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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1906
Page
5
Christmas trees and vacations fill Ironwood town as schools close for the holiday week. Local residents travel home for Christmas and New Year gatherings while skating markets, dances, and church events light the season. A busy roster highlights visits from Abbotsford and Chicago, hospital reports, and community plans at the opera house and hall.
An accident at the Tilden mine in No 9 shaft on Wednesday injured five men. John Makalate Jacob Neimi Andrew Neimi Thomas Roberts Veeply Osborn and another worker were listed with injuries ranging from scalp wounds to fractures. Osborn helped rescue colleagues and was struck by falling ground. All are reported to be recovering. Also notes about holidays, staff travels, health tips, local sales, and entertainment.
Vintage advertisement asserts the product floods the body with warm vitality and restores natural vigor. Claims to strengthen nerves, quicken circulation, and renew youthful vigor. Sold for 35 cents by D. MacFarlane.
The new ice rink postpones its opening due to mild weather and will now open on Christmas Day. Free skating is offered to children under 14 in the afternoon and to older people in the evening, with arrangements aimed at a large crowd for the debut.
Tax roll now in hands and I shall be ready to receive taxes at my store beginning Monday December 3. William Waters city treasurer. Also a series of advertisements promote Dr Shoops Preventics Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup and Kodol digestives. Sold by D MacFarlane.
H M Adams and wife Henrietta of Pa claim Electric Bitters healed their 5 year old child with eczema after seven bottles, noting a marked improvement after the second bottle. The advertised blood medicine and body building tonic is sold for 50 cents and 1.00 at F B Jones' drug store.
A report notes a load of school seats headed toward Thomaston indicating disruptive actions by a local schoolmaster. The funeral of Frank Goodnow from Evelete was held Sunday at Bay City. Goodnow was a well known local barber.
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