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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1903
Page
6
Ned Blane leads a hazardous rescue under night rain as Hackett’s intrusion unsettles the volunteers. A water surge drains the shaft and Blane guides a cautious team through flooded airway to reach trapped miners with Shadrach missing and danger mounting.
A New York Times quote features a wife debating how writers depict women sharpening lead pencils and opening tins with husbands’ razors. She notes the razor’s sharp, wobbly handle and jokes about using wives’ hatpins for pipe-cleaners, while her husband listens with patient restraint.
In this Washington Star voiced quip, Senator Sorghum questions if every man has a price. He adds that some stay honest because the price asked exceeds the bid, then a light aside about Cupid swapping trout for happiness.
The Bristow report on postal fraud, with Roosevelt memo, reveals a corruption system from 1893 affecting the Arnold concern for millions. It names Perry Heath and others, details stock schemes with the Doremus Canceling Machine Company, indictments, resignations, and calls for extending statute limits. Roosevelt lauds Bristow’s thorough work and urges accountability and public opinion to uphold honest government.
A batch of short items reports resignations and deaths across figures in science religion and politics. Henry Sanger Snow resigns residency at Brooklyn Polytechnic. Rev Dr Luther Beecher dies in Boston. J Wilson Swan turns 76. Astors shed tenement holdings. Hale urges women to shoulder the musket. J W Lamar, Lincoln’s ally, dies in Indiana. Massachusetts Lt Governor Guil d adds Filipino daggers to his collection. S W Nichols donates 10000 for a public park. Swingle sightseeing Mediterranean plants. James Putnam Stewart works on Putnam family history. A B Seizer sues for divorce under spiritual guidance. Gen George A Whittier returns from Manila via Siberia in fourteen days. Monkey man Garner to West Africa. Ponca John Palmer to address Oklahoma Bar. Carlos J Findlay named president of the American Public Health Association. Hemp noted as Philippine export.
A haughty maid and a young man exchange barbed remarks as he hints at a proposal. She accuses him of not catching the drift while he quips the drift resembles a snowdrift, in a sharp, playful back and forth.
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