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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1908
Page
7
An promotional notice urges readers to beware growing kidney disease risk and endorses Dr Kilmer and Co Swamp Root as a cure for kidney and urinary issues. It claims relief from back pain liver and bladder problems, and overactive urination, with samples and a book available by mail.
Advertises sending cattle and horse hides to Crosby Frisian FurCons in Rochester for conversion into nuts robes mittens and cheaper goods. Encourages sending for a catalog page 13 and mentions freight terms.
Advertisement promises bargains on South Dakota farm lands and business opportunities in a new country opened by a railroad extension. It invites readers to request a free descriptive pamphlet mailed to Minneapolis with a postal card, mentioning Allen’s Feet-Base and a trial mail offer from Allen S. Ofmsted in LeRos, New York.
The readable fragment describes a market claim about a potion or pill sold to relieve headaches malaria and general illness with claims of being more valuable than jewels. The text is garbled and references a store and price but lacks coherent facts or names.
The Republican state central committee endorsed Taft for president with 32 votes for Taft, 1 for Hughes, 1 for La Follette, and 1 for Roosevelt. The body fixed April 16 for the state convention in Minneapolis and July 1 for nominating officers, adopting a 1128 delegate plan based on 1908 state officer vote.
S A Phillips promotor and former Northwestern manager and Hancock company agent found guilty of grand larceny for embezzling 2600 dollars while handling Hancock funds in Minnesota and Dakotas. Jury verdict returned at St Paul. Judge Bunn sentenced to seven years hard labor with a 30 day stay pending appeal to the state supreme court.
Iirat State bank of Clear Lake, south of 51, Cloud on the Northern Pacific, was blown by cracksmen. Burglars secured 4000 in currency, with $1000 damage to the building and vault. The bar carried burglar insurance. They escaped on a hand car and none in town was aroused.
A schoolteacher B C Jahnke aged 26 murders Miss Laura Weischman at her father's home near Tenstrike then shoots himself in the same moment, in the presence of three children. He had refused marriage. Also court reports Godette in International Falls given life for murder in the first degree after killing Williams in a logging contract dispute last August. Mrs Marle Grogs, 101, a Minnesota centenarian, dies at the Minnesota Soldiers Home after living there since its women's building opened.
The federal Supreme Court ruled adversely to the Northern Pacific Railway Company in the Duluth viaduct case, regarding the city of Duluth's right to compel maintenance and repair of a railroad viaduct over its tracks.
The Supreme Court sustained the conviction of Great Northern Railway for rebates under Elkins and Hepburn acts. The Minnesota district court had fined the railroad $1,000 each for fifteen violations in 1905 for granting concessions to W. P. Devereux Co. on shipments from Minneapolis to Washington. Justice White affirmed the lower courts, rejecting the argument that Hepburn repealed Elkins as to punishments.
The remains of John Jones known as Jim Bludsoe of the upper Mississippi are buried in Dakota, Winona County. His life mirrored the hero of John May's poem, and he is believed to have inspired the poem's St. Jones, who piloted the Warsaw ferry after the Civil War. The ship caught fire mid river with hundreds aboard, Jones steered to an island, saved passengers, and escaped to land through the burning vessel, sustaining serious injuries before dying of old age.
A fire swept the W. M. Owens store at Hines Itasca County killing three people Wells Johnson and Vina Doyle and Rodney Owens an eight month old child. Four were severely injured and four slightly hurt as flames trapped victims. Losses were about 1500 to the building and 9000 to stock with no insurance. The village lacks fire protection and efforts focused on saving occupants.
The Hennepin county jury found Rev Samuel White guilty of second degree larceny for a long running loan business in Minneapolis. The case arose from alleged financial transactions over several years. Mary Brooks aged fifty six in Minneapolis died after ingesting carbolic acid by mistake in her room. her only living relative is her thirteen year old daughter also named Mary Brooks.
The State Retail Hardware Dealers association in St Paul elected officers including President Amons Marchel Perham Vice President E H Hetnes Renville Treasurer H H Heydon Chatfield and named an executive committee of C F Lander St Cloud Chayley Grill Sherburne and J C Stuhlman St Paul The secretary and delegates to the national association will be appointed by the president.
C J S Peterson aged senior lived alone in a rear room on the third story of the Scandinavian Benevolent Society building at Red Wing and was burned to death when a fire broke out there. Firemen forced entry through dense smoke and found his charred body on the floor.
Prominent figures across parties back the Interstate club to be built on Walden's Ridge near Chattanooga Tennessee. Plans include an amphitheater, fisheries, golf, polo, a trotting track, an electric railway, and a 32 mile auto boulevard. Club aims to attract 250000 to 1000000 members with low dues. Initial outlay runs into millions with a June 25 inauguration.
A Paris revenue scheme offers men to bark outside homes after nightfall for as little as $30 monthly. When a reply bark is heard, the number is recorded and a visit by an inspector follows to check dog tax payment. The plan exposes as a tax enforcement ruse leveraging dogs for revenue.
Mrs P Winte of Ruehoorn Pa testifies that Dr King s New Discovery saved her life by loosening a cough and treating lung disease despite others declaring hopeless. The remedy, sold at Olsen s drug store 60c and 1 00, comes with a trial bottle free and is touted for coughs colds grippe asthma bronchitis and debility.
A bachelor maid Miss S- aged forty works in slums helping women and children. She dries a wounded woman’s injuries after she is beaten, then questions her about home. The woman, astonished, learns Miss S- lives on Fifth Avenue and is not married. A cough remedy ad follows.
Norman R Coulter endorses Electric Bitters in a Delbert Building San Francisco advertisement. He hails the tonic as a universal medicine good for stomach liver and kidney disorders. The vendor Olsen's Drug Store promotes it as a premier spring blood purifier and health booster.
A fashionable belle at a social event jokes about a knot in her handkerchief and a hostess quips it reminds her she is married. An ad touts Rocky Mountain Tea as a spring tonic to fortify stomach kidneys and liver, urging readers to try it from Pioneer Drug Co.
A historical notice lists travel rates and schedules via the Minneapolis and St Louis Railroad. It notes departures on the first and third Tuesdays monthly with stopovers allowed and tickets valid twenty one days. For rates and train times, contact agents in Minneapolis Minnesota or A B Curts, G P T A.
An English cook saved to buy a lottery ticket against her master's advice. The ticket won $100,000, and she married her bachelor employer by special license. On leaving the church he jokes about the prize, and she reveals she sold the ticket for a guinea profit to the baker.
Mr John Riba of Vining Iowa reports heavy use and strong satisfaction with DaWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills saying four dozen locals have used them with perfect results. He adds he has used them personally with fine results and notes Eugene A Prefferle sells them.
A humorous Ohio clergy encounter unfolds after a daily walk when deacons accuse the pastor of swearing. The minister asks for specifics and learns that a worldly man claimed a big bite the week before, prompting the pastor’s cheerful reply that he shares that bite too.
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