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''4JT Courtland Gustaf Litfin returned from Aber deen, S. D., last week. Gustaf said he liked it very much up there and there were good wages during the summer. E. D. Precht was a business caller at New Ulm Wednesday. H. H. Meyer had the misfortune to step on a nail Thursday and in con sequence has a very painful foot to nurse, we hope he will have a speedy recovery so that he can follow his carpenter trade .again. E. C. Etter and Max Friedench were busy with their buzz saw last week sawing wood for different families. The moving picture show here Thursday evening was a good one and those present enjoyed a very pleasant evening. On account of the dry summer some of our citizens are forced to dig their wells deeper to get enough water. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Dauer and daughters Mabel and Florence and Mr. Nelson all of Amboy visited here a short time on Monday. They made the trip in an automobile. Mrs. Henry Poehler had an opera tion performed last Friday in the hos pital at New Ulm and is at present doing very well and we hope that she will soon have recovered. E. C. Etter is entertaining his mother and two sisters and children from Elgin, Iowa this week. Put in your supply of coal now so you have them when the stormy days come. G. W. Schlottman, C. A. Rauden, Fred Bobsm Jr. and C. W. Block were Nicollet visitors Sunday. As election day is coming nearer every voter should read and get posted on the proposed amendments and also make up his mind on the best man for the office, and then the best of all to turn out and cast your vote at the polls on Tuesday Nov. 8. -fffe By the action of the Republican State Convention two new names in the list of Supreme Court judges were placed before the voters for their ap proval this fall. P. E. Brown of Luverne, and David F. Simpson of Minneapolis Both have served long District bench and the character of that service has demonstrated that both are qualified by training, character and ability to fill positions on the Supreme Bench. Judge Brown being nominated for the term beginn ing January 1 st, 1912, has no op ponent. Judge Simpson is nominated with Justice Jaggard for the terms be ginning January 1 st, 1911, and for those terms the Democratic convention nominated candidates. Republican Nominee for Associat Justice of Ithe Supreme Court.f^Term^beginning Jan 1,1911 That the state convention nominated him by acclamation, without a dissent ing vote, in itself is a lrgh assurance as to his fitness for the position. Judee Simpson is 50 years of age, and his life has been spent under con ditions favorable to the development of ludicial character and ability. For 24 years his home was at his birthplace, a farm in Dodge county, Wisconsin. Young Simpson came to Minnesota in 1884 and engaged at Minneapolis in the practice of his profession, In 1893 he was appointed city at torney of the city of Minneapolis, which position he held through reap pointments for four years. In 1896 he The Alimoniacs. We must coin a new word to fit a large and rapidly growing class in this country "Alimoniacs." As soon as it is» known that a divorce suit between a wealthy couple is settled, about the first question asked by interested friends of the lady is "What alimony did she get? Hence she becomes an Alimoniac. Human Life for November gives the inside history of a number of the most famous alimoniacs of to-day—the Astors, Goulds, Brokaws, Vander bilts, Kips, etc. So noiselessly did the well-oiled machinery of the law move in the Astor case that it captured the sweepstakes for quick time—three minutes. The Heward Gould case— which surfeited even blase New York with sensational thrills and eye-open ing fireworks—took longer and cost prodigious sum: while the Brokaws, a pair of children figuring in the most frivolous case of all, were two months in getting the troublesome knot untied. This was a dreadful prospect to other dames of upper tendom who wanted quick service—simply to press the but ton and have the goods delivered when they decided to drop a husband and keep his money. This accommodating America of ours provides one spot, the Eden of the prospective alimoniac, wh6re one can lose a husband at the double quick and almost no questions asked, and the article tells further of some ofthejmost flagrantly conscienceless affairs which even the gold-crazed alimoniacs have had the temerity to put forth. One prominent divorcee, when asked l^gas David F. Simpson. was elected Judge of the District Court in the 4th Judicial District, then con sisting of Anoka, Isanti, Wright and Hennepin counties. By two succes sive re-elections he has held this position since. While Judge Simpson has always voted as a Republican, there has never been any partisanship in the discharge of his official duties. This is shown by the facts that he was ap pointed^to his second term as city at torney by the unanimous vote of the Democrats as well as the Republicans, and that two years ago, before becom ing a candidate for re-election as Dis trict Judge substantially all the Demo cratic lawyers of the District in writ ing requested Judge Simpson to be a candidata for re-election and pledged him their support. Not only has he been a nonpartisan politically but he has by his fairness earned and holds the confidence of all classes. He has repeatedly received the endorsement of labor as well as that of the business interests. In addition to his work as Judge he has been interested in many public movements for the general good throughout the state, and at present is president of the Minnesota Academy of Social Sciences, an association de voted to the investigation of all political, social and historical questions affecting the State of Minnesota. what she really