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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1908
Page
7
A long advertisement touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney liver and bladder trouble claiming rapid relief. It offers a free sample bottle and a book by mail and directs readers to send address to Kilmer Co Binghamton NY with product sizes sold by druggists.
A period notice announces regular professional visits to New Ulm at Dakota House on a one day only schedule and every four weeks for Risa. It promotes Dr Rea educated in European and American hospitals offering German and English consultation. The ad claims cures for varicocele rupture and related afflictions with a $1 consultation and a guarantee of cure, at 24 Nicollet Ave.
Mrs Otto Sall and her husband of Montevideo waded into the Minnesota River while duck hunting. A struggle to reach shore left both beyond their depth and drowned. The bodies were found about ten feet apart in fourteen feet of water. Sall was a switchman and the couple had recently moved from Terre Haute Indiana.
Supreme Court per curiam discharge of show cause order by defeated Minneapolis candidates. It allows renomination despite constitutional ban on holding offices with increased emoluments during the last session. Ballots may be printed while the opinion is prepared.
Three arrests follow nine indictments by the Hennepin County grand jury in Minneapolis. Tom Curry proprietor of the Windsor hotel faced two counts for selling liquor without license and a joint indictment with Peter Blar for keeping a disreputable horse. Curry posted 500 dollars bail. John McNamara and Mary McNamara face similar charges. McNamara was arraigned, pleaded not guilty, and posted 560 dollars bail. Mary remains at large.
Masked highwaymen held up a policeman and a resident, stealing a revolver, cents, and cash. A transient was robbed, and one suspect sits in Central Police Station. Stenger Luten of Stoughton was beaten after flashing $190 and $1000 in bank notes in a Minneapolis saloon. Howard Nelson was arrested after a chase. Two suicides tied to St. Paul, including Charles V. Mobery, former county treasurer, who jumped from a Mounds Park window. Emma Drees Bosker, accused of murdering Roemer, was released after defense showed claims of a solution were unfounded.
The city faces a dramatic pending grand jury investigation into municipal affairs and social life amid alleged corruption in politics and saloons. An investigator, whose family suffered, spearheaded the probe into low dens and traps for the unwary, including a girl under seventeen, with many witnesses giving affidavits awaiting official disclosure.
A railroad clerk, J. M. Byrnes, was shot in the face and slightly wounded after resisting two pistol-wielding robbers who held him up as he stepped from a car near St Paul. Earlier, Ralph Fry and Ed Fitzgerald were assaulted as the bandits fled. On the Seventh Street Bridge in Minneapolis, Ed Morgan and a young woman lost a diamond ring worth 250 dollars and the companion’s ring valued at 200 dollars to a highwayman.
A new company will take over Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills properties of Minneapolis with plans adopted by American shareholders and creditors assent. Ralph Whelan travels to London to present organization plans before English shareholders meeting October 27. The plan proposes distributing new shares by old holdings and aims to remove English company assets from federal receivership while paying debts in six to eight years.
Grand Marais on Lake Superior’s north shore faced another fire weeks after a major effort to save it. A large section of the town burned, with losses estimated between 50000 and 100000 dollars. The blaze gutted the Grand Marais hotel, Mercantile store and warehouses, Cook County bank, C. J. Johnson’s dwelling, and several other buildings as residents joined bucket brigades to aid firefighters.
Relief work for the north shore fire victims proceeds slowly as winter nears many homesteaders face exposure. Fifteen buildings are under construction at Chisholm and shipping delays hinder remote districts though the relief committee remains hopeful for aid before winter. Mrs. Matilda Gollnik was convicted at Little Falls for the murder of her husband William Gollnik on August 13 claiming two masked men beat him for his refusal to surrender certificates of strength.
Attorney General T Young denied plans to withdraw from the governor race in an April letter to the Duluth Herald He said the Republican party was not controlled by the interests and named opponents such as Bob Dunn Dar Reese Tom Shevlin and Ed Smith He later found the interests did control the party and withdrew at the convention Then Governor Johnson used the letter in rallies to support his claim that the interests chose the standard bearer He published a Twin Cities open letter denying that Jacobson was the creature of the interests and the charges remained unsettled
Dar Reese of the liquor interests is cited as Jacobson’s Ramsey county backer and organizer. Tom Shevlin, pivotal in Snyder’s Hennepin county bid, is named. An open letter by Mr. Young urged supporters to oppose Snyder as aligned with the interests. Old machinists like Fol Smith and El Warner lined up with Jacobson’s faction.
A fragmented note questions April charges, names Bob Dunn Lim and Jacobson as a figurehead, and wonders if Mr. Young will apologize to defend prominent men. The tone seeks defense of respected figures amid political pressure.
A straw vote by Albert Lea voters shows strong support for Bryan and Johnson. L M Kaplan collected ballots in the business district with 322 votes counted by J F D Meighen and C L Luce. President result hints Bryan gains since 1900, with Johnson likely to win Minnesota and a statewide majority.
A Minnesota political piece notes betting odds favor Johnson, with 160 to 180 to 1 in Twin Cities and scarce takers for Jacobsen wagers. A Hallock businessman holds 560 Johnson dollars unsold in Red River valley, seeking better odds in St Paul or Minneapolis. Jacobson backers push line-whipping tactics but show weak reception as pundits label him “the Commoner.”
Crosby Frisian Par Company catalog notice touts cheaper coats and freight deals. Allen 5. elnsted Le Rov NY advertises Foot-Ease powder for swollen tired feet with free samples and a nondescript Minnesota tone.
Promoters tout exceptionally rare bargains in South Dakota farm lands and new towns in the expanding territory served by the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway. Descriptive illustrated pamphlet titled the New Empire invites readers to learn about opportunities for farmers and stockmen, with a postal card offering free emblems.
An advertisement urges cattle and horse owners to value hides for fur coats and related products. It promotes Crosby Frison Fur Co of Rochester NY and hints at freight terms. Also notes a patent herb remedy for women by Mother Gray Co of Leroy NY with sample offers.
A pretty nurse quips that her patient is a very peevish millionaire. She notes he may ask her to marry him, and she fears he has exhausted other requests, implying humorous or tensioning social entanglement in a single exchange.
Kitty-Norton met a girl on board the liner and, before reaching the other side, he became engaged to her. Tom notes this shows that not all ocean travel dangers have vanished yet.
A terse exchange features questions of responsibility as one character pleads for leniency toward a youth while another demands accountability, insisting on identifying the culprit with urgent insistence. The fragment hints at guilt and protective motives within a strained confrontation.
First and third Tuesdays monthly, to Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and other states. Stop levers allowed. tickets limited twenty one days. For rates and train times, contact agents or A B Cutts, G P T A, Minneapolis Minnesota.
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