RatsDisturb Nearby Dumping Ground Stir Local Action
The New Ulm Review notes complaints about rat activity near the M and St. J station dumping grounds and urges city authorities to investigate and curb the pests. Also cited are Minnesota legislature 1915 appropriations totaling 15,019,503.30 and West Virginia revenue strain due to prohibition, with moratorium and tax pressure rising.
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M. & St. J. Station
Minnesota
J. A. O. Preus
Jess Chan
Hammond
Public Library Drive for New Ulm Urged by Review
The New Ulm Review urges creation of a Public Library Club to actively campaign for a city library funded by local means. It criticizes complacency and notes New Ulm’s wealth and schools while stressing the need for a tangible project within the current generation.
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New Ulm
St. Paul
Carnegie
The Economy of Movements in a Shop Worker
A narrator observes a slow, steady worker who achieves twenty percent more output daily. By timing his tiny, repeated hand movements he performs sixteen steps per task, far fewer than others. Two workers at the same job show 24 and 31 moves respectively, revealing the superior method as economy in motion.
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Aran
Coalition Ministry Threatens England’s Democratic Aspiration
In this Reedy's Mirror excerpt the author argues that a coalition Tory ministry would stifle liberal social reform, shift burden to workers, intensify conscription, and empower reactionary forces. The piece warns of financial and military missteps, Kiel Canal and Dardanelles failures, and fear England loses true democracy under Tory governance.
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England
Iloyd
George
Vail
John Jellicoe
London
Kiel Canal
Dardanelles
Peace Department Vision for War-Free Strength
The piece credits James Howard Kehler with proposing a Peace Department and urges expanding peace-promoting military roles. It praises General Wood Gorgas Goethals for peace efforts, urges a nationwide service sodality, and suggests using army and navy for canal river work and disaster response while avoiding warlike actions. It notes resistance from figures like Roosevelt and Hobson but argues most citizens back civilization’s peace spirit.
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Jos
Howard Kehler
New York
War Department
Peace Department
Medical Department
Army
Havana
Panama
Leonard Wood
Goethals
Gorgas
Kehler
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Navy
Boy Scout Order
Dayton
Colorado
Roosevelt
Congressman Gardner
Richmond Pearson Hobson
United States
James Howard Kehler
New Disease Emerges From High School Age Idiocy Claim
Dr. Alice Mott of Faribault at a Seventh district federation clubs convention dismisses high school age as a disease describing teens as unconnected and irresponsible. She argues brain development delays till 30 and urges keeping temptation away while lamenting perpetual immaturity.
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Alice Mott
Faribault
Federated Clubs
Dr. Mott
Alice
Rainy weather blamed on wars and dry counties
A columnist tones the rain siege to world cannon fire and foreign conflicts while forecasters deny abnormal rainfall. Local officials in Lafayette approve a road grading contract near Bernadotte church with bids from Martin Sandeen and others, awarding to Sandeen for 925 dollars for 9,000 cubic feet of earthwork.
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Europe
United States
J. N. Ryker
Romania
China
St. Paul
Sahara
Goblitsch and
Samuelson
T. Thorson
Sibley County
Bernadotte Church
Martin Sandeen
New Sweden
Hall
Webster
Sally
Lafayette Ledger
The Flys Revenge and Cleanup Call
Poem and public health notice warn that swatting flies reduces numbers but emphasizes cleaning breeding sites such as piles of refuse near stables to prevent typhoid. It urges immediate action for a fly free summer.
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Swat
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