School Board Proceedings on Coal Bids and Payment
Meeting opened with six members present. Bids were opened from Contratto Michela Co C Hansen Lbr Co and R A Marsh and Mrs Otto B Olson for Splint Elkhorn Pocahontas coal quantities. Motion to award to Mrs Olaf Olson with specified tonnages and prices. Architect’s certificate for plumbing and heating contract at Tilden School approved. Motion to adjourn passed. Jane Q. Massie secretary.
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Messrs Truettner
Hagerman
Lintelmann
Nemacheck
Stevens
Massie
Contratto, Michela & Co
C. Hansen Lbr, Co
Pocahontas
R. A. Marsh
Elkhorn
Hi-Lo
Otto B. Olson
Board of Education
Mr. Hagerman
Tilden
Pearce
Graham
Jane Q. Massie
Public utilities stock up coal in Michigan
Public gas and electric companies in Michigan are stocking up for three to six months of fuel to weather potential labor troubles. Fuel engineers advise immediate action to ensure continuous supply and to avoid higher costs from poor coal quality during strikes and frost-driven demand.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Gas and Electric Companies
Michigan
Pedestrian and Flivvering Fool Exchange Missed Chance
A brief, humorous cartoon-style exchange shows a pedestrian saying you just missed me and a flivvering fool apologizing and proposing the awkward fix to stand still while he tries again. The dialogue captures a light, old-time street banter tone.
Frustrated exchange over a single dollar note
A terse street moment unfolds as Iferes offers a dollar while Wile pockets the bill in disbelief, prompting a brief clash over value and gesture. The exchange captures a sharp, informal bargaining snapshot amid casual confrontation.
Gogebic Camp Closes After Summer Recreation Year
The Gogebic Parish camp at Lake Galilee near Mellen closes for the season with about 290 youths attending since last June. Rev. Harries notes hundreds from Gogebic range towns enjoyed the summer program. Also, Rev. C. F. Bolle arrives as pastor of St Paul Lutheran church in Hurley and is installed after receiving ordination three weeks ago.
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Lake Galilee
Mellen
Harries
Iron County News
C. F. Bolle
Watertown
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Bolle
Concordia Seminary
St. Louis
Wauwatosa
Wis
Hurley Church
Hurley Miner
First Woman Charges Rambler In Dinner Party Shock
In a tense social scene, a woman confronts Mrs Rambler about a decade old scandal claiming she ran away with her husband. The exchange reveals long simmering public intrigue and personal tensions at a formal dinner.
Livingstons last heard words to trusted servant report
The final moments of David Livingstontold by witnesses include the deceased uttering a last instruction to a trusted old servant just before his death. The fragmentary account notes a name and relation but lacks full corroboration.
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David Livingstom
Crossroad Chatter from Old Man Brown at Nate Graham's
Local farmers trade quips about livestock with Old Man Brown claiming to have seen a cow with four calves at Nate Graham's. Mr Perkins questions the tale as Brown adds one calf per leg and laughs for a moment.
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Old Man Brown
Nate Graham
Mr. Perkins
Napoleon
Iron Mountain revises charter and elects nine commissioners
Iron Mountain Tuesday voted to revise its charter and elect nine commissioners. At least five were strongly endorsed by the city administration which backed the aldermanic form and opposed the commission form. A proposal to issue 80000 in negotiable notes to cover current expenses was defeated. The nine commissioners are Martin Thomas John DePrato C D Anestsoza William Brown F O Lodie Unger George Smither Ernest Garland and Fred Johnson.
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Tren Mountain
Iron Mountain
Martin Thomas
John DePrato
C. D. Anestsoza
William Brown
F. O. Lodie
Unger
George Smither
Ernest Garland
Fred Johnson
Information. S. S. Teacher and Billie dialogue
A classroom exchange notes a teacher asking where misbehaving boys go and a child replying they go to Spike Nelson's cup game behind the A. R. coal chutes. The fragment captures a period dialogue with local street reference and child humor.
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S. S
Billie
A. R
Spike Nelson
Beleaguered garrisons to receive air supplies
Read the Ads notes that beleaguered garrisons will be provided with provisions and ammunition from airplanes equipped with special canisters attached to parachutes. A metal dome car cap at one end absorbs the shock of landing.
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Neivafter
D S S A Official Killed In Wreck In Upper Peninsula
Samuel A. Houck assistant superintendent of the Duluth South Shore and Atlantic railway was killed when his car left the road near L Ance and crashed into a tree. Miss Margaret Horan riding with him was uninjured. Houck, well known in railroad circles, leaves a mother, a brother and two sisters.
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L’ance
Samuel A. Houck
Mar‘quette
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway
Margaret Horan
South Shore
Houck
Upper Peninsula
Indiana
David CC. Houck
Indianapolis
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, & Western Railway
Wakefield Shows Low Fire Protection Grade
The Michigan Inspection Bureau reports that the city would be seventh class for fire protection under the grading schedule. Water supply and fire department equipment are ranked high, but structural conditions fire hazards and building ordinances rate very low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan Inspection Bureau
Wakefield News
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Claims Cure
An old advert promises Hall's Catarrh Medicine will cure catarrh and deafness caused by catarrh. It describes an ointment for local relief and an internal medicine taken to purge the system through the blood membranes. Sold by druggists for over 49 years by F J Cheney and Co Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
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