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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1901
Page
13
The Bessemer Herald published by Sherman and Hand with a June 22 publication line. Entry note indicates post office mailing at Bessemer Michigan as second class matter.
A wedding in Escanaba united Clara Lorette Buckley and Clifford Barabe at St Sebastian church with a reception at Prof A E Sterne’s home. Attendants included Grace Christopher and Edouard Barabe. guests traveled from Iron River Negaunee Marquette Escanaba and Chicago to attend the ceremony and festivities. They plan a trip to Ann Arbor Buffalo Hudson Bay Boston before settling at 522 Georgia street Escanaba on Sept 1.
They returned here on Thursday and report a very pleasant time at the popular summer resort. The Herald wishes Mr. and Mrs. Norberg a happy and prosperous future.
A Treasury official warns that many Washington clerks use government hours for private schemes. He cites real estate, rooming houses, shoe stores, bucket shops, chicken farms, and even loan businesses. He notes embroy lawyers and doctors operating quietly, with sundown doctors once common but now fading.
A young father recalls using telephone consultations with his physician for his children. He reports that every call is billed as if the doctor made a personal house call, totaling the same as an in person visit. The doctor justifies the charge as keeping pace with modern improvements, while the family finds the cost burdensome even in hurried times.
A Washington Letter notes a man recently attended services at a Philadelphia penitentiary and heard convicts sing a plaintive hymn about guidance from heaven. Later that afternoon he heard thousand innocent children, mostly girls aged six to sixteen, sing a contrasting hymn about weariness of life and sin.
Mrs. W. R. Haviland of Armonk New York credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving her daughter from a fatal attack of whooping cough and bronchitis after other remedies failed. Her other daughter, once advanced in consumption, is now well. The ad touts the medicine as infallible for coughs and colds, with trial bottles free and bottles at one dollar, guaranteed by D MacFarlane.
Less than half rates to San Francisco for a personally conducted special train. Travel from all points in Michigan with a return option via a different route. Tickets limited to August 31. Contacts: W. B. Knis ker, Chicago. Agents offered full particulars and a folder with arrangements and maps.
A London Express sighting near Manchester introduces Germany's Diesel engine, a crude oil fueled unit that starts by compressed air and requires no boilers or chimneys. It promises fuel and space economy, aims at cars and small ships, with French orders for submarines and potential wide use in industry and vessels.
A Boston man who married a sickly rich young woman is happy now after she used Dr King's New Life Pills. The remedy is claimed infallible for jaundice, biliousness, malaria, fever, and all liver and stomach troubles. Gentle but effective. 2gcat DD. MacFarlane's drug store.
Tickets for the Pan-American Expositer excursion from Buffalo via the North Western line are offered with favorable return conditions. The advertised route includes Chisago and Pittsburgh styled connections, with fast trains and Danes to Puttsin noted. Agents advertise illustrated coupons and mailed tickets. general passenger information provided by the ticket agent in Chicago.
An old New York postal article notes rich clergymen with salaries and perquisites. It cites Jonathan Hale and Morgan Dix of Trinity, Dr Greer, Dr Huntington, and Dr MacArthur as top earners with yearly incomes from 25 000 to well over 50 000 including wedding fees. It discusses wives collecting wedding fees and the allure of affluent parishes.
North Western Line announces reduced fare tickets for a convention in Detroit Michigan with dates of sale and rate details via agents Chicago and North Western Railway.
Tickets will be sold at one fare for round trip from June 20 to 23, inclusive with return by June 24, Marshfield Wisconsin served via the North Western Line. Limited to those attending the Saengerfest.
The Supreme Order Married Men's League of America, a benevolent organization for Benedict men under 55, filed incorporation in Colorado. Originating in St Louis, the Missouri charter governs. aims include social culture and material aid, plus a $4900 wife’s benefit on a husband’s death. Incorporators J W R Boul ware, WA G Osborne, and Thomas G Moore are Missouri men.
Mrs L Pease of Lawrence Ran had been bedbound seven events due to kidney and liver trouble and nervous prostration. After using three bottles of Electric Bitters she walked again and in three months felt like a new person. The ad touts benefits for headaches nervousness sleeplessness melancholy and dizzy spells with guaranteed satisfaction from D MacFarlane.
Fragmentary OCR text from a historical page appears garbled. Names and phrases such as DeWitt and Epoustentetts are unclear, with missing context, dates, and locations making precise summary impossible.
Fragmentary readable phrases reference low rates this summer in West end Northwest areas. Mentions regional places such as St. Baal, Minne scaleh, Pacific routes, and mentions of dates and tickets. Difficult to extract coherent facts or entities from the garbled text.
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