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NEW ULM DEVICES IN HIT AT AUTO SHOWS

Aab’s Perfect Reamer, Aab’s Lining Machine and Aab’s 100,000 Mile Piston Pin Create Sensation. ———— ULRICH’S COMPAROMETER ALSO CAUSES COMMENT ———— All Devices Went Over Big at Chicago and Twin City Automobile Shows. —Local Men Demonstrate. ———— Wm. Aab’s three inventions, Aab’s perfect reamer, Aab’s sureway piston pin and Aab’s 100,000 mile expansion piston pin, manufactured by the New Ulm Manufacturing Co., together with John Ulrich’s invention, the Ulrich comparometer, jobbed by the New Ulm Manufacturing Co., created a ...

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, which, unknown to her, lay so close at hand, and handicapped with blindness and partly paralyzed, Mrs. Walter Hutton, 75 years old, of Welcome, Martin county village, will spend the remainder of her days in happiness and content. Although she never may be cured of her afflictions, she will rest ...

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 the Chicago & North Western and the Union Pacific lines, involving 18,000 miles of track and serving 19 states, Minneapolis would become a major terminus of the consolidated system, with direct connections and trackage covering a network over the agricultural belt of the midwest and northwest, the ...

JOHN MACHO TELLS OF ARMY LIFE IN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Spent Two Years On Coast Guard Duty Near Honolulu. ———— MIDNIGHT RAINBOWS ATTRACT ATTENTION ———— Most Beautiful Sunsets In World Are Seen From The Islands. ———— John Macho, son of Mr. and Mrs.Carl Macho, residing on South Valley Street, returned to New Ulm last Wednesday from Honolulu where he has been stationed with the United States coast guard. The young man served two years and was honorably discharged from the service after returning to this country in January. He has returned to his old position with the Frenzel Bottling Works. The local lad ...

JANUARY IS NOT UNUSUALLY WARM

Figures Show That Maximum and Mean Temperatures Have Been Higher in Previous Years. ———— 45 DEGREES ABOVE ZERO IS HIGH POINT REACHED ———— Number of Clear Days, 14. —Precipitation 135 Inches, While Snowfall Is 6 Inches. ———— During the past month the remark was often heard that January was one of the warmest Januarys on record. This is a mistake, as January was not unusually warm, when compared with other Januarys. The mean temperature was 15.90 degrees above zero. This is somewhat low, when other Januarys are considered, and is not so much higher ...

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 CROWDED,” he said. “We’re overcrowding that building.” The school board, faced in the elementary grades with declining enrollments that are to begin being felt at the junior high school in the 1977-78 school year, authorized Supt. T.R. Olson to contact an architectural firm to lend a hand ...