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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1908
Page
4
A Republican electors convention for Gogebic County is called to meet at Ironwood City Hall on Tuesday September 8 at 3 p m. to nominate county officials and elect delegates to state and district Republican events. Wards and townships receive delegates by governor vote totals with a minimum of one each. secretary reports delegates to the county committee.
A Republican senatorial convention for Michigan’s Thirty first district is called for September 12 1908 at 11 in the forenoon in the Marquette city hall assembly room. The meeting will nominate a state senator, elect a senate committee for the next two years and handle other business. Delegates are apportioned by votes for governor with each county receiving at least two delegates.
The Republican congressional convention for Michigan's Twelfth district is set for September 12 at 3 p.m. in Marquette Opera House to choose a candidate and conduct other business. Delegates are apportioned by county, based on votes for governor in November 1904, with a total of 97 delegates listed across counties including Marquette, Houghton, Chippewa, and Dickinson. The notice is dated Iron Mountain, August 10, 1908, and signed by D C Davidson, chairman, and M M Duncan.
A clipped notice from the Republican committee lists GAD SMITH and Thos. Conlin as chairman and secretary respectively. Dated in Marquette, Michigan, August 14.
A Republican representative convention for Gogebic County Michigan is scheduled at Ironwood City Hall on Tuesday September 8 1908 at 8 pm. Nine delegates will be chosen based on three hundred vote quota from the last gubernatorial election. J R Moore chairs the committee with J W Bedell, August 19 1908.
In a tense exchange a man admits incense and scent shape his work and provoke memory of a vanished lover. He recalls a woman whose perfume drew him back through a lace handkerchief, then explains he now hates that scent as he pays alimony installments in a cold, wounded bitterness.
John D. Rockefeller Jr reflects on carelessness in business, recounting a coal dealer anecdote about misweighing coal. The text promotes Dr Shoop's Restorative for weak stomach, heart, and liver nerves, urging use and noting availability from Frank B. Jones.
The late Valerian Gribayedoff was among the first American newspaper sketch artists, a Chicago art editor notes. His fame, he says, comes from being early, not from supreme skill, and he recalls a Paris anecdote of a poet whose soup stain was deemed harmless after 7:30 by a waiter.
Low round trip rates on the North Western Line from various points to events across Ohio and Massachusetts, including the Prohibition National Convention in Columbus July 6 to 13, B Y P U in Cleveland July 6 to 8, NEA in Cleveland June 25 to July 1, G A R Encampment in Toledo August 29 to 30, and Knights of Pythias Conclave in Boston July 31 to August 31. Obtained through Chicago and North Western Ry agents.
Mrs. Chas. E. Smith of West Franklin Maine says she uses Dr Kings New Life Pills as family laxative medicine because they work without fuss. These painless pills are sold at Frank B. Jones drug store for 25 cents.
A collage of old time quips and chatter about remedies and stage banter. BeWitt's F'3 salve mention repeats, then jokes about jumping care and a canal beat. Light humor bits reference a figure called the calcium man and a name change for an airship called Skyscraper to Mud-digger.
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