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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1908
Page
4
Wakefield notes report social visits and events around Marenisco Ironwood and Bessemer including birthdays and shows. A fatality follows a pedestrian accident as Pat Meers dies after being found unconscious beside a track near Wakefield, a pioneer with a long local history.
The Feb 24 1908 adjourned meeting at Bessemer courthouse records the board chair pro tem W L Pierce and clerk A D Johnston. Reports from finance and purchasing committees discuss poor house plans fire escape bids and school telephone installation, with claims totaling numerous local officials and firms. Adjournment set for March 30 at 2 30 pm.
John V. Brennan, superintendent of Ironwood schools, recalls meeting Secretary Taft after attending a National Education Association convention. He recounts Taft’s remark about Ironwood’s landmark $150,000 public improvement bond case heard in Cincinnati about a dozen years earlier while Taft was a U.S. judge.
Solomon Sax former city council member leads a pro position to form a syndicate or company to buy land and build substantial property in Eveleth. Plan calls for several businessmen to fund a few thousand dollars to develop stores homes and an opera house armory. Project viewed as beneficial though timing unsettled per Eveleth Star.
The article notes nearly 100,000 Italians leave annually, reducing Italy's population by about three percent each year. Emigration is strongest from the south and Sicily with the United States and Argentina as primary destinations. Northern industry prospers. depopulated villages and a shrinking pool of men affect military conscription.
The record shows the State of Michigan and Cooper as a circuit judge matter with Tomas Cummins and Nicnos serving as solicitors for the complainant in this civil or criminal proceedings document.
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