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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1908
Page
4
The New Ulm Review is published by the New Ulm Publishing Company and entered in the New Ulm Minnesota post office as second class matter on Wednesday August 26 1908.
The era's editorial drift shows Bryan delegates and party rifts. References to James Tawney, Speaker Cannon, and rival Knatvold illuminate intra party battles. Debates over anti pass law enforcement and comments by Hill McCleary Fernholz Erickson and Jacobsen mark a volatile political landscape.
The Minnesota Democratic convention endorses William Jennings Bryan and Governor John A. Johnson, pledging support to the ticket and urging reform measures. It calls for direct federal and state reforms, anti trust measures in agriculture, a nonpartisan judiciary, direct primaries, and a state bank deposit guarantee.
A Fort Ridgely commemoration recalls Dennis O Shea a Seminole War veteran who guarded a gun during the fort siege and stayed at his post until the last shot. He dismisses hero lore while a Review Hepner notes the fort could not have been held without his service. He now lives nearby in a modest home.
Dr Peter Polis director at Aachen meteorological observatory arrives in New York to push a plan making every steamship a weather observation station. The idea envisions on board and land weather charts for Atlantic conditions, with sea balloon and airship upper atmosphere data to forecast storms up to a week ahead. Polis seeks US cooperation and prefers Beaufort numerals to describe wind force, hoping to greatly reduce shipwreck risk.
Colombia will mint nickel coins composed of 25 percent nickel and 75 percent copper. The new pieces will replace the existing one, two, and five peso notes in a move by the republic's minting authority.
A rural dialect plea to President Roosevelt urging female investigators for farm issues. The speaker complains that male experts only address crops and economics while women manage kitchens, family labor, and household tasks. The piece argues for women to study farm life and its impact on wives and mothers.
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