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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1891
Page
6
A long readable passage discusses agricultural policy, roads, and education, contrasting American and European views on corn bread and rye. It includes analysis of public morals, labor conditions, and the mental growth required to judge scientific and philanthropic topics, with remarks on Inuit, Athabascan, and Chinese laborers in Alaska and cannery work.
A touring sermon recalls Smyrna and Ephesus, Polycarp’s martyrdom, and the vast Diana temple in Ephesus. The speaker describes the stadium, theater, and great temple ruins, contrasting idol worship with Christian faith and the enduring value of Christ as refuge and treasure.
A deformed family in Elliott County Kentucky, including three grown sons and a daughter, has been found. The children have protruding heads like lakes, pointed crowns, beady eyes near the top, and rapid tongue protrusion when excited. Their skin is scaly and sheds seasonally. Parents appear normal.
A lone golden eagle, one of three ever shot in Maine, was found feeding on a lamb near Bangor. Two foxes tried to share the meal, but the eagle defended its feast until the farmer shot and killed it. The impressive bird with a six foot wingspan was mounted for display in Kangor.
A curio of notes describes straw burning stoves and silver ore refining, a tether for confining livestock, a calendar that records future dates, and a painter jailed by debt. It also mentions phono graphs for illiterate users, a new instrument for measuring vessel roll, and a steamship climometer showing unusual readings.
In the village of Rojumura Japan residents rally behind a local option ban with the motto Frugal in all Things Liquors Prohibited. The town, now united in total abstinence, enforces a prohibition on all alcohol sales and consumption within its borders.
The article presents literacy rates for six year olds in Havwatia, detailing ability to read and write in Hawaiian, English or a European language. It references merit orders and various groups, including Americans, Brits, and foreigners, and notes a daily death toll in Neapland from delirium tremens.
The ad promotes Shiloh's Cure as a universal remedy for consumption and related lung ailments. It claims unrivaled effectiveness, urges use for coughs croup and whooping cough, and offers a sample to every family in the United States and Canada. Prices listed include one dollar for the cure and twenty-five cent paste for the balm.
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