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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1891
Page
2
A collage of 19th century essayistic fragments on poetry and photography, notes on moon study and critics, school life standards, electric street railways in the United States, frontier campfire narrative with lions, and a Louisiana tale of alligators.
A displaced traveler recalls his first American sleeping car journey on arrival in Canada. He describes curtained berths, a surprised stranger in his bed, and the porter guiding him to his shelf above a sleeping woman while bystanders react with shock and humor.
A scattered gossip column notes Verdi at seventy seven, a proposed public hall near Lake Michigan, and a museum piece from the Litt lephin home in Chicago. It touches on Hopkins and Harvard scientists, social contrasts, and odd items ranging from postage rates to a telegraph dispatch.
Inside History recounts a long ago incident in the Highlands involving a bright domestic and a poor law student who returned loaned books. The story hints the man later gained notable status as “General,” with the teller keeping the name unnamed. Also mentions contemporary events and a humorous wedding quip from the Somerville Journal.
A garbled OCR style summary noting statistics on unions, churches, New York Jewish population estimates, a 24 person electric swing for the World’s Fair, shoe spending, livestock counts, and a steel chimney for the fair building comparing weights and costs to brick construction.
An old advertisement promotes Shilohs Cure with promises of curing throat cough bronchitis and whooping cough. It claims universal authorization to sell, a sampling offer for the United States and Canada, and lists prices for the remedy and a Shilohs Porous Plaster.
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