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Gas prices up; further increases loom on horizon

Gas prices have taken a mild jump in New Ulm over the past two weeks and it appears they will go higher in coming months. Service station operators said they have increased their prices by one or two cents during the last two weeks. Conrad Hilbert of Con’s Texaco said his supplier raised ...

Players on the rooftop

MEMBERS OF THE Dr. Martin Luther College band gathered on the roof of the school’s Old Main building early this morning to continue the tradition of playing there on the last day of the school year. Following the band’s half hour of playing. Old Mian’s bell was rung three times for each ...

UNIDENTIFIED MAN FOUND HANGING IN RAVINE NEAR CITY

Discovered By Henry Neuman While Seeking Ginseng Last Saturday ———— NO IDENTIFICATION PAPERS ON BODY ———— Believed To Have Committed Suicide Several Weeks Ago ———— An unidentified man was found hanging to a tree in the Emil Fritsche ravine last ...

GRAVES DEPARTED HEROES DECORATED

Memorial Day Observed in New Ulm. -- Showers During Forenoon of Day Precluded Cemetery Services. ———— LARGE NUMBER PRESENT FT. RIDGELY EXERCISES ———— Short Parade Wended Its Way Through Principal Streets of New Ulm Between Showers. ———— Decoration day was ...

FIRE DEPARTMENT FUND OVERDRAWN DURING PAST YEAR

Improvements And All Other Expenses Aggregate Sum of $14,430.73 ———— OVERDREW INTEREST AND SINKING FUND ———— Park Fund Also Expended More Money Than It Received ———— There was received by the fire department fund from the County Treasurer during the ...

Chaos in the run-up to Civil War 

The seeds of the Antebellum period in the United States were planted many years before the Civil War would tear the country apart.  "For the newly independent United States, the first order of business was to establish a national government," explained Roger Micker, president of the ...