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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1908
Page
3
Praise for Dr Pierce's medicines stresses plant based ingredients and no alcohol. The text promotes Favorite Prescription for female ailments and urges sick women to write for guidance, promising confidential correspondence and advising perseverance in use. It adds Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a laxative and regulator.
The piece portrays Joseph G. Cannon, a veteran speaker, as a central figure in Republican politics. It contrasts his public caricature with a richer private portrait, notes his age and stamina, and debates his potential as the party’s next presidential nominee amid Taft administration dynamics.
A daring tale from Pearson's Weekly recounts Colonel Hay of Lent Wellesley’s peninsular army being shot at Salamanca. He lay near death as a ball in his back threatened extraction and likely death. A £50 bet with Major Windsor spurred an audacious operation and Hay survived, crediting willpower for his recovery.
A New York Press humorous exchange contrasts a man’s view of women’s talent for handling multiple tasks with his own liberal arts ideal of single focus. He admires women’s deft juggling of coffee, toast, eggs, and table setting, while admitting men struggle with double or triple acts.
A southern railroad faced numerous claims after horses and cattle died along its Kentucky route. The company alleged many animals claimed as top blood were misrepresented in bids, prompting a tense exchange where the president quipped that nothing in Kentucky improves livestock like crossing it with a locomotive.
Each year 800 to 1,200 couples travel from the continent to England to wed. The bride typically travels first, lodges one night, and gives notice the next day. The groom then arrives for a license wedding, avoiding a four week stay for both spouses.
A cartoon dialogue in illustrated Bits shows a drunken man returning from the club admitting heavy drinking and his wife reacting with concern. The scene highlights social drinking embarrassment and domestic tension between a husband and wife reflecting a common era trope.
Rev Bennett in Metropolitan Magazine notes English prophecies attributed to Mother Shipton involving Henry the Eighth, Cardinal Wolsey, and various nobles. The account recounts the duke of Suffolk, Lord Dorey, and Beasley visiting Shipton to challenge her claims, with events including burns, executions, and York's ominous fate.
In Doubt a man jokes about morphine at a chemist's. He asks for it without a prescription. The shopman questions the request and the man quips that he might fit himself, prompting a wry reply about looking the type. London Answers.
French aeronaut Henry Farman predicts rapid aeroplane progress combining Bleriot and cubic cellular designs. He sees aerospace travel as sporting now but forecasts an aeroplane omnibus between Paris and London in about five hours. Farman expects 75 to 100 mile journeys within a year at low cost vs cars.
The London Globe reports a new experiment at Bournemouth England where a grand hall attached to the Theater Royal allows patrons to wait before performances and between acts. Tea is served and the orchestra plays during intervals, with the space fully ventilated.
A satirical verse portrays a surgeon general commanding a navy crew. The doctor leads with vaccination and medical plans as an enemy fleet approaches, insisting on medical readiness and using vaccine quills and remedies to force retreat.
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