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BREAK OPEN CHEST HOLDING FORTUNE

Denied Necessities for Years, Will End Life in Comfort ———— MATE DIED RECENTLY SAVED WEALTH YEARS ———— Currency, Bonds, Deed, Mortgage, Uncovered in Little Home at Welcome. ———— After many years of poverty and denial of even the necessities of life, ...

C.&N.W. RAIL MERGER WITH U.P. FORECAST

Consolidation Would Make System 18,000 Miles in Extent. One of Largest in Country. ———— PART OF PLAN COMBINING MORE THAN 100 LINES ———— Northwestern and Union Pacific Have Been Closely Allied for Many Years. ———— Under a proposed railway merger between ...

He takes his parking ticket to court

Gehard Christ of New Ulm had a 232 hour trial Monday in Brown County Court over a $3 parking ticket. Christ, 122 N. Washington, was one of the 400-plus car owners who got tagged Dec. 2 for parking on a street scheduled for emergency snow removal. But where others complained to friends or ...

Counselors find students change little over the years

What’s the matter with kids today? Not much, if you listen to Jim Zetah and Marty Webb. “Nothing’s the matter with them that wasn’t wrong with us,” said Webb,a woman who graduated from two colleges in Iowa. She repeated the question to Zetah when he entered her office at New Ulm ...

Hot water, cold ice

STEAM RISES from one of the ice hockey rinks in Westside Park as New Ulm Parks and Recreation Department employees spray hot water on the ice. Hot water is used because it blends in better with the ice than does cold water, officials said. Harold Derdan, 721 Second S., sprays the ice while Dave ...

Pinch expected to come this fall at crowded junior high school

The crowded classroom situation at New Ulm Junior High School is expected to reach its peak next fall. Enrollment projections indicate 887 students will be housed in a school building that is adequate for 770 students, principal Dean Risius told school board members Thursday. “WE’RE ...