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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1909
Page
1
A Windsor Magazine article by Meredith Nugent outlines how to produce pretty bubble effects with soap and water. It explains steps from making lather with castile soap to blowing stacked bubbles using a straw and plate, stressing thorough wetting and careful technique for multiple bubbles from one apparatus.
A playful exchange cites streets in town with tales of cheap travel. Uncle Zeke recalls riding twenty miles for a nickel on a street car, while Uncle Jed boasts of a penny-free trip to the tallest building last year, reflecting local humor from a Chicago Tribune page.
A brief sketch portrays Paraguayans as a lazy, carefree people amid national bankruptcy and economic hardship. The piece highlights social resilience, cultural traits, and the impact of financial collapse on daily life and governance.
A traveler’s sketch of Paraguay notes Spanish and native Guarani influence shaping villagers and aristocrats in Asuncion and towns like Villa Rica and Pilar. It praises gentle temperaments, Catholic ideals, and lively street life yet laments poverty, rough streets, sparse mule cars, weak currency, and scarce gold entering the republic.
Mrs James N Sutton mother of Portland born Lieut Sutton appears as naval board of inquiry in Annapolis. Lawyers clash over letters she wrote alleging charges against tourline corps officers. Court is closed for a prolonged conference. Surgeon Cook testifies on Sutton’s self infliction of death.
Five farmers died in the Northwest within 24 hours due to lightning and accompanying showers. The dead include two sons of Thomas McKibbin near Stephens Ming two farmhands Otto Johnson near Aberdeen SD and Henry O Brien near Mason City IA and Emmett Collings between Vale and Belle Fourche. Two injured are Adelbert McKibbin and a boy beside Emmett Johnson. Communication was severed by the storms and reports are incomplete.
A violent cyclone like storm swept from the southeast, tearing through Barnesville and surrounding farms. Communications are down, farm buildings and crops suffered massive damage estimated at 46000 to 50000 dollars, with barns crushed, equipment wrecked, and cattle missing but not believed dead. Multiple farms report specific destruction including the Anderson and Ulrich properties, while hay stacks caught fire from lightning and drifted through the smoky air.
In Pittsburg Aug 7 Mrs Cassilios Soterakos wife of a Greek restaurant keeper in McKeesport was stabbed to death after begging her murderer to spare her life. Neighbors heard screams but fled. Police found no killer and hunt for the jealous husband continues as authorities search for him.
Five persons were injured and one killed when three cars on the Pittsburg railway Elliott and Sheridan branch crashed near Elliot borough. The inbound car reportedly ran beyond the motorman’s control on a steep grade toward Cork's Run Bend where the switch was open. Two outbound cars waited on a double track for the inbound car to pass.
Roanoke Virginia on August 7 Bertha Deane a young white woman after quarreling with a young man on the street shot herself in the head in an attempt to die by her own action A rat in her hair checked the speed of the bullet and saved her life the revolver misfired.
Aberdeen Aug 7 Otto Johnson a farm hand ten miles southeast of town employed by Robert Doderick was struck dead by lightning while at work in a field. A boy on the wagon with him was stunned but not injured.
Harry K Thaw's bid to regain freedom nears end as testimony closes and Justice Mills prepares to file a ruling on August 12. Possible outcomes include release, continued confinement, parole, or transfer to another facility, with mother Copley Thaw denouncing District Attorney Jerome during her testimony.
Lauro Josue, an Italian section hand for the St. Paul road, was fatally injured at Ridgewood. Placed on a train for transport to St. Paul, he died en route with his body badly mangled.
Three people were overcome by extreme heat in Minneapolis with one likely fatally. Lewis Bodak lay near death in City Hospital after being found unconscious at Hennepin and Lake streets.
Stockholm reports a cooling general strike as grave diggers return to work and large plants plan Monday reopenings. The central federation seeks government mediation, denied by the employers. Dissension mounts among strikers while rising living costs drive workers back. Troop presence at plants prompts resentment among strike leaders. Two hundred Falun conscripts protested with songs and faced harsh drills.
Sabina Iowa August 7 Joseph B Clarkson once a circuit judge of Omaha and longtime Kenosha Wisconsin attorney was found working as a common button cutter under the name John Paul at the Iroquois button factory. He appeared in Sabina July 26 wandering from the south and later recalled hay work in Clinton Scott and Muscatine counties before returning to Kenosha with about two dollars in wages.
London August 7 Lord Kitchener commander of British forces in India has been named to succeed the Duke of Connaught as inspector general of the Mediterranean forces. He will hold the rank of field marshal and join the committee of imperial defense. The post covers garrisons at Malta and Gibraltar and British troops in Egypt the Soudan and Cyprus.
In Mancedonia Michigan on August 7 Charles Weaver aged 61 perished in a fire at the Antrim iron works sawmill one mile from the village. Gerritt McCain suffered serious burns and several others received minor injuries. Estimated financial loss runs about $30,000.
Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, chairman of the senate committee on finance, is likely to address commercial bodies in St. Paul Minneapolis Milwaukee Chicago and other western cities this fall.
R Yaeger, a car penter, collapsed from heat exhaustion atop a building at 366 Warsaw street in St Paul and fell to his death. His skull was fractured by the fall.
Brooklyn Eagle notes a witty exchange about marriage and courtship as Bismarck themes appear in Kendell’s book Furst und Furst in Bismarck. The volume quotes Bismarck’s tearful reaction to Beethoven and Schubert, praising their music though disliking variations.
In a Ladies' Home Journal anecdote a young woman overhears an old woman explain that a baby named Exy is nicknamed Dag chile. The elder clarifies the child’s full name is Bese ma, chosen from a medicine book, showing pride in a long, learned name.
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