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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1899
Page
7
A historical piece argues the coming horseless age driven by compressed air and electric motors will transform city streets. It envisions steamless, tireless freight and passenger vehicles, reduced costs, and broader social impacts, while noting a South Portland girl’s quirky curling mishap as a minor aside.
A mid 19th century style discussion explains individual differences in poisoning responses to foods and environmental factors. It covers the grip germ, its conditions for growth, transmission via breath and secretions, and the role of temperature, cleanliness, and diet in prevention. It advises dietary caution, proper cooking, and quinine tonics to reduce influenza risk.
In Australia a curious market exists for American newspapers where dealers weigh editions like goods. A customer in Adelaide bought a Sunday New York paper for a high price while noting broader demand. The dealer explains papers are sold by weight with various U S editions mixed for sale, including Kansas City and midweek issues, as shoppers split sections.
An early note discusses eyelash care to enhance expression and protect them from dust cold wind and glare. It recommends a small amount of pure tea or similar care to promote growth and strengthen the eyelashes.
A fragmented note discusses a tobacco plant variety praised as handsome and indigenous to Algmeria, described as a worthy emblem for a writer in a Jando paper. The text hints at a overlooked emblem design and assigns significance to the plant in human regard.
A calculation shows that one pound of good coal equals the labor of one man for one day. It further states that a square mile of coal seam four feet deep would surpass the work of over a million men for twenty years.
A midgle summer note on shrub growth describes a silver fr 24 feet high with 85 new wheets, each 4 to 6 inches, alongside a fractured conversation about prescriptions, a broken peck and a fourth story window. The text also mentions a Birmingham family, an errant girl, and oversleeping rent.
Leadville resident Cole Prank Burkhart discovered fifty sacks of gold and silver ore at a city dump. The stolen ore from local mines is valued at $110,000 and now part of a police investigation.
An old Detroit tale recalls a sailor captain christening a baby aboard a slow selling vessel. Amid crew and onlookers the captain asked for a reason, then poured wine on the infant and named him. The man grew up to recall the odd baptism and the captain’s grim humor.
A man asleep with teeth clamped in his mouth suddenly choked, lost all teeth into his throat. Doctors and a bystander stool over long minutes as a dentist arrives to discover the teeth lodged in the throat, then reinserted into the jaws and the man recovers.
In Bowdler Colorado a tiny pine, about three inches tall and a quarter inch in diameter, grew from a rock crevice on Green Mountain. It bore a single terminal tuft of leaves and showed twenty five distinct annual rings. This natural dwarfing rivals Japanese garden techniques and is nearly unprecedented.
A historic home craft note describes making two wooden boxes sized Fh Har with a tont and five or six inches depth, covered in cretonne and plain cambric to match. Legs two inches square, cretonne cover, boxes mounted at top and about a foot from the floor, cretonne shirred around upper box, draped and tied to legs with ribbon bows. Brass headed tacks provide a finished look.
Mr Krosser bets the poison bought from a drogist was refused by rats. Mrs Krosser questions the instructions and recalls spreading the substance on a jelly cake. The exchange hints at accidental poisoning and comic blame.
Official statistics for British India show about 21,100 people and 00,000 domestic animals are killed each year by wild beasts in the region.
The article recounts a century old saga of a legendary diamond and the political intrigue surrounding it. It traces the diamond’s journey across empires and the enmity it provoked among rival powers, with emphasis on diplomacy and captivity, and ends with questions of rightful ownership and moral consequences.
An article describes sailing to a steam boat at altitudes above two miles, reaching Lake Ithaca between Peru and Bolivia. It notes a vast lake nearly 120 tiles long and 60 wide, over 1,000 feet deep, with 500-ton steamers built in sections, fuelled by Australian coal 7,000 miles away, and a landscape filled with strange features and deep waters.
The article reports that Prussian authorities will ban corporal punishment of female pupils. It states teachers nationwide must avoid severe discipline for girls and caution against harsh methods. The government edict reflects concern for female students and calls for gentler pedagogy.
A child named Edgar hides under the bed when his mother approaches with a stick. The mother calls the father and asks if Edgar is there while poking the bed with knives and asking if Edgar is present, revealing a tense domestic moment.
Fragmentary OCR shows a heated exchange about a neighbor and a remark, with a husband reacting to a claim of openness. The text reflects a terse, domestic dispute tone with unclear names or places.
A report describes the wealth from a single captured whale, valued at about 110,000 pounds. It notes 48,000 pounds of blubber and 5,000 pounds of whalebone, with proceeds from blubber processing and other byproducts.
A brief note claims Chinese babies are fed only rice after a few months and never receive cow's milk. It also states Chinese homes are not heated and mentions a baby exposed to sun bath.
A garbled fragment discusses Lawton Transit and 250 railway stations, mentions St Paul Cathedral in London and a twelve mile radius with about four hundred locations. Jerusalem is described as diminished, once magnificent, with a three mile fence and a seaeap web setting.
Fragmented notice advertises an excursion from Rapids to the west with fares, dates, and sales details. It mentions promotions and health tonics for travelers, names promoters, and a call to purchase tickets with reference to May and June events. The confidential tone hints at a promotional pitch for remedies and products alongside the excursion listing.
A fragmented note discusses August Flow and various fonts, mentioning Sa wn Ten Movahot and oboe bates treed among others. It cites imagery of jet ten years and references Lavinensel Grete Abpotet Viewer, with a vague note on remedies and a contact to B Welsh through Shur rat & Mulhollani.
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