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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1908
Page
14
In a crumbling setting Adare and Amber confront secrets in a ruined doorway leading to a cellar as family tensions rise. Amber reveals relatives Esther Deane and Brian Ivane while accusations flare about a theft linked to her mother. A confrontation ensues with Hilary Adare and Brian as tensions spiral toward a looming encounter at The Lareches.
In a lively scene at Madam OFlaherty’s garden party, Amber appears among guests prompting mixed reactions. Owen pleads for the first waltz while Madam dismisses propriety and hints at matchmaking as the group flits between laughter, nerves, and social maneuvering in a stray, socially charged moment.
A French submarine crew recounts the perilous collision with Bonite off Toulon. The Souffleur sank rapidly, electric acid batteries spilled, gas filled the hull, and men fought to survive as they rose to the surface and escaped through the hatch. All volunteers offered to return to repair the Souffleur.
Professor Price presents both sides of tariff controversy in a public talk. He is thanked by members of the Woman's Current Events Club, who compare free traders to other girls in a flirtatious moment highlighting partisan views.
A dense fog collision between the Matsu Maru and the Mideyoshi Maru near Hakodate, Japan, leaves 275 dead. The Matsu Maru sank within ten minutes. the Hideyoshi Maru rescued some survivors while aiding the sinking vessel.
Florida Governor Broward pushes drainage projects to reclaim 10,000 acres in the Everglades. Two sixty foot canals toward Pine Island aim to convert swamp lands into productive use, with land near sale at 15 to 20 dollars per acre. Engineers predict completion by fall amid opposition from rail holders claiming rights to vast land areas.
Naval authorities at Hako date dispatched several fast destroyers to the wreck scene after the Nideyoshi was badly damaged. No definite loss of life reported aboard the ship though the crew and captain were Japanese. Substantial funds have been raised, with rich Japanese merchants believed aboard, while canal digging funds are in progress. The Everglades reclamation costs eyed at not more than one dollar per acre, with land values estimated from twenty to one hundred dollars per acre.
Miss Ida Lewis longtime Lime Rock lighthouse keeper in Newport harbor contemplates a rare vacation after fifty years at the post. She suffers nervousness and sleeplessness while awaiting rest, recently honored with the Carnegie hero fund pension for saving eighteen lives and the Cross of Honor from the American Cross of Honor Society. Rudolph Lewis assists her in the lighthouse duties.
A collage of quips and social notices from The News 7, mentioning a new nickel trust, two Hungarian counts in the Vanderbilt family, Col John Temple Graves on women’s wages, weather talk by a weather bureau, Prosperity Convention hopes, auto endurance race slim edge, Georgia colonel at a drug store fountain, moonshine and night raid jabs about Kentucky, Panama canal costs, and a North Carolina railroad camp cook killed for not suiting.
Philadelphia professor John Horvath announces a new varnish for violins that he says reproduces Stradivarius tone. In tests before experts he compared a $2 used violin and a $22 factory-new instrument with several rare violins, reporting the treated instruments matched the best. A six month endurance test of more treated violins is planned next.
The record of embezzlement, forgery, and bank failure grows but 1907’s total is 10,424,820 while banks and trust companies lose 34,988,605. Public officials abstracted 787,466. The Cement Age notes Lackawanna railroad trial of concrete car bumpers with monolithic granite faces and rails embedding impact. It also cites massive concrete fly wheels in a Johannesburg pumping station, each 6,000 pounds and 14 feet in diameter, driven by transport costs of iron.
Under a District Court ruling St. Louis county must refund 17,157.74 to the Minnesota State treasury for tax money lost due to bank failures in 1894 and 1896. The county also bears prior forwarded state funds and will appeal to the Supreme Court. Five Detroit women formed a club in January 1907 and a baby has joined each since.
The lesson explains Jesus as the door and the good shepherd, contrasting false leaders with true spiritual guidance. It notes the shepherd knows his sheep, leads them to pastures, and sacrifices for them, while false ministers are thieves and hirelings. It emphasizes unity of Jew and Gentile in one fold and the voluntary nature of Christ's death.
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