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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1910
Page
6
An odd clipped ad cites Alinever Be without Mr King s New Wife Pill and claims a Buffalo reader cured chronic constipation where others failed. It touts biliousness jaundice and debility relief with a claimed 200 at C M Olsen.
The article notes feminist leaders opposing wartime duties while supporting suffrage. It cites Cravisrs Willy and Mattos figures, mentions a tax or exemption debate, and highlights newspapers shifting stance after the Kaiser speech.
Report from early settlers near South Australia mentions a cave filled with gold rumored to lie up country beyond Fowler's Bay. A later arrival in Adelaide claims 406 miles north a cave complex yields pendants of gold resembling quinces of qupea. No documented deaths from seasickness, though often cited in traveler reports.
President Taft, after twenty months in office, names Horace Harmon Lurton Charles Evans Hughes and three others to the Supreme Court. The move creates a majority, a feat unmatched since Washington. Touted as poetic justice, it marks Taft’s path to remaking the high court and shaping its future rulings.
The article recounts Taft's Supreme Court nominations, naming Chief Justice White and Associate Justices Lamar and Van De Venter. It notes party balance, White's Louisiana heritage, wartime service, and slow confirmation amid political maneuvering. It also lists other justices Harlan, McKenna, Holmes, Day, and the broader court composition.
New York heiress Miss Vivien Gould becomes engaged to a titled Englishman, linking American society with British aristocracy as society pages note the match and forthcoming wedding plans.
New York reports Mrs. George Gould plans to announce Vivien Gould engagement to Lord Decies at a Jan 19 dinner at the Gould home. The notice in the Morning Post disrupts the planned event, drawing on New York society’s prominent guests for the debutante season. Lord Decies is 44, two years younger than his future father in law.
London reports six days of hurri canes along English coasts causing dozens of boats wrecked and suspected many deaths. The storm floods piers sea walls and houses, isolates the Selsey peninsula, and turns rivers into inland lakes. Thames becomes a chain of lakes. Warwickshire Shropshire Radnorshire Somerset and Essex submerged with widespread damage.
One of four men rescued alive from the Greene coal mine near Tacoma Washington is dead, leaving three survivors. Officials say twelve men were in the mine when the gas explosion occurred. eight were found dead, some burned.
The body of Neil Keith a famed railroad contractor who built lines for major western companies over thirty years was found frozen to death in the hills south of Moose Jaw Saskatchewan. He had wandered away six weeks earlier while delirious from fever.
London reports the German steamer Palermo is a total wreck off Capo Corrobado on the west coast of Galicia Spain. Five passengers and nineteen crew are lost in the disaster with unclear official confirmation of total casualties.
Dec 17 El Paso reports a federal force of about 1000 under Generals Navarry and Hernandes was defeated at La Junta near Minaca. About 150 survivors surrendered and traveled toward Chihuahua as telegraph lines were cut. Insurgents hold the region and traffic on the Mexico Northwestern line is at a standstill. Abraham Gonzalez named provisional governor of Chihuahua by Francisco Madero.
Andrew Carnegie announced a gift of $10,000,000 to promote international peace, to be managed by a board of trustees led by Hlina Root and Nicholas Murray Butler. The fund, totaling $16,000,000, will provide at least $500,000 annually for global peace projects with broad discretion for trustees.
United States secret service officials raided the Capital Investment company offices accusing it of operating a bucket shop. The main office and four branches were visited, with papers and records seized. Sidmon McHale named as chief owner, believed to be in Florida.
Secretary of War Dickinson sent to the House a letter replying to the McLachlan resolution on national defense adequacy. The brief letter notes the situation and states the secret report just submitted to the House will not be resubmitted after withdrawal.
New York reports a deep cold snap with four deaths and widespread suffering among the starving and homeless. The city posted an exhausted lodging house capacity of 700 as temperatures plummet. Charles D. Drew and Charles J. Wardell were sentenced to ten months in the New York penitentiary for taking bribe money in false sugar weighings, with a stay of sixty days for appeal.
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