The article lists numerous presidential pets from early American presidencies. Nellie Arthur kept a spotted Indian pony. Mrs Fierce liked a black nag. Mrs Monroe owned the first white rabbit at the national premises. Harriet Lane had a large stag hound. Dolly Madison had five suffie nog and a sheep at Montpelier. Mrs Adams and a goldfish with a New England sea captain. Mrs Hayes owned an imported Japanese cat. Martha Washington kept a green parrot and a fallow deer. Mrs Grant kept a milking strawberry roan cow. Mary Todd Lincoln presided over a white owl. Miss Cleveland had a rose named after her. an eagle fed at the White House during Fillmore’s term. Mrs Jackson kept a large black and white coon trained by a slave.
In a dialect exchange from the Detroit Free Press and the Journal, a mother scolds a child named Sam for being too smart and suggests pulling him from school. The fragment shifts to a note on professional gamblers relying on superstitions, claiming cards favor outcomes when gamblers believe they control them.
Lorenzo Mears, a tenant on a farm beside Nandua Creek in Accomac County Virginia, reportedly uncovered a buried treasure once sought by English explorers. Local rumor cites old Tory wealth hidden during the American Revolution with coins bearing Charles II and George III, while nearby Indian burial sites along the creek add to the eerie lore.
The Chicago Herald reports Mr Gould faces intense scrutiny in New York and denver related to alleged breach of trust involving Kansas Pacific. Prosecution hinges on motives of revenge and press influence as Gould’s public standing and legal position waver under mounting accusations. He reportedly returned six million to his accusers and faces further demands from Kansas Pacific.
Montana cattlemen face wolf depredations as extinction scares the range. Benton and St Louis Cattle Company trial remote hound packs to hunt wolves. warm wind days yield success with several wolves killed. Early results suggest relief may come to cattlemen though full impact remains uncertain.
The piece lists various patent medicines, tonics, and a jeweled lizard ornament with partial names and phrases. It reads like ad copy from a historical page with misspellings and garbled brand names, mentioning Scott's Emulsion and Rye Water among others, without clear events or outcomes.
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