New Ulm Review Illuminates Local Affairs 1915
The New Ulm Review reports on publishing changes and regional business issues. It notes plans for a morning daily in Mankato, critiques subsidies to Allied papers, and urges local funding for Brown County fairground improvements. It highlights home shopping, urges merchants to advertise, and comments on a Buick runabout find near Winthrop.
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Mankato
Mankato Post
Minnesota
Mapleton Enterprise
Enry
Ita
Minnesota Sugar Beet Industry Perks State Economy
The Sibley County Independent cites the St. Peter Herald in praising sugar beets for Minnesota. It notes Chaska's beet factory paid farmers 184 607.60 dollars for 83 565 tons of beets grown on 3 656 acres and supported wages over 50 000 dollars. With 657 farmers on 6 582 acres this year, Minnesota beet production could reach about 54 000 tons earning roughly 297 000 dollars for farmers, while state consumption nears 90 000 tons costing consumers about 11 million dollars.
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Minnesota
Sibley County
Chaska
Carver County
St. Peter
Omaha Road Campaign Aims to Prevent Trespassing
The Omaha road seeks to curb trespassing across its right of way and yardage after last year log shows most accidents came from trespass. The system boasts few fatal incidents and considers strong enforcement. In St Paul police court a test case tested licensing for a fair grounds eating establishment. Gilbert Gutterson, trustee of St Anthony Park Methodist church, was found guilty under the state restaurant law though he testified paying $600 to the state fair board for a license. Sentence was deferred.
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Omaha Road
St Paul
Gilbert Gutterson
St. Anthony Park
Thanksgiving Turkeys and Frontline Fantasies Across Minnesota Papers
A 1915 snippet recalls G L Nye of Minnesota Store giving each employee a dollar for a turkey. Roosevelts offer to aid Canada with a Newfoundland regiment circulates among St Peter and Mankato press. Local talk ends with a caution about Brother Joe and bad company.
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G. L. Nye
Minnesota Store Company
Shakopee ‘Tribune
Brother Miller
Brother Joe
Joe
Caplan Schmidt Trial Sparks Jury Bias Questions
In Los Angeles Matthew Schmidt and David Caplan face trial for alleged complicity with the MacNamaras in blowing up the Times Building. Two prospective jurors described their fixed views on the case. one, a retired capitalist, would require strong evidence to overturn his belief the building was demolished by dynamite. The other, a day laborer, held the belief the blast was caused by gas unless strong evidence proves dynamite.
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Los Angeles
Mathew Schmidt
David Caplan
MacNamaras
Los Angeles Times
Caplan-Schmidt Defense League
Times
Caplan
Associated Press
Nicollet County Advances In Sugar Beet Growing
Nicollet county has entered Minnesota's sugar producing counties again with three farmers growing beets on seventy five acres this year. Investigations show Nicollet is well suited for sugar beets and has enough suitable area to support production.
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Nicollet County
Minnesota
Less for Pensions as Veteran Numbers Decline
The secretary of the interior estimates a 30 million dollar cut in pensions this year, noting the long rising trend since the Civil War but expecting further reductions as veterans grow fewer. The piece honors those who served, urging continued remembrance even as future support diminishes.
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Republic
Martin County
Sentinel
Minnesota’s Growth Tied to Vast Natural Wealth and Opportunity
L Etoile du Nord extols Minnesota as a state of rising consciousness and coordinated effort. It highlights vast natural resources, ten thousand lakes, rivers, forests, and fertile lands, inviting pioneers and homes, envisioning a bread and butter state ready to thrive with thriving cities and extensive waterways.
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Minnesota
Union
United States
Providence
Star of the North becomes Minnesota through miracles of growth
The passage recalls the early explorers and the motto Star of the North, praising Minnesota’s transformation from wilderness to a thriving land. It foresees timber, farming, iron wealth, and vast Lake Superior markets, urging development of water power and cultivation to erase vacancy and fulfill the state’s potential.
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Bega
L Etoile du Nord
Minnesota
Golconda
Lake Superior
Ramsey
The
Northwest
Socialized Germany and Minnesota Iron Leases
A William Marion Reedy column critiques Frederic C Howe's Socialized Germany, praising its social and industrial cohesion while noting its depersonalization and lack of democracy. It argues Germany blends welfare and control, then shifts to Minnesota, projecting $96.25 million added to permanent school funds from iron ore leases over 32 years, with most gains from 145 million tons proved and potential further royalties. A G A R parade scene notes a vociferous woman criticizing a veteran’s mourner.
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Valais
Germany
Mr. Howe
Marion Reedy
Minnesota
State Tax Commission
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New Ulm Review Published By
Alters Steinhouser
H. Payne
Official Paper of
Brown County
Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch
Herald
R. P. Wall
Winthrop
Uncle Sam
St. Cloud Journal-Press
Carleton College
Sibley ‘County
Tribune
Col. Roosevelt
Flanders
Bro. Reynolds
Mankato Free Press
I St. Peter Free Press
L’ Etoile du Nord
Europe
Frederic C. Howe
Scribner's
New York
Howe
Freelands
Efyou
Metzinger
H. C. Schleuder
Beussmann
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