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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1908
Page
2
An 1881 notice from the Austin Daily Herald outlines publication frequency and pricing details for the city paper. It lists subscription options by mail or carrier and confirms sworn circulation at a reported 1960 subscribers.
Rev. Otis G. Dale opened a Sunday evening series at the Presbyterian Church on Health Culture. He argued healing is a church heritage, praising physicians and urging prevention, prayer, and practical faith as keys to health while warning against quackery. He announced another talk for eight o'clock tonight examining health culture relative to faith healing, mental healing, physical culture, Christian Science, physicians, surgery, drugs, and quackery.
Austin Lodge No. 20 I O O F held their annual memorial services at Christ Church. Rev Budlong delivered a history of the order from England to America and preached on the friendship of Jonathan and David, urging members to emulate that virtue. Easter music was canceled due to choir illness.
Eaton Officer property offered for sale at the corner of Main and College in the city. An eight room house with hall, cemented cellar and good barn. Small cash payment and balance monthly if desired. For full particulars contact owner E. H. Smith.
Former Congressman Frank Eddy spoke at Congregational church and a later venue about modern temperance tactics. He praised early reformers, condemned saloon supporters, and urged voters to back parties with a temperance plank while calling for prayer, education, and strong laws to end the liquor trade.
Novelist R. Crockett recalls a strange early episode with the St James Gazette in London. He discovered an unpaid article had earned a check, returned it, and the editor repeated its payment after removing the piece. He later dreamed a column and found the article and payment awaiting him. The anecdote ends with Crockett noting few writers earn paychecks while asleep.
An Englishman boasts of making torture devices in Birmingham for seventeen years including hair and nail drawers thumbscrews and bone breakers. He notes Siam and China buy his contrivances and mentions a $500 clockwork water dropper. He claims Chinese instruments are far crueller than Siamese ones.
The list shows political events from May to July including Democratic primaries May 6, county convention May 9, state convention May 14 in St Paul, and the Republican national convention June 16 in Chicago followed by the Democratic national convention July 7 in Denver.
In early New England, villagers sent parcels with travelers to Boston. Notes from Northampton records Mrs Lyman and Judge Lyman hosting neighbors who packed trunks with dresses, patterns, school items, and even a child for binding out. The driver waited five minutes as the beloved family prepared.
A brief cartoon style exchange jokes about not possessing a college diploma but owning mining stock certificates as proof of practical schooling in the school of experience. The quip contrasts formal education with earned industry exposure.
The quote praises focusing on the best side of every event as more valuable than a large annual income. It attributes the idea to Johnson and frames optimism as a guiding habit.
An Agriculture Department official quipped about suburban amateur florists, noting more florists than flowers and recalling a seed shop scene where a man questioned a hardy rose. The dealer joked the rose resists his wife pulling it up daily to check progress.
A South African driver at Gamtoos aboard the Avontuur railway captured a cobra de capella alive. He grabbed the upright head and snapped it back, then secured the serpent in a biscuit tin. The cobra measured about four feet long and three inches in diameter, sending a chill through onlookers.
A quip from the Boston Transcript toys with the idea of pain when none exists. A speaker asks for relief for imagined discomfort, prompting a playful answer that mocks the premise and offers no real remedy.
An old advertising notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. It emphasizes no mercury, internal use, and direct action on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials are offered and price listed at 75 cents per bottle.
Miss Helen Sass is manager of Rochester Viavi Co. and can be contacted at Austin, Minnesota for information on the Viavi System of home treatment.
A young man asks a hesitant father for his daughter's hand in marriage. The father counters that the suitor does not know the girl well, claiming he has only seen her twice a week for almost a year. The exchange turns on character and suitability rather than duration of acquaintance.
The article argues that respect is the most essential element in marriage, surpassing love, compatibility, and humor. It claims respect sustains couples through serious disagreements and preserves the soul, advising readers to marry only those they truly respect.
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