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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1906
Page
7
In Holland births marriages and deaths are signaled by windmill states rather than print. A marriage pauses the mill with sails slanted and unfurled. a birth shows a more acute slant with two upper sails out. a death leaves sails furled and the wheel turned to form an upright cross until after the funeral.
W L Jackson of Parkersburg West Virginia describes twenty years of kidney trouble including back pain and nightly urination. After using Dean's Kidney Pills his urine flows freely, pain subsides, and he has remained cured for eight years. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A visitor asks what the bright boy will do when grown. He muses about starting an elephant farm in Virginia, arguing they raise pea nuts there. The exchange plays on whimsy and regional notions, ending with a humorous punch.
An emphatic drill on digestion and strength links health to digestion. A reader testimonial cites Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery improving stomach function, appetite, and weight after chronic dyspepsia. The ad urges avoiding inferior substitutes and offers the People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser for purchase by mail.
A massive forest blaze sweeps across northern Michigan causing four deaths and many missing. Entire towns like Talbot and Quinnesec abandon, with millions in property lost. Refugees flee as wind-driven flames race along the Escanaba line, burning vast tracts while woodmen try back-firing and evacuations.
San Francisco opens a three month summer school for 600 pupils in Golden Gate Park with seventeen militia tents, desks and books, three months of study including reading arithmetic and nature excursions, and lunch prepared by the children.
Rumor says Russian military court condemned Lieutenant General Stoessel and Rear Admiral Nebogat off for surrender at Port Arthur and Sea of Japan battles. Columbus, Ohio native David Bonowitz cites St. Petersburg rumors that Stoessel will be sent away then quietly killed by the government. Nebogatoff also implicated.
W H Stuart British subject and American vice consul at Batoum is shot dead at his country place. He was a leading ship broker and exporter. Assassination linked to revolutionary unrest and anti government sentiment in Batoum, a Black Sea port with 20 000 residents. The murder strains Russia US relations. officials cite possible official collusion and lack of protection.
L F Petrie of Clarksville Arkansas at 21 has been elected mayor after a one day campaign. Admiral Schley plans Baltimore as a permanent home. M Jusserand French ambassador gains fame as orator in Washington. Boston Mayor Fitzgerald to create a publicity bureau. Vice President Fairbanks tallest in Senate yet Frederick his secretary now taller. Root to circumnavigate South America via west coast and isthmus. Gorman seat once held by Douglas who mentored him. Douglas page at 13. Viscount de Alte Portuguese envoy leads a recluse life in Washington and rarely hosts or accepts invitations.
Within twenty four hours of opening the Night and Day bank at Fifth avenue and Forty four street in New York deposits reached about one million dollars.
A coalition of Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in New York pushes freeing Wednesday afternoons from public school to allow children to attend religious instruction. The proposal, launched by an interchurch conference, envisions students leaving school for coordinated study at their respective churches, aiming to unite members across churches on a common platform.
Mrs Mary Metzger of Sweetwater Oklahoma describes a severe eczema outbreak that covered her body except face and hands. After four months of relentless itching and bleeding she used Cuticura Remedies as directed and quickly found relief, now recommending them to others.
Hiram Bobbs admits his forgetfulness and arrives late at work. He recalls his shoes needed soling per Marthy. He visits a cobbler who tells him the shoes were already finished only half an hour ago and cannot be worn out yet.
A Toledo advertisement offers a $100 reward for any catarrh cure that cannot be achieved by Talisars Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. It states Cheney’s 15 years of honesty and reliability and promotes Halls Catarrh Cure and Hall’s Family Pills with testimonials and price details.
A playwright praises a comedy for plot and dialogue but notes a lack of laughs. The author adds the word D n in many spots to boost humor. Advertisements note H H Green's Sons in Atlanta claim worldwide dropsy expertise and promote offers.
Sir John Lubbock and Carl Hess showed that the mole has eyes as perfect as those of a horse or elephant. The eyes are tiny, about one millimeter in diameter, but their reflection and refraction match larger animals.
Miss Barrows of Nelsonville Ohio describes how Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier helped her treat nervous headaches back pain and irregular periods. The letter praises the remedies and urges working women to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham who has offered free guidance for twenty five years at Lynn Massachusetts.
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