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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1920
Page
2
Fragmentary text appears to describe a town meeting or tax assessment with references to rates per acre and possible public attendance. Mentions Woodworty and Whiskey Lily Movement, with actions by an agent to verify compliance at proposed meetings.
Marie Kosel, a longtime New Ulm resident born 1849 in Germany, died Monday afternoon at her South Broadway home after gallstone illness and a rapid decline. She lived in New Ulm since 1875 with husband who owned land near Colinswood River and left four children Meg, Lester, Willie, and Melon Kosel, plus Mrs Frank Classen. Funeral plans were not yet made as Ida Schwantes and Vernon Budde prepared to travel to Fullerton, North Dakota to inform the survivor.
Johnson of Colorado railing against a Senate seen as a debating club during a July sermon at St Peter on the eve of a sacred celebration. He urges a fresh generation take the helm for the public good.
The article argues that amateur wireless work trains boys for future global communications. It notes wireless transmission grows daily and could transform world networks. It cites wartime service where self taught operators filled key roles at sea and shore, including the NC-4 flight.
Clyde D. Jarvis received a six inch scar on his left abdomen after a mule kick in Missouri. He explained the scar came from a prior operation for a supposed ruptured spleen which the surgeon misdiagnosed. The ink above the scar reads Opened by mistake.
The Massachusetts Historical Society plans to sell duplicates from its historic miscellany including the first street directory of Boston printed in 1708. It lists 110 names for streets alleys lanes and squares with quaint titles like Paddy Jane and Frog Jane reflecting early colonial humor.
Henry A. Herman died in Dr. I A Fritsche's office at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon after a heart attack while resting in the chair. The event occurred in New Ulm and involved local Sherburn residents Cr Faber Tay Turtleant A Gettler and Misses Mmmia Kalier and Ella Faber visiting the Gust Haber home in Milford.
The Matachines festival across Mexico mixes Aztec origin with Christian influence as dancers wear tin bottle tops and swords. The two to three day rite ends with a cross ceremony on a hill, while penitent brotherhoods in New Mexico observe Good Friday crucifixions, drawing from Aztec roots.
The piece notes attempts to publish a colonial newspaper in 1690 with monthly issues and timely notices. It contrasts this with the 1764 Boston News-Letter, regarded as the start of continuous journalism in British America, and mentions the suppression of Publick Occurrences after critical reflections by colonial authorities.
Professors note Arabs preserve centuries of lineage through authentic records. Mohamad re MOeTTINE et al claim descent from Mohammed in Arabia Somaliland and East Africa. Abu Bekr's descendants endures with Abu Bekr, and Jerusalem's Khaldi family traces from Kakled who conquered Syria over 1,200 years ago.
A Sunday afternoon waterspout formed off the Halk coast in the Pacific. The mist and spray formed a cuplike knot rising from the sea and connected with the cloud. The tube was 10 to 15 feet in diameter, wispy and hollow, moving and fading as it formed and dissipated. Walluku Times.
The article notes that Americans have not adopted the ancient Norse view of Friday as a sacred day associated with Frigga or Freya, while drawing a contrast with Muslim beliefs that Friday is a routine day linked to creation, expulsion, repentance, death, and a future resurrection.
County Superintendent R B Kennedy reported to the Minnesota State Department of Education that Brown county’s school attendance rose modestly in the year ending, with 4 273 pupils enrolled of 4 697 eligible. Boys outnumber girls slightly overall, while high and graded schools show more girls, and rural schools show more boys.
Enrollment figures show the five largest districts New Ulm Sleepy Eye Comfrey Springfield Hanska hosting most pupils. In all county public schools 4,273 students. daily attendance averages 3,109. Teachers total 165 with male instructors in high schools and rural female staff average wages and years of service noted.
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