thought of the casual manner in which society folk marry, divorce and re-marry, laughed, shrugged and replied "Oh, well, we're at least proving that trial mar riage is quite unnecessary." HUMAN LIFE PUBLISHING CO. Boston. Th President and the Colonel. President Taft is going to do every thing in his power to help Colonel Roosevelt win victory for the Re publican state ticket in New York, and to that end will ask several members of his cabinet to tane the stump. Presi dent Taft refuses to believe that Colonel Roosevelt will oppose him as a candidate in 1912, although many politicians close to the administration do not share the President's view on that point. The relations between the President and the colonel are somewhat peculiar Colonel Roosevelt has been making a determined and aggressive fight against the members of the old guard who have been closest to the President. In Indiana he spoke en thusiastically for Senator Beveridge, whose platform refused to indorse the administration but denounced the Payne law and many of the administra tion measures. All conditions appa rently would point to a split in the party before the 1912convention, with Colonel Roosevelt as the leader of one faction and President Taft the other. In face of such conditions there is apparent harmony, if not an understanding, be tween the colonel and the President that nothing seems to ruffle or disturb. In this connection the following story .. in I I |iigga^*^' ""•"''g^fT a I 1 a W from the Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript and may be illuminating:^ qfc A story so sensational that the Transcript correspondent has kept it to himself for a month, yet so plau sible that it is slowly but surely find ing credence among the political managers, is quietly being circulated concerning the relations of Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft. It was given to me first in the City of Mexico by an American resident 'whose prominence in the United States also is such as to warrant a little more than passing attention to the story. The suggestion is, in brief, that Taft and Roosevelt, whatever may be said to the contrary, have a most per fect understanding regarding 1912. It was stated to the writer with the utmostjsoberness and sincerity that the plan is to name the venerable John M. Harlan chief justice of the United States, he to ret're after the inauguration of President Roosevelt in 1913, and Roosevelt to name Taft for the vacancy. This plot of major politics is so in credible that it wovld hardly be re peated if it *vere not that it has been taken with some seriousness in im portant palitical ciriles in the United States. It has a bewitching plausi bility, and, as far as the gentlemen themselves are concerned, it would settle very prettily one of the most perplexing political problems the Re publican party has had to face since 1892. Barring the point that the people of the United States may want to have something to say themselves about who their presidential candidates shall be, the program outlined by the Trans cript correspondent has some very alluring features. The impression obtains that President Taft is not ac tively seeking renomination. It is no secret that his ambition was to be chief justice of the United States supremtTcourt bench at one time only because his work in the Philippines was not completed. Whether any such agreement between the President and the colonel has been either made or considered, it is certain that it would offer a ready solution to the presen embarrassing situation in the Re publican camp. It's a pretty story, anyway, and stranger things have happened in American politics. Th Voting Contest Hold-Up. A very popular way of swelling newswpaper subscription lists just now is the contests methods. In this field of activity the daily papers take the lead. Every four months they conduct a contest of some kind. The prizes are tempting, and consist of automo bihs, airships, trips to Europe and various other things from pianos to booth picks. Some smooth talker sent out by the paper putting on the con test comes along and interests some one in each locality to get busy assuring him that an airship is due to drop right in the particular part of the country where he happens to be talking at that very moment. So smooth is the "con" talk put up by the agent of the big daily that hundreds all over the state rush into the contest and begin to roll up sub scription lists for the paper. That these people in the rural dis tricts, and all other districts for that matter, have been induced to give up or neglect their other occupations and go out to solicit subscription for these daily papers on a proposition which will not compensate one out of each 100 for the shoe leather used is bad enough, but it is by no means the worst part of the deal. The worst part is the loading, by these local agents, upon all their friends papers that the latter neither want nor care the least thing about. There are certain solicitors one can not turn down. A merchant can not turn down a member of the family of a customer. A professional man can not give the cold shoulder to the daughter of a leading family. A farmer can not find it in his heart to refuse to donate a year's subscription to the cause of a neighbos's automo bile opportunity. A politician—well he, of course, walks with his hands up all the time and all they have to do is to go through his pockets and help themselves. Not one man in twenty who buy a contest paper wants it. The sub scription is given for personal reasons. Friendship, fear of offend ing, business patronage, anything and everything, except wanting the article bought, is the reason for buying. The newspaper contest is a genteel hold-up and that is all there is to it. There is nothing about