Forward-looking 1909 forecast on future innovations
The New Ulm Review cites Edison predicting dramatic advances over the next decades including architectural growth, talking pictures, electric railways, airborne mail, electric fertilizer from air nitrogen, enhanced waterpower use, aerial navigation, improved public health, and higher machine efficiency, with a note on today’s machinery being only about ten percent perfect.
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Rome
Carthage
Edison
New York Times
Minnesota Legislature Names Committee Chairmen In New Session
The Minnesota legislature opened with Lt Gov Eberhart presiding in the senate and A J Rockne of Zumbrota as speaker. Sneaker Rockne named committee chairs including Rines Mora for Corporations Stuart Windom for Rules Putnam Red Wing for Appropriations Gates Kenyon for Public Health Bicknell St Paul for Judiciary Robertson Argyle for Education Nolan Grand Meadow for Express Telegraph and Electric Lines Rowe St Paul for Game and Fish White Hi River for Reapportionment Mackenzie Gaylord for Temperance Allen Minneapolis for University Handlan St Paul for Claims Congdon Duluth for Public Accounts and Expenditures Dorsey Glencoe for Military Affairs Anderson Lakeland for State Prison and Reformatory Spooner Morris for Binding Twine Plant Dalsell Morton for Taxes Johnson Minneapolis for General Legislation Kneeland Minneapolis for State Fair Wallace Minneapolis for Insurance Hauyland Montevideo for Railroads Christen son St Paul for Commerce and Retail Freight Holmberg Rengals for Airy and Livestock Wes tcott West St Paul for Elections Nolan Grand Meadow for Municipal Legislation Adams Fergus Falls for Banks and Banking. Complaints reach police about Rev William A Sunday's revival sermons in Spokane using language that would upset veterans, with Spokane supposedly paying more than grand opera prices.
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Minnesota
Eberhart
Senate
A.J. Rockne
Zumbrota
House
Sneaker Rockne
Rines
Mora
Rules
Stuart
Windom
Putnam
Red Wing
Gates of
Kenyon
Bicknell
St. Paul
Robertson
Argyle
Nolan
Grand Meadow
Rowe
White
Hie River
Temperance
Mackenzie
Gaylord
University
Allen
Minneapolis
Handlan
Congdon
Duluth
Dorsey
Glencoe
Anderson
Lakeland
Spooner of
Morris
Dalsell
Morton
Johnson
Kneeland
Wallace
Hauyland
Fraudulent seed trade harms American farmers exposed
Robert Shackleford in the Saturday Evening Post traces a web of fraud across Argentina and North America. He details how Argentine wool scraps and Canadian grass seed are repackaged as authentic Kentucky products and sold at inflated prices, harming clover, alfalfa, and poultry crops. The piece warns farmers to avoid buying seeds from strangers and highlights the broad, deceitful tactics used by seed dealers.
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Argentina
Germany
United States
George Ade
Swat
Canada
Kentucky
Europe
Uncle Sam
New York
Robert Shackleford
Saturday Evening Post
Governor Johnson Seeks Minnesota University Presidency
Washington correspondent reports Gov. Johnson urged President to leave office and head Minnesota's university, while the president declined, citing Africa. The piece frames a playful view of two powerful men as “two boys” amid political notes on 1908 expenditures, local names, and Johnson's inauguration in Minnesota.
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Washington
The
Houston Chronicle
Africa
Guv. Johnson
Minnesota
Hall's Catarrh Cure Offered as Internal Remedy
An advertisement claims catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated internally. It presents Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood-targeting formula, nonquack medicine, prescribed by top physicians, with testimonials and free samples. Also notes Northwestern Hide & Fur Co. in Minneapolis buying hides and furs at high prices.
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Hall
Sears
Cnexky & Co
Draxeisin
Northwestern Hide & Fur Co
Minneapolis
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T. Vel Morean Co Co
Ik Necolict
Minneapolaa
Congress
Fred Wendland
Hetztaff
Erickson
Springfield
Board of County Commissioners
M. W. Savage
Dan Patch
Myrtle von Hagen
Sleepy Eye
Licey Mueller Andre
Edward
Martin Meidl
Lafayettte Township
Menominee
Michigan
Renningnen
Insurance Agency
New -Ulm
John H. Forster
Chen
West Fifth Street
Chas. A. Albrecht
Wabasha Street
AUC
Windhorn
New Ulm Hardware Co
Bath
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