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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1910
Page
4
Donovan and Goslee showcase a new funeral car described as a handsome French grey vehicle featuring the latest design. Notable elements include hand carved wood work at the rear front and end panels and refined lamps and fixtures enhancing its finish.
All holders of season tickets whether reserved or not should take them to Wold's and secure checks for seats before 6 p m Monday.
L. E. Grant owner of the Hub Department store presided over a grand opening today staged by Halle-Whittier company. The store featured tastefully decorated booths forming a bazaar layout and a festive holiday ambiance that drew a large crowd throughout the day.
In Austin merchants push sales while corn and feed stay scarce for fowls preparing for the big poultry show on December 21 to 23. A golden wedding celebration will honor two of P. A. Reilly’s famed birds, organized by four veteran breeders including Frank Smith and L. W. Decker. The show plans a lecture titled Why Hens Lay Eggs by Hon. J. J. Furlong.
Young people from the Baptist church held a track meet Friday evening with participants from Minnesota Wisconsin Cornell Drake and Lawrence represented. The event featured spirited yells, college style stunts and winners hailed as heroes. Refreshments of coffee sandwiches doughnuts and pickles were served.
A Harper's Weekly excerpt explains how warm air over a large area creates a low pressure region causing ascent and partial vacuum, drawing in surrounding air to form a cyclone. It compares this to a basin of water when the stopper is removed, where incompressible water rushes inward to create a whirlpool, noting the differences in compression between air and water.
A historical note on monarchs misdating reigns and ages. It cites King Edward VII’s coffin inscription claiming a ninth year instead of the tenth, and Queen Victoria’s 1858 letter to the prince of Wales about reaching age of majority. The piece highlights recurring slips in royal dating and titles.
Austin Lodge 414 B. P. O. Elks invites all to memorial services at Idle Hour theatre Sunday at 3:00 pm. The hourlong program includes opening remarks by Exalted Ruler, quartet performances, memorial address by Rev J F Stout, and closing ceremonies and benediction by Rev C W Holmes.
The article traces windmill origins in England via the Knights of St John from Saracen usage, notes a 718 Bohemia water mill, and describes early fixed mills, later movable designs and dome developments by 1500 in Holland. It ends with humor essays and quips from 19th century periodicals on humor, decorum, and drummers’ traits.
An exchange notes that a wife is often firm in her decisions. He quips that Henrietta is unusually steadfast when she decides to change her mind, reflecting a humorous domestic observation from the Washington Star.
City council held a Friday night session on a proposed Lafayette park to River street road with five residents speaking. City engineer presented two plans and the council scheduled a press meeting for Thursday at 10. A Lincoln street property owners petition seeks a water main extension to South Railroad street corner. The city must install a wind mill and pump at City Springs farm as reservoir work is slated to begin within two weeks.
A note to a schoolmistress laments Johnny ny cannot attend. He was with his father acting as timekeeper for a math problem about walking a mile quarter times at 3.75 mph. The letter hints the father, not the boy, will finish the work in one day. It also mentions a joke about the mother’s husbands as classed Y paragon paradigm paradog.
The author argues that forgetting protects both mind and body. Lingering memory of wrongs or petty meanness wastes mental energy, reduces secretions, impairs digestion, disturbs sleep, and harms overall health. Forgetting is presented as beneficial and healthful practice.
A humorous exchange centers on a wife who hints at speaking about her first husband. The husband dismisses the notion, only for the twist that his wife actually did marry before, making her implied reflections painfully ironic.
A short debate from the Baltimore American in which a speaker proclaims a dog is mongrel while another retorts the animal is merely a common hound, reflecting a humorous clash of class rhetoric in a newspaper excerpt.
A Chicago Record-Herald quip notes the town’s healthfulness by joking that most visible signs are for eye doctors, implying residents stay healthy yet spend nights enjoying the climate and straining eyesight.
Mrs Brooke asks if life insurance gives faith in life. Mrs Lynne replies she has faith in life insurance, noting she has realized $100,000 from two husbands, who were not good, in a Judge's Library style exchange.
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