Trains Stopped by Mud on Klossner Hill Slide
Rainy season brings land slides on the Minneapolis & St. Louis line between Klossner and New Ulm. A mud slide buried rails in three spots nearly two feet deep, blocking traffic all night. Some passengers walked to New Ulm in a downpour while crews cleared the track and by Monday morning freight No. 64 resumed service.
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Minneapolis & St. Louis
Fritsche’s Ravine
Klossner Station
DeVinne
Hefter
Klossner Hill
Hester
New Ulm
Klossner
Hagberg
Restores forer former rate freight figures back to prior levels
Minneapolis & St. Louis and Northern Pacific railroads have canceled the joint tariff on hard coal from Duluth to New Ulm and other westward points. They assert the tariff was non compensatory and unprofitable, seeking to restore the old rate while officials ask the Attorney General to pursue court action to enforce commission decrees.
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Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
State Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Duluth
Minneapolis & St. Louis
New
Ulm Commercial Union
Ulm
Minneapolis Journal
A. E. Clark
St. Louis Road
Minneapolis
Times
Library revival plan keeps doors open with new fund drive
A special Library board meeting delayed closure as G A Ottomeyer leads a finance committee to raise at least 250 dollars from residents. The librarian reports strong demand with daily checkouts and the panel aims to reopen, possibly adding new books, after fundraising succeeds.
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G. A. Ottomeyer
Ottomeyer
Rev. C. Holen
Peter Manderfeld
Herman Raabe
Albert Pfaender
Finance Committee
Broadway Grocery to Erect Two Story Brick Block
Hedler Wilt Buddy Chas Fiedler proprietor of the Broadway Grocery plans a two story brick business block at Broadway and Second North this summer. Architect Hermann Amme and contractor H Schapebahm arrange moving the current store to the rear. new building 25 by 60 feet with corner entrance, show windows, basement, modern fixtures, ready by September 1. Excursions to Northwest West and Southwest offered by North Western Line with reduced rates and various car types.
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Hedler Wilt
Buddy Chas. Fiedler
Broadway Grocery
Broadway
Second North Street
Hermann Amme
H. Schapebahm
Fiedler
Trains Change Time on Chicago and Northwestern
The Chicago and Northwestern railway issued a new time card effective Sunday affecting only two trains. Passenger No 503 now arrives at 12 35 instead of 11 40, and No 17 on the old line now arrives at 12 33. All other trains keep their former schedules.
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Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Chicago
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Missouri
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Louisians
New Mexico
A.B. Cutts
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Allen
Carlson Brothers, the
One Price Clothiers
Minnesota
Omeseekers
North-Western
Chicago & North
Western R'y
K. 1
United States
Victoria Lawn
Stuebe
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