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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1891
Page
6
The piece surveys progressive ideas on health laws and public cleanliness, discusses immigrant labor and pauper migration to the United States, and laments the ethics of drunkenness and child education. It critiques plumbing testing, public baths, and the need for reform-minded action in early modern cities.
A Brooklyn Tabernacle sermon exhorts young men to openly embrace the Bible. The preacher likens Eleazar’s grip on the sword to holding scripture firmly against modern critics, urging believers to press their study from Genesis onward and resist partial truths. He praises steadfast witnesses and recalls aged ministers who kept faith, urging a courageous Christian life with scars of devotion as proof.
While touring the East, Keil of Hanover College, a professor of languages, searched historic sites and found a worn grave marker in the Od South Church yard in Boston. The legible inscription led him to believe he uncovered the origins of Mother Goose, a theory later supported by further research.
Agnes E Monroe, a clever journalist, is writing a volume titled The Beat Thought of Dalene to be published by Roberts Brothers before the holidays. The compilation promises literary taste and keen discrimination, marking her as a notable journalist and hostess with engaging after-dinner anecdotes.
A Vienna merchant once presented to the Industrial Union details on producing spiders thread for woven fabrics. He described winding the thread on a reel and twenty four spiders yielding 2000 feet in six minutes. The resulting fabric was praised as superior to silk for beauty and delicacy. The text ends with a moral reflection on labor and repentance.
The Chicago Herald recounts young rulers around the 15th and 16th centuries. It notes Wilhelmina and Alphonso XIII as modern precedents, while detailing kings and queens who ascended as children, including Henry VI of England and Christian IV of Denmark, highlighting the era's frequent minor sovereigns and long reigns despite youth.
A historical venturer outlines a bold plan to reach the North Pole by sea. A wooden slip vessel, ten to twelve men, five years’ provisions and coal, designed with sloped sides to shed ice, would press forward against pack ice and lift the ship upward, aiming for the safest path to the pole and near icy frontiers.
A collection of satirical and ironic lines on male pride and behavior. It mocks male bravado, secrecy, and advice culture, with quips on confession, debts, footwear nails, and a New York haircut fad. It notes unreliable counsel and uneven shoulders as humorous observations.
An advertisement touts Shilohs Cure as a unparalleled remedy for coughs sore throats and consumption warning it can be sent free to homes in the United States and Canada. It urges using the product for children with whooping cough and stomach illness and promotes Shilohs Porous Plaster and associated prices.
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