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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1902
Page
5
Master George Rupp returns from camp and later travels to Ironwood on business while Miss A F Olcott visits Chicago. Widespread town notes include legal business, caucus reminders, social calls, and market updates as residents frequent Ashland Rib Lake Wakefield and Calumet. Community happenings cover civic meetings, new equipment at L H Truettner’s store, and local errands by Miss McGinley Tobin and others.
Walter Truettner, assistant cashier at First National Bank, is in Ely to oversee the temporarily transferred Ely Exchange Bank led by Joseph Sellwood. John Kallander assists at the home bank during Truettner’s absence. Local notices warn of July 24 land sales under Act No. 95 and urge consistent local advertising in newspapers. A history note recalls Jesse James exhumation and funeral rites, while a River Dynamite issue prompts warnings to enforce game and fish laws. A fatal shooting in Iron Belt claims Herman Hill, with John Reibeck gravely wounded. A Finnish sectarian feud is noted, and an ad for Laxative Biomo-Quinine tablets concludes.
The afternoon featured a parade and several sports events as part of the celebration. Participants and spectators gathered for a lively display with multiple activities throughout the day.
Rainy weather failed to dampen Bessemer's Fourth of July as a large crowd gathered while floats paraded from Court House Square to City Hall. Rev T J Joslin led speeches after the procession. The day’s sports on Lead Street were interrupted by more showers and full details could not be printed.
F. J. Dorris formerly of this city and family spent the 4th in Besse mer. Jerry Holland and family came up from Wakefield to attend the celebration on Friday. Tim Dalton visited Appleton Wis to spend the 4th with his parents. Dr. Leo Redner of Iron Belt was a Bessemer visitor on the 4th. Ervc Truettner and family of Wakefield attended the celebration in this city on Friday.
West minster Gazette reports unearthed urns at Sunningdale near Camberley during golf links work. Twenty calcined bone urns found. seventeen more uncovered under a mound. Archaeologists deem site a pre Roman crematorium battlefield likely 2,000 to 6,000 years old with urns sent to British Museum Reading Museum Oxford and the Louvre.
A lost check for 54 dollars 75 cents drawn on the First National Bank of Bessemer payable to A Ren by the Sunday Lake Iron Co. offers a 4 dollar 75 cent reward for return to the Wakefield Michigan business location. The note is signed Tuomas Miller.
A small boy gazes at a newborn sister resting in a cradle. The infant arrives the day before and makes strenuous abortive cries as the scene frames a quiet family moment in a local newspaper vignette.
In a busy market corner a small child points and jokes about a man’s tense face as if hosting a rummage sale. Onlookers smile at the playful misunderstanding, capturing a moment of lighthearted urban humor.
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