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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1891
Page
8
An archaic verse scene portrays Wealth with a golden conch and four, Love pleading at a cottage door while Beauty lures briefly. A speaker refuses, noting beauty fades and depth of knowledge cannot buy happiness, as Love, Wealth, and Beauty contend for a bride.
A first person confession details a two year stint in Mali fornia mines turning to stagecoach robbery. Thad and partners, after gambling losses, plan and execute a bold heist near Chico, seizing gold from a Shasta stage. They escape, hide, divide the loot, flee into Oregon and Idaho, are later arrested, convicted, and face a terminal outcome as the narrator reflects on fate and debts.
Fragmentary reflection contrasts pleasure and body ethos, noting affection and enjoyment strengthen mental experience. The arid prose hints at philosophical themes but provides few concrete facts or names.
A collection of fragmented notes describes an aviary fable with a meorplon and Mihy polvon on a river voyage, a turtle saving a scorpion, and a spiritual Indu myth about a vast cosmic loom. It covers silk from spiders, bed bugs debate, cochineal insects, and dyeing uses, plus exotic cloths and royal garments.
A wild tale from a newspaper feature describes Senator David Davis at a Grand Pacite hotel in China facing a reporter who asks about a rumored tenth of a rum marriage. The senator allegedly demands the journalist write a false report, then shoots the man. the fee reads like a sensational hoax. Another note recalls two pastors swapping sermons, then preaching the same Blair sermon to rival churches, and a note on Havemin race decline and British-flag schooners near Victoria after Port Townsend dispatches.
A San Diego correspondent details ostrich farming routines including rearing from four to six months, mating at four to five years, and a final house of about an acre per pair. The article covers feeding, moulting, egg handling, feather yields, and market attitudes, with anecdotes about feeding behavior, visitor tricks, pipe theft by an ostrich, and the birds’ hardy yet injury-prone nature.
An archaic account recounts a close encounter with a polar bear. The narrator describes the bear as formidable and elusive, noting its weight and general behavior. A improvised spear is used to strike the animal behind the foreleg after approaching while the beast lies unconscious.
A garbled note hints at a curious fact about polar bear liver and meat appearance. It mentions liver content and meat color, noting resemblance to something known, with unclear context and several misspellings.
An 1865 account describes President Lincoln welcoming Colonel Scott from Kentucky and inventor Machel Lamon to the White House. Scott showcases a shoulder strapped, single hand firing gun while Lincoln jokes about Kentuckians and Yankees. Lincoln expresses interest in adopting the weapon, shares a story, and plans to test it, but is assassinated before any test occurs.
In Delaware City a group of islands surface in summer and vanish in winter to unknown depths. Some are small as a fort, others cover a quarter acre. They seem to rise from a soft surface and ride on a firmer substructure. Scientists debate that they may mark an outlet or intrusion, with no agreed depth. Residents track the yearly river phenomena as winter returns.
Madame Bernhardt appears skeptical of God yet intensely superstitious. Her delays on La Tosca stem from refusing to meet a writer she suspects of the evil eye. Macbeth in Paris faced similar fears, leading to changes in music and rehearsal plans.
Chicago Tribune profiles Charley Farwell as the best poker player in the United States and a much loved senator. It notes his frankness as a fault, his popular appeal in the Senate, and the broad respect he earned from Democrats and Republicans alike as he left Washington.
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