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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1891
Page
8
A column of sensational notes on women in music and fashion. Miss Temple’s early life near Dover amid soldiers, war and song drafting. Miss Temple writes and composes, pursuing operetta work. A bride’s gold corsets priced at 100 dollars spark chatter over luxury fashion.
Atlanta Constitution profiles Mon A H Perrine an Alabama businesswoman who helped capture a county killer. She runs a 4000 acre plantation in Randall County Alabama near the Negro belt area manages labor personally and produced a large cotton crop last year. Her credit stands at $5000 with prompt discharges.
A notice describes Parisian fancies of the moment such as hooted terriers with scarlet ribbons matching gray spring gowns. The piece notes the dog’s collar color as a dash of color for the overall gray tone. It also mentions a rising Parisian trend of a spoken “language of stamps” in society.
A Lewiston Journal account recalls the vivid tale of Joe Thomson and a pond named for him. He trapped rats in a hogshead then released them from a boat, hoping to drown them, but the rats swarmed and attacked, forcing him to swim ashore.
The article explains how an ordinary spider builds a web by first laying about thirty radiating foundation lines converging at the center. It then adds concentric threads with sticky droplets, avoiding a few central ones to keep the middle clear. A nearby cell links to the center by a tremulous thread that signals captures and guides the spider.
The article explains the nose serves dual purposes: sense of smell and main breathing organ. It notes the olfactory nerves lie in the upper nasal chambers away from normal inhalation, so strong odors fade unless air is drawn upward and held briefly, a point from Youth’s Companion.
The president is chosen by a joint session majority, serves seven years, and can enroll a ministry from parliament, sign treaties, appoint top posts, grant pardons, and dissolve the chamber with Senate concurrence. The executive circuit was elected on December 3, 1887, per the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A teacher, still new, cautions boys about failure in youth’s bright lexicon. A Boston boy asks a Socrates like question and suggests writing to lexicon publishers to note an omission in the work. The brief exchange captures a moment of wry humor in class.
George A Clarke a Boston metals expert reports discovering a black sandstone like ore in the Rocky Mountains with claims it enhances iron ductility fluidity and tensile strength. He tested it in Cincinnati Chicago and Boston finding the alloy increases density polish and reduces slag while remaining non corrosive. He refuses to reveal the field location while seeking control.
Deputy Marshal Tom Smith recounts a midnight prairie chase with Deputy Booker. After Booker toppled over the dashboard, Smith fired his Winchester to stop frightened horses, bringing them down and preventing a possible plunge into danger. The horses were valued at $160 each.
A severe mid day storm struck Mr. William Henry Morton’s home in Athens. A bolt melted the weather vane rod and tin gutter, then carried molten metal down to the ground. The strike also ran along an iron basin and pipe to a well fifty feet away, causing extensive metal damage while woodwork remained largely intact.
The fifteenth annual convention of the Northwest Texas Cattle Growers Association met in Dallas. Delegates from Montana to the Gulf reported range cattle well preserved, with little storm suffering and strong winter grazing. If cold weather stays away, cattle along the line are expected to be fatter and in better condition than usual.
A garbled piece describes a jewelry store theft involving a young woman distraction and a thief seizing items. It also mentions a royal baptism water supply in Berlin, a Paris life policy dispute with Michael Eyrand, two horse skeletons at Stanford and Berlin museums, university courses for 716 subjects, and Senator Manderrow as a three year veteran of the United States Senate.
An essay traces the "Roses of Sharon" to Zeiters about the anemone and the biblical rose concept. It cites Pole P. Beower and the Edinburgh Review, noting Palestine only grows true roses in Lebanon and attar plants near Hebron, with historical naming confusion from Ebers and Guthe.
A visitor describes a factory area filled with a lively fair under tamarisks with stalls selling fruit vegetables cloth and livestock. An Arab Punch and Judy show features Punch in a turban and Judy in a yashmak, with the chief magistrate deposed and hanged. The inspector notes the act may predate European theater.
Frost Banker of the Dead River region, rival to James A. Smith of Phillips, Philadelphia Rangely guide, recounts a hunting trip with “John Smith.” They encounter a man who offers five dollars to weave the owl, leading to the owl’s head being twisted off as John circles the tree. John notes small owls cannot be killed that way, as their feet fit when twisted.
The article recalls early modern English stage pay, noting Kean spent little on revivals while Irving and Wilson Barrett paid actors more than double. John Ryder briefly earned only three pounds ten shillings weekly until his salary rose to eight pounds after a rival earned that much. Today such actors command thirty to fifty pounds weekly. Kean also raised ballet girls pay from a shilling nightly to a guinea weekly, covering shoes and stockings.
Fragmentary humor note references a traveling showman cutting rates for Indians and a quip about scalper tickets. The text includes garbled names and odd phrases with no clear event, person, or date to anchor a factual news item.
Fragmentary OCR passage lists numerous personal names, places, and affiliations with no coherent event or outcome. It reads like scattered notes from a Chicago and West Michigan context, mentioning people such as Briana Cate and Susy, with no discernible action or report to summarize.
BERT WOODWARD lists choice farms for sale at lowest cash price with Lone ane Lots Borgeht. Offers include money to loan on approved security and first-claimed maintenance. Promises services from Trenance Companies for farm risks with connections to Shehax the Western of Toronto Granite State and the United States.
Fragmented OCR text shows a probate court session with names such as Stephen W. Hamblin and Jaap Vortion, mentioning the Carat line and private notice by Berns, Clerk of Probate Court. The document references a hearing set for a date in September and legal actions in Alma Michigan with various locals and probate terms.
An unclear, damaged OCR passage describes people and places with scattered names such as Miller and Horn. The text reads like a jumble of words and fragments, offering no clear event, date, or identifiable action to summarize into a coherent news item.
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