12 Feb 1910
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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1910
Page
1
The article notes Michigan legal holidays push saloon closures on many Saturdays or Mondays as counties push local option. Lincoln's birthday became a state holiday, forcing extra closing days, with February 12 landing on a Saturday and shifts for Washington's birthday and July Fourth outcomes.
Engine No 37 in the C N W Ry yards jumped the track during switching and almost toppled on Monday. The ranger was involved but no crew members were injured.
Annetta Chart daughter of Mr and Mrs Jos Chart died last Saturday morning after a brief pneumonia illness. A Freshman at the high school she was born and raised in the city and would be missed by classmates. Survived by her parents one sister and two brothers. funeral Monday at St Sebastian church with burial in Bessover cemetery conducted by Rev Fr C J Swobodna and Undertaker Frick.
February, the year’s shortest month, hosts Candlemas and multiple holidays. Lincoln’s Feb 12 birthday, Valentine’s Day Feb 14, and George Washington’s Feb 22 birth anniversary lead to closures in banks, post offices, and schools. Feb 9 marks Chinese New Year and Ash Wednesday, starting Lent with special church services.
The verses mourn Annetta our child praised as pure and fair. She is said to be taken to heaven where angels dwell and to watch over her grieving family. The poem expresses sorrow, blessing and hope of reunion in the skies.
Expresses heartfelt thanks to friends neighbors and relatives for assistance during illness death and burial of Annetta Chart daughter and sister. Acknowledges floral offerings from M W A Royal Neighbors and Freshman Class. Signed Mr and Mrs Jos Chart and family.
A large tract of timber and cut over land formerly owned by the Wisconsin Central Railway Company is now on the market near Mellen Wisconsin after the Soo Line acquisition. The area near the city of 2000 residents hosts a major leather tannery and several lumber firms with steady year round employment, plus mining prospects and other industries. Cordy Bros. of Mellen invite inquiries for full particulars and investment potential.
At a Feb 8 1910 Degree of Honour Gogebic Lodge No 36 meeting, resolutions mourned the loss of Sister Anna Kristingson. They praised her courtesy, charity, and faith, offered sympathy to her family, ordered the charter to be draped ninety days, and directed publication in the Bessemer Herald.
County board committee in Hurley urges immediate steps to remove Sheriff Walters amid charges of jailer abuses and improper fines handling. Allegations include pocketing fines, overcharging board, prisoner mistreatment, and pressuring guilty pleas for fees. District attorney allegedly uncooperative. call for new legal action.
Cor nelius North Carolina editor J. P. Sossman bruised his leg badly after an incident. An ugly sore resisted many salves until Bucklen's Arnica Salve healed it thoroughly. It claims to ease bruises burns cuts sores pimples eczema and piles. 25c at Chas. H. Warner.
Dionisio DeSackko is held as a murder in the first degree suspect in the Windsor mine dynamite explosion. Sheriff Walter arrested him last Saturday after testimony from Wozciek Czelusnila alias Albert Czerny and a coroner jury verdict linked a man unknown to the blast that killed Osvaldo Davia. Czerny, facing risk, named DeSackko as the shooter and fled to Florence before being returned for testimony at the municipal court hearing.
A dental era advertisement notes that most earnings go to doctors, claiming Dr King's New Life Pills cure stomach, liver, or kidney troubles at a small cost. They target indigestion, biliousness, constipation, jaundice, malaria, and general debility, priced at 2 cents at Chase Water.
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