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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1908
Page
3
A terse hardware ad touts harness, a No 1 coal stove with self feeder, and asks for offers. It notes Tam is making cement posta and hitching posts for spring delivery. The seller claims poste are best and cheapest and will protect cattle from lightning. South Kenwood, Phone 99.
A conductor angrily rebuked a tenor who repeated his entrance while the orchestra struggled with an unfamiliar role. The clash followed a noisy interruption during a grand intermezzo, when the leader accused the singer of misusing a nonwritten law as his musicians wheeled through the passage.
A professor argues sight outruns sound while Todgers claims hearing precedes seeing in a joke about an Englishman. The tale ends with the professor fleeing Todgers and the modern era with a motor car.
A reader reports a simple inexpensive method to waterproof matches by dipping ordinary parlor matches in cooled melted paraffin. The coated matches scratch and light after six to seven hours submerged, resisting moisture and unlikely to ignite accidentally, useful for canoeing or camping trips.
An uptown banker on West End Avenue devised a unique child naming method after five years of work. He named three boys Tea, Dick, and Harry, a trio widely discussed in the neighborhood alongside famous names like Tom and Kitty. The scene includes a dramatic moment as a distressed man laments missing the letter V in a crowd.
Aged notes describe the cultivation and shaping of shillalahs in County Wicklow. Young saplings are seasoned in chimneys then wrapped and buried in hotbeds to harden, a preparatory stage before final fitting. The text mentions barony connections and the long history of these sticks.
Gallon burst in upon his friend Alphonse in a rapid, chaotic scene as he asks if he will take his chances with him.
The piece from London Sketch praises the English hotel waiter as a doomed breed with monumental manners. It notes the head waiter’s perfection and kingly bearing, even as the race is fading.
The piece notes a shortage of women in Auckland and across New Zealand with many men unable to marry. A satirical aside imagines a British boy asking if he can become prime minister, and a child replies he would sell his chance for a shilling.
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