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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1902
Page
7
An old newspaper note recalls a trial where a man sued a medicine firm over a failed remedy. The defense argued insufficient use. the firm offered a money back guarantee. Vincl is promoted as a cod liver oil based tonic with iron and wine, sold with a similar guarantee for Vinax.
At the coal strike commission session in Scranton on December 8 1900 Father Curran of Wilkesbarre testified about violence wages and scabs while also noting miners should have better pay. A 17 year old Markle mines worker described debt and rent burdens and a store system that kept him short of wages. Wayne MacVeagh visited J P Morgan in New York before traveling to Washington amid arbitration efforts.
Thomas Brackett Reed of Portland Maine former Speaker of the House died after a prolonged illness that included Bright's disease and heart failure. Doctors administered saline solutions and oxygen while specialists in Philadelphia were consulted. Reed's last words were to his wife and daughter Katherine. Reed, born October 18 1839, Bowdoin graduate, served in Maine legislature and as attorney general before twenty years in Congress, where he led as speaker of multiple Congresses. He resigned in 1909 after his final term.
President Roosevelt said he would nominate Julie Barrett of Oregon as United States minister to Japan, filling the post left by the death of Alfred E Buck. The announcement came amid other business from Washington on December 8.
A string of early December wrecks disrupted rail traffic. In Belmont on the Intercolonial near Truro Nova Scotia the Canadian Pacific fast express from Halifax to St John Montreal crashed a four killed and several passengers and one brakeman injured. In Akron Ohio two Erie freight trains collided head on injuring several including a fireman believed fatally hurt. In Westfield New Jersey a rear end collision on the Central Railroad of New Jersey left tracks blocked, an engine mounted a caboose and overturned, and a caboose fire destroyed four cars with no injuries. The German steamship Koln reached Baltimore with the wrecked crew of the British bark Margaret Mitchell from Cardi Wales bound for Maranham Brazil.
United States forestry bureau investigates fires in Oregon and Washington. Cox reports 660,008 burned acres with $12,000,000 in damage, three hundred eleven homeless families, and eighteen deaths. Fires burned weeks before action. timely measures and rangers could have prevented much damage. The piece also covers land title rulings at Cass Lake Minnesota and state revenue data.
The French government fears a gold standard driven crisis in Siam and Yudo China. Reichstag factions seek tariff war against the United States. A House committee backs Littlefield’s trust publicity bill. Sir Hiram Maxim plans US testing of tying machines over two years. Ireland evicts a 70 year old couple over rent arrears. Emigration to Canada faces opposition. western banks lure savings to Dominion land. Shamrock bullock sells for 50 cents a pound at stock show, $1010 total. New York holiday batch planned with steaks valued at ten dollars.
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