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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1902
Page
7
Bessemer notices announce Almondbury Bell Ringers at the opera house Monday evening with repeated invitations. Various local residents and visitors are listed as callers, with routine social and business notes throughout the week including arrivals, sales, and a few upcoming events.
An old newspaper snippet includes a medicine ad for Laxative Bromo Quinine with E W Groves signature and a 2 cent price, plus queries urging readers to send in personal notices to help the Herald. It mentions a social surprise party for Capt W H Knight and wife at Colby hill, and subscribers urged to pay up for a 1902 calendar. John Morse plans to travel to Marion Wisconsin to inspect Goldberg and Co draft horses for mine work.
F W Fellows returns to duties as cashier at C N W depot in Wakefield. Theodore Kohl shifts from Hurley as former company cashier to Wakefield agent. The notice invites reporting any outlawed accounts by country.
At a special meeting of the Board of Public Works held in the council chamber on Wednesday evening, the bid for furnishing 350 cords of wood for the pumping station was awarded to Joseph Chart. He submitted the only bid, at $2.90 per cord.
The Bes semer Schools will stage an entertainment and penny bazaar at the high school building on Friday evening January 31. Admission costs ten pennies, with children paying five pennies. A cordial invitation is extended to all.
Supt. N. O. Lawton of the Iron Belt mine on the west end of the range returns from an extended eastern trip and visits Lawton Michigan with his father Chas. D. Lawton after whom the town is named.
The Ironwood Times announces the start of 1899 and earlier delinquent land tax lists for Gogebic county with copies available from the paper. Taxpayers should obtain and review their properties on the list to avoid trouble and expense. Also notes Mr Herman Schliff to begin manufacturing cigars next Monday, with the Bessemer Best brand.
The Herald learns from James Gardner that John Pascoe, previously listed among the dead in the Negaunee mine disaster, is alive and well. Friends in the city are pleased by the correction to the misspelling. Also notes local ad comparisons and a church service on Decision Day inviting members to join and publicly acknowledge their intent.
A worker near the Tilden mine shaft opening lit by candle caused natural gas to ignite and burn briefly. Elsewhere, Sheriff Alex Roberts confiscated slot machines and gambling devices in Escanaba after Judge Stone ordered action against ongoing lawlessness, warning officials of consequences.
A surprise party at Mr. and Mrs. John Davey’s home honored Chas A. Peterson and Albert Bramstadt before their departure for the Pacific Coast. Attendees included Laura Pascoe Alma Swanson Mamie Haefs Hilda Johnson Anna Pasdernik Anna Anderson Sophia Jacobson Sadie Dishnow Freda Swanson Maud Gardner Tressie Anderson Hannah Anderson Mrs. John Davey and Messrs. Oscar Peterson Charles Larson Will Davey Oscar Bramstadt Fred Davey Ralph Knight Oscar Stonemark Samuel Davey Daniel Nelson Oscar Johnson. The guests enjoyed a pleasant evening before Peterson and Bramstadt left Wednesday for Seattle, carrying fond memories of Bessemer friends.
A conversational fragment describes a neighbor helping Bill and Mandy. Mandy asks what Bill is doing while the neighbor explains they are helping Mother who is taking Rocky Mountain Tea. The tone suggests a casual family scene.
A Chicago banquet tale ends with a lawyer identifying his missing office cat by voice on a hotel telephone. Bell boys presented four cats at the receiver, the third cat’s yowl confirmed the owner’s claim, and the feline was sent to the lawyer’s office.
Mrs N A Webster of Winnie Virginia credits Dr King’s New Life Pills with curing two years of sick headaches. The ad claims relief for headache, constipation and biliousness, priced at 25 cents at D Mac Farlane’s drug store. A Danville Illinois reader cites Foley’s Honey and Tar as curing her daughter’s grippe and cough after many failures.
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