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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1908
Page
4
Wakefield locals list visits and trips among Bessemer Ironwood Ramsey and Antigo residents. A club dance, Maccabees installation, sports plans with Wakefield and Mellen, and notable travels and illnesses are noted alongside civic events and presentations at the Brotherton mine and union halls.
Advertisement for Dr. King's New Life Pills claiming they regulate stomach liver and bowels to improve well being. Mentions price 25 cents at F. B. Jones' drug store.
A collage of observations includes 22 Japanese tobacco factories with 9 under construction, 5,000,000 miners worldwide, a horse living 25 days without food, and a larger male hand by 1.75 inches on average. It notes a Korean joint fishery school, 262,000 Sunday schools totaling 26 million pupils, and Turkish farming without crop rotation. Peat beds near Falklands India? A local ad locates Dr. Braun eye specialist with a visit to iron wood biennially, next at St James Hotel on Feb 19.
One way tickets on sale daily in March and April from all points to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland and Seattle. Daily tours in tourist sleeping cars via Chicago Union Pacific North Western Line. Double berth only 7.00 through from Chicago. For full particulars write S A Hartchon Manager Tourist Dept 212 Clark Street Chicago Ill or contact nearest ticket agent.
A Niagara mayor lauds new ideas as essential for success and progress. A firm’s interview scene contrasts a senior partner's conservatism with a junior partner’s view that a hustler spirit drives opportunity. The piece ends endorsing Kodol for Dyspepsia as a solution to minor daily ills.
Report of the condition of The First National Bank at Bessemer Michigan as of February 14 1908 with resources liabilities and totals. Bank official Walter F Truettner swore to the statement on February 21 1908 before Notary William L Guyer. Includes ads for Dr Shoops Restorative by Frank I Jones.
The article surveys global gold production and stocks, led by Africa and the United States with hundreds of millions in value, Australia and Europe, plus notable reserves in France, Britain, Russia, and other nations. It notes New Zealand’s annual output and warns of a broader financial context amid looming grippes and wartime fears, while briefly promoting Preventics candy for colds.
W H Chaney announces to patrons that due to absence from the city the photograph gallery will close from February 4 to March. The notice informs customers of the temporary shutdown and thanks patrons for their support.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites C. F. J. Cuesey Co. and Vanopine Kinnan Marvin testimonials, claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, price 75 cents, and mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Boston is the most Irish city in America by proportion with 60 percent of voters claimed to be Irish. The city, among the most foreign in the nation, has about 561000 people in 1900, with 155000 of native parentage and most of those being Irish descendants.
E 8 Lopez of Manilla New York credits Bucklen's Arnica Salve with saving him from suffering and money after many severe cuts. The salve is said to heal burns sores ulcers fever sores eczema and piles and is sold for 25 cents at F B Jones druggist. The piece also mentions a humorous quote about love and promotes Health Coffee as a cereal-based coffee substitute made by Dr Shoop and sold by Jensen and Lintemann.
Stop that tickling cough with Dr Shoop s Cough Cure claimed to be harmless and safe for babies. It uses green leaves and tender stems from a lung leading mountainous shrub and purports to calm coughs heal bronchial membranes without opium or chloroform. For sale by PF B Jones.
Bob Fitzsimmons lectured police in Plainfield New Jersey on plain honest work, dismissing feints as risky. He compared tricks to helping a beggar who claims deafness with a whispered sign asking bystanders to verify his ailment.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. warned against being one-sided in business ethics. He recalled a coal dealer who doubted a driver’s weight claiming a ton looked too large, only to learn the actual weight was two tons, after the driver spoke up.
Question to Lin Locks about engagement to Fred with Clarice denying. plans to wait after football season. Then a cough remedy advertisement promoting Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar Laxivive Syrup, no opiates, sold by D McFilane.
A dialogue between Mr and Mrs Bacon about hosting a friend for dinner. Mrs Bacon says she will bake a new pie and asks what to serve afterward. The husband replies with a joke about buying a box of dyspepsia pills, delivered in a Yonkers setting.
The passage ridicules various cultures with graphic stereotypes and then shifts to a medical pitch praising Kodol for Dyspepsia. It claims Kodols digests food and restores stomach function and notes availability through D. MacFarlane, The Herald.
Export data shows frogskins valued at 335 dollars shipped from Yokohama last year. Materials used include purses pocketbooks and similar items. Local trade notes highlight currency value and product applications.
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