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Lifestyle Columns

News of New Ulm from 100 years ago

BROWN CO. BOYS’-GIRLS’ CLUB TOUR ———— This Annual Event Will Take Place Next Tuesday, Start Will Be Made At Sleepy Eye at 7:30 0’Clock. ———— T. A. ERICKSON, CLUB LEADER, TO MAKE TALKS ———— Tour Arranged by County Agent Willis Lawson.-Wm. A. Lindemann, Fair ...

Antiques & Collecting

By Terry and Kim Kovel In design, the line between art and science isn’t always clearly drawn. This has been true for centuries. One of the most influential figures in the art nouveau movement of the late 19th to early 20th century was a scientist, not an artist. Beginning in 1889, ...

Off the Shelf

Did you know that children whose parents read to them just five books a day will hear over 1.4 million more words by the time they enter kindergarten than children who are not read to each day? Ohio State’s Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy member, Jessica Logan, says this ...

DO YOU REMEMBER 354-5216?

A rural New Ulm man suggested Wednesday to the Journal a new phone number for police as one way of encouraging people to call police about suspicious incidents. Several persons heard screams the night a New Ulm woman was raped recently but failed to call police. Arthur Paquay, Route 1, New ...

Hanska celebrates Fourth

KIDDIE PARADE winners in the Hanska Fourth of July parade sponsored by American Legion Post No. 365 Wednesday were: Bikes-Trikes 1st -Jennifer and Jeff Smesma, clowns on bikes. 2nd - Anne Miller, patriotic bike. 3rd - Jana Johnson, Susan and Lisa Bjorneberg, grocery ...

Not loud enough to wake the dead

Minnesota has silenced firecrackers on the Fourth of July, except for illicit “works” smuggled in from other states, but one big noise goes on here. Unmuted, undaunted and, alas, unheard by most New Ulm residents is the annual Independence Day salute fired by the New Ulm Battery. The 13 ...