Bessemer City Council Holds Regular Jan 6 1908 Meeting
The Bessemer Common Council convened Monday evening January 6 1908 with Mayor Holland presiding. Aldermen Solberg Chaney Opas Farritte Gladzak Webb and McIonald attended. Johnson Gue metti and Blaha were absent. The finance committee presented a lengthy report detailing payments for Contingent Fund Water Works Fund and other departments. The council adopted the report and ordered accounts paid, then approved city clerk and treasurer monthly reports and filings from marshal and justices. A motion to refer purchase of Block 919 Shobvings addition to the city attorney was carried, and Ald Welu offered a resolution extending tax payment to February 16 with no extra collection fees.
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City of
Bessemer
Holland
Solberg
Chaney
Opas
Farritte
Gladzak
Webb
Mclonald
Johnson
Guemetti
Blaha
Besseme Lumber Co
Duluth Engineering Co
Salen Hdwe
Peterson Wood
Massie, Hay
Kulasavicy & Skwor
Abe Ableman
Voghthia
Bred Otto
Jones
Ald Webb
Ald Chaney
City votes to curb ashes and garbage in yards
A council meeting adopts a resolution to authorize the city to engage the council on the Lindeaa case. Webb moves to require all residents to place ashes and garbage in boxes on their property, with removal at city expense under the health officer’s direction. Offenders to be prosecuted under city ordinance. meeting adjourned.
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Ald Solberg
Ald Webb
Lald Webb
Ailevs
W. L. Guyer
City Clern
Poet Leon Gaglan Describes Colors of Emotions
The poet Leon Gaglan says piety makes him pale blue and resignation pale gray while joy yields apple green and satiety pale chocolate. Pleasure appears pink, sleep like tobacco smoke, reflection orange, pain sooty black, boredom chocolate. Paying a bill brings lead color. receiving money sparks flaming red and rent days sienna. First meeting gives tea color, twentieth meeting very strong tea. happiness has never been known.
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Leon Gaglan
Sienna
Canadian Refuses Knighthood by William Fielding
William Fielding, Canada’s minister of finance, has repeatedly refused any knighthood. He quips that a bill from his tailor would be delayed, but a title addressed to Sir William Fielding would compel prompt payment under altered circumstances.
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Pinchbeck
Williams
Fielding
Dominion
Sir William Fielding
Remarkable Cure by Electric Bitters for Various Ailments
Abraham Brown of Winterton NY recounts doctors misdiagnosed him with heart disease kidney trouble blood poison and stomach and liver trouble before his wife urged Electric Bitters. He credits one bottle with restoring his health, noting the remedy’s guarantees for blood poison weakness and digestive and renal issues by F B Jones, druggist.
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Abraham Brown
Winterton
F. B. Jones
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Teaser
An 1880s style advert offers one hundred dollars reward for an uncured catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood and mucous system remedy. It cites endorsements from Toledo wholesalers Walpine Kryxan and Marviy and mentions internal use and a 75 cent bottle price. It also sells Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cueney & Co
Toledo
J. Cheney
Walpine, Kryxan & Marviy
Eloquent Addition scarred by a tomb inscription
Sanpontino inspected a tomb he erected for his dead wife and disliked the inscription Here she sleeps, calling it too bare. The sculptor offered an addition and Sanpontino replied, put Set! Do not awaken her.
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Sanpontino
la Caricaturista
Sheriff’s Sale Notice in Gogebic County Michigan
By writ of Seri facias from the Circuit Court of Gogebic County Michigan in favor of Katherine Yatczak, Joseph Kowaleski, her friend, against William Wisnieski Jacob Marcinkowski and Nick Janszak, the sheriff levied on Lot 3 and 4 Block 20 and Lot 7 Block 21 Wakefield village. The property will be sold at public auction at the front door of the Court House in Bessemer on February ith at 2pm. Dated December 1. Thee Ricsago G Spencer, Sheriff. Ter s Noaers, Attorney for Mastiff. Ironwood Michigan.
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Seri Facias
Benedict
Gegebic
Katherine Yatczak
Joseph Kowaleski
William Wisnieski
Jacob Marcinkowski
Nick Janszak
Wakefield
Gogebdie County
Michigan
Bessemer
Jogebic
A. D. Th. Ricsago G. Spencer
LeRaysville Merchant Praises Backlen’s Arnica
O S Woolerer a noted LeRaysville NY merchant says he cured his piles twenty years ago with Backlen’s Arnica Salve. The product is guaranteed for sores wounds burns or abrasions and sold for 25 cents at F B Jones’s drug store.
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O.S. Woolerer
LeRaysville
N. Y
F. B. Jones
Penman Writes At 20 Words Per Minute In An Hour
A fast penman writes at twenty words per minute, so in an hour of steady writing he covers a space of zero yards
Public Buildings Rent Burden Cited in New York City
Despite ownership of public buildings by New York City the city pays $332 000 yearly in rents. The note highlights ongoing fiscal pressure from leasing city space and underscores the need for budget considerations in municipal property use.
