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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1907
Page
7
An old advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney liver and urinary issues. It claims kidney disease leads to many sudden deaths and urges readers to buy the product priced at fifty cents to one dollar with a mail offer and free by mail option. The copy emphasizes confidence and brand repetition.
The ad copy touts Kodol for dyspepsia as a natural juice digesting remedy and tonic for stomach ailments, with testimonials from B.S. Ball of Ravenswood and other lines promising relief from sour stomach, belching, and digestive distress. Also promotes Crosby Frisan Fur Co hides, Grivhos catalogue, and various household aids.
State Supreme Court upholds guilty verdict against Noble Schagel of Kandiyohi county for selling Swedish malt without license. The ruling supports restricting malt beverages to regularly licensed saloons or drug stores with prescription. Samples analyzed showed 2.72 and 2.18 percent alcohol.
Upton Sinclair announces a mobile utopia starting January with a wagon caravan and tents from Battle Creek to California and beyond. He leads a dozen or so followers including governesses and a stenographer, aims to avoid city life, and promises cooperative child care, vegetarian meals, and a flexible, temporary stay in each location.
Contractors unite with nonunion workers over a dispute at the City National Bank building in Duluth. The fight pits open shop advocates against bricklayers and other union laborers, with contractors threatening a protracted labor war to enforce nonunion work on the project.
Fire at Hibbing destroyed the Miles hotel and vaudeville theater costing 100000 dollars. Fire spread beyond control and the north end was dynamited to prevent total ruin. The steel corporation helped by shutting mines and piping lines while residents and workers aided efforts to save the business district.
John Hooper aged fifteen son of farmer George Hooper and James Draper aged twenty three farmhand of Daniel Buckley died in Sauk Lake above Sauk Center while skating with friends. They were last seen separate from the group and were found beneath eight feet of water near broken ice after an older brother and rescuers searched the area.
George F. Porter prominent Minneapolis attorney and theater figure died in his Paxton hotel room in Omaha. Cause listed as heart trouble. Wife and children traveling in the South, possibly Cuba. Porter’s body returned to Minneapolis by Edward B. Masi who found him. Porter was 38.
Senator Foraker of Ohio resigns his senate campaign to pursue the Republican presidential nomination. In a letter to Ohio Republican league VP Conrad J. Mattern he declares a bold stand against Taft and vows to rally friends, stirring a fierce intra party contest with Secretary Taft favored to win the delegation.
A nearly sixty year old woman known as Dr Lucy Hagenow was found guilty of murder in Judge Chetlain's court for causing the death of Mrs Anna Hornytsch by an illegal operation. She receives a twenty year penitentiary sentence after a prior manslaughter conviction and parole. Hagenow was alleged to have practiced for 37 years and to have caused 1000 deaths, with her clinic connected to other notable trial contexts.
Judge Hanford of the federal court restrained the Washington state railroad commission from enforcing its Sept. 20 order requiring connecting lines Oregon Railway and Navigation, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern to haul wheat to Puget Sound ports. The court ruled the order encroached on interstate commerce regulation.
Minneapolis Wheat prices and cattle, hogs, and sheep ranges reported for Nov 30 in Minneapolis St Paul and Chicago markets. Prices show Dec Wheat at 1.08 and May 1.09, cattle good to choice steers 5.10 to 6.00, hogs at 1.25, lambs 5.00 to 5.26, Chicago grains with Wheat Dec 96 5 8, Corn Dec 55, Butter 19 23c, turkeys and chickens listed. Duluth and Chicago stock yards quotes include beef cattle, cows, calves, Texans, Western cattle, hogs, and lamb ranges.
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