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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1910
Page
7
Relief comes in two minutes with HYOMEI breathing inhaler. Complete cure in weeks, no stomach dosing, just drops in the hard rubber inhaler. Available for $1.00 outfit, with extra liquid at low price. sold by K. O. Wold and druggists.
The Natchez commanded by Captain T. P. Leathers challenged the New Albany boat the Robert E. Lee under Captain John W. Cannon in a famed river race. The Natchez set a record 275 miles from New Orleans to St. Louis in 8 days 21 hours 58 minutes, spurring Cannon to outdo them by loading extra fuel and clearing upper works to reduce wind resistance and gain speed.
On Tuesday June 20 at 4 45 p m the Robert E Lee left New Orleans and the Natchez followed five minutes later. Large crowds gathered at Natchez Vicksburg Helena and other towns. The Natchez said it lost seven hours and one minute due to fog and broken machinery while the Robert E Lee arrived in St Louis thirty three minutes ahead of the old record. Fifty thousand spectators welcomed the winner as Captain Cannon was hailed at a celebratory banquet hosted by local business leaders.
A Cleveland Leader excerpt joking about proposals spoken in sighs and gurgles rather than words, noting that true proposals emerge from feeling rather than language, with playful quips on romantic speech.
A humorous fragment from the Boston Transcript features a joke about a grandmother losing teeth and a biting tongue. The dialogue format pivots on a quip about eating and wit, reflecting light domestic humor.
In a year end gesture Horrobin of Austin Minnesota offers deep discounts to move Rose Bud stock and other canned goods. Apricots 25 cents, raspberries 15, gooseberries 13, peaches 25 and 30, plums 15, peaches unpeeled 10, clam juice 15, clam cocktail 5, sugar beets 13. Gold Medal flour $1.35, Nature Gift patent $1.25, Gilt Edge patent $1.25, buckwheat Wisconsin greens 40.
An advertisement offers a $100 reward for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo. It vouches for the firm’s honesty over 15 years and cites a nationwide bank endorsement. The salve promotes internal use and promises free samples and a 75 cent price.
Secretary Meyer proposes reorganizing the Navy to boost economy and efficiency. He urges building two battleships and other craft, endorses airships launched from ship decks, and cites Ely’s test flight as proof of feasible shipboard platforms for scouting and information gathering. He calls for $25,000 for further experiments and outlines fleet adjustments and cost savings.
A double seated rig carrying seven on West Forty-fourth Street tipped into a gully after a scare from an automobile. Miss Elfrida Eggum, 17, senior at Minnesota College, died from a temporal skull fracture. Four others were injured, including Miss Ester Westlund and Miss Alma Anderson. The rig and horses were wrecked. bystanders captured the loose animals.
In a New Haven letter to Chamber of Commerce president Colonel Isaac M. Ullman Roosevelt announces his December 13 speech will mark his first public statement on the causes of the recent political upheaval and will detail the factors behind it.
Wanted buyers for oats and corn, houses and city lots in Austin and surrounding lands in Mower County Wisconsin or Dakota. Also milch cow and calf, pigs, hay, harnesses, wagons, and other farm goods for sale or barter. No commission when dealing directly.
In Wheeling West Virginia on December 5 a fifteen foot bobsled carrying Harold Meyer age thirteen and Charles Brahler age fifteen crashed into a car on Altenheim hill. Both boys died almost instantly and the sled was shattered. The automobile was wrecked.
Sleepy Eye Minnesota December 5 Jens Larson aged sixty two hanged himself in a barn after family troubles and alcohol issues. Larson came to the country twenty four years ago and had borne a good reputation despite later troubles with his wife.
In Paris outskirts on December 5, actor M. Raucourt fought a duel with dramatic critic M. Champagne. The actor struck the critic through the lung, leaving him in desperate condition. Police handle the case.
Lexington dispatch reports Bill Lee, a noted mountain desperado and escaped convict once sentenced to hang, killed in a Saeger West Virginia ambush after years of terrorizing half West Virginia. A $500 reward was offered for his capture.
Minneapolis and Duluth markets report wheat prices with December and May contracts. No. 1 hard and No. 1 Northern values range around $1.04 to $1.06, with No. 2 Northern near $1.01 to $1.03. Flax futures show on track Dec around $2.53 and May near $2.58.
St Paul market reports Old Farm cattle prices with ranges for good to choice steers at five to five and a half dollars, cows and heifers from three seventy five to four twenty five, hogs at seven to seven and a quarter, and sheep including wethers yearlings and spring lambs priced from three to five and a half dollars.
Wheat Dec 91 3 4 c May 97 3 4 c July 94 3 4 c Corn Dec 46 1 4 c May 48 c July 49 1 4 c Oats Dec 32 5 c May 35 c July 35 c Pork Jan 17 75 May 16 77 4 4 c Butter Cre meries 23 28 c dairies 23 27 c Eggs 194 33 c Poultry Turkeys 15 20 c chickens and springs 10 c
Chicago markets report animal price ranges for cattle including Texas steers Western steers stockers and feeders cows and heifers calves and hogs with light mixed heavy rough good to choice heavy and pigs plus sheep native yearlings and lambs with stated bid and asking figures as of December 3.
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