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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1908
Page
3
Insects rely mainly on their compound eyes for flight navigation and ground orientation. They detect object motion and contour during flight, and can gauge distance of immobile objects even at rest. Bees and bumblebees distinguish colors, while some wasps show rudimentary color perception.
An early diplomatic tale recalls the French ambassador in Japan during the second empire using a port request to extract a mutual concession. The Japanese humorously noted France’s demand targeted a non French port, while the asked port lay in Korea, prompting the ambassador to concede the joke was at his expense.
Dialogue shows a father taunting his son who returns from a ride. The boy denies crying and responds with a single word he attributes to his father, Punch, revealing a tense family exchange and implied humor.
A brief dialogue notes Mr Howe asking Wise about authorities on social and economic questions while Wise reveals his daughter’s graduation essay on life has not yet been released. The exchange highlights the tension between scholarly citation and personal milestones.
A paradox emerges as Footlight inherits wealth yet remains the richest and poorest figure on the stage. The exchange questions how fortune and status coexists in the theatrical world, highlighting contrasts within a single performer’s public image.
Real estate notice listing Sais Houses on Water Bridge Railway St Paul street Oakland avenue town lots and farms near Austin and in the northern part of the state inviting readers to contact the advertiser for details and availability.
Local notes report excavation beginning on the Grove street sewer project. Other items include visits, weddings, lay events, and community notices such as a lawn sociable, charity recital by Edward Strong, crime case involving W R Crandall, and various personal travels and illnesses.
Thomas Sheehan returns to Herald mechanical department after a week's vacation. Mrs. Minnie Laufie improves after illness. Mayland Sargent and wife move to Great Falls Montana. Nellie C. McCormick returns from Albert Lea summer school. Various residents visit, travel, or recover from health issues including a tornado injury case at St Olaf's hospital. Local movements include visits to Lansing Kasson Owatonna and Rose Creek.
One hundred dollars reward offered for an incurable catarrh case by Halls Catarrh Cure. F W Cheney Co Toledo and Waidin Kinzan Marvin endorse Cheney as honest and able to fulfill obligations. Cure claimed to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free, price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Halles Family Pills for constipation.
The Hormel Provision Market will close at 4 pm Tuesday to allow the entire force to enjoy a company picnic at Lafayette Park.
Gilbert Thompson, who had been giving police trouble, was fined $14.14 in Justice Fairbanks' court this morning.
City bills must be in the Recorder's office by Thursday noon August 6 or they will not be acted upon until the next regular city council meeting.
An advertisement claims factory prices for pianos with a note that customers can save more with cut prices. The notice lists W. D. Andrew as the music dealer promoting the deal for a limited time.
For sale or trade a substantial twelve room residence at 3108 St Paul Street. Includes bath hot air furnace corner lot and shade trees. Cash preferred but trade in farm land may be considered.
Wallace Gregson at 121 West Mill Street offers latest chandelier shades stand and drop lights in electrical supplies. Estimates gladly given on house wiring from Wallace and Gregson, experienced electricians serving the area.
Old age notice offers real estate for sale or rent including a house at 713 East Bridge Street for 2000 dollars or 14102 Agh Street for 1650 dollars land and front lots on Main Street Lime Springs with depot/railroad access priced at 1500 dollars. Contact Mrs M D Gue 109 Elm Street.
Market notes show various hog quotes around 450 to 440 per cwt for packers hogs and hog market activity. Fat lambs and fat sheep prices referenced with ranges near 8 0 to 8 56 per hundredweight. Cattle quotes range from 800 to 825 per hundredweight with per head figures noted.
A biography of Dr Francis L Hawkes famed for oratory and readership in New York Grace Episcopal The story recalls Hawkes turning down a Buffalo offer after learning he earned $15000 plus parsonage elsewhere He challenges the idea of divine provision with his own Bible study and memory of the raven incident.
The Charter Oak story describes Hartford’s white oak sheltering Connecticut’s charter after Andros demanded surrender in 1687. Captain Wadsworth hid the charter, the tree later famed for centuries. It fell August 21 1856, bells tolled as a funeral dirge marked the ruins. the trunk stood about 25 feet around one foot from the ground and over 600 years old.
Mrs Oldcastle laments the curate may be a vauletudinarian for life while the hostess denies it. A witness claims to have seen him eating beefsteak at a parish dinner the prior night, observed by the parish house.
Pacific island natives without metal forged sharp edges by sharks teeth. A shark mouth with 300 teeth in five rows provides continuous replacement as teeth break. Teeth are pointed serrated and enhance cutting power, enabling knives and swords to be effective yet dangerous to handle. Kingmill islanders craft many strange articles from sharks teeth.
The eulogy in Byron’s memoranda praises Cardinal Mezzofanti as a walking polyglot and universal interpreter. Byron notes he tested Mezzofanti in many languages and witnessed astonishing mastery, even in English after many oaths and invocations.
A discussion on inherited instinct versus intelligence is sparked by W. L. Finley s account of a gull that repeatedly drops a clam from about fifteen feet. The shell resists until after fifteen drops the shock opens the shell and the gull eats the contents.
At a wedding breakfast the bachelor guests offered curious reasons for remaining single. One likened himself to a frog in a table water, another admitted selfish honesty, and others cited liberty, sleep, luxury, or a twin brother as factors in staying unwed.
A fragment from the Chicago Record-Herald describes a young man removing cigars from his vest and presenting them, while a young girl coldly responds with a terse line about love. The passage conveys a tense, charged exchange between two individuals.
A fragment from the New York Press presents a wry quip on pessimism. The exchange asks what defines a pessimist with a fatherly reply that a pessimist is a man who has a note to meet.
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