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New York City
Bear and Ballet Dancer Inspire Santa Journal Ad
A tongue in cheek ad notes a bear, a ballet dancer, and a Santa Journal. It promotes Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy for childless couples, sold by D. McFarlane. The humor targets married pairs seeking laughter and hope in domestic life.
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Santa Journal
D. McFarlane
A Dangerous Deadlock Ends With Dr King’s Pills
A description of a medical condition called a dangerous deadlock affecting liver and bowel function. Claims Dr King’s New Life Pills provide a quick remedy to end the condition without pain. Advertising note states guaranteed satisfaction or money back at F. B. Jones's drug store for 25 cents.
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Dr. King
F. B. Jones
Health Coffee Imitation and Dr Shoop Remedies
Dr Shoop of Racine Wisconsin markets Health Coffee Imitation made from toasted cereals and malt claiming coffee-like taste in a minute. Also promotes Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar cough syrup and Dr Shoop’s Katarrh Remedy with free mailings and widespread druggist availability through Jensen Lintelmann and F B Jones.
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Shoup
Racine
Wis
Jensen & Lintelmann
Kennedy
D. McFarlane
Sweden mandates separate car for intoxicated on suburban night trains
Sweden requires a separate car on Stockholm suburban night trains to accommodate intoxicated passengers. The policy allocates a dedicated space to manage disturbances and ensure safety for all riders on late services.
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Sweden
Stockholm
Daily Thought Ad Ends with Dyspepsia Cure
An old advertisement frames a Sophocles quote on sorrow and courtesy. It promotes Kodol for Dyspepsia as a remedy for indigestion from rushed meals, claiming it digests food and restores stomach health. Sold by D. MacFarlane.
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Sophocles
Rush
Harry
D. MacFarlane
Wanted A Life Insurance Rep for county post
A large and prosperous life insurance company seeks an energetic county representative. The right person will receive a contract promising increasing income each year. A splendid opportunity for the right man. AY
Homegrown Tobacco Tops Inland Revenue Returns
English households grew tobacco at home for duty purposes. The Inland Revenue list shows last year’s homegrown crop paid 736 pounds in tobacco duty, highlighting a small but recorded practice amid national revenue accounting.
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England
British Inland Revenue
Philadelphia party returns from Wyoming hunting trip at Lovering ranch
A Philadelphia party, guests of Gilpin Lovering near Dubois, just back from a three month Wyoming expedition. They recount rifle, horseback, and camping feats, sharing beads of deer antelope and mountain sheep. Lovering’s 7000 foot, thousand acre log ranch near Lander, linked to Owen Wister’s legendary Wyoming writing lore.
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Philadelphia
Omaha Bee
Wyoming
Gilpin Lovering
Dubois
Mr. Lovering
Lander
Terminas
America
Owen Wister
Impolite Mud Footnote Promises Sage Health Tea and Laxatives
A small girl scolds Mr Hankinson for muddy shoes then promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a safe, high return investment for comfort in old age. Ad copy touts Dewitt's laxatives and a bath for cleaner skin and better citizenship, with stray product pitches and misspelled lines.
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Hollister
Rocky Mountain
D. McFarlane
Worth Remembering Splinter Treatment Using Soap Plaster
Do not poke a finger with tweezers or a needle for a splinter. Make a plaster from soap mashed with rag, sprinkled with sugar, pressed with a teaspoon end, apply at night. It is claimed to draw the splinter to the surface by morning for easy removal.
Encore and Bis in musical and literary usage
A brief note on language use shows that English speakers cry Encore while French musicians would say Bis. The phrase on the tapis is misinterpreted as on the carpet though it refers to the tablecloth in certain settings.
Remarkable Austrian Church at Eichwald Village
A small Austrian watering place Eichwald boasts a remarkable church built in Venice by an Italian architect for Prince Carlos Clary Aldringen. Finished, the church was disassembled packed in thousands of cases for shipment and later reassembled as a gift from the prince.
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Austria
Eichwald
Venice
Carlos Clary- Aldringen
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Sherman & Hand
Bessemer Mich
Bessolver
Michigan Telephone Company
Su Jensen & L.intelmann
Kulasevicz & Skwor
W. N. Guyer
Michigan Telephone Co
Arkowiz Pest House
R. G. Spencer
C&nwry
Dss&a Ky
Arkowitz
Salen
H Salen
LE Sherman
P. O
Sidewalk Fund
Ald. Welu
Ayer
Agee Co
Lowell
Mass
S.c
Economizer
Chapman Engine Works
Marcellus, Mich
Ters. M. Noaers
Maistiff
Iuiness
Ironwood, Michigan
Pen
United States Health Bulletin
Bessemer Brewing Co
First National Bank
Ssemer
William S. Prince
Geo
L. Loope
Walter F. ‘Truettner
Cashier
H. Glin Young
Glo. L. Loope
Albert D. Tohnston
Gogebie County
Louis H. Truettner
William Prince
Savings Department
Shoop
Wister
Dewitt
St. Shi
Rina
Aicken
Peoples Coal CO
Otto B. Olson
Asps Thor
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