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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1902
Page
3
Wm Pfaender offers fire hail tornadoes accident and death insurance with top companies. Real estate bought and sold, legal documents executed, loans negotiated, steamship tickets sold.
Special correspondence from Essig and Sleepy Eye area reports visiting merchants, neighbors from New Ulm, a bowling champion, a raffle to be held April 19, and a measles outbreak closing the school for two weeks. Also details on church activity, electric wiring contracts, a bereavement, a card party, and local business notes with minor town updates.
News from Springfield includes Frank H. Specht planning to rent a vacant Lambert town house after returning from Colorado Springs. The Roller Mill Co plans three new elevators in Dudley Milroy and Lucan along the Egan-Maralissa railroad. A goodbyes to Mr and Mrs Si Birdsall as they move to Miller Minnesota. Exhibition of Chinese curios at the opera house with Miss Emily Friton giving an instructive address and Miss Emma Friton in Chinese attire. F H Schweiger expands his cabinet shop with a new bar for Ed Bloemske and bank fixtures for a Beons SD bank. He is hiring power machinery to boost output. Caution urged on coughs and colds. One Minute Cough Care praised by Postmaster Dawson of Barr Illinois.
The Peoria Times notes Larens dissolving partnership with future management by Larson at Hunenberg Brewing Car Sherr. It reports Palm Crudadin at New Ulm clerk’s office, Delton Skimming Association buying Creamery Package Co. and W P Schmitt selling saloon to Altermatt, leased to Clarence Cady. Also mentions Dr Sullivan consulting for Catholic Order of Foresters with his daughter Mary. SPRING brings a health warning promoting St Bernard Vegetable Pills amid spring imagery.
A collection of notes on life spans of palms ivy chestnut oak and yew with tips for planting gardens and trees including soil pressing and sun exposure. It also cites a record apple tree in Cheshire Conn and a strange Indian nostril breathing exercise involving drinking water through the nose for cooling the head.
The text outlines banana cultivation with suckers planted ten feet apart and fruiting in twelve to fourteen months. It notes annual shoots added after six and ninth months to sustain continuous yearly harvests. It briefly mentions fans in Shakespearean times as decorative feathered handles for gentlemen.
An unreadable OCR fragment references a Colonel Hiram Hotchkiss, a Texing era officer, and a scattered dialogue about lineage. The text is garbled, but hints at a personal history connected to India and Chicago.
In Washington a prisoner, urged to plead not guilty for a court test, insists he is guilty and asks to be sentenced immediately. Prosecutor and defense faced difficulty persuading him to comply as the case moved toward an appellate ruling. The man asked for admission of guilt and immediate punishment.
An article cites B P Blackburn describing Georgia convict discipline in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Punishment uses a leather strap on the bare belly, with one to twenty-five lashes, about 20 percent punished monthly, focusing on gambling swearing idleness and fighting as offenses.
The account notes amusing camp gambling with craps and skin games. It mentions a black worker betting on trivial outcomes and fights, with extra work paid on a free labor basis. The camps’ per capita money circulation is stated at about three dollars.
The item describes a Chinese wedding where red dominates every detail from the litter to banners and dragon motifs. It then shifts to a Kansas incident near Coffeyville where a snowed straw stack trapped a cow for 22 days before releasing a newborn calf and recovering with care and warmth.
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