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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1908
Page
8
Long critique of national wastefulness sparked by Prof Holmes. It traces costly ore and timber losses and argues economy is learned under pressure. Blames social habits, family upbringing, and lack of financial education for a pervasive, petty wastage by all classes.
An experimenter using Mexicar rat mescal reports vivid visions and intricate butterfly forms. He notes writing becomes impossible while a golden glow covers the page and his hand appears bronzed. A gas light yields radiant colored shadows with no depression or physical discomfort.
A compilation of assorted statements on science history and society. Topics include channel depths, women in parliament, French cooking substitutes, fire statistics in London, Swiss college enrollment, goldfish origins, the Italian Lottery, Norwegian forestry law, otter speed, golden wedding odds, elephant skin, English and American heights, brain phosphorus, feathers for millinery, brain size versus capacity, climate effects, umbrella origin, and an electrohen device for classroom chick hatching.
The Carnegie hero fund commission reports 126 medals and 190814.82 dollars awarded over four years. Examples include George A. Grant of Grebhhy hag neero who saved lives at cost of his own. Charles Campbell of Boston. and Charles A. Wapple of Providence, with the latter dying from injuries. Florence House of Chelsea nursed a typhoid patient who attacked her, then saved others. she received a bronze medal and quarterly payments totaling a thousand dollars.
Senator Hopkins quotes an anecdote about a bridegroom in Aurora who buys only one train ticket for his honeymoon. When confronted by his wife about the single ticket, he quips that he never thought of himself, reflecting clever but self centered behavior.
The Choctaw nation operates 150 schools with higher branches. The Seminoles run ten colleges and sixty five common schools totaling about 2,500 attendees. Chickasaws maintain five colleges serving 400 students at 47,000 dollars yearly, plus thirteen district schools at 16,000 dollars. The Cherokees, noted for early contact in Georgia, allocate 200,000 dollars annually to schools and colleges.
A dated survey traces the faiths of U S presidents from Washington to McKinley, noting Episcopal, Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Unitarian affiliations or leanings. It recalls Lincoln and Jefferson debates on belief, and highlights how religion influenced or contrasted with political life.
Rev. James J. Kane, longtime United States Navy chaplain, recounts eight near-death episodes including a 24 hour coffin rest during the Civil War's yellow fever era. He describes conscious detachment, extra mental faculties beyond the body, and a later revival in London aided by Dr Callender's assessment after a cataleptic seizure.
An advertisement warns of widespread kidney disease and urges use of Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy. It claims the product cures back and joint pains, liver and bladder issues, and urinary troubles. Sample bottles and a free book are offered by mail from Kilmer Co, Binghamton NY.
Mixed OCR fragments mention absurd claims about farmers and tradesmen prices imports and exports, pistol laws in Alabama and South Carolina, Brookline as a wealthy town with a soldiers monument, Madagascar garages offering a two pole car seat, and stray phrases about New York City real estate and Frankfort residents.
The Times of Ceylon warns the public about a fraudulent lottery operating in Colombo aided by specious advertising. The notice urges caution and public scrutiny to avoid loss.
A Havana executioner, a life prisoner, performs capital punishments by garrote for seventeen dollars and fifty cents per execution. The process occurs in a small sombre room on a black platform with the condemned strapped and a single lever firing the device. He boasts of the well oiled apparatus and offered Americans a trial, which they declined, grinning when refused. He once demanded advance pay before performing, forcing jail officials to meet his terms as he could not go out to collect money beforehand.
An advertisement extols Dr Shoop’s Restorative as a genuine tonic for tired nerves and spring fatigue. It links indoor winter life to sluggish bowels circulation and organ strain and claims a few weeks of use will reveal steady improvement, with Frank B Jones selling the remedy.
Over ten years whiskers fall from fashion yet a Texas farmer grows facial hair for sale to open market. He earns eight dollars per beard crop, which takes three years. The piece traces beard trends from Kosciuszko to Burnside and notes fashion cycles.
A collection of humorous exchanges touching on work ethic. Quotes include remarks about gasoline saves, self estimation, four corners of the earth, Chicago beef, standard oil, sugar and paper, and a lighthearted love proposal observed the morning curl papers. The banter features Bowers Powers Adele Estelle and Estelle.
The Republican State Central Committee calls a state convention at Majestic Theater Grand Rapids on May 12 1908 at 11 a.m. to elect four delegates at large to Chicago 1908 and nominate fourteen Presidential Electors with county and district delegations based on last Secretary of State vote counts. districts meet at 9 30 a.m. and credentials rules apply.
O. B. Woolever of LeRaysville New York claims a twenty year health sentence was cured by Bucklen's Arnica Salve for bleeding piles twenty years ago. He says the salve heals the worst sores boils burns wounds and cuts quickly and notes it is available for 25 cents at F B Jones' drug store.
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