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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1907
Page
3
An old advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a potent natural remedy for female illnesses. It touts a long therapeutic record, urging troubled women to trust the product and noting free advisory help from the founder's daughter in law in Lynn Massachusetts.
Denmark exports butter from Cow Land where 500 cows serve every 1000 inhabitants. If a family has five heads, there are two and a half cows per family, illustrating a high cattle per capita ratio in the region.
The medicine Golden Medical Discovery, attributed to Dr. Pierce of Buffalo, is said to extract curative properties from native roots using pure glycerine not alcohol. It is promoted for weak stomach indigestion biliousness and catarrhal throat conditions with cautions about limited miracles and early use in preventing consumption.
Dr A S W Rosenbach buys one of 150 original first folios for 15000 in London for a Philadelphia bibliophile. The book, among the few surviving copies, is insured for 15000 and marks the highest sum ever paid for a Shakespeare folio. Several Philadelphia collectors own copies, including Furness Harrison Thomas and W W Harrison.
The Egyptian government permits building along the pyramid ridge from Eskebich to the Nike River. Societies form to exploit the view for large hotels. Around the Ghiseh pyramids, American style skyscrapers five to ten stories high are planned, prompting concern for the ancient panorama.
The piece describes a snow hare that sports a white winter coat and a lighter summer coat to blend in with the ground. It notes the animal uses disguise to hide from predators, masking itself as part of the landscape.
Fifteen hundred delegates from thirty seven lands gathered in Rome for the largest Sunday school convention in history. The event featured global leaders, reports on progress, and plans for a world Sunday school movement, including a planned 1908 world cruise and future conventions with significant international participation.
St Catherine s lighthouse at Isle of Wicht now bears a fash licht with an estimated 15 000 000 candle power. In Greenland potatoes reportedly never grow larger than a marble.
Mrs Zana Miller reports her three month old son cured of Cuban Itch using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After two weeks the sores dried and he slept easily, ending with full recovery by age five. She would have paid $100 if cheaper options were unavailable. May 17, 1906.
A speaker urges the audience to keep a firm grip on the reins and push toward victory while auditors applaud. The quotation, cited as from the Chicago Tribuno, reflects a period-tone political oratory about collective effort and progress toward a hoped outcome.
An ad touts Long Beach Hotel on Long Island as the leading Atlantic coast resort near New York. It highlights renovated facilities, oceanfront veranda, surf bathing, and the new management by W. Johnson Quinn of Hotel Empire. The copy notes many Midwestern visitors and suggests a detour to enjoy ocean breezes and cuisine. Also references Lewis' Single Binder cigars and factory details.
A wasp was observed ambushing and robbing bees as they carried nectar back to their hive, disrupting the foraging bees and hindering hive activities.
A libel suit from May 1904 against Ladies’ Home Journal ended with a $16,000 verdict for Dr. R V Pierce’s company. The trial proved the Journal’s attack false and that the prescription contains no alcohol or harmful drugs. Dr. Pierce seeks a new trial and delays payment pending decision.
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