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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1886
Page
4
The Alma Record notes its value as an advertising medium for Gratiot County, claiming it reaches nearly every home in the region and urging advertisers to place notices. It references form and capitalization quirks while discussing writs and publication practices, indicating the paper’s central role for local announcements.
The column critiques Irish embroidery labor as poverty wages and argues for better education to raise productive output. It notes the opening of the New Line and Ann Avior trains serving southern routes, with trains highlighted for reliability and connections. It includes commentary on honesty, character, and justice, plus editorials on public monuments and the value of meaningful work for students.
The best plan to interest children is to give them active tasks. When not engaged in schooling they roam and misbehave. Keep them busy with meaningful work in class and at home to avoid idleness and restlessness. A task done with cheerfulness is a form of love not mere labor.
The article notes South American colonization spread with twenty colonias in arcauine regions and others planned from Rosati. It cites 16,380 families in the area, with Santa Fe district receiving eighty eight colonies in thirty years and over 150,000 inhabitants. It highlights fertile soil and the need for goodwill to settle for comfort and resilience.
A garbled early 19th century style tale recalls a hardened man entering a saloon in Prancisco and fleeing after a theft. It includes a brokered horse theft anecdote involving General J. Aniersen and a customs collector, with clipped dialogue about value and “swag” and a final quip about secrecy. The fragmentary text mixes crime, intoxication, and odd moral reflections without clear sequence.
A dense, fragmentary account surveys Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wilkie Collins, and others shaping American letters and journalism. It hints at The New York World’s religious origins, Wit and satire in contemporary writing, and remarks on portraits and marriages as cultural mirror, naming figures like Holmes, Collins, Harte, Warner, and Liver.
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