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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1912
Page
2
Real estate transactions and legal documents executed with loans negotiated. Steamship tickets sold and business notices update on properties. Mentions fire, hail, tornadoes and accidents alongside company activities in the period.
The notice lists Boyes class for ages 6 to 11 on Wednesday 4:30 to 5:30 and Saturday 9:00 to 10:15. A separate class for ages 11 to 14 on Monday and Thursday 4:30 to 5:30. Youths class for ages 14 to 17 on Monday 7:30 to 8:05 and Friday 7:30 to 8:30. Girls ages 6 to 11 meet Tuesday 4:30 to 5:30 and Saturday 10:15 to 11:30.
The Oceanic liner list shows Mme. Marcelle Navratil and her two children Michel and Edmond as passengers bound for Europe. Navratil, exhausted by recent ordeals in New York, kept to herself with her children during the brief stay. Visiting her were cousin Miss Rosa Bruno of Elkins Park and Miss Margaret Hays, who took custody of the children from an unidentified man before the Titanic sank.
The Minneapolis General Conference voted 446 to 369 to keep the ban on dancing theater going card playing and similar amusements in Methodist discipline. An amendment by Dr Mills, accepted by Chancellor Day, used an asterisk to reference John Wesley’s rule without adding penalties.
Duluth reports wheat prices for arriving and on track with No 1 hard at 1.15½, No 1 Northern 1.14, flax on track 2.28½ and arriving 2.14. South St Paul shows cattle ranges, hogs at 7.50–7.60, lambs 6.00–8.00, wool stub 3,256. Chicago Grain notes May wheat 1.12½, July 1.08, Sept 1.03, corn May 7¢, July 7.454¢, pork July 18.40, butter 24–27c, eggs 17–18c. Minneapolis cash closes show No 1 hard 1.134¾, No 1 Northern 1.1456–1.14, to arrive 1.14¾–1.14¼, No 2 Northern 1.12¾–1.12¼, etc.
At Minneapolis, Roosevelt loyalists won binding instructions for six at large delegates to the Chicago national convention. La Follette delegates failed to gain second choice votes, while Caswell was unanimously chosen as Republican national committeeman. Delegates urged primaries for governor and supported progressive reforms including direct senatorial elections and a stronger anti corruption agenda.
Minnesota Governor Eberhart issued a proclamation summoning the Thirty-seventh legislature to an extraordinary session on June 4 to enact a statewide direct primary law and a corrupt practices act for reapportionment. He said the session should run unembarrassed and that his candidacy could be decided by direct action of the people.
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled the Elwell road law valid and constitutional in the Murray case from White Bear Lake. The decision means the state bears half the road cost, with one quarter paid by the benefited district and one quarter by the county, affecting proposed highways statewide and guiding future projects.
Geological survey experts report iron ore veins in the northeast portion of the White Earth Indian reservation during autumn examinations tied to land title excitement. Reports mention George H. Beaulieu and the Duluth syndicate holding titles to lands where ore has been traced.
The Minnesota Supreme Court declares the commission form of city government valid and constitutional, endorsing the Man kato plan and its charter. The ruling supports its effectiveness in St Paul and broadly praises the commission system.
Two Mazeppa brothers, August twenty four and Henry twenty two Reitman, were operated on for appendicitis at St. John’s hospital in Red Wing. Both fell ill simultaneously and remain in the hospital ward together.
Hungarian immigrant Tony Schiter allegedly confessed to sheriff that he attacked a woman on the road near Little Falls, seized her, and cut her throat for money. Also reports contest of mayoral election, a drowning near Wayzata Bay, a steak choke death in Otter Tail County, and eleven children surviving.
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