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The fur trade laid the groundwork for American expansion

NEW ULM – At the time of the American Revolution, the United States consisted of 13 colonies located along the eastern cost of North American, but Europeans had already begun expanding further west as early as the 1600s. Some of this expansion was related to exploration, but for others it ...

‘I don’t think I need a key’

Dr. Alfons Goppel, prime minister of Bavaria, got a celebrity taste of America Monday in New Ulm. He went to a high school baseball game and threw out the first pitch. It was high and outside but New Ulm Catcher Larry Guggisberg made the catch. Before the game started Dr. Goppel shook ...

Dutch elm brings Flandrau trees tumbling down

There is still that call of nature at the entrance to the Group Camp at Flandrau State Park. But as the dirt road slopes down between the trees, the view on the right where the camp is located is much different. Now, heading down that path, the cottages, in the past hidden behind the ...

BROWN FARM CROPS WORTH $5,029,579

Figures Compiled by Minnesota State Department of Agriculture Are Interesting. ———— 70,400 SWINE ARE LISTED 20,900 MILK COWS IN CO. ———— Other Valuable Information Contained in Pamphlet, Issued Recently. Comparisons Are Made. ———— In a recent bulletin, issued by N.J. Holmberg, commissioner, Minnesota State Department of Agriculture, the value of farm crops in Brown county as of December 1, 1925, is placed at $5,029,579. The value of the crops enumerated are as follows: Corn, $1,935,036; winter wheat, $115,080; spring wheat, $636,342; oats, ...

ALFRED DAUER TO SERVE 6 MONTHS

Cottonwood Township Youth Pleads Guilty to Burglary in Third Degree, Monday Afternoon. ———— TOOK BICYCLE AND $27 FROM G. J. GAG TINSHOP ———— Left His Own Wheel in Place of the One He Stole. — Confesses Petty Thievery to Police. ———— Nemesis proved rather speedy for Alfred Dauer, 20-year-old Cottonwood township youth, who found himself in the intricate meshes of the law, Friday morning, only a few hours after he had entered the George J. Gag tin-shop on North Minnesota street, in this city, and taken therefrom a bicycle valued at $35, together ...

ORDER RADIO FANS TO REMOVE AERIALS FROM LIGHT POLES

Fire Chief Instructed To Ask Property Owners To Trim Trees ———— WESTERN UNION TO LAY WIRES UNDERGROUND ———— Building-Grounds Committee Recommend Removal Of Billboards ———— At the regular monthly meeting of the city council held at the council chambers Wednesday evening, the matter of trimming trees was discussed and action taken, wires for radio aerials now on electric light poles were ordered removed, the Western Union was given permission to lay their wires underground from the right of way of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway to their ...