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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1905
Page
7
Ironwood and Hurley merchants announce two week countdown for Christmas sales with many ads and price cuts. Local residents attend Shriners event in Marquette while others report travel for business. A death and multiple social notices close the roundup of holiday preparations and community life.
Ishpeming reports twenty two below zero on Thanksgiving night as the Daily Mining Journal notes a sale of suits and overcoats at cost while items like Ladies' coats, children's wear, and a manure of local business entries appear. Joe Riendt becomes Wisconsin Central depot operator in Dorchester and F B Jones ships a patent snowplow to Marenisco amid inquiries for winter sales.
Mr and Mrs Frank Lesselyong and Mr and Mrs J W Mullens of Ironwood were guests of Mrs Geo Rupp midweek. Also mentions Dr Dade's Little Liver Pills tolling on liver tonic, the Wisconsin Central engine repaired in Colfax, King Carl’s crown, Emma Kulasaviez's return from Marquette Normal School for holiday, and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea ad.
Local dealers in Ironwood push early holiday advertising as Duluth and Iron Range road plans to spend about half a million dollars in Two Harbors this winter on shop extensions, electric plant work, and a new coal dock. Also notes Typhoid fever death of Miss Ella Chamberlain and ship William E F Corey stranded near Gull Island awaiting salvage with dynamite. Water pipes for Colby mine project arrive after two month delay, awaiting spring installation.
Lee Walker sought by Sheriff Beck in Houghton county for crimes in the copper country. Tony Ryan, from Detroit, mistaken for Walker, surrendered in the Soo and was brought to Houghton for examination. Ryan claimed innocence. he remains detained. Sheriff Beck pursues the real suspect while uncertainty remains who was joked.
The D S S A R y offers exceptionally low round trip holiday rates to Canada and the east. Sale dates eastern points Dec 12 to 26 with return by Jan 1906. Exclusive Canadian Territory sale Dec 14 to 17 with return by Jan 16 1906. Call phone No 11 or ask local agent for rates.
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