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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1901
Page
14
A note from the June Ladies Home Journal mentions an airline railroad from St Ig nace to the Soo, to be known as the Northern Michigan railroad, part of U P enterprises about to be started. It also advises plain stationery standards for note paper.
Burglars broke into the First National Bank of Mineral Point and secured 30000 mostly in currency last Saturday morning. The robbers escaped without trouble and, at last accounts, had not been captured. The AOUW picnic at Schuetzen Park drew the biggest turnout in recent memory with a net from refreshments around 160 used to buy uniforms for the band. A state senate resolution limits noon May 25th to enrolled bill signing. final adjournment set for noon June 6th. Degenerate.
The Imperial Dramatic Company begins a week at MacFarlane's opera house featuring Master and Man a comedy drama. The troupe arrives highly praised by press and public and deserves strong support from local theatergoers.
Managers Sewell and Cutter present a top touring company with fifteen performers in fashionable vaudeville between acts. The opening play Masters and Man promises witty drama and comedy and is highlighted by a new repertoire each week. Advance seats are on sale at MacFarlane's, with popular prices of 10, 20, and 30 cents.
An Iowa man extols Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a cure for a severe burn from a gasoline stove, claiming best doctors could not heal the running sore but the salve fully cured it. Sold for 25 cents at D MacFarlen’s.
Consular reports reveal the brier pipe trade uses Erica arborea roots, not briar rose. Leghorn remains a hub for Tuscan root export with Calabria prized for quality, while blocks are boiled and cut into Marseillaise Meve and Belgian shapes for pipes in Europe and the United States.
A near sighted Ohio lawyer Col Jones defied a fatal shot from ward boss Harding by walking toward the gun. Harding fled, reformers gained power, Jones became mayor and built a large law practice. The tale, told by a relative, underscores the heroism of patience and nerve.
A traveler notes that skiing keeps soldiers and peasants mobile through Norway's winter. Distances become easy, peasants visit distant districts, sportsmen hunt with ski, and regiments traverse the countryside around Christiania, a common sight to observers.
A Boston man who recently wed a frail wealthy young woman finds happiness after using Dr. King's New Life Pills. The ad claims the pills restore health, cure jaundice biliousness malaria fever and ague and all liver and stomach troubles. Gentle but effective and priced at 25 cents at D MacFarlane's drug store.
A Yonkers Statesman snippet recalls a Brooklyn lady guiding her little niece through an art gallery. The niece points to a woman without arms, and the aunt identifies the figure as an ancient goddess, reflecting art and era impressions.
Frank Fleetwood, 20, son of Jacob Fleetwood of Tipton Indiana, has become mentally deranged from reading novels. He grew violent recently and drove his parents from the house after reportedly reading over 1,000 books.
City of Bessemer issues a notice to contractors under a 1908 resolution authorizing sewer construction along Sellar Beacher Case and Mary Streets, Clayberg, and related sites with a Mary Street catch basin and a block 3 sewer. Proposals due by June 22, 1901, with bonds equal to double bid amount, bids may be rejected, work as plans on file in City Hall.
A Milwaukee correspondent notes views inside the British House of Commons showing the strangers' gallery behind the speaker, with ministers and opposition benches nearby. The press gallery above makes it hard for visitors to hear, and fog from Phaines hampers visibility.
A dated 0 cent bottle refund guarantee for Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar vows money back if it fails to cure cough or cold. It also offers a 25 cent bottle with the same satisfaction or refund pledge, signed by the undersigned parties.
A sensible woman urges others to come and see for themselves to be convinced, promoting direct observation as the path to certainty.
Jeff O Shaw proprietor of Shaw s Star Studio West Superior Wis and his solicitor J H Harris will be in Bessemer June 11 with artist F Westman. They have spent over two months in Ironwood and Hurley completing more than two hundred enlarged portraits. They will stay one to two weeks offering special prices on the first hundred orders and will finish all work in Ironwood Mich at the Clarendon Hotel. Watch for them and order early to join the first hundred.
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