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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1913
Page
2
A reflection on humane societies favoring animals over humans, contrasting a Massachusetts bill to shoot gulls with the Audubon society’s bird protections. The piece extols spiritual endowment and character as true safeguards, arguing money cannot buy resilience against moral decline.
A high corporate officer noticed a broken pin but used a shorter sticker to hold papers together. After quick calculations and a call to the pin maker, the firm learned that using pins an eighth of an inch shorter would save several hundred dollars annually. The next week shorter pins arrived, and the officer felt he benefited shareholders by reducing expenses.
United States and Latin America experts project about one million dollars per business day for the current fiscal year, roughly tripling a decade ago. Preparations by the U.S. run ahead of anticipated canal opening, signaling a substantial fiscal jump.
A Omaha household faced a double upheaval as a hired girl fled a window blown open by the storm, returning later in another window with a second girl who was persuaded to stay once the danger passed. The account notes the families’ luck and the unusual sequence of events following the tempest.
A ninety year old widow in New York sues for back alimony from 1867. The delay in asserting her rights may yield a sizable fortune if the suit succeeds, illustrating the payoff of careful patience in legal affairs.
A distressed man imagines a future where a prominent professional woman's claim that women can no longer be treated as slaves inspires a glimmer of relief. He worries that his chance to escape slavery lies in such bold assertion, fueling a mixture of hope and helplessness.
A Paris doctor argues that hair analysis can reveal character, though those with bald heads may still be leaders such as judges or college professors, suggesting broader applicability of his method.
A fragment hints that before season's end someone may gain fame by inventing a new name for the umpire. The line suggests a local sports culture moment without naming teams or places. It remains a speculative and lighthearted observation about naming traditions in baseball.
A compact note observes that even the stingy rarely loosen constraints around their money. It hints that tightfisted behavior persists despite pressure to spend, keeping focus on personal finances and frugality.
Michigan bankers anticipate a large turnout for the twenty-seventh annual Michigan State Bankers Association convention in Lansing June 10 to 12. Prominent speakers will discuss Banking, Agricultural Development, Life Insurance as Collateral, and the American Institute of Banking as part of a busy program with tours, luncheons, receptions, and a ball. The article also notes May industrial accidents in Michigan and the state’s leading adoption of the compensation act by employers. Grand Masonic lodge events in Lansing featured the cornerstone laying for the Lansing Women’s Club House.
Officers from the Detroit district along with two hundred delegates from twelve districts prepare for the state convention to be held June 30 through July 6 at the Church of Our Father in Detroit. The meeting will cover forty branches of union work and feature a varied musical program with performers from Plymouth and Detroit churches.
The state convention of the Michigan Home Economics association was held in Ypsilanti with seventy five women attending mostly domestic science teachers from across Michigan. Officers elected include President Agnes Hunt M A C first vice president Lauretta Morrissey Grand Rapids second vice president Charlotte Keene Detroit secretary treasurer Martha N. French Ypsilanti and councilors at large Dean Grace Fuller Ypsilanti with executive committee members Lenna F. Cooper Battle Creek and Florence Pray Kalamazoo.
Deeds covering 15 000 acres in Crawford county presented by Rasmus Flan son of Grayling were received at Lansing for a permanent Michigan National Guard camp site.
Governor J Woodbridge N Ferris issues a Flag Day proclamation designating Saturday June 14 1913 as Flag Day in Michigan. The document urges public display of the American flag on state municipal and school buildings and calls for activities to teach youth to revere the flag and its ideals of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
At the thirty seventh annual convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the Second district in Ann Arbor the officers chosen include President Ada Mumford Adrian corresponding secretary Luella McCain Reading recording secretary Anna Ferry Monroe treasurer H J Williams Adrian and delegate M J Taft Ann Arbor to the national convention in New Jersey next fall.
Governor Ferris names Edmund C Shields of Howell and Cyrenius P Black of Lansing to head a six member panel to compile Michigan statutes. Also named are Archibald Broomfield of Big Rapids and five others for the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society transition, plus three lawyers for the civil practice revision panel Alva M Cummins J Clyde Watt and Mark Stevens.
The sixty fifth annual state session of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows closed in Saginaw after a highly successful event. About 2,500 delegates from Michigan attended. The Soo earned the 1914 meeting. Officers were elected with Thomas Conlin of Crystal Falls as Grand Patriarch and James Johnston of Cadillac as a Grand Representative. The encampment reported 11,000 members across 124 lodges and strong finances.
The document lists corporate names with Grand Rapids Bay City Benzonia Breckinridge and Boyne City as locations. Values include 20000 10000 18000 1000 5000 4000 25000 and 1000 dollars for various firms such as Barnes Manufacturing Farm ers Telephone Szlantar Polski Publishing Spellman and Breckinridge Farmers Elevator and International Amusement Association.
A detailed guide emphasizes a woman’s role in thriving home gardens. It covers dense, near-ground plantings, soil preparation with manure trenches, succession planting for peas lettuce radishes cucumbers and turnips, seed catalogs for improved varieties, hotbeds and flats for seed starting, transplanting techniques and mulching to conserve moisture. It also advises early pest prevention using insecticides pepper dust tobacco tea and kerosene emulsion, plus weed and moisture management and the importance of sturdy tools.
A writer in Lippincott's notes from well authenticated sources that the sultan of Turkey does not care for the tune Onward Christian Soldiers.
A commuter boasts of preferring to shell green peas over other tasks and recounts a yard visit during callers. His wife warns him to mow the lawn before Mr Nutley returns, while the scene unfolds with two pretty neighbors at the back porch.
A witty exchange has an old maid question a proposal and the reply defends postponing marriage. She concedes that “better late than never” may apply to marriage as well as to other matters.
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