01 Jan 1908
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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1908
Page
1
The report details large spending on improvements including a Minneapolis building project at 950,000 and private and public housing efforts like Washing and Bayona structures near residences. It notes the aggregate costs, project scope, and ongoing development outside private enterprises, with references to local officials and notable figures attending ceremonies and meetings.
Agents report William Jennings Bryan earns about 50 000 annually from lectures with 176 dates in 1907 and average receipts over 300 per engagement. Wagner notes his Chautauqua contracts pay first 250 at gate plus half receipts over 500, excluding season tickets, and for an evening lecture a 200 cash guarantee plus half door receipts. The column also mentions print costs rising for St Paul and Minneapolis families to six dollars a year and quotes John W Foster praising the Hague peace conference record as a hopeful sign for peace and justice.
A novel stage innovation based on Wilkie Collins The Frozen Deep features Arctic scenes painted from photographs and a top local company led by Mabel McCane. The surrounding Twin City program includes Paderewski in St Paul and Hopper and Crane in current attractions.
The article describes a one day farmers' institute in New Ulm on January 11 with practical instructors from L. A. Sweet in Fairmont A Brackett Excelsior and William Suter Welcome. Women and youths invited to participate in discussions a question box collects queries and afternoon sessions address local topics. It also reports a separate incident of Dora Fierli and Antoinette found nearly unconscious from cold and hunger on Franklin Street with police suspecting entrapment or self-imposed confinement before Christmas.
Fred Horman, a Leavenworth farmer, filed a suit last week claiming the city of Sleepy Eye is responsible for injuries to his wife and damage to their buggy after a sewer drain under construction overturned their vehicle on a principal street. He seeks nearly 8600 in reimbursement, while the city expects to shift liability to the railroad company responsible for the drain. A company agent visited Sleepy Eye after filing, and a settlement is expected without trial.
The Boston Herald reports a mixed bag of political sketches and jokes. Representative John Sharp Williams is depicted with a contrived new tale while Jeff Truly, a Mississippi gubernatorial hopeful, faced defeat. Prohibition themes surface in a Methodist minister’s barbed exchange about whisky and a county Irish tale turns on religious judgment and a jug of spirits.
A collage of wry sayings and folk humor from a late 19th or early 20th century press. Bits riff on debt, prudence, truth, advice, and human folly with regional wit from Chicago and Kentucky figures like a Scotch minister and the Harrodsburg crowd.
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