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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1908
Page
16
Passenger trains listed with early morning departures and connections to country lines. Notable services include express and local runs with Sunday and weekday options. Several train numbers and times appear, indicating varied packages and stopping patterns across the regional network.
Fragmentary OCR shows a 1906 timetable listing Chicago routes to St Paul Ashland and Duluth, with mentions of a W. P. and a L. Cummins as agent. The legible items reference schedules or connections and suggest a rail line serving Chicago, Ashland, Duluth, and points in between.
In a subway car a French poodle and a Scotch terrier trigger a tense exchange between a fat woman and a thin woman. The fat woman asks about dogs and the other replies her own is a baby, prompting chilly glances and a pause in conversation as lingering modesty cools the mood.
A famous promoter laughs off the New York cocktail scene at the Waldorf. He recalls a deal with Canadian mine backers, where a $750,000 flotation grew into a $900,000 stake. The tale ends with a quip that cocktails, even prussic acid, could force a deal.
A table of diners witness an artist who draws an aging, uglified portrait of a man, while a woman sketches the younger artist herself. The group exclaims the likeness is perfect, prompting the artist to admit lifelong practice without recalling training.
A tall New York drummer on a second western tour learns from a veteran percussionist of 30 years on the road that a life without a home and family is hollow. The elder urges the younger to seek another path if possible, citing lost time with wife and children.
A country witness sworn in court resists a prosecutor’s opening. he accuses the clerk of knowing his name and objects to the questioning, claiming the examiner cannot run “this monkey business” on him.
Love Comedy notes Danter's vaudeville debut last night. Hi Tragedy confirms it was meant as a monologue but the audience interrupted with remarks before he began. Advertisement notes in Herald.
A Chicago Daily News item describes a middle aged colored woman at Union depot who, after a tense run and shakily breathing, reveals an axe handle under her shawl. She plans no disturbance until confronting her husband, then intends to swing and mash him, hoping bystanders stand back as she prepares to take a train.
In Paris boxing rises in popularity as the British art gains favor over savate. Owen Swift, lightweights champion, sought refuge after killing Brighton Bill in a prize fight and was supported by the French Jockey Club. Swift’s Paris tribunal appearance for wounds drew laughter as he described his training, inspiring stylish youths to train in streets and boulevards.
Arnold Daly is invited to tell a story at a New York theatrical banquet. He jokes that telling a story can bore listeners who have heard it before. He recounts a tale of a deaf friend who feigns hearing but duplicates a host’s story, prompting ongoing laughter yet no new listening.
A scientist returning from South America brought skulls to New York. Customs classified them as animal bones, subject to duty. After protest, a Treasury review led to a revised way-bill reading “Chest of native skulls. Personal effects, already worn.”
A narrator recounts overheard talk between a cook and a maid about funeral flowers for a Black congregant. The cook imagines replacing gravestone tribute with a watermelon vine. when ripe, the juice should spill on the grave, a vivid, allegorical request from Harper's Weekly.
A professor and his American assistant remain atop Vesuvius amid ashes and tremors. They face extreme danger and possible death to gather seismic data and push volcanic science forward, risking more than ordinary battle for potential groundbreaking findings.
A writer recalls a revival in Eagle Hall Concord directed by Elder John Hook with assistant Elder Martin Van Buren Lutz a converted gambler. Lutz described the prodigal son's fatted calf sermon exaggerating to stir sinners and mentioning the familiar calf from the family.
A woman recalls traveling to Baden Baden last summer where a husband gave her an Elk pin and her father a Masonic pin. She notes every man aboard was either a Mason or an Elk and none flirted with her because of the pins. She kept the pins in her trunk on the return voyage.
A dialog from Stray Stories Wisdom of Uncle Eben features a sarcastic man and a dog as a test of affection. Uncle Eben comments on a man who talks himself into uninteresting choices, illustrating humor and social observation.
A cautious buyer avoids sails that cannot be reefed and worries about strong winds. The text notes that a thinking man keeps Kodol for Dyspepsia to aid digestion, with D. MacFarlane advertising the product.
Marshal P Wilder recounts a bizarre hospital visit and a riddle about a strange object described as a glovelike item baffling the keeper. A Christmas gift from a young woman changes the story as the man’s fate remains unclear.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports artesian wells discovered in a courtyard behind the mist district. Water previously supplied by steam pumps now flows freely when pumps are removed for repairs, with wells drilled years ago reaching about 175 feet. An underground connection let pumping from one affect the other, and water level rose after March removal of the pumps.
The article explains how Greek ordnance influenced Roman weapons, detailing upgrades from larger arrows and tighter bows to the use of a temsiom shaft operated by levers, and finally the shift from bow elasticity to tensional elasticity using ropes of animal sinews, hair, or horsehair in emergencies.
An army officer at a western post visits a nearby town to shop at a store. She is amused by the varied and antique stock, then comments on two piles and a dapper clerk who displays a motto about love for a young lady’s door. This vignette is drawn from Lippincott's Magazine.
A fragmentary report notes the Pope and Cardinal Vaughan connected to a Marian congress in Rome. The tale, drawn from a New Oxford weekly piece, hints at a humorous origin for Vaughan and mentions a mountain birthplace and a distant Gugland retreat, though details are unclear.
The note mentions women deciding on a response if they cannot vote, references the Stork proposition, and recommends Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea as a suitable remedy. It advertises 35 cent tea or tablets under the label D MacFarlane.
The piece notes high pay attracts young artisans to Panama Canal construction but fears of fevers and malaria deter many. It claims Electric Bitters, used by those who have tried it, offers safety from malaria and treats blood poison, biliousness, weakness, and digestive and kidney issues. Guaranteed by F. B. Jones, druggist.
A Paris jeweler acquired a large stock of stones found in mines on the czar private property. Each year stones from these mines are offered for sale by tender as are forest lands and mines owned by the czar and occasionally sold by the imperial cabinet.
An offer invites readers to obtain a free sample of Dr Shoop's Rheumatic Remedy along with a book on Rheumatism by writing to Dr Shoop in Racine Wisconsin. The claim states the remedy cleanses the blood of rheumatic poisons and cures rather than merely relieves symptoms, with sales through dealers.
Joseph Petrillo of Boston after 17 years of effort has invented a mechanical one wheel quarter-hour striker for clocks. Experts had said the device was impossible, but Petrillo's success ends a century of attempts by skilled workers worldwide.
Lost between noon yesterday and today a bilious attack with nausea and sick headache. The item was caused by finding a box of Dr King's New Life Pills at F B Jones' drug store. Guaranteed for biliousness malaria and jaundice. 25e.
In Philadelphia a firm offers a permanent position for the right person to sell a fine line of special goods from a home town base. No capital required. Apply to L. F. Elliott Co. 2578 S. 40th St. Philadelphia. Pa.
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