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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1899
Page
4
Fragmentary text recalls a lovers plea about declarations of love across years. It references Paris, a beloved speaking of tender words, and a wish to comfort a partner through time. The tone suggests a quatrain or lyric about enduring affection and the impact of heartfelt words.
Seemingly penniless Jeptha Bogle returns as Absalom Bogle’s long-lost brother. He exposes a careful plan to distribute the fortune among kin, deceiving the mock heirs and choosing to live with Jack and Kate Winthrop who showed generosity. The cousins depart in anger as Jeptha awards the wealth to its rightful, generous beneficiaries.
Lillian Bell recalls the sacred carpet ceremony in Cairo as the army joins the Mecca procession. A six foot black velvet carpet with silver and gold embroidery travels on a gold cloth camels under a Khedive escorted by troops.
A dealer explains Pegasus is a winged horse to a rich buyer who jokes to retitle the work as Pegasus on an automobile. The Chicago Evening Post records the quip about altering art for sale.
A string of robberies on a Grand Rapids freight train ends with three suspects named Popozinski Wilson Reed and Donovan. Other items report meat and coal price boosts in Grand Rapids, ancient skeletons found near Owosso, electric light expansion in Beaverton, many deaths and accidents across multiple counties, and civic notes from Mason to Traverse City.
The acting land commissioner ordered a new circular to govern hearings for claims questioned by special agent reports. Local land officers may serve notices to entrymen or claimants, detailing charges and offering a 30 day hearing window. Personal service is preferred to expedite contested land entries and cancellations.
A local German farmer Mathew Kee bler and his wife were away when their son spotted flames at the rear of the house eight miles north of Clare. Kerosene hints arson. A later encounter in a barn yard led to a gunfire chase with an unknown intruder pursuing the torch in a corn field.
Prof. R. B. Moore appeals his justice court conviction for killing a cow moose at Brevort lake. Acting on advice from attorney James J. Brown, he seeks a Circuit Court trial at the January term. Moore says he stood a mile away when Kultcher of Chicago killed the moose.
Mary Ann Carr, a 22 Port Huron resident en route to Detroit under guard for theft, leaped from the rail of the steamer Darius Cole into Lake St Clair and drowned before rescue boats could be launched.
Special agent Rev W H H Osborne of the State labor bureau concludes Kalamazoo County celery will total about one million dollars in value this year. The city ranks second in Michigan in express business, surpassed only by Detroit.
Two boys named Charles Povey and Louis Partridge drowned in Tay Lake while attempting to catch a swimp behind the stern of a vessel. One was the son of Inspector David Povey of the lock customs office.
Jerry White of Port Huron was killed in Cleveland by unknown assailants. Robert Stoll died when a sewer trench collapsed in Grand Rapids. Wana Erduian, a laborer at Ang Bor, fell from a roof and died instantly. Allegan County fair set for October 4 to 9. Central Michigan grape crop damaged by beers. More water mains to be installed in Jackson this summer. Labor Commissioner Cox will not run for governor next year. City treasurer of South Haven collected 812000 of 14000 tax roll. Wray invited to attend one day.
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