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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1907
Page
7
An old health ad asserts kidneys purify blood and warns neglect leads to pain and heart-like symptoms. It touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy, claims broad cures, and offers free sample bottles and pamphlet by mail from Kilmer Co. in Binghamton New York.
Sour stomach and indigestion blamed for loss of appetite weakness and debility. Kodol claims to relieve indigestion by using natural stomach juices plus tonic properties. A Ravenswood resident testifies it cured twenty years of sour stomach and aids digestion, with bottles sold by G DeWitt Co Chicago.
A pamphlet promotes exceptional bargains on South Dakota farm lands and business opportunities in towns within the Minneapolis and St Louis era expansion. It promises descriptive material about “the New Empire” and invites readers to request the pamphlet by mail or postcard from A B Corts in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Judge Page Morris in Minneapolis federal court fined Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad company twenty thousand dollars and fined former general freight agent Hiram M. Pearce two thousand dollars. The conviction stemmed from an indictment charging fifty counts for rebates to Spencer Grain Co. The court ruled that a single rebate across carloads is a single offense not per carload, despite tariffs centering on carloads, since charges and rebates vary with bushels.
Three hundred strikebreakers arrived by special train from New York and deserted at the union hall in Virginia. About the same number were smuggled into Hibbing and Eveleth, but the company moved them to mines before workers could confer. The dispute centers on whether enough men can be secured to operate the mines. Some deserters rejoined nonunion workers while others took jobs.
Carl Johnson of St. Paul aged thirty five beat his wife after a demand for money. He then drank carbolic acid and died soon after at City Hospital. He had been working irregularly as a stone cutter and had been drinking heavily.
Two men died and a brakeman was injured when a broken rail derailed a switch engine on the Great Northern near Virginia. Victims were C. F. Wellman the conductor and Barney Harrington the brakeman. Tim Harrington was severely bruised. The engine rolled down a fifteen foot bank after the wheel failure, with both deceased residents of Virginia.
In Freeport Stearns county John Toenyan and five companions, intoxicated, rode a team through streets creating a disturbance. Town marshal R T Radford warned them to stop fired to scare them and hit Toenyan in the neck. Radford says the shot was accidental and intended only to frighten the group.
Telegrapher groups on the Great Northern and Northern Pacific push for wage raises after two months of failed grievances talks. An operator warns a strike could occur within days as managers remain inaccessible. The walkout is not tied to Western Union or Postal operators but the tension has sharpened.
Duluth men Victor Haot and Edward Firetrault hunted by auto near the Whiteface and Paleface rivers. A large bear approached as they moved slowly, to which Firetrault fired from the vehicle at about fifty yards. The shot struck the heart. the bear weighing about 200 pounds ran 100 feet into the woods before expiring.
The state will soon file in Ramsey or Hennepin County district court to oust Standard Oil for alleged violations of the Hinton anti discrimination law. Attorney General B T Young confirms the impending action following a secretive investigation after a complaint was filed with Secretary of State Schmahl in May.
The unconscious Hibbing mine boss Albert Cameron was found near the Hibbing rail line with a bullet wound and in critical condition. In Menahga Finlander John Kurtti died after being struck and knocked by Matt Kyllonen, while three year old Hinar Larson of Minneapolis was fatally run over by Louis Rouchlean’s car on Lake Minnetonka at Arcola.
Mussel diggers along the Wabash and White rivers in Indiana report pearls worth 200 to 300 a day with a standout find of 1500 to 2000 by Leon Bouchner. The industry, centered in Vincennes, supports shell trade and local wages while pearl dealers seek fisheries protection and potential hatcheries to curb overharvest.
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