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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1906
Page
14
An old ad copy urges readers to use Swamp Root by Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY to detect kidney or bladder trouble by mail order. It emphasizes remembering the brand name Swamp Root and Kilmer’s address on every bottle for proper identification.
A Philadelphia doctor, Dr H James, reportedly cured his only daughter of consumption using herbs from Calcutta. The doctor claims the recipe now cures consumption permanently and offers it free for two 2-cent stamps, with additional claims of curing night sweats nausea and a fresh cold in 24 hours. Send requests to Crad Dock & Co at 1032 Race St Philadelphia, naming this paper.
Tickets go on sale March 2 and April 1 and 7 with return validity 21 days from sale. For more info, contact your local agent or write to Milliken D, PB, Louisville KY. FOD Bus DPA Cincinnati OH Davenport DPA St Louis Balley NW PLA Chicago Lt Co L Stone, Genl Pass Agent.
Jane Gaylord schemes to raise 50 cents to see the elephant jump the fence by selling violets and magazines for Mr. Gleason. John, the hall boy, aids her plan while Gleason reads her story and discovers her secret. A tender confession follows, sealing a promise to provide postage stamps and support.
The article discusses how ostriches use sand camouflage to hide from predators. The male hatches eggs, tends the brood, and emits a warning call while chicks blend with sand and sparse vegetation, evading hunters and even weathering keen vigilant searches by gauchos and foxes.
The Philadelphia Record recounts James MacNeill Whistler in Venice creating seventy pastels before finishing fourteen etchings. A rival Russian painter denounced the pastels as tricks, bet he could imitate them, and failed after a mixed-up jury test. The Rialto confrontation led Whistler to remark on the Russian’s status as an amateur rather than an artist.
Auber wrote Our Blessed Redeemer on a Hoddesdon window pane, a theft left it missing after her 1862 death. Theodulph, bishop of Orleans, wrote All Glory Laud and Honor on a Metz prison window, leading to his release as Palm Sunday processions echoed his hymn.
News of Minnesota reports Lake Superior ore shipments for 1906 likely total about 37 million tons with potential reach to 37.8 million if November remains favorable. Mesaba range expected to deliver about 22 million tons and the Vermillion range near 2 million, bringing Minnesota’s share to roughly 25 million tons and leaving about 12 million tons for other states.
Minneapolis reports that starting in 1907 the dairy and food commission will come under civil service. Inspectors must pass exams assessing general qualifications and fitness. Removal requires cause. The examining board will be the dairy and food commissioner, the attorney general, and the dean of the agricultural college. The change removes inspectors from politics, though the governor may still influence clerical staff and the commissioner. The law was passed by the first legislature but becomes active the week after the governor’s inauguration.
The 180 foot flag pole on the University of Minnesota campus was dedicated with cadets at attention as the Star Spangled Banner played. Donor representatives spoke through a proxy while J T Wyman accepted on behalf of the university regents. The 40 foot flag was donated by George H Partridge and the 180 foot staff by Louis Schwager and Walter Nettleton, both Seattle alumni. In Little Falls a wedding ring found in a potato is traced to a lost ring reported by Mrs Glubka and recovered by Mrs Bolander. In Duluth, Great Northern engineer Frank Gaul died after five hours trapped beneath his wrecked engine during a blizzard.
Duluth Ray mond Witty and William Williams two Aurora boys aged fourteen and fifteen were found by a search party at 4 am. They were within five miles of town and had a fire. The eve nt shows local effort to recover missing youths after an all night search.
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