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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1913
Page
2
Advice contrasts risk of arguing with studied opinion and emphasizes self belief and visible effort. Warns that overmodesty and focusing on others' duties can hinder advancement, urging careful, competent work and readiness to prove capability for raises.
The success of the anti typhoid inoculation in the U S army leads officials to extend immunity to soldiers families. Colonel Surgeon J Mervin Mays, chief medical officer for the east, secured typhoid anti toxin from the Washington army lab. All women under forty five and all children over ten will be immunized. The move could influence civilian adoption and may appeal to traveling salesmen exposed to risky drinking water.
Doctors addressing the Illinois Society for the Conservation of Vision in Chicago claim nursing attention at birth is the main cause of congenital blindness. Nationwide effort grows to spread a simple preventive method to avoid infantile blindness in most cases.
Foreign observers would not wonder at the braininess of Americans as they study baseball. The game tests skill, requiring nimble minds and bodies, quick thinking and action. Fans in the stands are as alert as players, judging each play and its effect on the outcome. It is a great mental tone in baseball.
The New York City health commissioner warns pastry makers use benzoate of soda too freely and seeks regulations requiring placards or menu notes to inform customers of the preservative. He says diners paying for homestyle pie deserve to know what they receive.
A Chicago police magistrate stated from the bench that girls are more responsible for flirting than men, and that mothers are responsible for their daughters. He added that the latter part of his remark is true, while the first is open to debate.
A Massachusetts man asserts the world will end in 13 years, then jokes that predicting such an event is easy but crafting an excuse if the date passes without incident is the real challenge.
Owners of New York skyscrapers urge tenants to ask their employers to shorten hatpins to boost elevator capacity. The move aims to improve building efficiency and reduce wait times during peak hours.
Five hundred bankers attended the opening session at Representative Hall in the state capitol, with President B F Davis delivering the annual address. Addresses included Tendencies in Bank Legislation by Hal H Smith and The Possibilities of Cloverland by C W Mott, as the encampment planned elections and next-year site.
Gen George W Stone says about twenty five thousand people expected for the thirty fifth annual G A R encampment in Lansing June 17 to 19. The event draws veterans W A C Spanish War veterans and boy scouts with medical and parade ceremonies planned including a welcome by Mayor Rutter and speeches by Gov Woodbridge Ferris and Dept Commander Spillane.
The Michigan state fair will feature a daring cavalry exhibition. General Manager Dickinson confirmed the plan with Secretary of War Garrison, and the show awaits Governor Ferris's recommendation to ensure its inclusion as a key event.
Auditor General Fuller of Michigan says the primary school fund per capita will be below seven dollars this year. About 774,169 children are eligible, but $102,121 is still needed to reach $7 per child, with distribution planned for July.
Springfield June 13 Illinois women won a final victory as the house passed the limited suffrage bill by 83 to 58 and sent it to Governor Dunne for signature. The act allows women to vote for all officers created by statute including presidential electors and US senators, with separate ballots and registration for women in elections. Washington June 13 Senate committee, nearly unanimously, ordered a favorable report on a constitutional amendment granting franchise to all citizens regardless of sex, with hearings conducted on both sides.
In Grand Junction Colorado on June 13, Rev A F Glover aged 22 stopped 25 cowboys who were rioting in DeBeque. He herded them to jail while supporters quickly secured a warrant for his arrest for carrying concealed weapons, but the mayor blocked the marshal from serving it.
Fond du Lac Wisconsin June 13 Mrs Mary Schneider thirty wife of Nicholas Schneider a Forest Town farmer killed her three children by slashing throats with a razor and butcher knife then took her own life the children John five Norbert three and Florence one. Their heads were nearly severed.
In Farnborough England on June 13 during a trial flight the British navy airship Astra torres broke her back and was forced to descend. The crew escaped a near total destruction with only a narrow salvage of the airship.
A fire at the Big River Lumber company mill ten miles north of Prince Albert Saskatchewan on Wednesday consumed the mill and 30000 feet of lumber. The damage was estimated at 500000 dollars.
Bay City Mrs Mary G Pierce adjudged insane last week was arrested by Sheriff Fitzgerald who cornered her in a grocery store with a loaded revolver in her market basket She barricaded herself in her shack on MacKinley avenue for a week and defied service She terrorized her neighborhood for over a year firing at night and threatening children. Ann Arbor officials appoint new Gargoyle and Michiganensian editors and managers Lansing fringe notes: auditor general urges foreign liquor dealers to pay state tax Grand Rapids deaths and injuries as two men die or fall during repairs Kalamazoo Detroit University to award Barbour hall scholarship Ann Arbor Deutscher Verein officers elected Ludington veteran Albert Vogel Sr dies Hudson drowning Pontiac two parks and a school funded by Martha Baldwin estate Grand Rapids spider bite death of Mrs Ahlstad Lansing Wolverine Veterinary Surgeons hold convention Cass City man Elmer Drake killed by dynamite blast
The will of the late Mrs. Mary Farley of Pinckney Livingston county directs a sum of 5090 dollars to St Mary's church. Pinckney in Putnam township a large Irish settlement will soon host its first Roman Catholic Parochial school funded by the bequest.
Reverend Milton L. Clemens, a Marshall Missouri native and distant relative of Mark Twain, told aboard the Persia in San Francisco that Japanese leaders seek war to seize the Philippines and Hawaii but officials fear a costly clash. He notes Japan’s government centers power in Tokyo and dictates policy there.
A log cabin hotel of two rooms in Grand Forks North Dakota, once hosting James J. Hill in 1873 during railroad prospecting, was razed. It served as the first hotel, post office, stage station, town hall and church, housing up to 14 guests in bunks along walls. The structure operated about three years before closing.
Charles Frederick von Glahn five in New YorkGermany boy with floriculture dreams planted his mother’s eight thousand dollar string of pearls in a hotel rooftop flower box after copying Luther Burbank style seeds. Nurse interrupted as jewels were dug up. fortune unlikely to sprout.
At a Philadelphia gathering the Elliott Cresson gold medals and diplomas, Franklin Institute’s highest honor, were presented to six prominent scientists. American recipients included Emile Berliner of Washington a pioneer in voice on metal recording, Dr Isham Randolph of Chicago a civil engineer, and Dr Charles P Steinmetz of Schenectady an electrical engineer.
Delaware bay shore fishermen report rising trout catches with strong demand from city buyers paying 50 cents a bushel at Bower's beach. Catches at Big Stone Slaughters and Cedar beaches are also larger this season.
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