it to commend the approval of anyone. Contestants waste their time and innocent people are imposed upon and made to buy something which they do not want. Of course, there is money in the deal for the newspaper putting on the con test. These big contests are a har vest for the publishers back of them. But aside from this there is nothing to commend them to anyone. And then why should the public he "bled" through a system of highway methods? The system employed by TilTllliWllliiW these papers is to get some prominent and popular young person in every community and to let that person go aronnd among his or her friends and get their subscriptions. They know that each such person has a large number of friends and acquaintances who can't refuse when approached. It's a gentler way than Jessie James employed but it brings the unwilling coin out of the pocket of the victim with just as great certainty and much less danger to the person doing the hold-up stunt The people should put a stop to4his kind of a thing. Men should refuse, absolutely, to be subjected to this kind of a hold up. Every contest merely means that the public is being played for a sucker and it is time that that long suffering animal retaliated by refusing to take the bait. A paper should sell on its merits and when it wants to increase its sub scription list let it do so through the aid of solictors who sell papers and not through local "contestants" who merely lend the publication their popularity which in turn is converted into dollars and cents by the .shrewd circulation managers. We do not be lieve that there is any solicitor so thoroughly detested by the average victim of the agency graft as the newspaper contest cuss And we can not but think that the paper that puts on a contest is a loser in the end. When people are forced to buy something which they do not want they do not, as a rule, feel very good about it and they are going to drop the proposition about as quickly as they can and they are not likely to speak many words of praise for it either. The contest mania and clubbing craze are good things for the publisher to shun.— Minneota Mascot. Saves an Iowa Man's Life. The very grave seemed to be yawn before Robert Madsen, of West Burling ton, Iowa, when, after seven weeks in the hospital,four of the best phy sians gave him up. Then was shown the marvelous curative power of Elec tric Bitters. For, after eight months of frightful suffering from liver trouble and yellow jaundice, getting no help from other remedies or doctors, five bottles of this matchless medicine com pletely cured him. Its positively guaran teed for Stomach, Liver or Kidney troubles and never disappoints. Only 50c. at O. M. Olsen. People do not like political trickery They want to be able to impose confi dence in their public servants. Mr. Ellsworth is wrong in his views of public life. The office of Congress man is a position of very great pub lic trust and responsibility. It is not a political plumb, to be carelessly be stowed upon an untried and, apparent ly a rather unscrupulous young man. —Jackson County Pilot. Oct. 27,1910 1XT STAR HALL Giveu by Burg's Battery. SAT. NOV. 5. EVERYBODY INVITED. MARKET REPORT. Corrected Oct. 26, 1910. New Wheat No. 1 96 No. 2 94 No. 3 91 Flour, Compass 100 fo 3 00—3 30 Shorts 1 00 Bran 90 Buckwheat per 100 fibs 1 40 Oats 28 Barley 45 Rye 62 Flax 2 36 Corn 40 Potatoes, per Bushel new.. 1 00 Butter, per lb 20— 35 Eggs, per dozen 22£ Cows and Heifers 100 tt 2 75—3 50 Steers 3 00—4 00 Calves 4 25—5 25 Sheep .. 3 00—4 00 Lambs 4 00—5 00 Eflogs 7 60—8 20 Another Hope Gone. I was teaching a class of little girls, and one of them had the tooth ache. Naturally for a time the con versation turned to teeth. The little sufferer thought perhaps it was a "wis dom tooth, but I explained that she would not have one till she was grown. "Well, does every one have wisdom teeth?" "Yes why?" "I thought maybe if you didn't go to school very much they wouldn't grow!"—The Delineator. mail ..... FRUITS and Canned Goods Fresh Supply For a good cup of Coffee try our Gold per lb. A Patent 2 80—3 10 Family 2 70—3 00 Bakers 2 35—2 60 Graham 2 45—2 65 Rve 2 10—2 35 Tragedies of the Sea. ^t.r As vessels starting from ports thou sands of miles apart pass close to each other in the naked breadth of the ocean, nay, sometimes even touch, in the dark, with a crack of timbers, a gurgling of water, a cry of startled sleepers—a cry mysteriously echoed in warning dreams, as the wife of some Gloucester fisherman, with coasting skipper, wakes with a shriek, calls the name of her husband, and sinks back to uneasy slumbers upon her lonely pillow—a widow.—Doctor Holmes, "Professor at the Breakfast Table." BSSSS !PIT!lflrnTt^«ffaiB^ttfa Medal, 25e at Red Front Grocery* Phone 43. GKAS. A. ALBRECHT When you see this name on a fur garment, it means that it is honestly made by skilled workmen, of honest materials that are just whatftthey are represented"to be. It means that the furs have distinctive style and that the fit is correct* In fact, this name means Highest Grade FURS I always carry a complete line of fur garments for ladies and gentlemen, also neckwear and muffs in a large variety. When you buy furs of me, I give you the benefit of my forty-six years' experience in this line. Send for my Catalog it is Free for the Asking. CHAS. A. LBRECH I 27 W. 5th St, St. Paul, Minn. Opposite Hotel Saint Paul. TO THE MAN WHO SMOKE, No. 10 YOU SMOKE FOR PLEASURE, A Cigar lasts you~ about an hour so the price for a good time foran hour is only the price of a Cigar. Isn't it worth while then to get one that is good—for it means an hour's pleasure or an hour's disappointment^ You simply cannot get a poor cigar hera ^because we do not Ikeep them in stock and no matter what your taste we can ^gratify it.