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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1903
Page
14
In a penniless hop picker tale, Gaskell befriends Stanmore, a man with a portfolio of haunting sketches. Stanmore hints at crime and divorce, while a detective arrives to reveal a linked motive as Gaskell guards his wife’s fate and his own secret.
A New Yorker visiting Boston tried to raise a local daily paper’s circulation by gifting 500 theater tickets to newsboys. The unionized boycott led to a non union venue, and the tickets were returned. The manager plans a union tea party style dinner where nothing opens without a union seal.
Deacon Carter laments a planned summer organ program taught by a Boston minister. He recalls hymn singing by memory, fears secular influence, and orders his daughter to summon the minister to stop the new musical arrangement until Annie Trumbull returns. The scene shows his feeble state yet strong insistence on tradition.
A Philadelphia Press cartoon caption notes a bookkeeper admitting he forgot to post February books. The clerk jokes he forgot to post letters his wife gave him yesterday, causing a humorous misdirection and a stray punchline about memory.
A clipped exchange from the Philadelphia Press discusses the idea that someone lives up to his ideals. Wagg suggests the person deserves the good opinion he holds of himself, while a protesting note implies the holder also protests on his own behalf.
A Sunday School lesson on Samuel anointing David as future king from among Jesse's sons in Bethlehem. Samuel weighs candidates, omits Eliab, and anoints David, noting David's diverse gifts and God’s chosen path despite Saul still reigning. The piece links David’s future roles and the preparation of character through life, work, and divine spirit.
A fierce windstorm swept central Illinois causing five deaths at Streator, four at Mendota, and one at Campus, with hundreds injured and property losses across Bureau, McLean, Grundy, La Salle, and Kendall counties. Buildings, factories, and arenas were ruined as a cyclone like storm darkened the night.
Martin G Fosnes, a Norwegian born 52 year old, heads the free delivery department at the post office after a long career in inspection and administration including work on Cuban frauds, later assigned to the northwestern division and then to investigate free delivery. The report covers Amity notes on Smith defense, Wilson on disease controls, and Treasury audits, with ships Tuscarora and Morrill to operate on Great Lakes and a debt reduction of 16 million dollars in the latest fiscal year.
A paying teller warned a young woman who presented a $25 check that she would need to be identified after she had loudly proclaimed to become a stranger. The remark appears in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat reflecting on Scots parishes noting 146 have no paupers, poor rates, or public houses.
Secretary Wilson described farming conditions after returning to Washington from a tour of Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa Minnesota and South Dakota. He said corn crops will be short due to abnormally cool weather while grass oats wheat and barley look strong and the overall farmer outlook remains good with high macaroni production.
Lawrence laments flood damage and postpones the Kansas State G A R reunion likely to Hutchinson. Hamilton College President Stryke notes a $100,000 Carnegie donation. Secretary Wilson directs the State Department to inform Argentina that no foot and mouth disease exists in the United States.
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