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I was experiencing a bit of a reading slump, during which I was picking up my phone more often than a book. Luckily, these books helped me out of my slump. I hope that one or more of them might appeal to you. Wealthy Manhattanites flock to their beach homes on Fire Island each summer, spending their days sunbathing, drinking, and gossiping about their summer neighbors. This summer there is more to gossip about than ever: affairs between married friends, a handsome new tennis instructor, a #MeToo scandal, and maybe even murder. In “Bad Summer People,” Emma Rosenblum uses multiple ...

News of New Ulm from 100 years ago

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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 ...

Not loud enough to wake the dead

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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 volleys at sunrise every Fourth from the New Ulm cemeteries. The 13 shots are for the 13 colonies that founded this nation. The salute goes back not quite to 1776, but almost. No one knows exactly when the traditional Fourth opener commenced. The Battery used to line up in a field near Loretto ...

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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, biologist Ernst Haeckel published a series of books called “Art Forms in Nature” that captured the geometric structure and intricate beauty of sea life, microscopic organisms, plants, animals and insects. While art nouveau designs are stylized and exaggerated, especially human figures, the influence of ...

After 71 years in family,Dempsey Estate is for sale

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After 71 years in family, Dempsey Estate on Summit Avenue is for sale Story by Fritz Busch After spending decades of summers in a palatial home on Summit Avenue in New Ulm, Norma and Bob Dempsey plan to live year around in South Florida soon. Built in 1938 by New Ulm meat market owners Hugo and Margaret Schnobrich, Bob’s father, New Ulm attorney William H. Dempsey bought the home in 1951. The five bedroom, four bath, 6,401 square foot Kasota stone home on 2.37 acres was built by Heymann Construction of New Ulm with lumber from Puhlmann Lumber. Bob’s mother, Myra Seifert is the ...

DO YOU REMEMBER 354-5216?

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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 Ulm, noted that the current police phone number, 354-5216, is confusing and hard to call, compared to, for example, the Scotland Yard number in England, which is 9999. Paquay said people might be fearful to turn on a light which would be necessary at night to look up the police number and dial it. ...