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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1891
Page
3
A fragmented verse piece features a Prairie Graduate narrator critiquing schooling and teachers. The speaker questions authority and claims true learning lies in simple, personal wisdom rather than formal instruction. The text references planets, stars, and a call to trust inner understanding over conventional schooling.
A Philadelphia Times reminiscence tells of a clipper voyage to San Francisco. A shark captured for breakfast forewarns a fierce gale as red sunset portends danger. The crew battles a hurricane like storm, cooking kettles spill, the captain shouts orders, and the ship slowly rides out the tempest.
A St Louis Globe-Democrat correspondent describes tar and feathering as an excruciating, nearly deadly punishment. Tar removal is slow and painful, requiring days, with heat unable to soften the tar and oil used to ease peeling. The account warns of intense skin injury, bleeding, and possible death, noting many have perished from the torture.
The article explains how naval officers sustain a civilian standard of living through cooperative housekeeping aboard ships. A mess fund, provided by officers, pays for supplies bought at low cost via a caterer. Costs, wines, cigars, and meals are managed to keep living expenses modest during long cruises, with pay scales ranging widely.
A Mandvie Bander meeting of the Cutehoe Weess Oswal caste resolves that women should wear a flower in the nose rather than a nose ring. The nose ring is deemed a source of unfavorable comment and is to be forfeited for ten rupees with annex.
An article discusses electricity as a possible cause for many celestial phenomena and questions traditional spectroscope interpretations. It notes limits in the instrument’s explanations and suggests electrical aspects may be involved alongside existing theories.
A garbled collage of curiosities from Westphalia to Britain. Notes include a bridge painting rumor, a Washington form, a violet market figure, hypnotic patients and phonograph doubt, a New York lunatic claiming to be a walking telephone, a giant fig tree root story, a clergyman’s parishioner quip, fortifications near Canada, a Roman helmet found in the Tiber, a dog tale with a clever trick, and skeptical notes on hair as a sign of intellect.
A wide note on historic quakes reviews Pekin 1608 and 1701 losses, Lima 1580s and Lisbon 1755 devastations, with details of casualties, ruined cities, and cascading impacts. It contrasts ancient seismic events with later plumes of destruction and questions whether Earth vents surplus heat or prepares for another upheaval.
The Boston Herald reports on Cape York Esquimaux, praising their cheerful, honest ways and noting lack of Christian influence. The article describes communal property norms, marriage, and child trade, contrasting with Danish civilization and Danish rule as a potential benefit or hindrance. It includes an anecdote about Sheridan and a Mexican visitor over desk shoes.
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