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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1909
Page
2
Gertrude Ellis Skinner serves as associate editor for Skinner and Ulmer Publishers, handling editorial tasks and contributing to publication planning under the firm’s publishing program.
Local Potpourri item notes that Friday falls on the 13th this week. The brief item points to the calendar quirk and invites readers to enjoy the varied local miscellany labeled as Things of More or Less Local Interest.
A Kansas editor jokes about Lincoln on the half dollar and Cleveland and Grant on other coins. He asks what one can do for Mower county, urging residents to write friends about the county’s rich land, crops, and exports, claiming vast milk, butter, honey, and extensive mail to every state and nation.
A real estate man cites farmers who try to depress land values by talking down the county. He notes buyers from Ohio Indiana Illinois Wisconsin and Iowa look at Mower county land but quit after hearing negative talk. He urges residents to truthfully promote land, climate, and success to boost sales and property values.
The water board and city council will hold back to back meetings this evening and tomorrow night to discuss a long term water solution. Findings from committees will be shown to the public for ratification, with praise for careful study and public cooperation. The piece warns that securing water will be costly but necessary to prevent typhoid fever.
Contaminated water cost Mankato hundreds of thousands and slowed growth for at least a year. Citizens demand a lasting solution not a temporary fix. Voters back a plan only if it guarantees ample water for years, and the water board and city council must deliver.
Wayne Webber aged 18 returns from a four week solo journey paddling a canvass canoe from the Cedar at Lafayette Park to the river mouth. He camped nightly ashore cooked at stop points and carried provisions. He shipped the canoe from Muscatine and rode a steamer to St Paul, then traveled home. Two companions with him last year turned back on the first rainy night.
A rustic dialect play titled Eric Erickson opens at the Gen theatre Thursday August 12. Critics prize its true to life characters set in a quiet hamlet with strong dramatic action and wholesome comedy. It’s described as a big hit in the current theatre season.
Issued under the Volunteer Bondy Act 1908 this land offer allows any adult to acquire 320 acres of Dominion Land open for entry in Alberta Saskatchewan or Manitoba for 800 dollars. Apply to L E Telford 131 Shuter Street Toronto.
Cedar City reports the last meeting of the Silver Leaf Sewing club with Mrs. W. S. Evans and a good attendance. The next gathering is set for Thursday August 12 with Mrs. H. S. Boat. Mare Brown of Austin visited Fraser family. Pearl Austin stays with Aunt Mrs. Harvey Watkins. Mrs. Harry Austin with ill mother Mrs. John Manning. Grace Blanche and Joy Machacek of Austin visit Henry Moshier home. Mrs. Emma Bullock of Evansville Wis visiting relatives. Delia and Lila Monahan took the teachers exam in Austin.
The coliseum in Rome is dwarfed by the great circus, a vast public spectacle seated in the valley between the Talatine and Aventine hills. It could hold 150,000 to 380,000 spectators in various eras, far surpassing the Coliseum’s 80,000.
A New York Press nugget recounts a city salesman meeting John Doe and his sister Jane, noting the humor of sharing a famous double name. The tale unfolds with playful disbelief, as the narrator learns the man truly is the famous Doe and laments the family’s naming spree.
The account extols Moorish ponies and Goumler horses as ideal mounts. It notes their constant riding, lack of grooming, and heavy daily work from dawn to dusk. Their bedding involves thick blankets under a wooden saddle tree, with no soreness in the beast.
An American tells a joke to an English friend before sailing for Liverpool. He dreamt he was dead and woke from heat. The Englishman replies the weather must be beastly hot in America. A brief quip from the Chicago News.
A quip notes luck contains intelligence and perseverance. A young man asks if luck exists, and the reply stresses that success blends insight with steady effort.
A health advisory targets busy businessmen noting that rushed meals strain the stomach and cause sour gas heaviness and bad breath. It promotes Mi ona tablets priced at 50 cents a box, claimed to aid digestion and cleanse the stomach and bowels with a money back guarantee through K Q Wold.
A note of gratitude from Mr. and Mrs. Dan Gorman and Mr. and Mrs. C. Gorman thanking friends for aid and sympathy during a recent bereavement.
Mr and Mrs W D Bassler and Miss Amanda Leue took an automobile trip to the Frank farm today visiting the countryside and sharing a brief outing with local friends.
The Tripoli ostrich feather market offers whites blacks fewinas blacks spadocas boos drabs and doss in unsorted lots sold by the roti. Dealers wash sort and flame the plumes then beat them to reveal barbs, aiming for two to three feather layers with pristine tips. Retail plumes are typically mounted in pairs.
Lord Erskine recounts to Mr Rush how Burke’s American conciliation oration in the House of Commons failed to move listeners. The speaker’s eloquence faltered in practice, leaving the house and prompting a humorous escape story that followed Burke to the Isle of Wight.
The London Standard notes that highland naming blends genders into compounded forms. Native girls include Barbac, while most names fuse male and female elements. examples include Wilhelmina and Andrewina, with many like Malcolminas and Donaldinas abundant in the region. A child nicknamed Ava links to the longer Alexandrina Victoria Andrewina, shortened from initials. The piece highlights playful, ornate naming customs in rural areas.
Suppe, composer of Fatinitza and father of the Poet and Peasant overture, faced repeated rejections when testing his music. The overture, tied to a farce, finally found success after repeated trials. A music firm bought the overture for $25 the night and published the score, earning about $40,000.
A London News anecdote recounts a master of a hunting pack dying and his widow forbidding the hounds to go out. A friend asks a former English chief justice and huntsman if running with crape would be harmful. The reply: not even crape is needed, the hounds should be in full cry.
