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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1908
Page
2
Doctor HL James cured his daughter of consumption using a Calcutta herb preparation. The remedy, once tested, is offered free to readers for two two-cent stamps. The paper notes the herb also fights night sweats nausea and fresh colds within a day and invites correspondence at 1032 Race St Philadelphia.
A vintage patent medicine ad touts Ocher Grays Sweet Powders for Children used by a nurse at a New York Children's Home. Claims cure feverishness, stomach issues, teething troubles, and worm destruction with thousands of testimonials. Addresses and sample offers appear with garbled spelling and dubious authenticity.
President Roosevelt sends to Congress a special message debunking charges that Americans profited from the Panama Canal purchase from France. He singles out Joseph Pulitzer of the World and Delayan Smith of the News, calling the allegations libelous and false in every essential part. He urges government action to prosecute Pulitzer and outlines the canal property transactions.
New York December 18 John D Rockefeller Jr charged by 8 8 Carvalho president of the Star company publishers of William R Hearsts New York American with criminal libel. Carvalho was arraigned in police court before Magistrate Finn and paroled until December 26. The article dated December 17 Chicago December 16 bore the headline claiming Rockefeller originated peonage in stockade and harmed his reputation.
Eleven soldiers of the Eighteenth Infantry died and thirteen were seriously ill at Keithley camp on Mindanao Island after drinking volatile vegetable extract called voluuihic acid served as vino at a resort near the camp on December 15. An official military investigation is under way with few details released.
President Roosevelt declares there was no truth in a published report about a disagreement with President Taft over Charles P Taft's candidacy for the Ohio senatorship. The denial comes as December reports circulate in Washington.
Major Orlando Jay Smith president and general manager of the American Press Association died at his Hudson River home after a cancer operation in September. Born June 14, 1842, he founded the association in 1882 and led it from its inception. He served as a Civil War major and built a vast journalistic empire while writing on religion philosophy and economics.
Chicago reports that butter could reach one dollar per pound if a new ordinance requiring pasteurization is enforced. Dairy authority Samuel Shilling predicts dairymen may resist the measure passively until a legal test case is pursued.
President elect William H Taft announced the appointment of United States Senator Philander C Knox of Pennsylvania as secretary of state. Taft said he is congratulated to secure Knox in his cabinet and noted his choice reflects his aims for the department.
A December sequence shows the Senate and House debating the Panama message with laughter. Discussions cover postal savings banks, rule revisions, and penal code revisions. The Garrett amendment on futures information failed, and a president message urged government changes for the District of Columbia.
President Taft praised a prominent attorney general and noted Knox as a great American and preeminent lawyer. He also said he had not decided on a successor for attorney general, mentioning George W. Wickersham as a potential candidate without firm determination.
New York reports that Colorado and Southern Railway with Edwin Hawley and Frank Trumbull sells to the Chicago Burlington and Quincy. The Burlington absorbs the line giving the Hill system a Gulf outlet, akin to Illinois Central for Harriman. Previously believed path was via the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad.
Fred H. Varney, cashier of the First National Bank of Somersworth, N H, was arrested on a defaulter charge after the bank closed amid an $85,000 shortage. President W Tebbetts said Varney confessed the loss stemmed from six years of speculation. He was released on $10,000 bail and will face the U S district court in Portsmouth in March.
Constantinople December 17 After a 32 year gap Turkey starts a new constitutional government with the opening of the new parliament in Constantinople. The sultan attended in person as elaborate ceremonies marked the inauguration of the body elected under the July constitution.
General Antoine Simon, leader of the revolution that ousted Nord Alexis, has been unanimously elected president of the Haytian republic by the congress in Port au Prince. A large crowd cheered outside the parliament as salutes were fired from forts and gunboats in the harbor.
Minneapolis and Duluth price reports for wheat, corn, oats, flax, and soy. live cattle and hog values at Minneapolis Union Stock Yards and Chicago Union Stock Yards. dairy and poultry quotes. highlights include Dec and May futures, and spot levels for No. 1 hard, No. 1 Northern, and No. 2 Northern wheat, plus cattle and lamb quotes across major markets.
A gang of eight robbers dynamited safes at the Partners' State Bank of Keene and the Commercial bank of Gibbon, fled with 5500 after a pitched fight with locals. One bandit is thought wounded and carried off. In Milwaukee, James Clancy aged 100, Civil War veteran, died at the National Soldiers' Home. born in Ireland, enlisted in the Fourth Michigan Guards in 1862.
Notice is given that by virtue of a power of sale in a Minnesota mortgage dated August 1893 and recorded in Brown County. The mortgagees Brown County Bank will foreclose by the sale of property in Park Audison New Ulm Brown County Minnesota. The sale, by the Brown County Sheriff, is set for December 1 1908 at 10 oclock in the forenoon at the front steps of the court house, to satisfy debt of ten thousand nine hundred twenty two dollars and eighty eight cents plus interest and costs. redemption within one year.
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