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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1891
Page
3
A tangled Gersham's Corners narrative recalls Abner Hobbes and the Widow Knived, a tannery wedding, and local legends. J Tiddy MD arrives as physician, Betty Lopy faces fever, conspiracies swirl around the tavern and travel to county seats, with townsfolk recalling past events and gossip shaping the uneasy hush of the night.
A German colliery owner predicts a future where vast canal projects will shift coal and iron to English markets. The Rhine Ems canal, Oder Spree expansion, and Elbe links will tap North Sea routes, boosting Ruhr exports to Berlin and beyond, altering traditional supply chains.
A fragmented historical note discusses origins of words and language learning, citing Plymouth and Philadelphia as sources. It mentions efforts by biology departments and technology terms, with references to Oliver Wendell Holmes and emerging medical terms. The text veers into speculative future uses and methods for teaching language and therapy.
A collection of fables and anecdotes recounts ghoul wives fattening youths, a panther’s desert vision ending in a cook’s mercy, Mercury blessing a leper’s wealth through misfortune, and a widow’s widow’s mournful rite with water to cool a grave. The pieces illustrate truthfulness, frugality, and fate shaping fortune across cultures.
During a visit to Pittelurge Blaine greeted Zach Males, an elderly man who attends to the ladies in the pew. The congressman asked Zach if he would recognize him from old pictures, praising his memory and recalling past work with Zach’s employer. The exchange surprised Zach at first.
A fragment describes an early elevator reputedly used to move people between levels of the royal palace in Luxembourg near Vienna in 1777. The text claims Empress Maria Theresa relied on a shaft and three cords to raise and lower a cabin between cellar and roof.
An Arab widow, after being left a willow, contemplates remarriage. She may wed again, but before her second marriage she visits her husband's grave to pay her respects, following a customary sequence observed by widows in similar cases.
A fragmentary 18th century account describes a London exhibition where a poor artist displayed an ivory tea table, cups, boards, and tiny instruments. Rival Beverick, a watchmaker, demonstrated marvels like a camel through a needle eye and a tiny coach with moving wheels, all scaled to fit a glass pane.
An organ grinder traveling with a trained bear was permitted to stay at a farmer’s home. A dishonest butcher hidden in the barn clutched a calf but was restrained by the bear. The man begged for mercy as the bear, muzzled, held him tightly while the farmer and others intervened. The incident ends with the thief escape narrative spreading widely.
A historical note discusses Lamarckian ideas with examples from lime and cathartic trees where leaf malformations caused by insects appear inherited. It questions whether variations were accidental or possessed originally, and cites studies on carbonic acid exhalation linked to meals, noting changes after eating and the need for fresh air.
A garbled report from Indian county describes a person named Mer Craving for Quatt exprosed a craving for quids. The scene mentions visitors, an unlawful act against birds, a collision with a house, and the death of all lifelone dailies.
Fragmentary note claims women are excluded from Japanese parliamentary debates, with hints of broader political agitation in Europe and possible influence on debate dynamics. The text is garbled and lacks clear names, dates, or verifiable events.
A wounded Confederate and a Union Johnny recall the Battle of Stone River. The speaker describes wounds from bullets in the right leg right shoulder and hand, the chaos with looters, and a Confederate shooter killed by a ball to the forehead. The narrative shifts to a medical warning about mercury in tonics and praise for Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
In Boston locals coin a new term for sausages as pork tolls while discussing changes in naming. References to a talling spade axpade and a figure King Hhumtwrt appear, with 2,008 bloated Worson to ols ther statiles near lu.
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