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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 Secretary, to Go Along. ———— The annual Brown County Boys’ and Girls’ Calf and Pig Club tour will take place on next Tuesday. Due to the fact that there are a large number of places to be visited the tour will leave Sleepy Eye at 7:30 o’clock in the morning and it is planned to ...

Off the Shelf

As a child, summer was always the season of travel. We’d pile into our white station wagon named Penguin with a car topper strapped in place and set off to family reunions, national parks, family friends in far flung places, and many other interesting sites that were fun to explore and experience. When you’re a kid, there seems to be more to explore than the time to explore it! As an adult, you wonder where that energy went and find yourself constantly doing head counts. Tying it all together though, are the memories – some good, some bad, others funny, and a few sad. Many people ...

Historical Society explores cemetery

Ten youths under the supervision of the Brown County Historical Society Tuesday probed the cemetery at the Brown County pioneer settlement of Iberia as one of many steps in the restoration of the cemetery. With probing rods and shovels the youths sought to find tombstones or markers covered by ...

News of New Ulm from 100 years ago

50 AUTOS DRIVE TO SPRINGFIELD ———— New Ulm Sends Large Delegation to Farm Bureau Picnic in Spite of Steady Downpour ———— RAIN SPOILS PROGRAM MEET IN OPERA HOUSE ———— Orpheus Band of Springfield and Pioneer Band of New Uim Render Indoor Concerts. ———— Some 50 autos left New Ulm shortly before 1 o’clock, Wednesday afternoon, for the trip to Springfield to attend the Brown County Farm bureau picnic. Although rain-laden clouds were already gathering and it looked rather threatening, the local delegation was determined to make the journey - ...

Diego Luna talks filming ‘Andor’ final season and the prospects for Latino actors

MEXICO CITY — Diego Luna has mixed emotions about the looming end of his Star Wars series “Andor.” “I am very excited filming, all the time I feel that we are approaching the end and, therefore, the process is lived with a certain melancholy,” the Mexican actor said in a recent interview by video call during a break in shoots in Great Britain for the acclaimed series’ second season. Luna knew the series, about a Rebel spy introduced to fans in 2016’s “Rogue One,” was meant to last only two seasons. But he’s not looking forward to the end. “There is also an ...

Going on a vacation this summer? In the 18th and 19th centuries, wealthy American and European travelers made “Grand Tours” of continental Europe to view ancient ruins and collect souvenirs. The specimen table with a top made of fragments of different types of stone or wood, often arranged as a mosaic or pattern, was a popular choice. A 19th-century Italian specimen table sold for about $3,832 in U.S. currency, at a Bonhams auction in London. It features different colors of marble and rises on a base with fish-shaped “dolphins,” a design element associated with ancient Greek and ...