A fashionable young man proposes on one knee offering himself as a birthday gift. The reply is cool and insists on useful presents only, reflecting a restrained response to romantic advances in a Philadelphia Inquirer style.
A Philadelphia Press caption notes a man praising two German girls aboard a steerage scene. He remarks on their hair as real golden, while she counterpoints that it is plaited. The exchange highlights accents and social humor in early 20th century immigration imagery.
A dialogue fragment shows a man under a bureau threatening a person named Pl with a collar button. The other speaker replies that he will get it in the neck. The brief exchange reflects tense humor or menace typical of early 20th century Brooklyn Life prose.
A historical critique argues the telephone, while saving lives and wealth, invites wasteful habits especially among women dulling social manners. It warns of gossip and flirtation rising from constant calling, as respect for thrift and proper street dressing decline. The piece laments loss of courtesies and in-person social art to this modern vice.
A historical note on artillery evolution from ordinary guns to varied small and large pieces. It lists numerous names such as culverins, serpentines, falcons, robit nets, murderers, partridge mortars, and other classifications, reflecting 18th century fascination with gun nomenclature.
At a banker’s Florence house Colonel Dundas, later Earl of Zetland, mocked Americans as vulgarians before dining with Mme Bonaparte Betsy Watterson. He asked if he had read Basil Hall’s book. Betsy replied natives of England would naturally be vulgar if descended from Englishmen, noting Italians or Spanish would not surprise her.
A young housewife notes a white bloom on eggs she scraped from a basket. Her husband, a food expert, jokes that the bloom proves the eggs are aged. He explains lime dust test shows eggs are pickled, warning against relying on such eggs as wholesome.
A strange riddle asks to divide 150 by 0 then add two thirds of 10. It ends with the phrase CoLENSO. C100, L-&). FEN two-thirds of TEN. 80. London Scraps notes conclude the puzzle.
A Washington Star report notes a constituent joking about the new congressman. When a story amuses him he leaves the hall to jot a note in his memorandum book, signaling the quirks of his approach to speechmaking and public life.
A fragment notes a character’s habit of visiting a club yet feeling happy only at leaving. The line questions whether happiness ends the outing or if staying away from home defines his state, suggesting a linguistic puzzle about meaning.
A dialogue notes a doctor’s bill for a fever described as very high. Kellman is cited for a reputation and fair estate, suggesting concerns over costs and outcomes. The exchange blends personal health with reputation and finances.
A brief anecdote portrays a wanderer returning and a woman asking why. He explains a friend told him the household now has a pew pastry cook, implying a change in status or domestic scene. The exchange captures small town humor and social nuance from the era.
A Louisville Courier Journal item shows contrasting views on how to persuade a woman to support a cause. The dialogue cites two lines urging persuasion through duty and popularity.
A Chicago Record-Herald humor piece narrates Eddie's schoolroom task to define cursory. He offers a comically tragic sentence about a ladder accident where a father bumps his head and makes a few cursory remarks. The record reflects playful dialect and a twist on usage.
A New York Press quote hails luck as a boon when uncounted, framing fortune as a hidden edge. The remark underscores humility and the idea that fortune favors those who do not chase it.
In a brisk scene the author bursts in to write down a thought then explains he must purge it to earn a check. The wife adds a wry note about wanting to place that idea in the milliner’s window, taking his hat coat and umbrella as she speaks.
A lady from Australia spoke with a London agent about a Kensington house in a newer district. She asked if the area was nice. The agent replied it is thoroughly desirable and noted residents are good families, likening them to soup and fish households.
A man jokes about hiring a new washerwoman as a poor girl reveals she ironed her own dress. He notices a tear in her eye and the moment exposes pride and hardship in their exchange. The scene hinges on class and affection through ordinary domestic labor.
A humorous exchange quoted from Fliegende Blatter features a husband asking if a novel is nearly finished and a gifted writer replying that her hero must die. He then asks if she will sew on a button after his death, highlighting a playful domestic twist.
Reporters asked if the wounded man was serious as police described the incident. An officer replied briefly that he was wounded. The exchange questioned whether the event was in fun, underscoring the tension at the scene.
The retiring PITZEN offers a final sale at wholesale prices on all shoes in stock. Every shoe goes, no reservations, with savings from 50 cents to $1.50 per pair. Neighbors urged to read and take part before stock runs out.
A Sunday School exchange questions what to learn from the tale of a man told to rise and walk. A child notes folding beds in ancient times, reflecting on daily life and sacred stories. Chicago News reports on the playful classroom moment.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet notes one girl below reading a lone letter aloud to another, prompting a character to remark he looks awfully white and seasick. The brief dialogue conveys embarrassment and social embarrassment in a confined setting.
Bids for laying about 25 000 feet of tile from 5 to 15 inches on the R E Shepherd farm three miles south of Austin will be received at H E Smith Land Office. Plans and specifications are on file. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.
One hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsed by Walding Kinnan Marvin and F J Cheney. Cure taken internally, affects blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills also advertised for constipation. The Herald for job work.
For sale or rent two farms east of Austin. Shetland ponies, Scotch collie pups, ant cows. Inquire of R. W. Roberta. Also for sale good second‑hand cabinet, gasoline stove and 008 stove. T. A. Revord. $1.00 asking.
An advertisement extols DeWitt's Carboured Witch Hazel Salve as a safe easy remedy. It promises dependable relief for piles and similar conditions and notes availability from druggists everywhere.
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