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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1911
Page
3
The Dollar Magazine offers $1000 in prizes to readers who send the most words formed from the phrase Dollar Megas A Daily Prize of a Gaouine Gold Finished Watch Stem Set. Daily awards for 25+ words. Send entries to The Dollar Magazine Somerville New Jersey.
Private Secretary notes Taft rests in a big chair each afternoon between 4 and 5. He sleeps upright for about an hour to refresh for more work. The routine does not pause business as callers are routed to clerks unless the president insists on seeing them.
A Kudiya man near Mangalore reportedly lives as a tree dweller, building huts among tall trees to escape elephants and wildlife. Dwellers wear bark clothing and subsist on yams and meat, with women noted for strong physiques and honey gathering from treetop hives up to 120 feet high.
A reader from Akron Ohio claims Foley Kidney Pills relieved a long lasting kidney trouble backaches and dizzy headaches. The testimonial says the user experienced clearer vision and renewed energy after following directions.
The Court of Appeals finds the purchase of the Southern Pacific did not amount to a direct or substantial restraint of interstate or international commerce. Judge Adams writes the majority. Judge Hook files a dissent. The ruling cites the Standard Oil and Union Pacific precedents in analyzing pre 1901 competition.
Washington reports a coalition of progressive Republicans and Democrats in the Senate after a bitter clash over the wool revision bill. Senator Gore’s resolution forcing a July 10 report passed 29 to 18, widening the fight over tariff schedules and threatening the fate of the Canadian reciprocity bill. Western Republicans demand broader tariff revisions before allowing reciprocity to advance.
A powerful typhoon hits Japan's coast causing widespread destruction. Reports from Shikoku and Yamanashi describe hundreds of fishing boats sunk and at least 123 fishermen dead, with thousands of homes destroyed.
Washington June 25 by a 6 to 3 vote the senate committee on territories ordered a favorable report on the joint resolution approving the constitutions of Arizona and New Mexico in nearly the same form as passed by the house.
A historical sketch of Tom Loftin Johnson born July 18 1854 in Scott County Kentucky. From newsboy to Indianapolis street railways then Cleveland he built a vast fortune while advocating free trade and Henry George style single tax. He later lost his wealth aiding his dead brother estate then pursued public life as Cleveland mayor and congressman.
Former Chicago magnate Peter Van Vilssingen, now a convict, is named caretaker of two incubators at the Illinois state penitentiary. Warden Murphy plans a 1000 chicken operation by fall with a larger 3000 capacity house under construction. The incubators sit in the solitary block near Van Vilssingen's cell as he predicts release in about a year to pursue poultry business.
Captain Evelyn B. Baldwin, an arctic explorer, is in San Francisco arranging a new north pole expedition for September 1913. The party will include 25 to 30 aboard a ship equipped for four years away, with wireless gear to maintain contact. The route targets bays near the old Jeannette site as ice forms. A lengthy voyage and scientific crew will pursue the pole. A cow on O Chambers' Bartlett farm births calves monthly, including a rare triplet set, totaling eleven calves in eleven months.
Anthony Gahl confessed thief who posed as a philanthropist by day and robbed neighbors by night pled guilty to two counts of house breaking and one count of petit larceny in Cincinnati police court. He received a four year workhouse sentence after being identified by a Jogues' gallery photo as a former Kentucky penitentiary inmate.
The Olympic, greatest of mammoth transatlantic ferryboats, arrived at White Star docks amid a citywide salute. Passengers waved handkerchiefs from the rails as Captain Smith, commodore of the White Star line, stood on the bridge. The liner reached quarantine ahead of schedule.
In a New York prepared message sent through the White House to Congress President Taft denounces dangerous drug frauds and urges immediate amendments to strengthen the pure food and drug law. He warns the country could face a flood of nostrums and cures once more if weaknesses exposed by Supreme Court decisions remain. The Senate and House are expected to act soon and Representative Sherley of Kentucky has introduced a bill on the subject.
Washington reports the House votes 172 to 112 against the Bristow amendment to the Senate direct election resolution. The defeat preserves federal regulation of elections and leaves states to set times and places under proposed constitutional changes.
A Turkish column commanded by Mahomed Ali Pasha was attacked near Gheesan on the Red Sea coast. About 1000 Turkish troops were killed, and Mohamed Ali Pasha is unaccounted for. In Washington, Moses B. Clapp backs Robert Marion La Follette for the Republican nomination.
London reports describe the coronation of George V and Queen Mary as grandly staged with flawless ceremony yet tempered by a noticeable lack of genuine enthusiasm among the middle classes. Crowds were massive but uneven, and while officials praised the sequence, common observers called the display lacking in spontaneous support.
Fourteen secretaries of retail lumber dealers associations indicted by a federal grand jury in Chicago for alleged Sherman anti trust violations. The accused formed a Bureau of Information in 1906, described as a "trust of power" aiming to channel sales through retailers rather than wholesalers or manufacturers. William G. Hollis of Minneapolis was among the indicted.
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