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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1908
Page
4
Atlantic City faced a blue Sunday as all 220 saloons and hotel bars closed amid Governor Fort’s enforcement threat. No troops were needed and a local option relief effort may be pursued in January. Nearby visitors watched a dry seaside town and liquor interests faced $159,000 in losses.
In Montpelier Vermont on August 31 officials gauge fall voting for governor and congressmen while awaiting the late Senator Proctor’s successor. Lieutenant Governor George B Prouty seeks to extend a Republican win over Democrat James E Burke with the plurality seen as a national sentiment gauge.
French trapper Alex Fraisser was found dead in his shack five miles west of Mant Towash, lying in a pool of blood with a bullet hole in the back of his head. Authorities say he was killed for several hundred dollars in a chest. no arrests have been made.
Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock leaves New York for Chicago to meet Western campaign managers and advisory committee members. He will return to the city Thursday or Friday then brief Southern state chairmen and national committee members before a possible Cincinnati stop to confer with Taft.
Clay City Illinois reports Jusus Turner a wealthy farmer killed his wife last June and wounded his son who he mistook as her admirer. Turner then hanged himself in his county jail cell using bedclothes as a rope.
Lincoln Nebraska August 31 William J Bryan Democratic candidate for president began another series of speeches leaving for St Paul Minnesota to address fair grounds on government extravagance He will speak at Fargo Grand Forks North Dakota and Sioux City Iowa before returning Thursday He plans general campaign topics and will later dispatch Labor Day and Peoria speeches to press associations.
American tourists visit Westminster Abbey and seek the tomb of Edward II. A London verger explains with a joke that they only “are the odd numbers,” leaving the visitor puzzled about the legendary monarch.
Chicago August 31 Morgan Cunning ham aged fifteen was struck over the heart by a pitched ball during a game between teams organized by two Chicago business houses at a West Side park. He died instantly in front of several hundred witnesses.
A New York Sun reader extols schnitz and klase a home style dish of ham bone dumplings and dried apples. The vivid recipe describes boiling a ham bone, making light dumplings, stewing dried apples, and serving with the apples as sauce for a nostalgic German family meal from the Mohawk valley.
New York Yacht Club debates Dunraven’s honorary membership as Olsen recalls a reporter asking about expulsion. Olsen shows a Tribune clipping that lampoons Dunraven while noting he never shares information, only a guess, before the meeting votes to strip him of privileges.
A New York Tribune summary traces the Blarney stone from Blarney Castle in County Cork Ireland through its legends. It notes the supposed powers of flattery coaxing and honeyed speech, the stone’s dubious authenticity, and the stone’s influence on language including the terms blarney and related phrases. It cites historical mentions by Croker Lover Buchanan Irving Lowell and others.
Mrs. Abigail Jennings defends Miss Rachel Gregg against outsiders labeling her eccentric or crazy. A summer boarder cites Miss Gregg sending a bag of eggs to Mrs. Cole with laundry, causing shirt waist damage. Jennings defends Rachel as lacking wisdom sometimes but argues everyone errs.
A Kansas City Journal quips that modest extra work after hours can impress bosses but too much overtime may trigger suspicion of accounting tricks by a worker.
In a Black and White strip, The Maid jokes about luck and Friday weddings as The Abominable Bachelor questions why Friday would be unlucky. The dialogue plays on fate and humor in a light modern tone.
A Pittsburg Post snippet recalls a wedding vow moment with a groom denying a matter in jest. The exchange questions truth in romance, ending with a wry admission that he does consent, shaking norms of ceremonial phrasing.
The Galveston News notes Southern readers oppose northern writers using Black dialect in magazines and criticize the practice as a breach of authenticity and taste.
A brief London Globe item recounts a street quarrel over tipping a water carrier. A beggar asks for a penny for food, pointing to a sixpence he holds to tip the waliter, highlighting a social exchange about alms and tipping.
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