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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1907
Page
2
Fragment from a newspaper masthead showing pricing by mail or carrier. Names John H. Skinner editor and proprietor and Gertrude Ellise Skinner associate editor appear in the readable portion. No event or location details are present.
Citizens note the nation spends about 160 million dollars yearly on soda water. The column argues this high outlay reflects broader trends in consumption and raises questions about pricing and policy.
The writer describes cooler California July into August weather versus Minnesota heat, plans to stay to see winter climate, and temporary furnished rooms at 710 South Hill Street. He works as an order clerk for Hughes Manufacturing Co and notes acquaintances, including Keenan and Webb families, plus visits to Long Beach and Swenningsens, with greetings to Lew and Mrs. Ooer and other friends.
Fifty friends gathered in a yellow and white California themed park pavilion to surprise Miss Fannie Gies. The event featured cross shaped tables, daisies, streamers, and a supper. She received a cut glass salad bowl with silver utensils and thanked her guests. Miseries plans to move to Prentice Wisconsin August 39 for her sister’s wedding around September 1. Ella Eide birthday party for sixteenth year included games and ice cream with a gold watch fob as a gift.
A father explains to his son that a jingo is a man who believes someone else should go out and whip somebody, a pointed aside from the Washington Star.
Robert Mershall a 21 year old hotel clerk from Winnebago was arrested at the Pax Hotel on the grand larceny charge for stealing 26 dollars from the Merchants Hotel safe. He confessed after capture and said he lost the money in a poker game. He escaped from Winnebago prior to being pursued.
Notice from H M Bracken and W L Hollister urging proper birth and death registrations under 1907 law. Burial permits required, blanks available from registrar, and penalties for failing to report births within ten days. Officials emphasize completing registration and enforcing reporting.
The article argues humans once had six senses and that a tiny brain mass the pituitary body may reveal this lost sense. It speculates the organ could have helped ancient people see in darkness or navigate, or alternatively been a failed vision or smell organ that disappeared with better senses.
An interior decorator notes mirrors flood shops not only to please customers but to aid security. Workers monitor patrons via mirrored reflections, catching shoplifters who glance back, then discreetly assist them to the office. Source: New York Press.
A powerful Monday night storm swept across the Auelinard area causing few major damages. The event damaged hay, cattle losses, a hog, and transformers while a windward tree line and several poles were struck or split. Local residents report a dramatic display as bright lightning and thunder roared through the night.
A Cosmopolitan writer divides death into three kinds natural, sudden and death from disease. Natural death is old age and merges with sleep, sudden death ends without time for pain, disease death involves dying with varying suffering and may end in death or recovery. Birth and dying are the most significant physiological life events.
A letter from Seattle dated August 2 reports G. L. Case dropped dead on a street in Austin. Case served as Mower County treasurer from 1831, born 1838 in Vermont, lived in New York and Minnesota, served in the Civil War, later moved to Seattle twenty years ago with wife Emma Woodsam and four children Brockett Lucinda Roy Milo. He was remembered as faithful, obliging, competent.
Thieve notifies all parties not to trust my wife Mrs James Oasey on my account from this date. I will no longer be responsible for any of her debts.
An early nineteenth century handbill from Cumberland portrays James Williams, a parish clerk and town criers seller of haberdashery and groceries, who offers education lessons, dental and horseshoeing services, and odd jobs. The quirky notice hints at performances, dodgy trades, and varied offerings with humorous asides.
A New York settlement worker recalls a ragged boy who brings his teacher bouquets, including wilted mauve orchids, and explains fathers can give more than money by giving themselves despite burdens of modern life.
The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799 during a French excavation near Rosetta by an engineer officer. It bears inscriptions in three scripts and aided the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, unlocking the language of Ptolemy Epiphanes era and the priestly bodies remitting dues.
A Punch cartoon captions a minister asking if things have gone well in his absence. Daniel Deed replies that people claim ministers send more laymen to the pulpit than themselves but the minister never does that. The satirical exchange mocks clergy deployment.
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