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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1909
Page
6
Multiple product pitches appear in a collage of sensational ads and jokes. Foley’s Honey and Tar is touted as the safest child cough remedy with no opiates, joined by Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea as a general health cleanser. A Prudential policy ad promises monthly income for wives. Interspersed wry lines joke about early rising and balloon honeymoons.
An upbeat note on looking one's best with Bucklen's Ar0ha Salve promoted for skin care. The piece then shifts to light humor featuring O. M. Olsen and a barbershop anecdote about Petro and tips.
Foley's Kidney Remedy is described as containing hexamethylenetetramine a German chemical noted as a uric acid solvent and antiseptic for urine Take Foley's kidney remedy at first sign of irregularities to prevent serious illness. M Olsen Drug gist.
One man died and two were seriously injured when a powder and dynamite laden car exploded at the Minnesota Transfer yards. Klaus J. Larson was killed while Andrew Anderson and Charles Stitch suffered severe injuries during the loading of thirty cans of black powder and twenty boxes of dynamite.
A big wildcat attacked Mrs. Denton Patten in a woodland camp near Akeley while she and her husband, city marshal Denton Patten, rested. The marshal used a trap and then killed the beast to save his wife after the wild cat leaped from a tub covering.
The Supreme Court denied certiorari in a case by California nieces and nephews to divert Mrs. Fannie S. Wilder and Cornelia Day Wilder Appleby estates from charity. About 1.8 million in real estate and farm land across Minnesota Wisconsin Montana Iowa Illinois and other states were left to charity. The mother's estate about 1.2 million. Amherst H. Wilder left 400 thousand to charity.
Edward Phelps foreman for the Hull Rust mine at Hibbing was instantly killed when struck by a switch engine while looking in the opposite direction. A separate fire incident endangered the town as high winds threatened a blaze. J Schmitz & Co suffered a total loss of about $13,000 as their entire stock burned.
A man named B. F. Avecue of Tagleaids N.G. regains health after trying many doctors and finally using Dr. King's New Life Pills. The tonic claims to cure constipation biliousness sick headache stomach liver kidney and bowel troubles. Available for 25 cents at O. M. Olsen, the druggist.
In Wayne, near Concordia Kansas, Mrs Prank Hicks and her four children aged three to ten were killed when an oil stove exploded and flames engulfed the house. Mrs Hicks escaped with her infant but perished trying to save the others. Incendiaries Set Fire To A Block In Anoka. A windstorm aided a spree of arson that damaged the Whitten block, endangering the city hall and Jackson hotel. Firemen saved the building. losses are insured and under investigation for kerosene soaked corn cobs found in the basement.
Washington December 9 Democratic senators elected Senator H. K. D. Money of Mississippi as minority leader to succeed Senator Culberson of Texas whose resignation was presented and accepted by the caucus.
D A Harshbarger of the Switchmen's Union says the strikers are willing to arbitrate to end the switchmen’s strike. Minneapolis faces a coal famine with no coal available. Railroads admit slower moving carloads while governors and officials weigh arbitration options.
Minneapolis wheat prices show December through July futures at around 1.10 with on track and No 1 Northern bids near 1.12. Duluth reports hard and Northern wheat at 1.08 to 1.11 with flax around 1.88 to 1.92. St Paul lists cattle hogs and sheep prices with steers 6.75 to 7.50, hogs at 8.15 to 8.20, and ewes and lambs priced from 4.50 to 7.75.
Wheat December one dollar per bushel, May one dollar nine cents, July ninety eight and a half cents. Corn December six and a half cents, May eighty four and two thirds cents, July sixty four and a third cents. Oats December forty three and a half cents, May forty four cents, July forty two and a half cents. Pork January twenty one dollars eighty cents, May twenty one dollars forty-two cents. Butter creameries twenty six and thirty three cents, dairies twenty four and twenty nine cents. Eggs twenty and thirty cents. Poultry turkeys seventeen cents, chickens fourteen cents, springs twelve and a half cents.
Cattle Reeves $4.00 8.75 Texas steers $3.80 420 Western steers $4.26 7.00 Storkers and feeders $3.10 5.25 cows and heifers $210 5.65 calves $7.0 9.50 Hogs Light $8.05 855 mixed $8.15 8.65 heavy $8.45 9 8.20 town $8.25 8.40 good to choose heavy $38.40 9.10 pigs 36.9007 0 Native $3.50 5 rit 7.65 lambs 95.75 8.50.
Peter Alden twenty seven years old and an unidentified man both died by self poisoning in Minneapolis within twelve hours. Alden drank potassium cyanide at his home on 25th street east after recent illness and operation. his wife was stunned by the event. The other man ingested carbolic acid in a saloon and died en route to the city hospital.
William Schribner, convicted at Du Vath of murdering Frank Massa two years ago in a cabin near Ashawa on circumstantial evidence, chose life imprisonment over the greater penalty. Judge Dibell stated the jury did its duty and Schribner’s defense aligned with the life term.
Rev Ole O Fugleskyie of the United Lutheran church was found dead from exposure by searchers in northern Minnesota. He served Scandinavian settlers and lumberjacks on the US Canadian border from Lake of the Woods to International Falls. Born 1868 in Freeborn County he studied at Minnesota University and United Norwegian Lutheran Seminary. He was a former sergeant at Fort Snelling.
J Parr, a miner at Sellers mine Hibbing, was killed by revolver fire from three intoxicated men while walking to Chisholm. He died hours after being found in Hibbing hospital. Suspects arrested. Also reported: merchant David Kanges froze to death near Ely after disappearance days earlier while hunting deer near Eagles Nest. He leaves a wife and child.
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