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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1906
Page
2
The Austin Herald notes a strong Christmas trade surge as merchants plan record holiday displays across the city. Prominent booster R Paccini praises Austin’s location and civic prospects while farmers see 6.79 billion dollars in farm product value last year and a large farm export balance boosting the American agricultural sector.
An advertisement from The Morris Wholesale House of Cincinnati Ohio seeks a manager to run a branch office in Austin Texas. Applicants must submit references and provide a local address for consideration.
Attwood delivered a Melbourne style talk on Happiness at the Congregational church drawing on unselfishness and character, praising Helen Keller as inspiration. He contrasted wealth and riches, urged service to others, and concluded the audience found the lecture well spent and memorable.
Princeton Ky Dec 4 Insurance policies covering buildings owned or controlled by the tobacco trust in Western Kentucky have been cancelled following a mob burning two stemmeries in Princeton Friday night. State Fire Marshal Ayres heads an inquiry as excitement remains high.
Spring Hill Nova Scotia reports 200 smallpox cases leading to closures of schools and churches. Concurrently 1,500 miners and boys strike for higher wages as fuel famine spreads through the town.
Funeral services were held at Christ Episcopal Church in Austin for Frankie Clay this afternoon. The procession included the Orders of Railroad Conductors and Trainmen and Miss Wilson’s 36 scholars. Hundreds crowded the church as the casket bore through lines of grateful children. Interment followed at Oakwood cemetery. Bearers were Paul Meany Olaf Damm Robert Hunt Roy Rickard Archie Simpson Milton Dutcher. The community conveyed its sympathy with a large bank of flowers and tearful prayers.
Mr and Mrs Martin McGreevy celebrated their Golden Wedding with all seven children and grandchildren in attendance. The family honored the couple with $50 in gold and a leather rocking chair, marking a blemish-free family record with no illness or death marring the home.
Local families from Duluth Austin Two Harbors Rose Creek and Mason City gathered in Adams for Thanksgiving. Notables include the McGreevys Reding Schmitt Coleman Krebsbach Alven and Delaney families with visits from W B Brown and Warren Dean.
Peter Verigin arrives in St. Petersburg to gauge Russian stance on Doukhobor repatriation and recruit 10,000 peasants for two year railroad work in Canada. Premier Stolypin indicates government would welcome Doukhobors when ready and urges contracting famine laborers.
Jose Company No 1 responded to a moonlight run from box 13 to the J D Ken Ev an home on Lansing Avenue. Soot in the chimney overheated brickwork and charred nearby wood. The chemical apparatus sufficed. damage about 25 dollars.
The next attraction at the opera house is A Poor Relation to be presented by a strong company under Davis and Eugene on Wednesday December 12. Seats go on sale Monday December 10 and patrons are urged to reserve early for a likely packed house. Lee D. Ellsworth is engaged for Noah Vale with Sol Smith Russell estate backing, and the cast includes notable stock-house veteran Ellsworth. First rate scenery and electrical effects promise a top class production. Sol Smith Russell's successor says he is on his way to us.
An art music program on the life and labors of the Nazarene features over one hundred reproduced paintings by Joseph Hawkes of the Metropolitan Museum. The event includes classical music and is staged at the Catholic church under the Library Committee, with Rev. Fr. Mac Oorry hosting on Tuesday evening December 11 at 8 30. Admission 35 cents middle, 25 cents side sections. tickets available at Malloy's drug store starting Saturday, December 1.
The Peddlers Parade debuts at the Auditorium Wednesday at 8 o clock with forty costumed characters, songs, drills and recitations. Vendors, flower girls, tambourine girls, Swiss toy girls, blind musicians, Indian basket women and rare Italian characters will appear. Mrs. O L West leads the event, promising a lively show for a good cause with tickets at 10 and 15 cents.
The M. EB Ladies invite readers to dinner and supper at the Auditorium on Thursday and Friday. Thursday’s menu features Chicken Dressing Cranberry Sauce Mashed Potatoes Salad Rolle Pickles Coffee. Supper from 5 p.m. offers Beans Cold Meats Brown Bread Rolle Gelatine Pickles Doughnut Coffee.
The menu lists a Friday dinner from 11:30 until served featuring roast pork with gravy apple sauce baked fish mashed potatoes rutabagas sauer kraut hominy salad pickles rolls coffee and a pile. At 6 p.m. dinner offers oyster stew cold meats gelatine pickles hot coffee and cake.
The boxing clash between Tommy Burns and Philadelphia Jack O'Brien is set to go to a finish after Burns accepted the challenge. The Panama Canal project reports influx of laborers and a resignation within the Isthmian canal commission. Washington territory's first governor Wash dies in Portland Oregon.
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