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DUST STORM CLOUDS HORIZON TUESDAY

Wind Carried Silt Over Wide Area in State, Dust Covered Everything and Permeated Into Homes. ———— DAMAGE TO CROPS NOT GREAT IN BROWN COUNTY ———— Pastures Suffering and Hay Crop Will Be Cut, If Rain Does Not Soon Visit Southern Minnesota. ———— The worst dust storm of the season visited southern and central Minnesota Tuesday. Although the wind did not reach a velocity it did on several former occasions, when dust storms visited this section, the pall of dust, which was carried along over wide areas, was much heavier. The weather bureau observers ...

BOLD ATTEMPT AT DAYLIGHT HOLDUP

L.A. Gaut, Salesman of New Ulm Grocery Co., Has Thrilling Experience, Friday Morning. ———— DODGES ROCK HURLED THROUGH WINDSHIELD ———— Bandits Foiled by Intended Victims Presence of Mind and Courage, Then Disappear. ———— L. A. Gaut of this city, veteran traveling salesman of the New Ulm Grocery Co., had a thrilling experience, Friday morning, which he is not anxious to repeat very soon. Faced by desperate masked bandits, who attempted to hold him up and rob him of money which he had collected on his trip, Mr. Gaut, with rare presence of mind, ...

KEYNOTE SPEECH IS DELIVERED BY TOM DAVIS ON SATURDAY

Gives Forceful Address At Turner Hall On Issues Of Campaign ———— STANDS SQUARELY ON PLATFORM OF PARTY ———— Roundly Applauded Whenever He Drove His Argument Home ———— In a forceful address Tom Davis, gubernatorial candidate on the Farmer-Labor ticket told his audience at Turner Hall, Saturday evening what he stood for and what the party he is affiliated with believes in politically and economically. Only a fair-sized audience greeted him, due to a heavy rain which visited this section of the state. Dr. L. A. Fritsche presided at the meeting and ...

Seven Ranges survey changed the country

Editor’s note: In the years following the Revolutionary War, the United States stood as an unfinished nation. The young republic was burdened by war debt, constrained under the Articles of Confederation, and lacking many of the basic tools of governance. What it did possess, however, were ...

Rec complex draws variety of views

Variety provided the spice Thursday evening at the first of four hearings on a recreational complex being discussed for New Ulm. Fifteen of some 50 Ward 1 residents who attended Thursday’s hearing, at Redeemer Lutheran Church, expressed various ideas about a city recreation facility. USE ...

Demonic possession is real but rare, Bishop Lucker says

When “The Exorcist’’ raged through the state, Bishop Raymond Lucker was suddenly the exorcist, too. “I had any number of calls from people who were disturbed,” he remembered,”who began to think that perhaps they were possessed.”Possession by a demon. What is it? IT USED to be simple mental illness, according to the bishop of the New Ulm diocese. Or epilepsy. Anyone with a physical or mental irregularity that went otherwise unexplained was possessed of a demon. No more, according to Bishop Lucker. In his estimation, demonic possession is vanishingly rare. “It is ...