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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1902
Page
2
A known citizen and milier entered the race. Belden has long sought office since leaving the superintendent post. Critics slate Belden with Sweningsen and Seebach, claiming they can secure Scandinavian and German votes for the party. Nomination of Belden could mean a Democratic senator from Mower County.
The Herald pledges to back the people against the ring as it did two years ago. It argues the Republican party must purge self serving members, endorsing Alex S Campbell as a unity candidate to defend party principles and county integrity.
The article notes signs of autumn beyond the calendar, including returning students and teachers, school preparations, and harvest activity. It mentions steam threshers, grain movements, county and state fairs, changing foliage, ripening fruit, and household canning as indicators that fall is approaching.
Japan asserts Wake Island is land territory as tensions rise over U S military outlets. The remark comes as warnings go out against interference with American bases and facilities.
Beaven shows persistence as he prepares for a rematch against a female opponent two years after last facing her. The piece highlights his spirited, gallant approach and ongoing rivalry with the undefeated or notable adversary.
The Denver Post intends to conduct balloon experiments while rivals accuse the paper of using the method to inflate its circulation figures.
Sanford and Willard Washburn, aged 13 and 11, return from a summer farming trip in Todd County. They rode 275 miles to a farm, tended sheep and cattle, made hay, shingled, then planned a 275 mile ride home by bicycle but after a wheel puncture and a push to town, boarded a train and arrived safely.
The Albert Lea College in Albert Lea Minnesota offers a four year B A degree with preparatory high school course. It proclaims itself the only exclusively women’s college in the Northwest with university standards and competent teachers. Students enjoy refined social life, music, art, elocution, physical culture, and normal training under Miss K I Hutchison as principal and Rev C C Adams as secretary. Fall term begins September 10 1902.
Prudence Wisdom applied to practice leads to high quality and low prices. The Austin Lumber and Fuel Co stresses that avoiding allure of cheap goods reflects prudent business. A. Emmons endorses practical prudence.
The sociable for the Ladies of the G A R was held at Mrs. John Nellar’s home on Lansing avenue. The Wednesday afternoon event offered perfect weather for an outdoor gathering and attendees called the social very pleasant.
A column mocks foreign progress and American industry while recounting a Wisconsin birth joke. It rails at political reformers, hints at Republican and Democratic disarray, and calls for action against alleged anarchists in Austin, finishing with a "Man in the Moon" aside.
Single tuning costs 3.00 with two tunings for 5.00 and three or more tunings at 2.00 each. Available in Austin only. First Class Work Guaranteed. Address 303 Water St. tf
Those who wish to furnish board or room to Normal College Students should notify Prof. Boostrom at once giving location and price of accommodations.
Three good rooms suitable for housekeeping at 403 East Maple Street offered by Mrs. J Guinney.
The county fair showcases daily programs from September 9 to 11 including a 21 Gun Salute, parades, concerts, balloon ascensions, races such as two year old colt and pacing events, trick bicyclists, boxing and wrestling, a grand military parade led by Gov. Van Sant, and entertainment by the Suwannee River Quartette and aerial acts.
Austin markets oats rising deliveries flood local elevators at Guthrie depot. Buyer Nels Peterson notes heavy arrivals while John J. Furlong wins top prize with 1600 bushels tested at 31 pounds per bushel, marking the largest load drawn to town.
Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau, has secured a patent on home cooling apparatus. A system costs about as much as winter heating to achieve cooling to any desired temperature. The machine dries the air and renders it comfortable in hot weather. A promotion mentions Golden Grain Belt Beer as a companion to make summer bearable, with orders via local dealers or C J Weriset of Austin.
In Keokuk on August 20 a mother Mrs. Winun Kellar, acting as special constable, concealed her infant amid a vagrancy arrest. Secretary Park sought a habeas corpus writ to claim custody but the court found the mother competent to keep the eleven month old. The incident drew neighborhood excitement as legal questions about a new social law surfaced.
Fertile Cuba and Cuba cabbages weigh up to twenty pounds. Vegetables thrive. Rashes can be beaten from fourteen to eighteen days after sowing. Lettuce in five weeks after sowing. Corn yields three crops per year. Sweet potatoes are perpetual with tubers regrowing after cutting old vines. Various fruits horticultural and greenhouse plants bloom.
A caution against dwelling on morbid thoughts that can harm mental health. It argues that fear of illness, especially cancer, worsens risk by fostering negative mindsets and urges inoculating the mind with optimism and cheerfulness to prevent psychological disease from developing.
A terse Chicago News note depicts a tense moment as a concerned figure urges a despondent youth to move along, stating self harm is not a crime yet urging departure from the area. The fragment hints at social distress and public safety concerns in an urban setting.
In a brief Detroit Free Press exchange, Nan calls the bulldog horrid while Belle argues bulldogs can be lovely only when they look horrid.
Tickets on sale daily during September and October with ten day stop overs allowed west of Minot North Dakota. For further information inquire of any Great Western Agent or Palmer Colorado Pacific.
St Paul Minnesota notice announces one fare for round trip via Chicago Great Western Ry. Ticket sale from Aug 30 to Sept 6. Return by Sept. For more information contact Any Great Western Agent or J P Ewer Chicago Ill.
The Chicago Great Western offers Tuesday excursions in September to Indiana and Ohio points. Tickets are one fare plus 2.00 dollars for the round trip. For details contact any Great Western Agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago Ill.
Tickets on sale during ber and October for five days at. Rates 41.70 to California and Arvo with Checago Grea Weeter. Allowed at certain California point. For further information inquire of any Crear Western AgentorJd P. Eimer, GI A, Chicago, Illinois.
A trade recruitment note invites competent men for creamery general merchandise bars hotels and packing houses in the Chicago Great Western area. It lists multiple states Iowa Illinois Minnesota Missouri and urges correspondence to Mapes and Mave Leafite and Wd Reed Industrial Agent in Wichita Building. June 9.
A five dollar round trip excursion to Duluth Minnesota departs Saturday August 23 1902 on the regular morning Chicago Great Western train arriving St Paul at 10 45 p m. The return leaves Duluth at 11 10 p m Sunday August 24 with tickets valid from St Paul on any Great Western train after August 27. For information contact any Great Western Agent or J Elmer G P A Chicago Ill.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway extends from Eureka in McPherson County South Dakota to Linton the Emmons County seat North Dakota passing through the Wheat Belt. The line will be finished by fall in time for harvest and five towns Greenway Zeeland Stafford and Linton will be placed on the market during August. Watch for opening dates.
Linton in Emmons County Dakota becomes a key junction on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway from Eureka. Lot sales are set for September 4, 1902 at Eureka South Dakota with excursion rates offered. Contact W Morrow Eureka SD for details and ticket info from rail agents.
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