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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1902
Page
16
The next meeting of the funeral directors and embalmers of Michigan will be at Escanaba at 1 30 p m on Thursday June stheet. Notices from the State Board of Health urge those seeking board examination to file by June 4 with a $5 fee.
A brief ad notes that one package yields two quarts of baby medicine with directions claiming nothing is as good for babies and children as Rocky Mountain Tea. It urges readers to ask their druggist, price 35 cents.
The piece explains how fear, not real danger, causes panic in battle. It narrates a Greek anecdote where troops fled at the sight of Pan, a god with goat feet, to justify their fright and the phrase panic terror. The Mirror quotes Marshal Saxe on surprise-induced fear.
Riehman and Rupert Theologian notes Amzi Lorenzo Barber, despite amassing $35,000,000 from asphalt over nineteen years, ranks among the era’s most expert secular theologians. As a Howard University professor of philosophy, he appears distant from street manufacturing and would seemingly be unaware of Pitch Lake.
A young woman from Naples elite society lured by a seductive suitor named Iozzarone met him in her father's Posilipo villa garden and asked him to kill her. He shot her dead then wounded her mother who died the following day. The murderer was arrested and claimed he planned greater crimes.
The apportionment of delegates to counties based on the total vote for Governor in the 1900 election sets one delegate per 500 votes with a 300 vote fraction, each county entitled to at least two delegates.
Detroit, May 20 1902 Republicans of Michigan summon a state convention at Light Guard Armory Detroit June 26 at ten A M to nominate state officers elect a state central committee and address convention business Delegates allocated by county vote totals and fractions and residency rules set district caucus times and officer selections per 1858 1876 1900 resolutions Secretary and chairman named Gerekr J Diekema and Dennis E Alward authorized actions required for delegate certification and submission
An old advertisement proclaims Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the quickest cure for eczema scaldhead and skin diseases. It claims infallibility for ulcers boils and wounds with a 25 cent price at D MacFarlane’s drug store.
The term Hindly is explored regarding its usage in a prayer book. The phrase kindly fruits of the earth is explained as originally meaning each fruit after its kind, with kindly equating to of its kind rather than a general benevolence.
Among the spoils taken by Judas Maccabaeus from the Syrians who he defeated in 166 B.C. was four quantities of silk.
A London Tatler note catalogs humorous shifts in speech from varying generations. It recalls elders saying lay for sleep, potticary for doctor, and obleged for obliged, while noting mispronunciations of Tuesday Duke Chariot Harriet gold and other everyday terms.
Eloff Kruger grandnephew of the Transvaal president, then a medical student in Edinburgh, saved a sheep trapped on Mount Comaderry in County Wicklow during a holiday. He climbed the cliff with tarred boot soles, lowered the animal to his boat, and then sailed to the Cape to join the war effort.
Five years ago a disease the doctors called dyspepsia took hold of Attorney Geo S Marsh of Nocoma Tex He tried pepsin and other medicines but nothing helped He then used Kodol and felt immediate improvement After a few bottles he was sound and well Kodol reproduces natural digestive juices digesting any good food and cures stomach trouble
A Klondike visitor explains how ground freezes to surprising depths and rarely thaws in summer. He recalls extreme cold causing facial freezing during a Dawson street run, urges heavy woolens and oversized boots, and notes that even eating implements should be wooden. He warns delicate people about El Dorado in winter while praising summer conditions.
The piece forecasts one cent messages over short distances and a future of one cent postage and telephone tolls. It praises reductions in daily-use costs and envisions penny wireless dispatches and two-cent streetcar fares, along with trains at a cent per mile or less.
The text extols German thrift and enterprise transforming Palestine and surrounding regions. It notes a German bank in Jerusalem handling $15,000,000, motor boats on the Dead Sea, German machinery in Moab, and claims the Bagdad railway as a civilizing German dream, with Prince Henry praising German industry.
Alfred Heinze of Quincy Illinois praises De Witt’s Little Early Risers for constipation and torpid liver, noting no griping and safe use. The ad claims Foley’s Soney and Tar satisfies all who use it and assures its reliability.
The Philippines have not been seen as especially healthy, yet since 1898 troops there show remarkable physical gains. Fevers and intestinal diseases hit full habit people, but the thin and anaemic gain blood, weight, and vitality. The climate aids rheumatism, and the strong return robust while the weak improve.
Champ Clark, a Missouri congressman, describes overwork and nervous tension that nearly collapsed his health. He credits three bottles of Electric Bitters with restoring his strength and calls it the best medicine sold by druggists, promising a 50 cent guarantee.
An old health ad touts Foley s Kidney Cure as strengthening the entire system and curing kidney and bladder diseases by promoting sound kidneys, claiming it filters impurities from the blood to support good health.
Lord Ribbiesdale injected humor in the Lords by quoting a hymn line with errors. He correctly recited the first line but mangled the second and failed at the third. The incident mirrors a famous misquote by another notable figure who mangled the first line, starting with Iceland instead of Greenland.
Foley's Honey and Tar is described as especially adapted for asthma bronchitis and hoarseness in historical advertising.
Dangerous if neglected burns cuts and wounds may become troublesome sores. De Witts Witch Hazel Salve prevents such consequences and can cure aggravated injuries even after delays. A testimonial from Hi C Hardy of Yankeetown Indiana notes a thirty year running leg sore healed after using the salve. Also claims cure for all skin diseases and piles with warnings about counterfeits.
Constant motion jars the kidneys due to attachments keeping them in place. This frequent vibration causes kidney and bladder issues for travelers trainmen street car workers and others who drive a lot. Foley's Kidney Cure strengthens the kidneys and cures kidney and bladder diseases. Geo H Hlanson locomotive engineer Lima Ohio reports relief after using Foley's Kidney Cure.
The notice outlines Wisconsin Central daily train departures from Bessemer starting February 1900. Trains 97, 301, and 306 serve Milwaukee Chicago and Minneapolis with varied departure times, while trains 902 and 308 arrive in the city at 11:15 a.m. and 4:55 p.m. H. L. Cummins, agent.
Daily and Sunday schedules list multiple No. trains including Scoot and Escanaba Passenger runs. Key connections at Saxon for copper country with times ranging from 5:34 a m to 9:30 p m. Freight and additional passenger services noted with several daily and ex Sunday exceptions.
Rescue teams at the Fraterville coal mine along Exproyal Creek Tennessee report 175 to 225 killed with higher counts possible. Only one miner survived the pit find. hopes for more rescues fade as officials describe the scene as the most deadly chamber in U.S. coal mining history. First published May 3, last June 14.
A garbled OCR fragment references biblical figures and events including Barnabas Paul and Bauci. The readable segments hint at early Christian interpretations or exegesis but lack coherent narrative or dates, leaving only scattered names and phrases to summarize.
In Gogebic County Michigan a chancery suit Natilini Quilici v John and Louise Combo et al is pending in the circuit court at Bessemer. Defendants John Combe and Louise Combe are non residents with unknown addresses and must appear within five months or bill may be confessed. Publication of the order in Bessember Herald for six weeks is required or personal service at least twenty days before appearance.
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