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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1903
Page
6
Ned Blane contends with unrequited love as Will Hackett's rising fame clashes with a shattered Hackett family past. A wedding in a rural church triggers jealousy, gossip, and a push toward a fateful confrontation as Shadrach brings urgent news of a disaster.
A portrait of poet Robert Buchanan and his mother reveals a lifelong, intimate devotion. He recalls her perpetual youth in appearance, her loving letters during his London struggle, and his inability to imagine a world without her as she aged toward eighty.
The narrator recalls how many sought his advice for free or to test his status. He notes people pressed him to avoid lawyer fees and to measure his authority, hoping to prove he is as powerful as they are.
A Sunday School lesson on Solomon from 1 Kings 3 4 15 explores his dream at Gibeon the demand for an understanding heart and the limits of divine favor. It links his choice of wisdom to humility and duty noting David's piety and Solomon's task as king plus a brief parable and a joke about debts.
The piece argues crowded cities drive rising crime and social distress. It cites sedentary, stimulant using workers, eroding traits, scarce apprenticeships, and harsh social competition as populations concentrate in urban centers. It notes education and labor trends worsen as cities expand.
Seventy five years ago London faced a harsh spread of Tannerism with city officials renting vacant lots for the poor to grow vegetables. Large corn purchases for France occurred while the U.S. later faced wheat imports. A Guernsey County Ohio sect leader calling himself God formed a growing religious movement. Over 400000 copies of Webster's spelling book sold in the United States. Andrew Jackson, President-elect, traveled with his family in a four white horse coach to Washington after states voted.
A clash occurred between whites and Indians on the east bank of the Missouri in Iowa. Gen J Urquiza won election as president of the Argentine Republic. The Cyane was dispatched to survey a potential canal route through the Darien Isthmus. American papers warned of Enchind aiming to Africanize Cuba by sending enslaved apprentices to be freed after fifteen years. The nation feared President Vierce's severe fever illness.
Fort Forty Years Ago Gen U S Grant was misled by a deserter's false tale into preparing for the advance on Missionary Ridge at Chattanooga. Orchard Knob on Missionary Ridge was stormed by Union forces under Wood Sheridan and Palmer as a first step to driving Bragg from Chattanooga outskirts. Rail lines torn up in Scott County NL by rebel sympathizers vowing no more deserters would be arrested. Gen John Morgan and Capt Hines escaped from the Columbus Ohio penitentiary where held after their raid and capture.
Thirty years ago President U S Grant in a White House talk forecast Cuba to be annexed by the United States as the natural course. Fenian Joseph Poole is to hang in Dublin for murder linked to Ireland’s freedom struggle. Steamer Virginius lands in Havana with its captors and four survivors jailed for life. William Tweed receives a twelve year term and $12 700 fine for municipal contract theft.
Col Coerogan, Khartoum commander, wires Cairo that Hicks Pasha's Egyptian forces were destroyed by the Mahdi. Chinese troops evacuate Sontag and Bacninh as Tenguin falls to French pursuit. Standard time adopted nationwide. British cabinet largely seeks permanent protectorate over Egypt while Gladstone argues duties fulfilled and troops should leave.
Ten years ago J W Reno and Joseph G Hillam proposed a New York rapid transit tunnel and offered to build it in three to five years for 30 million dollars with the city receiving 1 million in stock. They also proposed an international clearing house for New York City to reduce gold shipments, noting 33.8 million was spent to settle a balance of 10 million over twenty five years.
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