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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1910
Page
6
An ad from A Sebingeck at 17 Elo Street Buffalo New York touts King s New Life Pull claiming to cure biliousness jaundice constipation digestion headaches and malaria among other ailments. The blurb ends with a price note of 250 at M Olsen.
At midnight on Nov 27 the Pennsylvania railroad opened its Wamiooth terminal on Manhattan Island for all trains joining Long Island routes. The vast complex spans 28 acres with 16 miles of track, 11 platforms, 25 elevators, and massive concrete and granite work.
Population data from 1910 shows 1 657 155 with a 17.2 percent rise. 1907 special report lists 1 414 177 and 1900 year of 790 39. Early figures include Indian Territory now part of Oklahoma.
The 1910 international livestock exposition in Chicago set world records with 4 805 cities housed under the exposition roofs and 1 191 horses 1 184 cattle 1 168 sheep and 807 hogs shown. About 250 000 visitors attended as 20 buildings housed the displays and carload lots filled stockyard pens. Agricultural college exhibits and judging competitions drew strong interest with intercollegiate judging gaining broad support.
The first biblical mention of butter appears in Genesis XVIII during Abraham's hosting of three visitors. Butter described here likely differs from modern butter, resembling curdled milk or oil-based fats, with Arabs linking butter making to divine revelation and divine provisioning in the desert.
The New Ulm Music store offers piano discounts ranging from five dollars to five cents with prices valid only until January first. Shoppers are urged to buy now to take advantage of the limited time offer.
In Jasper County Miss Della Sharp, long time deputy in the Twenty first Judicial District, campaigns for circuit clerk. She tours by auto, fronts a campaign card and cigars, and urges Democrats to vote for her on November 8, urging men to prefer a woman in office. Placards appear on felled telegraph poles and bridges with slogans like Vote for the Girl.
Christian Science founder Mary Baker Glover Eddy died at her Chestnut Hill residence. Dr George L West said death from natural causes with pneumonia likely the immediate factor. News released by Judge Clifford P Smith and Alfred Farlow of the church publicity committee.
A Trinidad cleric designed a postage stamp machine now improved in London and installed in a post office. It stamps envelopes at 4000 per hour, holds 50 000 stamps, and registers each use. It accepts only genuine coins and returns errors as false coins are kept. There are plans to place machines in underground stations and pillar boxes.
President Taft informed his cabinet that the final draft of 1911 fiscal year estimates requires further reductions across departments. Heads had already trimmed to rock bottom levels but the president urged deeper pruning to cut expenditures. In Reading, Pa, the Reading Railway cuts work hours to 32 per week for locomotive shops and 45 for car shops until further notice.
Minneapolis wheat prices show December at 1.0244 and May at 1.06 1,06 percent. Northern and No. 2 grades listed with slight variations. Duluth quotes on track and arriving wheat and flax futures. St Paul live stock markets report cattle prices and hogs at 7.00 to 7.25, sheep and yearlings around 4.00 to 8.00, while Chicago futures list wheat, corn, oats, pork, butter, eggs, and poultry prices with regional modifiers.
Government uses a 1795 Wayne treaty with the Chicago and Des Plaines area to argue Desplaines river navigation in a dam case at Dresden Heights Tl. Professor Alvord notes the treaty grants use of the Chicago Des Plaines portage to the Illinois river. Other items report pulp wood exports rising in Canada and the Kimberley diamond mines yielding 420 million in twenty seven years.
A New York state factory produces artificial camphor from essential oils of turpentine. Officials claim the product is identical to natural camphor except origin, with chemical oxygen added to turpentine molecules. Camphor use spread across arts and medicine.
Japan furnishes 42 percent of American tea imports, with China at 22 14 percent, the East Indies 8 4 percent and the United Kingdom 11 percent.
A single cylinder engine rated at 5,000 horsepower and weighing about 750,000 pounds was constructed for a steel rolling mill. The project highlights Ohic's capability in heavy industrial machinery and large scale manufacturing.
Chicago market report lists cattle and hog ranges with varied prices for cattle types including Texas and western steers, stockers, cows, calves, hogs and sheep. The text shows mixed figures and severally garbled entries reflecting a fluctuating livestock market.
G S Fernald of the Pullman company announced to Interstate Commerce Commission officials that upper berth rates are reduced by 20 percent when the lower berth exceeds 1.50, with several reductions on lower berths. The minimum rate becomes 1.25 for upper berths, and lower berth routes from St Paul and Minneapolis to Seattle see a cut from 12 to 11 dollars, while upper berths set at 8.80 dollars. The hearing followed a prior ICC order and a circuit court injunction, with no testimony taken this time.
Chicago reports the 1910 hunting season closed with 113 fatalities, higher than any prior season on record. Injuries total 81, down from 104 in 1909, with many wounded later facing fatal outcomes.
Safe containing 16000 dollars stolen from Wells Fargo substation in Muskogee Oklahoma found under a porch of an abandoned house. The money intact. three men O F Sensbaugh W H Kelvey and F C Givens arrested and held.
Official advices from Macao report complete order restored after the rebel soldiers and sailors secured their demands. The Macao governor suspected of aiding religious orders has been replaced by Judge Marques Vidal, with the population applauding the administrative change.
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