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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1902
Page
7
The article explains a method of ostrich feather plucking. A bag with a breathing hole covers the bird, one person restrains it while another trims wing and tail feathers. Short feathers are pulled ripe and painless. stumps stay for three weeks. Birds may remove stumps themselves. Male birds yield more valuable feathers.
A judge recalls a case where doctors operated on Tom Archer for appendicitis only to find the diagnosis was wrong. They sent him home on Valentine’s Day with a note stating opened by mistake, highlighting medical error in a court discussion.
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel comfortable cures corns bunions swollen and sweating feet. At all druggists and shoe stores 25c. Sample sent free address Allen S Olmsted LeRoy NY
An Englishman shares a joke about a laborer asking if a shovel or a pick is needed for a job. The foreman replies that the worker may take his choice, delivering a light humorous exchange.
Dolly rides with Marjorie and Charlie in a new automobile but the car breaks down forcing Dolly to walk four miles. Madge questions anger while Marjorie calls him a motorman in a terse exchange.
Henry A. Salzer a noted Wisconsin seedsman donates his last thousand dollars to wipe out the La Crosse Y M C A debt. Local leaders praised the gesture and thanked him for starved funds finally freed for community programs.
A fragmentary item notes a light moment about dancing. One speaker urges movement while another claims exhaustion, with a playful exchange suggesting social amusement and language play. The brief vignette highlights characterization through dialogue and humor.
A letter from R H Seidel of 2206 Olive Street St Louis Missouri dated April 15 1901 extols Piso's Cure for curing the writer. A practical tip notes that salt sprinkled on a coal fire when broiling steak prevents burning from dripping fat.
A short grocer’s pitch promotes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry blueing. It urges customers to “keep them white as snow” and to look for the Ball Blue on a package at all grocers.
A Chicago fire swept the St Luke Society sanitarium on Wabash avenue and Twenty first street, killing ten and injuring a dozen. Alderman William B Kent died trapped on the top floor after breaking free from a bed to reach barred windows. Police arrested eight after midnight including the sanitarium president and engineers as investigators probe the blaze. The building loss stood at 5000 with contents valued at 30000.
A major Guatemala earthquake devastated Quezaltenango and nearby towns on April 18. About 2,000 people died and 4,000 were injured as the city of 40,000 was destroyed. Fires raged, rain fell, and the ruins were left strewn with bodies and debris. The old site will be abandoned and a new town named Quezaltenango will be built a few miles north.
A Chicago Record Herald editorial warns country youths against urban myths of opportunity. It argues city life brings overcrowding, low wages, and dependence, urging farm work mastery, land purchase, and renewed ambition for lasting independence.
Telegraphic items report the death of well known gambler Jacob Clute. California lawyers secured 2,000,000 dollars in fees from a fair estate. Fred W. Eberhardt faces accusation of killing his wife in Chicago. A liquid asphalt well is reported near Austin Texas. Mobile Alabama City Council approves an ordinance and funds to eradicate mosquitoes with kerosene and parasite oil.
A severe Tuesday storm swept Illinois with Bloomington hardest hit, damage estimated at half a million dollars there and in Merna where three women died. Peoria Champaign Urbana and other cities suffered extensive destruction including collapsed halls, unroofed buildings, and widespread power loss. In Iowa Des Moines Burlington Oskaloosa and Laurel also reported damages with boats sunk and telegraph lines down.
A Philadelphia Times inspired meditation notes that women flock to extremely ugly men, claiming a gleam of intelligence can make the ape-like face appear fascinating. The piece cites Mirabeau and brutal criminals, observing women’s worship of monstrous looks at trials while men wonder why admired ugliness outshines handsome vanity.
KE R Dutton of New York leads a company aiming to exploit ice caves near Flagstaff Arizona to supply rural stations lumber camps and railroads across northern Arizona New Mexico and beyond. The Clark's valley cavern yields intense cold and vast ice stores feeding linked passages to other ice filled caves.
Col Arthur Lynch veteran Boer officer and Galway MP elect was arrested on landing at Dieppe and brought to Bow Street police station. He was arraigned on high treason charges and remanded after evidence was presented. He said in Paris he would return to England to take his seat in Parliament amid hopes of pardon.
An epidemic of lockjaw spreads among Go liad Texas cyclone victims. Five dead this week, all white so far, now affecting African Americans who physicians say are more susceptible. No recoveries reported. Also noted is Brigham Young’s 101st birth anniversary celebrated in Salt Lake City.
A Baltimore lawyer’s four year old son misbehaves and endures a scheduled punishment. The boy prays aloud for mercy asking to become “one of the little cherubs” to avoid his mother’s rod, then curls into bed as the promised whipping never comes.
Charles FP Peterson of Breed Wisconsin, JP for Oconto County, describes years of back pain especially in the morning. After trying Dodd's Kidney Pills, he reports complete improvement and strong recommendations to others. He is a respected local official attesting to the remedy's benefit.
Mrs Green Why and Mrs Brown discuss ill health with dyspepsia jokes. Brown says she has none but her husband does. The exchange reflects light, humorous ailment chatter in a newspaper snippet from Chicago News.
The advertisement states Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and priced at 75 cents. It presents a concise sales line for a patent remedy once common in newspapers.
A brief comic exchange features a speaker asking if typhoid fever left any aftermath. The reply, humorous in tone, states that nothing remained because the doctor had removed it all.
An old advertisement promotes Red Cross Ball Blue as the best choice for good housekeepers, noting availability at leading grocers for five cents. It also markets Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain, claiming it softens gums reduces inflammation and relieves wind colic, priced at two cents.
Mrs D Arnold, president of the German Woman's Club in Los Angeles, credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing a four year womb tumor after doctors urged hospital surgery. She reports full recovery with twelve bottles and warns others to seek the remedy only, offering $5000 for authenticity. The message catalogs numerous menstrual and reproductive symptoms the product allegedly relieves.
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