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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1906
Page
5
A crowded page records Christmas visits and New Year plans among local families. Andrew Emmerson and others visit Ashland and Green Bay, with several Ironwood and Crystal Falls correspondents sharing holiday gatherings, dances, and entertainment at Bessemer venues.
Mr and Mrs Hoye spent Christmas with relatives in Bessemer. Sidney Proctor suffered a broken ankle after being caught in a harness while unhitching a ree. He is regarded as dying. Also noted is the marriage of Prof Truman Gass, principal of the local High School, to Miss Alice Young of Guelph Canada. The couple wed at the bride’s home on the 26th and will return to the city next week.
Wakefield News lists Mrs Thos Clark Jr and Miss Jennie Clark visiting Ironwood Saturday. Miss Tillie Oakes leaves for Neenah Wisconsin to visit Miss Helen Lansing. Ironwood guest Captain McCall spends Xmas in Wakefield. The Tobin Hotel to close for a couple months and more visitors include Frank Caverdar and family from Duluth and E E Barrett returning to Grand Rapids.
Leigh O'Brien appears on the silk list this week as a visitor in Ironwood on Wednesday. Kittie Tobin traveled to Spirit Falls on Thursday while a crowd of Ironwood youths drove to Wakefield for Christmas. Mrs Carsten of Medford Wis visits sister Mrs Proctor for New Years. New Years ball set for Primary hall Monday evening. Mrs Anderson of Dunham and Mrs Nelson of Dunham visit Ironwood. H Olson, a Bessemer visitor, also transacts business in Ironwood. Advertising note touts Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea for 35 cents.
The new ice rink doors opened on Christmas with a large crowd attending both afternoon and evening sessions. The remodel includes white tinted interiors, ample ventilation and light, a 35 by 87 foot skating area, a south end balcony, and a stove room for spectators. Manager Gallette plans a north end expansion adding a large stage, arch opening, and upper deck to host traveling theatrical companies.
Taken at the Sneeze Stage Preventics a toothsome candy tablet will quickly check an approaching cold or grippe. When you first catch cold or feel it coming on take Dr Shoop's Preventics and the prompt effect will surprise and please you. Sold in 5 cent and 25 cent boxes by All Dealers.
An early advertisement promotes Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup claiming it opens the bowels and relieves mucus inflammation with honey and tar, non opiate, and in conformity with the National Pure Food and Drug law. It also touts Kodol as a digestive aid resting the tired stomach, performing digestion, and correcting the digestive apparatus, recommended and sold by D MacFarlane.
H M Adams and wife Henrietta Pa report a miracle cure after using Electric Bitters for their five year old child with eczema. They say after seven bottles the child was completely cured. The product is promoted as a modern blood medicine and body building tonic guaranteed for $2.00 at F B Jones' drug store.
Mrs. R. J. Hagerty of Iron Mountain Michigan spent Christmas with Mrs. J. W. Morse and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Grey.
Miss Mamie Rowe of Hancock spent Christmas with the family of Captain W. C. Rowe at the Palmes mine, sharing holiday time and fellowship with relatives near the mining operation.
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