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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1888
Page
3
A fragmentary verse recounts a drinker's offspring suffering abuse and neglect. The speaker laments a ruined life, craving love and fearing death, and renounces rum and all intoxication. The piece portrays fear, desperation, and longing for affection in a battered family context.
A memory of childhood friends Glynne Morley and Tontine recounts a bond formed with Dante the greyhound and the Morleys. A father's secret science, a pet’s grave injury, and a hospital crisis test loyalties as Glynne confronts her father and the painful costs of veterinary experiments.
A cable reports the sultan of Zanzibar seeks British influence on the western coast of Africa while navigating a strained hardly cooperative stance on the slave trade. His reign featured lavish hospitality to British officers, naval ships rented as freighters, and a shift toward Mecca pilgrimages conducted by his own steamers. Internal tensions arose as several wives fled with a German trader’s clerk, seeking asylum with royal intervention that was repeatedly refused.
A 19th century discussion notes salt’s variable effects on crops, especially wheat and mangel wurzel. It cites studies by Tanner, Way, and Orston showing salt in ash ranges, and argues salt may aid certain crops while check excess rank growth. The writer proposes small scale farmer experiments to test salt as plant feed.
Prince Oscar of Sweden married Ebba Munck in a Lutheran ceremony at St St. Stephen's church in Bournemouth. Crowds gathered as nobles watched, with gifts including Swedish shields and an American organ. The couple will reside in Carlschiina where Oscar will command a naval station.
A letter from Spain reports a scandal at the Chinese legation in Madrid where uninvited guests disrupted a grand ball. Madrilenos forced entry, liquor fueled chaos, and many guests were escorted from the residence, shocking diplomats and Madrid society alike. The episode distressed the royal circle and cabinet members who attended the event.
A richly detailed descent into candy making describes a room with copper kettles marble surface and a cutting roller. It explains heat stages from 20 to 340 degrees Fahrenheit with steps for boiling stirring pouring cooling and forming slabs then pulling and shaping to produce a variety of confections including cocoanut candy and chocolate cream.
A fashionably attired gentleman in a city shop examined a famed 1804 silver dollar, the so-called missing dollar of 1904. Auction catalogues cite two 1804 silver dollars confirmed. a third remains in general circulation nationwide. The coin’s value and provenance trace to a farmer near Auburn and a Fort Wayne dealer, with price estimates varying by condition.
A misfiring bear act leads to a fatal incident when a deranged man disrupts the show and a struggle with handlers, drawing police pursuit. The assailant and bear handlers are reported in the chaotic scene as authorities intervene to control the aftermath.
A garbled miscellany reports mass emigrations to America from Hebrew families, political talk of U S figures, and various brief notes. It mentions John Tt Fr living in Sidney and other scattered items including a pipe dream of a monument and religious and social curiosities across multiple places and eras.
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