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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1933
Page
2
The fall Bessemer football scene is set for its best semi pro showing in a decade. The city eleven mirrors the famous 1930 1931 Bessemer High School championship squads with strong local support and an agreed schedule.
The NRA claims rapid job creation, estimating 218000 moved from unemployment to work, boosting purchasing power by about a million dollars annually. It argues codes will reshape business, curb unemployment, regulate labor, shorten hours, and raise wages amid a broader revival.
The article discusses wartime or postwar currency issues with references to 1% pricing practices and broad estimates of hoarded money. It notes a shift from earlier circulating values, mentions a rise to about a million dollars and a long term range between two billion dollars, and comments on wages, prices, and business activity affecting currency value. The piece suggests the currency is still within a high overall range and notes ongoing economic instability.
The report notes business activity rising rapidly, surpassing any prior recoveries. It compares current gains to wartime rebounds and questions whether the surge signals lasting strength or foreshadows another downturn, highlighting speculative factors and potential volatility.
The author notes that past conditions differ from current ones and warns that recent rapid demand may stem from fear of money losing value. People seek goods to cover shortages or to hoard wealth, and suggests temporarily easing measures to stimulate business further.
A cautious editorial argues Michigan public schools can weather funding cuts. It predicts some curtailment of activities but no closures. It notes possible relief from highway funds diversion, new sales tax revenue, and tax penalties moratorium expiration, urging economies benefit both schools and taxpayers.
The readers learn that Betsy the car is in Chicago after a Chicago gang war, while Ashland County jail holds the abductors awaiting multiple crimes including car theft. A ringleader with two Wanpan prison terms faces a long sentence, editor retains Betsy’s keys, and plates recovered by jail staff are returned.
A fragment from Ishpeming Ore notes a woman on the main highway at West Ishpeming threatening to shoot people before she loses temper. The piece suggests mounting danger as she nears a potentially serious incident.
The column mixes whimsical remarks on NIRA era optimism and a stratosphere flight tease with a chorus about stock quotes and a governor song. It recalls bygone worries about novel reading and theatre going and jokes about oldtimers and a girl who wanted to bang her hair.
A quoted speaker laments tax burden while demanding sales tax inclusion in daily bread cost. The message recalls voting for change last year and warns that future elections will reveal renewed public resolve as burdens rise.
Remodeling of the Johnson building former John Frank occupants is underway. The Bijou theatre will open August 22 under Alex Arkowitz and Joseph Selin. Several local residents return from summer studies, moves, and work marks the week with arrivals, departures, and a fatal mining accident nearby.
Fenton J. Manning as Receiver of Peoples State Bank will sell at public auction on September 26 1933 at 2 50 PM at the front door of the Gogebic County courthouse in Bessemer Michigan the Wakefield property described as the south eighty feet of the north one hundred thirty six feet of Lot six and other parcels in blocks. and a Bessemer Township tract described by measured bearings and distances starting 351.4 feet south and 395.1 feet east of the northwest quarter center with several other line segments. The sale is by decree dated June 2 1933.
Public notices detail property descriptions in Gogebic County Michigan. The long legal text covers court actions by Fenton J. Manning Receiver of Peoples State Bank and various parcels in sections of Township 47 north Range 46 west, including specific boundary points, dates for August 1933 and October 2, and names like Robert A. Burns Belmont Waples.
In Michigan at the Probate Office in Bessemer Judge M E Nolan issues a deadline for filing claims against the estate of Berta Domini. Creditors must present claims by December 6 at ten o'clock in the forenoon at the probate office. Publication to run for three weeks in the Bessemer Herald.
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