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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
19
In the Concrete Age text asserts women dread surgery and cites Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a proven alternative. It features letters from women praising the remedy for female troubles, claiming life-saving or health-restoring results. It ends with a joke about government officers discussing a battleship corner stone molding.
Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into your shoes. It rests feet, cures corns, tunions, swollen or sore feet, wet feet, callouses, aching, sweating feet and growing nails. Easy in new or tight shoes. Sold by all druggist and shoe stores, 25c. Sample mailed free. Address Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy NY.
Mr Ferguson asks Mrs. Ferguson to resolve a home decision about a parlor rug during breakfast. He checks the price difference between two rug choices and then announces he must head downtown, reminding to feed Rover. The exchange hints at domestic tensions and daily chores as they part for the day.
Official figures show last session appropriations at 1 008 397 543 50 dollars with 95 882 247 for army 122 665 885 for navy 163 053 000 for pensions 222 970 892 for post office and 111 958 088 for sundry civil expenses Continuing appropriations total 49 443 750 for ships and armor public buildings 20 789 750 and a net employment rise of 10 682 positions fueled by contracts and new offices. net pay up 9 086 287.
A thousand mile relay race from New York City Hall to Chicago featured 2000 plus YMC A members carrying Mayor McLellans message. Runners periodically handed the silver-tube message across sections of 15 to 90 miles while Lake Cayuga swimming marked a spectacular detour.
The article notes 6,000 seamen for the navy 809 marine corps personnel and 3,368 postal service staff totaling 129 028 in salaries at 9 146 575 annual cost. Navy 42 636 officers and enlisted 8 907 marine corps officers and enlisted. Congress appropriations rose from 920 798 143 to 1 080 397 543 an increase of 87 599 309 with increases in most acts except DC Indians and Military Academy. The piece highlights the association's esteem and a leader's public approval and sympathy.
The East River was spanned by a fourth bridge on June 12 as the Manhattan Bridge towers linked by two cables to support a foot bridge for cable weavers. The span lies near the Brooklyn Bridge between it and the Williamsburg Bridge. Simultaneously the new Blackwell’s Island bridge is ready for city turnover.
Circulars issued by H. J. Hap good head of the Hapgoods employment bureau reveal the impact of the panic. Employers have cut payrolls and now better men are available at bargain prices willing to work for one third to one quarter less salary than during prosperity.
In St Louis, owners of 6000 acres of yellow pine lands across Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama appointed a permanent committee led by F B Weyerhauser to craft a holding company capitalized at 3 million dollars. The plan aims to bind the owners and major manufacturers into one holding structure. Morse Again in the Game. Charles W Morse declares depositors at the Bank of North America will be paid in full, suggesting he has secured funds to cover losses and return to the market. He advanced 1.35 million dollars in deposits yet offers no explanation of the source.
Papers have been served on Frank J. Gould in New York in the suit for absolute divorce brought by his wife, formerly Miss Helen M. Kelly. John W. Riddle, the American ambassador to Russia, is slowly gaining strength after a threatened pneumonia attack. At Lebsig, Mieroslap Stosynski, a Ruthenian student, was condemned to death for shooting Count Andreas Potocki, governor of Galicia.
Eugene W. Chafin, a Wisconsin born attorney and longtime Prohibition leader, is the party’s presidential nominee. A former Wisconsin governor candidate and Illinois resident, he moved to Chicago in 1901, authored Lives of the Presidents and Lincoln the Man of Sorrows, and has held multiple party posts.
Special reports from across the tri state area around Sioux City indicate corn is from a week to two weeks ahead of last year. May and June rains caused concern but recent warm weather advanced growth. even flood plains along the Missouri valley show recovery with minor losses. South Dakota fields report strong yields in wheat oats and other grains with some harvesting underway.
The Soo road avoids court fights to enter Superior while other lines accept Wisconsin commission rulings. Wabash relocates headquarters from Pittsburg to Cleveland with a new $1 million depot to be rented. A federal grand jury in Richmond indicts Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, its freight agent, and a Richmond grain dealer for rebating. Burlington seeks a $300 million mortgage filed with Missouri, refused by Secretary of State until a $100,000 registry fee and full real estate disclosure are provided. Worthington named receiver for Wheeling and Lake Erie per National Car Wheel Company petition. debt cited at over $28 million as part of Gould system reorganization. Canadian Pacific plans 1,500 mile pine plantation from Winnipeg to Vancouver for snow clearance, timber, poles, and ties. Knapp ICC rules Rhinelander Paper case, reducing pulp wood rate from 8.5 to 6.95 cents to Rhinelander, Wis., finding rate not excessive.
A Harper’s Weekly writer recalls Queen Alexandra at London's Mansion House fete. A tiny flower maid, prettily plump, flashed a kiss to the queen. The mother groaned, and the girl explained she kissed for a future story for her grandchildren.
A Lake City Minnesota resident describes severe kidney illness with back pain dizziness and nervousness then credits Dean's Kidney Pills for restoring health. The ad notes the product sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and includes a comic exchange about a pink necktie from the Philadelphia Press.
A Washington Star quip notes a hopeful citizen asking if an insurer is operating more economically. The reply affirms, joking that the company now sends far fewer blotters and calendars than in the past.
A columnist quips about stocks and a wife reacting to the idea of a bargain day. A Catholic Standard note mocks quick ad copy. A Woman's Home Companion excerpt argues daily chores like cooking and cleaning drain time from love and ambition, urging balanced effort at home.
A Chicago clerk shares how good health preserves income, crediting Grape-Nuts for curing nervous illness, brain fatigue, and dyspepsia. The letter, from Postum Co., touts the food's benefits and invites readers to read more in The Read to Wellville.
A Southern woman describes relief from itching and burning rash after using Cuticura soap and ointment. She reports years of torment, including a running sore on her neck and a tetter like condition on her face, cured by one set of Cuticura remedies. Also cited are cures for an uncle’s baby and another infant, with testimonial by Mrs. Lillie Wilcher of Chattanooga, Tenn., dated February 16, 1907.
A Detroit Free Press note cites a wife and husband joke about a phonograph, then pivots to advertise Dr T Felix Gouraud's Oriental Dream facial beauty product. It touts a clear complexion free from tan freckles or moth patches with medical endorsement and celebrity support, marketed nationwide through Ferro Hopkins at 37 Great Jones Street New York and sold by druggists and dealers in the U S Canada and Europe.
Dialogue humor pieces feature a former lawyer now skimming cream and a bankrupt trust company receiver. In another vignette Wrigley recalls Miss Goodsole who became a sociologist and married a tramp, then mocks a romantic ideal that left him for a hobo.
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