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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
3
An advertisement extols Kodol as a perfect digester that relieves indigestion and stomach upset by resting the stomach while it digests any particle of food. It claims natural cure requires the stomach to rest and presents laboratory demonstrations of digestion in test tubes.
The note urges readers to visit a druggist for a small bottle deal linked to DeWitt & Co Chicago. It hints at paying the druggist directly and mentions a large bottle with active ingredients, suggesting a promotional drug offer tied to the company’s Chicago laboratories.
Bardou recalls the pre execution night at La Roquette for Tropman in 1875 and the crowd singing as the guillotine stood ready. He notes Deibler ordering and the shocking moment when the executioner’s wife appears nearby. Clemencagu described Emile Henry's 1841 decapitation and the gruesome process in grim detail.
The Edinburgh landlady of the seventies kept blinds drawn on Sundays, echoing a family tradition. The piece cites Mr. Thompson in Weaver's Craft noting ministers sometimes spied on absentees with elders, catching redup lips and sins from families to drinking, kissing, or dining, leading to session discipline.
An elderly couple's marriage gains a humorous twist when a locked room reveals the husband kept cheeses for every past sweetheart. He explains none since meeting his wife, while she laments missing loaves of bread bought for each kiss, wishing they had enough to last.
A farmer visited a grocer and offered five shillings in payment for goods valued at a sovereign. The grocer protested, the man claimed a judge allowed paying five shillings in the pound. The dispute showed the man recently settled insolvency on that basis and was angry at the correction.
Mrs Johnson frets after breaking a hand glass and fears seven years of misfortune. Her maid Mary nonchalantly notes she has just broken a large pier glass instead, downplaying superstition in a light London Fun moment.
A four year old named Barbara brings a minuscule egg she found while gathering eggs. She explains with wonder that it must be all the dough the hen had left, a small moment of domestic whimsy captured in Delineator.
A Philadelphia Record quote contrasts a wise man and a simple mug on reputation. It notes people strive to live up to a good name or down a bad one, capturing a streetwise reflection on social judgment.
Mrs Hutton invites readers to join a new piano club as Mr Flatleigh agrees to participate. They discuss selecting the first featured pianist and reference Chicago News as the source of the exchange.
A Sydney Bulletin item notes a hostess urging guests to stay for dinner as rain begins. A departing guest resists, insisting the rain is not bad enough to ruin plans. The exchange captures social etiquette amid changing weather.
The article recounts Franklin compiling Poor Richard's Almanac with maxims like early to bed and early to rise and no gains without pains. It notes the homey sayings popularized the almanac and that Franklin sold about 10,000 copies annually. The first issue appeared in 1732.
A Chicago Record-Herald humorous moral tale features a northern traveler puzzled by late trains. A Georgian gentleman explains the delay as Southern chivalry, claiming trains wait for the ladies, God bless them.
The article claims no one has seen the sun and describes a central fiery nucleus beyond our knowledge, accounting for more than nine tenths of the solar mass, hidden from view. Surrounding it lies a chromosphere about 5,000 miles thick, described as a gaseous flood.
In a humorous dialogue, Orlando contends with Gloriana about a lingering arm around her waist, revealing a light moment of misreading and timing as the Chicago Tribune captions the scene.
A humorous notice from the Atchison Globe noting a wife appears more worn than her sick husband after long caregiving, reflecting on domestic burdens during illness.
The passage recalls Herodotus noting Serbian slaves rebelling during a campaign. Masters returned to seize property, were threatened by whipping to restore control. The tactic allegedly cowed slaves who fled as masters advanced with knotted thongs. The account also mentions Scythians echoing the approach.
A Bavari officer recalls a Balkan inn extortion incident in Montenegro. After overnight lodging, the innkeeper asks for the bill. the traveler pays without checking, prompting the landlord to ask to run a second pass at the bill claiming something was omitted.
A brief Chicago News item notes an awkward moment as Jack hesitates to comment on kissing impropriety after an evening, and explains he cannot speak further because he "took the words right out of her mouth."
A London Telegraph snippet captures a finance insider scoffing at greed. The financier boasts there are a hundred money methods, while a companion asserts only one honest path exists, prompting a sharp exchange on ethics in finance.
Mrs Doll and Mrs Spiteful discuss their husbands in a breezy Londor Tit-Bits exchange. The chatter hints at domestic levity and social foibles without naming further facts.
A husband recalled by a wife using a broom to argue he should have returned home hours earlier, highlighting a domestic dispute framed as a humorous recollection.
A short note from the Atchison Globe suggests wedding emotions may be heightened during ceremonies but often shift afterward to quieter reflections on commitment and future plans.
An old U S style advertisement offers 100 dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case using Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists F J Cheney Co Toledo and Walding Kinnan Mary Wholesale Druggists Toledo as endorsers and notes the cure is taken through the blood and mucous membranes. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Advertisement touts DeWitts Little Early Risers as the safe easy pleasant and cute little liver pills. Also promotes DeWitts Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve for cuts burns bruises and piles sold by all druggists.
Market notes show prices for fat hogs at 6 50 to 6 75 and fat lambs 400 to 5.00. Cattle range 3 00 to 3 25 for common grades, canners 1 25 to 2 00, bulls 2 00 to 3 25. Poultry cash prices include hens four pounds and over at 12 cents, geese and ducks listed, Hormel & Co paying today for poultry with empty crepe and higher rates for early-week deliveries.
The advertisement promotes DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills as a remedy for kidney trouble and urinary disorders. It claims quick antiseptic action and soothing pain with full customer satisfaction and states they are sold by all druggists.
The State of Minnesota to PF H Gray defendant you are summoned to appear before a justice of the peace in Austin Minnesota on December 13 1909 at 10 am to answer the complaint of W P Lambert plaintiff demanding 14 67 with interest If you fail to appear judgment will be entered Give dated November 17 1909
Dr Clifford C Veck lists office in Dirsh Block Austin Minnesota offering medical and surgical services.
Letters from Splendid Buckeye women praise Peruna for kidney and internal troubles catarrh stomach issues and loss of appetite. Mrs Nora Kelley Mrs H A Weaver Mrs Victoria M Pickel Mrs Alice Bogle and Selina Tanner report lasting health improvements and renewed appetites after using Peruna.
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