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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1903
Page
8
An American in Mexico during the Spanish American War is jailed for his nationality. Friends seek help from the British minister, who ultimately frees the Texan after a brief impersonation and formal inquiries.
An anecdote recalls an army May 1799 near the pyramids where a band played a tune known today as We Won't Go Home Till Morning. Bedouins suddenly rejoiced believing the melody to be their old favorite, a tune carried from Africa to Europe in the eleventh century and remaining there for over seven centuries.
A reflective meditation on happiness describing it as inner growth, harmony with ideals, and self creation. It argues happiness comes from being rather than possessing, and from a peaceful heart, with growth and inner life as the source. The author compares happiness to a sun radiating from grit and inner life.
A reflection on how happiness can spread faster than coolness and discontent within a family. It notes that a bright smile and cheerful disposition communicate just as strongly, if not more so, than negative moods.
Maude notes Mr Willing asks to accompany him to the opera tomorrow evening. Clara agrees. Another arrives with a similar request, prompting Maude to insist on a chaperon for the outing.
Dialogue pieces reveal social misgivings at a wedding reception. Edith’s sharp remark, “I hope you’ll be happy,” sparks discomfort as characters discuss drink, reform, and resentment among cousins and friends in a Boston Tran script fragment.
In a Portsmouth News excerpt, young Miss Wilgus questions her father about his destination as he replies that he is going to a temperance meeting. The Rev Mr Wilgus explains the aim to inaugurate a movement to save the country's young men.
A cryptic fragment hints at a father of ten daughters, a solemn scene, and a promise of ten percent off for cash. The text blends misquoted phrases and oblique references to dishonesty and oblivion, yielding a blurred, literary newspaper fragment without clear events or identities.
A survey lists notable deaths in 1902 including Jean de Bloch Phillippe Marchetti and Camilla Urso. It covers imports, gifts to institutions, business failures, embezzlement and forgery, railroad and electric car deaths, epidemics, wars, and vast 1903 fire losses, with regional and international figures.
The table shows 14 tugsl expeditions in WOR in 1902, up from 119 in 1900 and 14 in 1901. In the south there were 10, in the north 43, with 85 textets, 66 whites, 2 Indians, and 1 Chinaman among the victims. Murders and other homicides continued to increase. total for the year reached 8,834, up from 7,852 in 1901.
President Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt hosted a Washington New Year’s reception at the Waite House. About 7 000 callers attended with cordial greetings extended to all, the gates closing at 2 25 and the event concluding at 2 34.
In Scranton on January 3, the Eddy Creek colliery workings beneath Olyphant caved in, engulfing four frame structures covering 6000 square feet. A group of workers in the mine above the fall faced a flooded dip but all escaped without injury.
A dynamite explosion in the Oak Hill colliery near Minersville, Pennsylvania, instantly killed three miners and injured about a dozen others. The dead are Michael Onder, 27, Andrew Onder, and Joseph Prokop, all married with families. Several miners from Pottsville and nearby areas were seriously injured.
Paris reports the annual Panama Canal company meeting discussing pending negotiations with the United States over canal site. The directors express hope for overcoming difficulties and completing the sale at an early date.
The article lists free delivery routes with population served and houses on routes across multiple Minn esota counties, noting counts for each town. It also covers Governor Van Sant retaining department heads, health honors for St Paul, fish hatchery expansion needs, and assorted state news notes.
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