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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1902
Page
5
Pay day at Tilden mine noted as Supt N O Lawton from Iron Belt was in town. Si Perkins at the opera house next Friday. Numerous residents from nearby towns and cities visit, move, or return home. Anticipation of the Buffalo Bill Wild West show and other events fills the weekend.
A garbled clipping mentions daily routines and perplexing phrases about medicine, a ladder of progress, a mountain tea, and a Ringling Bros. reference amid urban bustle. The fragment hints at a chaotic urban scene with unspecified figures and events.
The Four-Leaf Social Club hosted a well attended monthly dancing party at the opera house last Thursday. Si Perkins a farmer comedy will be staged there next Friday June 27 with a grand street parade and tickets at MacFarlane's drug store. Alumni ball at the opera house last Friday was a successful event with a large turnout and ample ticket sales. Hagen and Solberg added a new Wetmore computing scale in their grocery department. Supt Whitburn reports ore shipping delayed due to a mine shaft machinery breakdown and compressor failure, with shipping resuming today or Monday.
A killing frost narrowly escaped Sunday night on low ground near creeks east of town, killing vegetation as if burned. The week’s extreme cold has plowed into crops with garden vegetables hardest hit. The Common Council approved a plan to sewer several streets with a public works draw and estimates, led by City Surveyor George Rupp, to be presented in July. Chippewa Presbytery dissolved Rev C J McConnell’s pastoral relations here and placed a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Superior. Rev John A Tracy to administer meetings here and Hurley. McConnell to declare the pulpit vacant tomorrow.
The column details Miss Pearl Jennie's trip to Ann Arbor and Miss Wilhelmina Fritz’s summer plans in Grand Haven. It notes Miss Jennie Hall leaving for Chicago en route to Missouri, and Henry Kleman becoming pound master with fines for cows at large after 8 pm. It reports Mr and Mrs Oscar Bird visiting Durand, a fishing party on Black River, and a sharp set of letters defending the Free Press while touching on political contests between Alger and Sheldon in northern Michigan counties.
Robert Storey of Irwin Pennsylvania received a Carnegie letter confirming his placement on the pension list for old railroaders who worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad under Mr. Carnegie. Storey, a freight conductor in the early 1860s, ordered two men off his tender after noticing them on the train. he later learned one of the men was Andrew Carnegie.
The Russian finance minister published a new railway tariff to begin on April 18. Passenger fares rise across the board with ordinary trains up 25 percent and express services up to 100 percent.
The label proclaims this signature on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo Quinine Taviets and promises a remedy that cures a cold in one day.
St Sebastian Court No 602 Catholic Order of Foresters notes the death of brother John J Jansen. The court honors his service as a member and extends sympathy to his family. The charter is to be draped in mourning for thirty days and the resolutions entered in court records.
Card of Thanks. To the members of the C. O. IF. and the A. O. U. W. orders and the neighbors and friends who were kind and helpful during our recent bereavement in the loss of a beloved husband and father we tender our heartfelt thanks. Mrs. J. J. Jansen and Family.
The C. and N. W. railway will run an excursion train from this city to Ironwood on Saturday June 21 in time to view the Ringling Bros circus parade at 10:00 a.m. The line promises the best accommodations for spectators at the free street carnival.
Dr. P M Rixey recalls President McKinley’s remark on his mother’s first White House dinner. She notes the prodigal cream as “the cream of society,” and McKinley replies with humor about the excess yet practical cost of keeping a cow.
Spring fever, likened to biliousness, is warned as serious if untreated due to torpid liver and inactive bowels. De Witt's Little Early Risers are promoted as safe, gripe-free pills that stimulate the liver and cleanse the system. A testimonial from R. M. Everly of Moundsville, West Virginia, endorses their effectiveness.
An arithmetician estimates United States output of newspapers and periodicals at 2,865,466,000 dailies 1,208,190,000 weeklies and 263,452,000 monthlies totaling 4,337,108,000 copies far surpassing 2,000,000,000 average novels.
Sitka special agent C C Georgeson in charge of Alaska asserts the territory could sustain a population of 3,000,000. He discusses agricultural potential and future settlement prospects for the region.
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