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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1908
Page
6
Adare and Amber visit an old mill and a grand Irish manor, revealing family tensions over jewels and a rumored theft. Amber guards secrets about her father and mother while Adare confronts rumors of betrayal, as Henry Deane and a sharp confrontation with Captain Adare unfold amid a tense party at The Larches.
In a lively gathering at Madam OFlaherty’s party, Amber is revealed to Hilary, while Owen frets over introductions and Mrs Clarence and May struggle with laughter. Madam urges guests to promenade as talk of waltzes and old friends, including Sir Lucien and Denis, punctuates the social tension.
A crew member recalls the Souffleur collision with sister ship Bonite outside Toulon. Depth twenty five feet. The blast capsized batteries releasing sulfuric acid as crew fought to surface. Robillot ordered weights released. the submarine rose, hatch opened, men escaped to air. Every crew member volunteered to return for repairs.
Prof. Price detailed the tariff arguments of both parties at a meeting. After his lecture he was applauded by members of the Woman's Current Events Club who praised the talk as perfectly lovely and witty. The fair member compared free traders to other girls in a playful metaphor.
A fog shrouded collision near Hakodate, Japan, between the Matsu Maru and the Hideyoshi Maru claimed 275 lives, with 43 sailors and 244 passengers aboard the Matsu Maru perishing. The disaster occurred in the Hokkaido straits as lifeboats were launched and the Hideyoshi aided survivors in the early dawn hours.
Governor Broward of Florida pushes a canal project to reclaim 10 000 acres of the Everglades. Two sixty foot wide canals to Pine Island aim to drain land for cultivation, with engineers predicting completion by fall and sales of drained plots at 15 to 20 dollars per acre.
Naval authorities at Hakodate dispatched several fast destroyers to the wreck scene after news of the disaster. The Hideyoshi was badly damaged but no loss of life is believed on that vessel. The captain and all crew are Japanese and on board were several wealthy Japanese merchants.
Miss Ida Lewis, sole woman in charge of an American lighthouse, has served Lime Rock in Newport Harbor for over fifty years and now contemplates a lengthy vacation. She suffers nervousness and insomnia after a lifetime at sea light. Recipient of the Carnegie hero fund pension for saving eighteen lives, she also earned the Cross of Honor from the American Cross of Honor Society. Her 65th birthday passed quietly last month, aided by her brother Rudolph Lewis in running the lighthouse.
A string of witty quips and social bits comment on current affairs from wages to weather and prosperity. References to Col John Temple Graves, Hungarian counts in the Vanderbilt family, and the Panama Canal hint at inflation and modern life.
Money has been applied to the fund for digging the canals. The governor says the Everglades can be reclaimed at a cost of not over one dollar an acre. Estimates of land value range from twenty to one hundred dollars an acre.
Philadelphia professor John Horvath announces a varnish formula he says unlocks Stradivarius tone. In a expert panel test, two violins a $2 beater and a $22 factory instrument showed improved tone, rivaling rare violins. Plans call for a six month field test across several treated instruments.
A historical record notes embezzlements forgery and bank wrecking from 1894 through 1908. The 1907 total reaches 10.424 million dollars, far lower than 1906’s peak of 34.988 million losses borne by banks and trust companies. Public officials show comparatively low absences totaling 787,466.
The Cement Age reports success in concrete car bumpers for Lackawanna trains with monolithic blocks and granite faces. It notes reinforced concrete flywheels, two of them weighing 6,000 pounds and 14 feet in diameter, used in a pumping station near Johannesburg to avoid iron transport costs.
Under district court ruling St Louis County must return 17,157.74 to the Minnesota State treasury for money lost from bank failures in 1894 and 1896 and bear state funds advanced on tax settlements. The county plans to appeal to the Supreme Court. Five Detroit women formed a stork club in January 1907 and have welcomed a baby each since then.
The lesson explains Jesus as the door and the good shepherd who knows his sheep by name and leads them to pastures. It contrasts true ministry with thieves and hirelings, notes the Holy Spirit as doorkeeper, and urges steadfast loyalty to Jesus amid false shepherds and man made ministries. The text applies to early Christian church structure and spiritual discernment.
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