28 Feb 1900
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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1900
Page
1
Ottomeyer offers wash goods including 36 in percales at 8c 26 in best quality 124c silk ginghams 350 silk chambry 48c best Irish dimities 48c with a wide assortment. Dresses and skirts feature new patterns and low prices from 1.40 to 6.00. Embroideries with insertion to match linings available.
Spring wear is arriving with up to date wool overcoats and pure shirting items offered at affordable prices of 39, 10, 13 and 15. The shop promotes honest value over cheap goods and promises timely new neckwear in a few days.
A large crowd braved subzero wind for a Turner Hall benefit for the public library. Net receipts totaled about 87 dollars destined for new books. Performances ranged from piano and violin solos to a lively bagpipe and musical skit, praised for its artistry and humor.
Secretary Tallmadge of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce urges making all fair admissions free and increasing the state appropriation from four thousand eighty dollars to about thirty thousand. He argues higher attendance and educational value, while keeping concessions and racing as separate features.
Minnesota posted a strong showing at the Lin coln Nebraska buttermakers convention winning top honors for best separator butter score 98 by H T Sundergaard Litchfield Minn The banner competition drew 23 states with Minnesota earning high entry counts and a narrow loss to the banner winner by 85 100 of a point John Martin Kasota township Le Sueur county aged about 98 died at home Friday Feb 16 born in Dublin Ireland came to Kasota in 1854 and lived there until death.
The War Department and Wood propose a Cuban suffrage plan with age, literacy, and property or service requirements. Critics say it disenfranchises the poor and illiterate, concentrating voting power with soldiers and wealthier classes as 40,000 to 75,000 Cuban soldiers may gain voting rights. The stance argues for equal rights and warns against illiteracy being a gatekeeper to suffrage.
Residents of New Ulm circulate a petition to the City Council asking the city to establish a public library and free reading room. The library association would donate its about 400 volumes and property to the city, with a spring election vote to approve the transfer and setup a sixteen member library board.
A Minnesota newspaper excerpt discusses the U S House action on establishing a territorial government for Hawaii. It details appointment powers for a president chosen governor and secretary, a territorial supreme court, preserved local courts and laws, a unified federal and revenue district, and a two house legislature with voting limited by race. It questions tariff aims and trade benefits of annexation.
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