Bessemer Common Council Proceedings Seventeen Aldermen Meet
City board minutes record the September meeting with Aldermen Velin Hazen Probelski Johnson Wyryedeth Sandia Andersen and John A Jensen present Absent Ciakowski. Business includes dispensing prior minutes, Board of Public Works recommendations for Water Works Street and Sewer funding, and plans for sewer extension. Lighting and maintenance costs for crossings on Clayberg Sophia Moore streets discussed. Authority to cancel policies and reallocate city insurance noted. A private committee to study East Mary Street removal costs appointed. An annual appropriation ordinance passed.
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Meri
Cate Ionier
Fuhawing
Velin
Hazen
Probelski
Johnson
Wyryedeth
Sandia Andersen
John A. Jeansen
Ciakowski
Board of Public Works
Bessemer
Ventimen
George Koronski
Joseph L. Gotta
Alterman Hagen
Alderman Probelski
Alderman Hagen
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Clayberg Street
Sophia
Moore Streets
Tnsurane
John A. Johnson
Sandin and
Hagen
Yeas
Sandin
City Teamsters
City Hall
Alderman Anderson
Barber Street
Steven OS
Jounion
Wydeth
Moore and
First Avenue
West Iron Street
Alderman Johnson
Old County Road
Palms Hill
Toby Abdersan Prebelski
Stunerion
Gms
Abdetaoon
Timg Wes
Last Chance to Beat the Bee at Prep Meet
Unclear OCR text provides fragmented notes about a school event. The readable parts mention a presider and a possible track or sports meet. No definite names, dates, places, or outcomes are recoverable for a solid summary.
Ed Purdy's Pivilos TSsem oo story in a bottle
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Ed Purdy and a tense scene with a bottle described as shedlac. The readable bits suggest a mistaken or chaotic incident as characters react to danger and deception. No clear event, date, or organized details emerge from the garbled phrase.
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Ed Purdy
Bessemer Ordinance Allocates Taxes for City and School District
Ordinance No 72 mandates next general tax levy in Bessemer to raise 104705.10 dollars for city funds including Contingent Water Works Street Fire Sewer Interest Library and Police plus 12427.38 for floating indebtedness and authorizes a school district levy for the next fiscal year per Finance and Poulour Education estimates with approval dated September.
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Bessemer
Common Council
Cie Bi
Ua & Library
Poul Oor Education
Married Life Noche Couples on Table Scene
A quaint domestic vignette shows a couple seated at a table with a plate of biscuits. The caption reads "A woman's vacanstever done" and "Right sou are" amid a playful, unfinished scene reflecting everyday home life.
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Babbs
The Man's Right Phove In A Domestic Debate
A fragment shows a husband urged to consult a socialist, while a wife cites Eve and notes the husband postpones action in this taie set in every home.
State Paragraphs Review of Michigan Conservation Efforts
Montana? No. Ed A Nowadk compiles notes on Michigan from forests to copper country. Topics include forest fires, private game refuges, copper mines losses from silver theft, trout transplantation, state officials, and conservation measures along Lake Superior and Marquette County. The piece names Gov Groesbeck, Sen Wilcox, Sen Bohn, Ontonagon, Whitefish Lake, and Ann Arbor.
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Ed A. Nowadk
Michigan
Frank P. Bohn
Whitefish Lake
Newberry
Alex J. Groesbeck
Otter River
Upper Peninsula
James Wilcox
Michigan State Senate
Lake Superior Shores
Ontonagon County
Ann Arbor
Ionia
Marquette
Detroit
Michigan National Forest
Soo
State Conservation Department
200 Boys and Girls at County Picnic at Eddy Park Wakefield
More than 200 farm boys, girls, and parents attended the Club Achievement Day program and picnic at Eddy Park Wakefield. A lunch was served under Miss Mary Muohas direction. Gordon Whitburn led the program with J C Watson speaking on community singing. Local youths and a girls group performed songs and yells. Gogebic County Fair prizes were awarded.
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Eddy Park
Wakefield
Mary Muoha
Central
Ironnouil School
Wakefield City
Gordon Whitburn
Ironwood Township
J. C. Watson
Gogebie County
Leonard Hill
Bernard Bergeron
Arnold Tassava
Viola Ranta
Arthur Nelson
State extends bridge and pier work across northern routes
The text notes a long span of copper recovery at about six percent and the state assuming maintenance of the Portage river bridge linking Hancock and Houghton as part of trunk lines M-12 and M-26. It also describes the Mackinaw City ferry pier built with huge boulders freighted from Drummond Island, procured in hundreds of thousands of tons for the structure.
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Portage River
Hancock
Houghton
Mackinaw City
Drummond Island
Lazy Bill Simpkins on bench sparks town remark
In a village exchange a stranger asks who the man on the bench is. A Native replies that Bill Simpkins is the laziest man, joking that he sits or hangs on his hands, while others teased he only stays on the bench because someone else moved him there.
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Bill Simpkins
Bill
Such is Life First He Look Across the Street Red Hot Mama
A short exchange captured as a wry street remark with one speaker noting a striking neighbor and the other agreeing that her notoriety did not arise from humble chores. The conversational quip hints at social judgments in a casual, period-tone vignette.
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Rube” Goldberg
Goldberg
America
The Clerk Shot Him Collegiate Joke Exchange
A hotel clerk and a college student trade quips about room rates in a humorous exchange. The clerk quotes two dollars up to six, and the collegiate replies he can endure a morning wakeup despite not usually rising early.
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Alterman Sandin
Ds. Allrman Velin
Hess
Commmon Counel
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Nsw
Voetaett Pattee
Utahitves
Holt
Averaaa
CO & NW
Corte
Laos
Bessemer Hemby
Michigan Rabe Uantass Commission
Sus Wei Fa
Orter
Ratbane Company
Bershoriaan
Chatmeu
Vlermen Hagen
Mittman Hhnsen
Ure
East Mary Street
Warried
H.s
Dr. Te Todas
Creldberg
Irvin Norwood
Dullaca
Jessemer Pharmacy
John J. Frick
General Insurance
Surety Bonds Steamship Agency
Negaries Public
Adolph
J Gedda
Insurance Agency
Nest Mary St
O’neill
A. H. Thomas M.D
Paul Slog
Hurley
Bat Katee
Michigan Bell Telephone CO
EDD? Park
C. E. Gunderson
Jeorge
Michien St. Te College
Wasa Scar
Cleho Werk
Wm. D. Triplett
Tretore
Suffolk and
Aurora Streets
Ronwood, Mich
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Brunswick Phonographs & Radiolas
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