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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1888
Page
4
A damaged OCR verse fragment recalls youth passing away and memory as the speaker contemplates sorrow, death, and a brief bright morning. The speaker, feeling estranged, glances at a brook and embers in memory, yearning for a return to happier days before fading.
On her nineteenth birthday Viva faces a dispute with Uncle Gerald over her engagement to Alan Fairbrooke. A mistaken photograph reveals Alan as a wanted felon, exposing a web of deceit. Clara Elliott and Viva confront betrayal, then return home with a softened outlook as justice and affection resolve the turmoil.
A comical tale in which a celebrated physician preaches abstinence yet indulges with a patient over dinner. A teetotaler mockingly questions the doctor's practice as the physician explains champagne dulls worry over answering long letters. The crowd laughs at the irony.
The Amherst College Glee Club once serenaded Kate Penhover in Rochester during a New York State tour about ten years ago. A white robed figure appeared on a higher floor as the chorus faded, and the club quietly departed, leaving a lofty, humorous memory of their college hymn parody.
A Cincinnati Angateen report details a Longview Insane Asylum scene where a young wife, Annie, sits pale and haunted as her husband lies dead. Her mother discovers the couple’s suffering and a grisly crime scene with a murdered child, severed hand, gouged eyes, and a disfigured body, all witnessed amid a household of horror.
A physician’s narrative recalls a father’s brutal act at his daughter’s wedding anniversary. The mother, traumatized, endures years of mute shock while a female attendant guides her through sorrow. The story lingers on the final image of the patient and the haunting memory it leaves.
A poetic meditation on how time teaches that no life’s loss is total. The speaker vows patience and enduring faith, noting that while sorrow follows regret, love remains a sustaining force. Acknowledges gifts born from hardship and the belief that joy can return in a new form through time and trust.
Maj King of the U S Army engineered two 15 inch Rodman guns weighing 50 000 pounds each into a massive electromagnet at Willett Point L I Using over eight miles of old torpedo cable wrapped around the guns and powered by a Weston dynamo the device showed a magnetic force strong enough to require 20 600 pounds to move the armature A shell weighing 220 pounds stripped from a gun was expelled and a shell at the bore repelled while iron fragments rolled out slowly The experiment suggested greater power with more wrapping and iron links between the breech and magnet potential improvements noted by the New York Mail
A Curiosity of Arkansas notes a bizarre weed in the Arkansas valley shaped like a bell, ranging from under a foot to five or six feet tall. Ripe fruits detach and tumble with gusts of wind. hunters sometimes mistake them for bisons and dive to the ground to dodge them.
In a small anecdote from the Free Press a boy hurries a clerk with a comic request for urgent supper items. He says his mother needs the groceries and uses odd phrases and slang as he shops.
A New York Sun item describes preserving a melon with wine and possibly brandy to create a rich flavored dessert. It details step by step cutting a melon, soaking the pulp with claret, chilling, and turning the fruit to saturate each part, with optional Marsala as a contrasting wine.
A pension office scene turns comic as a clerk unveils a hidden stone wall to reveal a tombstone proclaiming a deceased man. The moment, filled with thumps and dramatic flourishes, ends with onlookers reacting to the ruse and the damaged man nearby.
A damaged Washington Letter fragment recounts a quarrel over a tombstone, with a man demanding payment and another arguing about pension merit and luxury. The scene centers on two men arguing over an epitaph and date, ending with an unresolved exchange.
A fragment from the Sas Francisca Chronicle essay argues whistling signals a vacant mind. It claims men and women differ in habit and notes a stereotype about Jewish people and whistling. The piece mocks solitary sound, social noise, and a late night whistle of I Trovatore from a crowded bakery.
A retrospective from a periodical discusses celebrated hunchbacks such as the Marechal de Luxemburg and Shakespearean Richard III. It cites Macaulay and others on physical deformities and public perception, noting figures like Burleigh, the Duke of Parma, and Pope, described with archaic terms and vivid imagery.
A Philadelphia Record note recounts how a toddler named Matt Quay displayed early cunning. His Presbyterian minister father brought home a pocket sword and a Bible. Matt plotted to trade the sword for the Bible, anticipating his sister’s disinterest in the weapon.
Disjointed OCR text shows misread dialogue among unnamed speakers with garbled names and phrases. It hints at a scene with Miss Clams, Mise Clara, and Mr Sampson, but most names and actions are unclear, suggesting a damaged newspaper fragment rather than a full report.
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