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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1900
Page
7
At Coney Island, about 5,000 bathers watched as a gray-haired man labeled a peeper was seized by lifeguards and ducked into a lifeboat. The crowd roared as the lifeguards decided to duck him for frightening women and children, then released him. The incident sparked cries of shame from onlookers and a vow to continue similar discipline.
George Perry a Beaver Island fisherman near Clinton Illinois fought a giant eagle driven by a storm. The bird measured six feet six inches from tip to tip and weighed about pounds. Perry used a double barrel shotgun and wounded the eagle before finishing it with the second barrel drawing public attention in Clinton for a bird not seen before.
A wedding will be celebrated in Daw son City as soon as Miss Nellie Ryder of Fall River Mass arrives. She has left Pall River to wed Ulysses Grant Myers United States weather observer in Eagle City who left New Haven 26 months ago to pioneer in the Klondike. Ryder, 20, athletic and fearless, her father connected with Baldwin Locomotive Co, is traveling for their interests.
John Findley Wallace speaking before the American Society of Civil Engineers in London traced civil engineering to ancient roots. He cited Tubal-Cain Noah Joseph and others, noting the nine teenth century birth of the profession and its goal to increase human welfare.
A Columbia University senior observes a school year opening coeducational gym class. Coeds perform hopping, skipping, kicking and parallel bar routines in loose attire while exercising to a rag time march under an instructor. The senior notes the scene with quiet surprise at the liberal shift.
Gen. Greely, chief signal officer, complains that officers and men of the signal corps are overworked. Congress authorized ten volunteer first lieutenants, but demand exceeds supply. There is no signal corps officer in the western United States, and the enlisted force lacks about 100 expert operators. Seven officers are on duty in Cuba, with no relief expected as lines must be maintained.
Governor Richards received a curious stone tablet portrait of President McKinley in Cheyenne from Thermopolis hot springs. The owner generated the image after six months of water action and soda, producing a clear, novel likeness. Also notes on union labels and women in church offices.
The article describes seasonal tramp gangs from cities entering Iowa rural areas. Families abandon homes, load scant belongings into wagons, beg or steal, and expect sustenance from farmers. Miss Goff of Des Moines reports over 50 gangs leaving the city this spring.
Elizabeth Festimon filed a bill in chancery to dissolve her 18 year marriage to Joseph Festimon, after her first husband Alfred Brown, long presumed dead, returned. Brown earlier disappeared in 1872, was believed dead after six years, then reappeared in June to claim a place with his wife and child Laura, prompting the annulment suit.
Chicago Poles protest President Harper's plan to fund a Russian chaired study of Slavonic language and literature at the University of Chicago and to study Polish literature through a Russian medium. They warn lectures may mislead American students and insult Polish people. Prof. Klurkowski condemns Russian controlled framing as unjust to Slavonians and an affront to Poland.
A New York firm, The Women's Hotel Company, has raised 350000 dollars by private subscription to its stock and now offers the remaining 60000 dollars to the public. The move aims to begin work on the project promptly, with a proposed reserve of space for transient guests arriving without escorts.
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