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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1916
Page
3
A state bulletin shows smaller cities pay premiums far exceeding losses from fires. Across towns under 10 000 residents premiums run five times losses over decades. In St Paul Minneapolis and Duluth fire losses dwarf those in smaller cities, despite insurance data.
The report details premiums paid and fire losses in 1913 to 1916 across Minnesota towns such as New Ulm Mindenpoke St Paul Courtland Winthrop Wabassa and Young America. It notes totals for state premiums 6 758 997 41 and losses 4 247 348 07 as well as mutual bail and cyclone companies receipts disbursements assets and liabilities for 1916 with insurance written totaling 44 881 727 51 and in force rising by 18 840 781 00.
A 2 50-cent bottle of Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound promises to darken gray or faded hair quickly. Advertises natural, lasting dark color, claiming users will look youthful within days and that the product is a toilet necessity, not a medical cure.
The Minnesota State Pair contract bars all objectionable acts and any freak or immoral exhibit from attending the state fair September 4 to 9. Wortham Shows of San Antonio will occupy the Midway with twelve shows and three rides, while an artificial lake will be fired to improve future accommodations.
Mary Page, an actress, is charged with murdering James Pollock. Her lover Philip Langdon defends her as Pollock pursued Mary for months, causing distress. Pollock lured her to the Gray Room at the Hotel Republic after a banquet, where a shot rang out and Pollock lay dead with Pollock's revolver near Mary.
Mary admits possessing a revolver used in the murder after Pollock invaded her dressing room and a plan to hand it to Langdon. Werwild and the leading man connect Langdon to the crime. Brandon notes a mysterious handprint on Mary's shoulder as witnesses discuss intoxication, insanity, and a repressed psychology defense. Daniels and others face tension over threats and alleged involvement.
In testimony a witness notes plans to pack two revolvers described as unmatched on this side of the Atlantic. Prosecutor probes if the pistols were a matched pair owned by James Pollock, a question the witness cannot confirm. The scene centers on the revolver lethal at the theatre and whether it was the weapon Mary Page placed in her bag.
Philip confronts Langdon after a night of legal digging as a waiter James Watson reveals a gun-related lead. Langdon, irritable, is urged by Watson to move to the office for interim details before a recess, leading to a tense, truncated exchange.
An Argonaut summary describes late tertiary Nebraska as a low swampy land covered with southlike vegetation. Camels and Jin mus roamed freely while western Nebraska hosted great ground sloths eryptodonts and mastodons. Saber toothed tigers three toed horses and a horned burrowing horned gopher-like rodent are noted.
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