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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1921
Page
12
This piece extols communal organization across new mining camps oil towns and old world towns alike. It argues Americans unite to achieve what individuals cannot and that organizations mold a community’s personality driving progress and civic impact. Citizens should belong to groups to advance shared goals.
In London vast poverty contrasts with aristocratic excess while in the United States millions are jobless. Atlantic City hosts a Dempsey Carpentier fight drawing crowds and steep prices, yet the spectacle contrasts with widespread hunger at home. The piece argues Americans cannot critique English aristocracy while neglecting their own unemployed.
A reader reflects on Liberty Bonds once urged to buy with promises of rising value. He believes Congress may act to restore market value to par, or allow legislation if needed. Patience could still save the investment from current high rates and declines.
A fragmented excerpt discusses the core dispute between socialism and capitalism, asking whether individuals should control what they produce or join a collective plan. It contrasts private production with factory-made goods and questions the outcome for people and society.
The author argues that individuals should own what they create rather than sharing all property communally. He claims socialist plans fail because lazy workers undermine effort, while private ownership spurs initiative, leads to efficient production, and lowers costs. He stresses that the successful businessman drives vast output and community gains.
Bill Dale arrives to claim coal on David Moreland’s mountain in a high country settlement divided by the Moreland and Littleford clans. John Moreland, son of the land’s first owner, confronts Dale with family tragedy linked to Carlyle, a West Virginia kinsman. Dale seeks footing, while By Heck guides him through tensions, hunger, and a looming choice between coal and a bride.
The Marquette Journal reports that Roistd Building activity rises across the upper peninsula with counties approving bonds of 200000 for roads in Houghton and a 250000 state contract for a Little Lake to Delta county line highway. Iron Mountain voters approve 100000 bond for city highway work, with substantial city funding. The programs aim to relieve unemployment by expediting essential public improvements, benefiting thousands of workers and stabilizing the regional economy.
Fragmentary humorous column references weather schemes in Bessemer and travel to Alaska, a late baseball game dispute, Marquette visit, a July Fourth committee shift, election quips, Henry Ford quotes, and a cinema lobby sign about smoke.
A melted Bessemer business man exclaims with excitement as the temperature plunges from a blazing 9914 in the shade to 99, capturing a vivid, if odd, closing moment amid a chill not seen in years.
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