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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1920
Page
4
The piece rails against Congress for failing to provide pensions and aid, condemns the Espionage Act and Cummins Esch bill as crimes, and accuses lawmakers of shielding railroads while neglecting the common people, urging action to curb corporate looting and protect civil liberties.
The article notes August is a slow business month, yet the store aims to make it the biggest yet with in store bargains. A new 10c counter gains attention featuring a 4 foot folding rule for 10c, and underwear sale prices for Ladies Vesta and Union Suits. Downstairs, enamelware tinware and aluminum ware are advertised among the available stock.
A veteran Wisconsin senator denounces the Sch-Cummins Railroad bill as the crime of 1920. He accuses both parties of acting under financial masters and lobby influence, saying it paralyzes transportation and costs workers their jobs. He advocates reform programs from the Nonpartisan League and the Plumb Plan League.
In Switzerland the multi millionaire promoter Jules Bloch was fined 2 600 000 dollars for enormous war profits not declared for tax. The federal commission at Berne issued the penalty after a case pending since the armistice was signed. The report questions how such actions are managed.
Shippers on the Northwestern Line question an order directing stock to Newport via Winona and then northwest, a 330 mile detour from a under hundred mile direct route to Farmers Terminal Packing Company. The piece notes possible ties to Armour and Swift and critiques state railway oversight, urging farmers’ loss containment and warning of manipulative railroad power.
Chronicle of a vast retreat from Poland through Kiev Rovno Lemberg Minsk and Vilna along a seven hundred mile front. Allied aid and French officers mentioned. July 11 armistice note to Poland and possible Soviet acceptance debated.
Three boys, Louis Schugel, Edie Schugel, and Lloyd Soehler, were riding a motorcycle three miles south of New Ulm when they were thrown from the bike on a Sunday afternoon. Louis and Lloyd suffered serious lung injuries. Eddie escaped injury. A. A. Schlumpberger found them and took them to a local doctor, then to the hospital where they are reported resting easily.
The passage argues the Bolsheviki will judge any proposal by whether peace and trade are valued over military victory. It warns the Bolsheviki may accept or reject terms, and advises the Poles to seize terms now to avoid getting none later.
Official labor bodies endorse the good roads amendment after meetings of the Minnesota State Federation of Labor and Rochester conventions. They note bond issues unlikely, given license tax revenue could fund operations, with estimates of 8.2 million available annually. Labor expects most spending to go to labor through cement, rock, machinery, road work, and auto ownership benefiting marketing and prices.
A business man faced a New York subway dilemma when a stylish young woman with a poodle clung to his strap. He abstained from giving his seat to her, deciding to wait for the next train. He normally gives up his seat to an elderly woman or a mother with a baby, but questioned whether a woman with a dog fits the custom. The man chose to exit at the next stop to avoid social embarrassment, reflecting on gender roles and courtesy in crowded transit.
A Marconi works Chelmsford employee named Post undertook a perilous ascent to repair a 450 foot wireless mast. He used a belt with rings over bolt ends to climb, making 200 feet on day one and completing the final 250 feet in an hour. The repair followed a gale that had damaged the structure.
The piece highlights Mark Twain's vivid imagination and talent for embroidery, noting how Albert Bigelow Paine edited Twain's Life by discarding autobiographical material. It cites Twain’s claim that memory fades with age and his stories often surpassed mere factual recounting.
The article explains the groundhog or woodchuck as an ancient forecaster, a marmot related to prairie dogs. It digs a 20 to 30 foot burrow with a main chamber for the family, stays near its hole by day, and defends itself with chattering or a shrill whistle when angered. It can bite severely and fight dogs if provoked.
A hotel proprietor recalls firing a new clerk From Perie Theophile who proved too eager to kiss returning guests prompting questions about his effectiveness and sparking humor about the Parisian background in a Birmingham Age Herald piece.
A quirky exchange notes a plant in South America that supposedly arrests laziness and compares it to a copper with a club that arrests laziness, presented in a rambling dialogue style.
The London Times notes the Great Rift Valley extends about one sixth of the earth’s circumference starting in Lebanon. It traces the Jordan Dead Sea canyon to the Gulf of Aqaba, through Nubia, East Africa, and Nyasa, with deep walls once hauling trains by cable, and ends in the Indian Ocean at the Subi river. The feature, linked to ancient fossils, suggests a catastrophic origin rather than mere erosion.
The Aste Arabe traces early Arab aviation amid 2nd to 3rd century influence from Greeks and Indians. Baghdad fostered mathematics and mechanics, Haroun al Rashid sent a clock to Charlemagne, and Abbas Ben Parnas leads early Arab aviation predating later pioneers.
The article notes insects survive winter in snags despite cold, moving under bark and hiding under rocks or roots. They are not torpid like bears or groundhogs, and fish do not hibernate, continuing to swim and feed lightly in cold water.
The piece discusses about a hundred violet species with five in England and notes the violatin color giving rise to the garden pansy Love In Idleness. It claims Shakespeare and other poets highlight the violet for beauty and sweetness and mentions Stratford-on-Avon as abundant in the violet.
A reflection on how history is shaped by epic embellishment. Hugo and Shelly refer to history as living verse that must breathe. Modern historians, beyond archives or rigid statistics, provide touches that may be anecdote, though toned to suit a less credulous age.
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