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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1914
Page
3
A detailed account contrasts women’s status in traditional Persian society with men’s power. It describes the veiled life in the anderoon, early marriage customs, dowry negotiations, bridal rituals, and the harsh consequences for girls, including the risk of punishment for bearing daughters and limited education. The piece notes superstition guiding weddings and the dramatic arrival of a wedding procession.
E P Frost argues that calling desire a weakness and suppression mastery misleads. He notes growing numbers seek psychiatrists not for excess but for mastering desires through sublimation, not repression. True self control requires expression of desire in some form to avoid dangerous eruptions in the future.
A statesman asserts wisdom surpasses that of the plain people while acknowledging occasional respect for public judgment. The exchange highlights tension between elite expertise and popular insight in governance.
Charles Wolgren, a leper long kept at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, boarded an Atlantic liner in New York harbor to sail to Sweden after a secretive journey from Chicago. Government officials and railroad staff enforced secrecy with high tariffs and PK silence to avoid publicity. Two attendants, George E. Schubert and C. D. Creighton, accompanied him.
Washington reports a July 11 dedication planned for a monument by New York to the Twenty-fifth New York Volunteer Cavalry at Battle Cemetery near Fort Stevens. The Barre granite pedestal supports a marble statue 51½ feet tall, with a combined height of 11 feet 6 inches. Inscription honors Comrades who died defending the National Capital on July 11, 1864, erected by the State of New York. The ceremony recounts how the cavalry arrived at Fort Stevens that day fifty years ago.
An unknown Englishman in Washington declares the U S government insulted him when customs officers at New York seized an aigrette from his daughter's hat and sends a draft for 1000 to President Huerta of Mexico to avenge the slight.
Mrs Sophie T Erber sues for annulment claiming her husband tore up her former divorce decree and forced her to swallow the fragments in a troubling marital dispute reported from New York.
Mrs. Frederick J. Stevens and her mother Isabella W. Olin, Chicago refugees aboard the Esperanza, describe the Vera Cruz bombardment from a porthole. They recount Marines landing, Mexican fire from palisades and churches, and vivid shots that felled buildings and combatants as American gunners protected their troops.
Linden, N. K Webb Wallace town treasurer received fifteen dollars by mail designated as conscience money. The sender, from Ithaca New York where he once ran a store, admitted stealing ten dollars twenty years ago. five dollars covered interest.
A bloodless duel was fought at the Parc des Princes between former French minister of finances Joseph Caillaux and his rival M. d'Aillieres after their seconds arranged a meeting on the field of honor. One shot went into the sky and the other into the ground as the participants faced each other.
San Jose attorney Will M. Beggs dissolved a household partnership between a house cat and a pet hen after their quarrel over the care of kittens. Two separate enclosures were established and the parties stood at pistols at 25 paces as a ceremonial separation concluded by a neutral observer.
Refugees from the west coast of Mexico report that Zapata soldiers demanded church funds from the Catholic bishop of Chalapa. He refused, and the troops allegedly nailed him to a cross and left him to die.
In New York, Mrs. Joseph Hyama claims her husband painted her face while she slept and summoned their son to view the supposed Indian marks. Kyaisa counters that she fabricated the tale to win affection from other men.
Beautiful Marie Ganz, suffragist and IWW speaker, climbs to the fourteenth floor of 26 Broadway to threaten to shoot John D. Rockefeller Jr. if he does not end the Colorado strike war. She tells a doorman to relay the message to Rockefeller or his secretary and declares the motive to halt Colorado murders. A crowd follows as she seeks access to his private offices in the Standard Oil building.
Four strangers from different regiments met around an overturned keg during the Diamond Hill battle. After sharing a meal a damaged florin was divided into four pieces and each man wore a watch charm. They later reunited at a farewell dinner in Birmingham recognizing each other by the coin fragments.
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