Bessemer City Council 1909 Budget and Appointments
The Regular meeting of the Common Council of Bessemer discusses appointive actions for the year 1909 including City Attorney Levi S. Rice and others, budget lines for wages, contracts, and a plan to revise city ordinances, improve cement walks, and extend sewer outlets. Also listed are committee recommendations, salaries, and a long itemized finance report with numerous small payments and credits.
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Common Council
City of
Bessemer
Council
A. D
Byroe
Messrs
Solberg
Felling
O’brien
Davis
Gerocco
Truettner
Webb
Glateek
McDonald
Milroy
Levi S. Rice
Herman Carlson
Charles Lepisto
John Jankowick
Albert Blaha
G. T. Williams
Glatzek
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad
A Boston paper ad promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney liver and bladder issues. It claims benefits for rheumatism back pain urinary problems and over drinking effects. Readers are offered a free sample bottle and a booklet by mail with address to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY. Regular bottles sell at fifty cents and one dollar.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Swamp-Root
Binghamton, N. Y
Germs of tetanus in dirt urged by St. Louis doctor
A St. Louis physician warns that tetanus germs can be in dirt everywhere from garden soil to street rubble and rusty nails. He urges immediate antiseptic wound care, recommending soapy cleaning, antiseptics like bichloride solution for deep cuts, or alcohol if unavailable, and proper wound washing for deep incisions.
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St. Louis
No-dip Health Coffee Coupon Offer From Dr Shoop
A playful pitch from Racine Wisconsin offers a free No-dip Coffee Strainer with Dr Shoop Health Coffee. The ad touts a quick to prepare malt nut blend that imitates real coffee without brewing delays. Jensen and Lintelmann of Bessemer promote a 1/2 pound package at 25 cents via a coupon plan.
Adversity Quoted Sparks Dispute Over Uses and Abuses
In a brief exchange, one party claims sweet are the uses of adversity while another counters that the issue lies not in its uses but in its abuses, highlighting a clash over perspective in a political dialogue.
Remembrance of Centenarian and Sailor Auctions
Lived 152 years. Wm Parr England's oldest man married third time at 120 and lived 20 years longer. James Wright of Spurlock Ky cites Six bottles of Electric Bitters for youth like a 16 year old. Auction of Sailors Kits at Albert docks London shows sea chests from ships, including a Chinese cook said to have been eaten by cannibal.
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Wm. Parr
England
James Wright
Spurlock
Chas. H. Warpner’s
Albert Docks
London
Attractions at the Opera House Presented This Season
Listings announce shows from May to October at the Opera House including When We Were Friends on May 3 Swiss bell Ringers May 10 11 12 Just a Woman's Way May 13 Belle of Japan May 18 The Funny Fellows of N Y June 21 In the Valley of Kentucky July 18 Kidnapped for a Million Aug 1 Heine Schlitz from Vaterland Sept 10 Ole Peterson Oct 10 and Shaylor Mack Co week of Oct 24.
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Japan
Funny Fellows
N. Y
Valley of Kentucky
Heine Schlitz
Vaterland
Ole Peterson
Shaylor-Mack Co
Surety of Good Citizenship in Home Ownership
A Western writer links home ownership to patriotism thrift and good citizenship The article argues that a well kept small farm supports agricultural prosperity and a beautified suburban home safeguards industrial prosperity The State gains steadier insurance against financial panic and industrial downturn as individuals invest in their homes and communities.
Dr. King's New Life Pills Benefit Health Digest
A local advertisement touts Dr. King's New Life Pills as a universal tonic. It claims to tone and regulate the stomach liver and kidneys, purify the blood, strengthen nerves, and cure constipation dyspepsia biliousness jaundice headaches chills and malaria. Sold for 25 cents at Chas. H. Warner's.
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Dr. King
Chas. H. Warner's
Won't Slight a Good Friend by Using Discovery Medicine
Mrs A L Alley of Beals Maine praises Dr King’s New Discovery after ten bottles relieved coughs colds and chest troubles in her family and others. The medicine is said to provide quick relief for bronchitis asthma hemorrhage croup lathrippe sore throat and chest pain. 50 cents and 1 trial bottle free guaranteed by Chas H Warner.
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Chas. H. Warner
The Mother Kitty and the Egg Request
A mother asks if eggs were cut yet. a girl refuses, citing a man’s insistence on taking a whole egg and not sharing. The dialogue mirrors a rural-street exchange quoted in Chicago Telegram.
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Kitty
Chicago
Hearing set for Gordetto estate administration in Gogerc
In Gogerc County Probate Court at Bessemer on April 12 1909 Judge Curtis Buck presiding. Antonietta Gordetto petitioned for administration of Frank Gordetto deceased. Hearing scheduled for May 17 1909 at 10 am at the probate office with public notice to follow for three weeks in the Bessemer Herald.
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Gogeric
Bessemer
Jail County
Curtis Back
Frank Gordetto
Antonietta Gordetto
Sani Court
Bessemer Hierald
Curtis Buck
Hearing set on heirs of August Peterson estate
In Gogebic County Michigan Probate Court at Bessemer before Judge Curtis Back on April 12 1909 Louisa Peterson petitions to determine legal heirs entitled to inherit the real estate of August Peterson deceased The hearing is ordered for May 17 1909 as recorded by Mary W. Strom Clerk of Probate printed in the Ironwood Mer ro Herald.
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August Peterson
Louisa Peterson
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Joseph Mrdrovzky
W. J. Pinkerton M. D
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Harry E. Potter
Harry W. Byrne
Wm. Martens
Joseph Chart
Bartell Pucylowsky
James Johnson
Board of Public Works
Henry Blumencamp
W. W. Gray
Cornelius Hanson
Art Lintermann
Jerome Z. Baylies
Patrick Doyie
Josehp Schwartz
Charles Lugviel
Fire Dept
Alderman Webb
Glatzeh
Oedling
Nays
Nome
John Erickson
Charles Lepesta
Doubleday Bros
W. W. Wilcox Co
R. G. Spencer
National Express Co
Wallie Carlson
American Express Co
Alex Strom
Albert E. Church
Gogebic Hospital
R. F. Hasbrook
Otto B. Olson
Water Works Fund
Joseph Roman
Nceans
Wadham Oil Co
Gee
The
Reiss Coal Co
D.s.s.&a. Ry
Standard Oil Co
C.&n.w. Ry
D.S
A. Ry. Co
Highway Fund
Andrew Strezelek
L. H. Truettner
Team
Bessemer Lumber Co
Sidewalk Fund
Nels P. Johnson
Dee
John Kristopherson
Fred Otto
Hagen & Solberg
Jensen & Lintelmann
Arkowitz
Kulasevicz & Skwor
Sannties
Albert Pick & Co
Otto Vogeler
J.A. Voguin
Light Fund
Electric Light Co
Torsten Eggen
Bessemer Michigan
Heraldoffice
Opera House
Insurance and Investment
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co
J. A. Vogtlin
Michigan
State of Michigan
Mary W. Sreom
Gogebic
Said County
Bessemer Herald
Mary W. Strom
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