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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1900
Page
3
Fragmented OCR summary describes train schedule notes for Chicago and Northwestern routes with multiple towns and times, referencing passengers, agencies, and agents. Names such as M. Dormiconti and W. Kniskern appear among scattered details, with mentions of Winneapatia and Minneapolis. The text is garbled but conveys station and service data, dates, and contact pointers for further information.
Washington Jan 26 Brigham H Roberts Utah representative elect had seat vacated by the House adopt ing a majority resolution 268 to 50 declaring him unable to hold the seat. The vote split along party lines with 168 Republicans and 96 Democrats for the resolution, 47 Democrats and 2 Silver Republicans against. Roberts defended himself as a martyr to prejudice and prepared to return home.
A garbled dispatch covers pension lists for War of 1812 widows and veterans, a wolf incident near Presque Isle, Sheriff Downey's hooting case, a lynching in Canon City, log banking for Native reservations, postage stamp books, Hazen's death, American prospectors shot in Mexico, Hilo plague resistance, new Chinese emperor notes, Havana vital stats, and political shifts in Mexico and Europe. The items span multiple locales including Detroit Michigan, Presque Isle, Pana Illinois, Canon City Colorado, Ashland Wisconsin, and Havana Cuba.
A dispute over seven square miles claimed by Ramsey and Hennepin counties centers on Durham Island and tax lists. Albert Phelps, Minneapolis abstracter, uncovered laws that could shift St. Anthony Park and a portion of the Minnesota Transfer to Hennepin, boosting its tax rolls. Separate notes mention flax harvest saved on ice during Red River valley floods and a man dying in St. Paul workhouse after a misidentified illness.
The article explains that French marriage rules apply to foreigners married abroad if form and age rules align with the French code. If formalities fail but a wife is 22 and husband 25, courts may treat the union as putative, granting her marital status, child name rights, and alimony. An American wife of a French husband can be protected. bigamy penalties arise if the husband remarries in France while over 25.
Dr A F Nightingale chief of Chicago public high schools asks councils to study a new system replacing four year study with chosen subjects and about 3 000 hours of work then quitting. He argues the traditional graduation ceremony and yearly commencement have outlived their purpose and proposes a system where students begin when ready and leave upon completion without orations.
Captain J T Matthews, owner of the sloop Kila Cy, visited the Baltimore customhouse and described a get rich quick plan. He claimed to have found gold near Chesapeake Bay and to be smelting ore aboard his vessel, intending to sail to Alaska later. The report notes his early Klondike fever scheme and includes disparate, unclear details about other unrelated items.
An advertisement extols the Bradfield Regulator Co remedy Besfriend and a booklet titled Before Baby is Born. It claims expectant mothers can prepare for the final hour, reduce pain, and safely pass childbirth with little discomfort. The firm offers to mail the booklet free upon request.
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