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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1909
Page
2
The completed ditch drains 57 000 acres but the watersheds it affects are unclear. It channels flood water faster, raising Cedar River levels and threatening the city during storms. Nov 15 backwater and Nov 21 snowmelt warn that state drainage changes are needed to prevent heavy losses.
I offer for sale the furniture from a fully furnished large rooming house near the college. The stock includes parlor dining and bedroom pieces in mahogany maple oak and walnut, plus heating stoves and china ware. Also offered is a modern residence with a new barn and cement walk, one block from the college.
Northbound departures at 4 28 a m and 5 50 p m head to St Paul Minneapolis Dubuque Chicago Des Moines and Kansas City Fort Dodge Council Bluffs and Omaha depart south at 12 25 p m and 11 47 p m Arrivals from Fort Dodge Mason City Lyle Council Bluffs and Omaha at 5 50 p m and 4 28 a m Arrivals from those cities at 11 47 p m
In Duluth a mother of Austrian origin traversed eighteen miles with her two young children to reach Gheen Minn station. She kept the seven month old baby warm but the baby's legs were badly frozen and amputation may be necessary. The six year old girl Maggie was sent to a school for feeble minded.
Washington announces that 2 600 national banks must hold monthly board meetings appoint examining and discount committees and have all loans and discounts approved by the board at the monthly meeting with records kept permanently. Controller Murray requests banks to amend bylaws to reflect the changes.
Park Rapids Minnesota reports a dam breach during new flume construction by Park Rapids Mill and Elevator. The old dam upstream closes to stop flow. if it holds, repairs by month end possible, but waterworks and power are at risk and fire protection would be lacking.
Minneapolis market report lists wheat futures with Dec at 1.045 to 1.054, May 1.05, July 1.06. On track No. 1 hard 1.06 to 1.07, No. 1 Northern 1.065 to 1.06, No. 2 Northern 1.04 to 1.04.
St Paul market report lists cattle prices from good to choice steers at 6.70 to 7.50, fair to good cows and heifers 4.25 to 7.95, hogs at 7.75 to 8.10, sheep wethers 4.25 to 4.50, yearlings 5.00 to 5.50, spring lambs 6.50 to 7.26.
Wheat prices arrive and on track with No. 1 hard at 1.0714 dollars, No. 1 Northern 1.07, No. 2 Northern 1.05, Nov 1.0514 to 1.0514 and Dec 1.03, May 1.05. Flax in store 1.8134, on track 1.7944, to arrive 1.8344, Nov 1.81 4, Dec 1.764, May 31.80.
Wheat futures listed for December May and July with quoted ranges around 1.06 dollars per bushel. corn and oats futures show declines and gains across December May and July contracts. Pork and butter egg and poultry prices are given with small weekly fluctuations across several months.
The Chicago market listings show cattle values by category including Reeves Texas steers Western steers stockers and feeders cows and heifers calves with prices ranging roughly from 2.10 to 8.50. Hog prices cover light mixed heavy rough and good to choice grades with figures between 6.70 and 8.45. Sheep are listed for native yearlings and lambs with values from 2.75 to 7.60.
U S district judge Charles Amidon argues in Fargo Congregational church that professional criminals and the hopelessly insane should be executed to prevent future harm. He compares costs of incarceration to education and urges preemptive removal of dangerous individuals.
New York December 1 James Bendernagel denies being made the goat by the American Sugar Refining company amid a federal fraud prosecution. His counsel George W. Beattie asserts Bendernagel will testify for the government and defend himself, claiming he acted under orders and will reveal all. The witness testified employees were paid to underweigh sugar and Bendernagel, former Williamsburg Brooklyn plant superintendent, was the money payer in some instances.
Dr. Ionnesco of Bucharest arrives to demonstrate a spinal anesthetic using Stovaine with strychnine and distilled water. The method yields insensitivity to pain without unconsciousness or typical ether and chloroform side effects, with a reported safe outcome in a case where a patient walked back to his cot. Paris and London specialists disagree on general safety.
Mrs. John Wright Hunt of Detroit arrived in New York denying she eloped. The 21 year old former Beaste Harriet Babcock married to a 65 year old millionaire, left Paris with a self styled Russian prince. The couple toured Southern Europe and Egypt before she returned home with her father meeting her at the pier.
President Taft issues an order barring bureau officers and military officials in Washington from sharing official information with any house or senate committee or member of Congress without department head authorization. Senators and representatives decry the move as an abridgement of long held rights, warning of a possible major backlash similar to past battles with Roosevelt.
An excerpt laments modern living spaces that deny pets gardens memories and baby spaces. It argues a true sense of home hinges on warmth, companionship, and personal touches like kittens or babies to feel complete.
A cautious speaker critiques germ communications as blunt and practical, noting that microbes convey illness directly whereas medical circles use formal language. The exchange highlights a clash between everyday speech and scientific discourse in health.
A courtroom exchange portrays a defendant asked about alleged assault on a spouse. The prisoner responds evasively claiming intent was to make a hit, while the judge questions the charge and phrasing.
A fragment from the Detroit Journal quotes a dialogue about gender and desire, noting that women do not always value material displays. The text ends with a proverb about learning and common sense.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh claiming to cure all stages of the disease. It states the medicine works systemically by affecting the blood and mucous surfaces and offers $100 to any case it cannot cure. It urges readers to request testimonials.
Alonzo J. Whiteman, sentenced to state prison from Erie county in December 1905 for eight years and five months for obtaining money under false pretenses, must serve out his term. Attorney General O Malley ruled the Massachusetts 1901 guilty pleas prevent first offender parole eligibility under the new statute.
A 320 acre Dodge County Minnesota farm near Claremont with stock, house of nine rooms, barn, granary, drive well, windmill, and outbuildings. Offers easy terms at 55 per acre. Also 160 acres in Mower County at 50 per acre, plus a large Austin area property with grove. Subdivide or sell whole. insurance and real estate loans offered.
Watertown D. D. December 1 Goodwin Johnson aged twenty two despite a physician's reassurance believed he had tuberculosis and shot himself in the head. He went from the doctor's office to his hotel room and fired the fatal shot before a mirror. Nervousness was cited as his real affliction.
The federal investigation into oleomargarine frauds, alleged to stretch from the Pacific coast to Wisconsin, will take formal shape in Milwaukee today with the arraignment of two leaders, J. H. Davis and Edward Klimas, before Federal Court Commissioner John F. Harper.
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