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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1908
Page
8
A New York clergyman led a forceful sermon arguing in favor of stronger safeguards for marriage. He warned that many weddings are immoral misjoins and urged ministers to scrutinize marriages beyond a mere ceremony, challenging lax attitudes toward divorce and the concept of grace for widows.
German Americans in Germany form a league to oppose expatriation under new US laws that take effect last July. Delegates will be sent to appeal to the President and Congress about holding American citizenship. Arnold Ettinger, a Berlin merchant and early American shoe trader, joins the movement amid his struggle to keep his US citizenship while retaining solid German business ties. The State Department has refused to register him as an American citizen at Berlin, insisting he declare intention to return to the United States.
An Ohio woman, used to visiting a hairdresser, tried washing her own hair. She spilled a fresh egg into a stationary wash bowl and hot water. The egg cooked in her hair, leaving her to wonder if it was boiled poached scrambled or fried in hair oil.
The report lists varied annual incomes and advances for writers such as Zola Daudet Lamartine Twain Browning Trollope Moore Eliot Macaulay Richebourg Scott Scott Emile and others. It cites sums from a few dollars to hundreds of thousands, with claims of serials, plays, novels, and poetry delivering substantial profits over lifetimes or early sales.
A promotional notice touts Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a cure for lame back kidney bladder and liver trouble. It claims hospital and private practice success and offers a free sample bottle and a booklet by mail with address to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY.
Charles F. Badahn of Tracy California writes that buying Bucklen Arnica Salve was the luckiest day of his life. Two 25 boxes cured an itching piles trouble that resisted other treatments for years. Sold under guarantee at F B Jones drug store.
A Berlin writer ranks the Queen of Siam as owning the most crusted dress, a silk robe hidden by diamonds and gems valued around 1 a0 dollars. Xenia Alexandrovna wears a Russian Iris embroidered with stones, and a Brussels lace cape weighs heavily. A US owner possesses a huge Brussels lace dress worth several times its weight in me. A Russian princess boasts a fortune in a silver fox pelisse, while Li Hung Chang’s widow is famed for fur garments of great variety and value.
Wholesale dismissal of Japanese house servants is underway in hotels and clubs across Southern California as prejudice grows. White men out of work fill positions once held by Japanese workers in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Riverside and other tourist centers, while public opinion has shifted against the race.
Cedar View Mississippi merchant B G Stewart asserts buyers receive gold weight value with each box of Dr King’s New Life Pills. The pills are sold with a guarantee at F B Jones’s drug store for constipation malaria and biliousness.
Sealed proposals requested by the City Clerk of Bessemer Michigan until 6 p m June 6 1908 for purchase of twenty five thousand dollar water works bonds bearing five percent interest payable semi annually and maturing in ten years from June 1 1911. Bonds in $500 denominations. bids on all or part. Bid bonds of five percent required. City may reject bids.
The report notes global railroad mileage with two fifths in the United States and a small tropical share. It cites mine disasters and business failures, with U.S. failures around seven out of a hundred and an expected reduction with safer methods. It mentions a shutdown in Great Barrington due to water bugs, and the world rail distance around the globe via Suez and Manila totaling 23 002 miles.
Notice is given to the taxpayers of the city of Bessemer that the Board of Review will meet in the Council Chamber on Monday May 18 1908 at nine oclock in the forenoon. The board will be in session four days and may extend as needed to complete and review the assessment roll. Any person may examine the assessment and show cause why the valuation should be changed. Dated April 30 1905.
State of Michigan moves that defendants Patrick Ryan and Jeremiah Ryan enter an appearance in a Gogebic County Chancery suit filed by GocEsic Lumber Company. Circuit Judge Samuel S. Cooper orders publication in Bessemer Herald for six weeks and personal service at least twenty days before appearance. Ball & Stone represent the complainant, with John Luxmore Jr. to register in Chancery.
In Ge County Chancery at Ironwood Michigan the nonresident James S McNamara of Johannesburg South Africa must enter appearance within five months. The order requires publication in Bessemer Herald weekly for six weeks or certified service twenty days before appearance. Ball and Stone represent the complainant with John Luxmore Jr as registrar.
In Bessemer probate court on April 20 1908 Judge Curtis Back presided in the matter of the Andrew deceased estate. Joseph A Voutlin petitioned for administration to himself or a suitable person. Hearing set for May 1 1908 at 10 am at the probate office. Public notice required by three weekly insertions in the Bessemer Herald.
Mrs Boorman Wells recalls a disorderly suffragist meeting in New York describing noise like a nursery scene. A friend and she rush to a nursery where children calmly cluster by the window as the oldest boy explains they are filing and fitting their grandmother's teeth onto the baby.
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