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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
2
Austin Daily Bulletin notes Skinner and associates, including Petrons Allis Finuer, as top figures in a local industrial group. The snippet highlights their roles in a business coalition and mentions related local industry names and affiliations.
An Albert Lea reader notes the Chavtenggs area behind by about $1000 and laments neglected roadways while Gov Johnson faces a heavy workload. An Austin resident praises the city as progressive and predicts a large new factory investment drawing in 850000 dollars, with Russia and other places mentioned in passing.
In a casual morning gathering in front of K O Hailsetoré seven men ages and birth years are listed. The group includes Foster 86 born November 25 1821 Howhkiss 85 born February 2 1622 Hall 79 born January 10 1528 Lane 77 born August 15 1830 Freidrick 73 born February 13 1834 Frank 75 born February 13 1834 Hollieter 70 born January 9 1537. A snap shot notes their combined ages as 645 years and Freidrign proclaims a goal to reach that total.
Brooks and Gibbons campers fished Wednesday with success while Nobles campers rode with Mr Hunkina to the dam. Rosenthias keep an ice cream freezer busy. a Rosentha colt was badly cut in barb wire near the Park Wednesday.
On account of Mr. Reed's funeral the Chantaugee program time is changed tomorrow. The preliminary program begins at 2 50 and Gov. Cammire lecture follows at 3 30.
The firm Lovell and Watkins has dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Watkins retires. Debts due to the firm are payable to A. B. Lovell and all firm obligations will be paid by Mr. Lovell.
Roy G. Dibble and Idealia Storey were married Wednesday evening July 31 by Justice John Fairbanks at his home. The couple will reside in Austin.
Official notice calls for sealed bids to build a sanitary sewer from the Cedar River to Water Street in Austin Minnesota. Bids due by 4 p.m. Angus 2 17. Each bid must be in a growseum with a certified check for 5 percent and bidder name on outside. City reserves right to reject any or all bids. T. M. Foster City Recorder
The Austin Chautauqua week delivers strong attendance and praise for Dr. MacArthur and Robertson moving pictures. Governor Cummins is slated to speak tomorrow at 3 30 PM. Miss Piersol extols Swedish physical culture methods, highlighting wellness, education, and recreation as core aims. The community forms a permanent Chautauqua organization funded by a guarantee and subscriptions, with plans to incorporate.
Tom James staged a sensational runaway with a two horse team hitched to a double faced buggy, racing from Moorse Feed barn along Chatham street to Bridge and Lansing avenues. He leaped into the buggy and grabbed the lines, causing a dramatic chase until bystanders stopped the span. Spectators hailed James amid the chaotic spectacle and celebrations followed.
Miss Emma Symes and Mr George Hyde married at 2 pm today at the bride’s sister Mrs B E Stimson’s home on Lansing Ave Rev F E Knopf officiated in the presence of immediate family The only guests beyond the Stimson family were nieces Marie and Helen Symes Blooming Prairie The couple will reside in Blooming Prairie Emma is well known locally and the groom has long served as head miller at Campbell’s mill in Blooming Prairie
A North Dakota community reels after attorney D J Keefe drowns during a lake swim with companions Hanson Olson and Rees. Rescue efforts using grappling hooks and dynamite fail. coroner’s inquest rules accidental drowning. Keefe, about 35, a former teacher and lawyer, had long ties to Ramsey County and Rolla. Relatives ship his body to Rose Creek, Minnesota, with Bar Association attendance at the funeral arrangements.
A dainty visitor tours a penitentiary with Guard O'Brien. She expresses sympathy for convicts and learns of a man who forgets he is married, leaving five wives awaiting him upon release. The exchange amusement to the guard and reporter.
The article discusses two end scenarios for Earth. One is the sun’s gradual cooling to the point life cannot be sustained. The other fears immense dark bodies unseen in space colliding with the sun, heating it and threatening Earth. It notes a distant approach would reveal the intruder and a fifteen year interval would follow before collision.
John Dudley served as a popular New Hampshire judge from 1770 to 1791. Despite an education so deficient he could not write five correct sentences, he pursued justice over law. Chief Justice Parsons of Massachusetts praised him as the greatest and best judge he knew.
A fragmentary excerpt presents a playful yet muddled exchange about a bust. The speaker praises the piece as a fine example of manual craft while lamenting its creation, and another voice muses on love, artistry, and afastive critique.
A damaged OCR segment mentions a patient’s wife and a man named Tarper's Wechis. Details are unclear due to garbled text and missing context. No concrete actions, dates, or places can be confirmed from readable material.
In the village of Tewin Hertfordshire five trees reportedly sprouted from the grave of Lady Anne Grimestone wife of Sir Samuel Grimestone Bart of Gohambury after her death in 1713. She allegedly denied God on her deathbed and vowed five trees would appear if there was an afterlife. Trees grew, splitting the tomb masonry and rails, a village legend recounted by the New York Tribune.
A London Spectator writer recalls wild animal acts of mercy and cruelty. Wild elephants buffaloes baboons defend wounded herd members while monkeys and wolves may kill the helpless. Sparrows reportedly mourn a trapped mate, while a robin is helped by a pie attempting to assist it through a fence.
A quip from Life magazine uses a child’s view to label Holland as a “tow, lying country” through a governess joke about growing up in Holland and geography, reflecting humorous ethnic stereotypes of the era.
House and furnished rooms for rent with hot and cold water sink in kitchen sewer connections bath room electric light. Good Surrey for sale will take farm produce or straw in part payment. Also for sale new home made comfortables some silver spoons and a silver syrup pitcher.
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