Local notes and social rounds fill Austin town pages
Austin residents report visits from La Crosse Faribault and Rome Moscow as well as weddings sales and charity events. The Cedar Camp of Royal Neighbors holds officer elections Monday evening December 8. Carleton College Glee Club concert set for January 1. A Baptist ladies sale December 12 13 features aprons rummage and home cooking. West's department store offers gloves purses fur scarfs and Christmas bags.
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H. A. Harrington
la Crosse
F. ©. Montgomery
Faribault
Austin
Cedar Camp
Royal Neighbors
West’s
Chas. L. West
Jacob Nicholson
Blue Earth
Carleton College Glee Club
Ladies of the Episcopal Church
Lyman Baird
Austin Furniture Co
East Side News Briefs From Wisconsin and Minnesota
Local notes report H. M. Brenman in Milwaukee and Conductor Graham back to work. Amos family returns to Wells. Barrett and brother George visit Fairbank. Night switchman loses finger in yard accident. Funeral attendance prompts New Richland travelers home. L. A. to O. R. C. elects officers led by Pres. Mrs. Bower and Sec. Mrs. Pedlar. luncheon follows. Clara Brundin improving. Mason City’s Robert McFarlane visiting Thomas. Smiths and McFarlanes in St Paul today.
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H. M. Brenman
Supr.o
Milwaukee
City
Amos
Wells
L. A
W. D. Bower
Treas
Pete Gauu
Will Plummer Jr
Chas. Brown
Walt Terry
Tolbertson
Warfield
Cross
W. T. Clay
Will Plummer
H. M. Warfield
Clara Brundin
Robert McFarlane
Mason City
Thomas
A J Cummings Market Letter Publicizing Stock Tips
A J Cummings promotes a daily market letter offering advice on Wheat Corn Oats provisions and futures and New York stocks. The ad invites visitors to learn how and why the business is expanding and to come in for a free information book.
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Geuwaer Or
Commerce
Duluth
Board OF Trade
Chicago
Chamber OF Commerce
New York
London’s Great Clocks and the Illusion of Timepieces
A St. James Gazette piece explores distortions of scale in London landmarks. It questions the apparent size of Big Ben and St Paul’s dome, noting how a foot rule and permission reveal that many measurements are misleading. It reflects on perception of distance and time in the city.
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Nelson
London
Big Ben
St. Paul’s
Strand
Law Courts
St. James
Red as the universal mourning hue through Europe
The piece traces how red dominated mourning colors across medieval Europe and beyond. It notes gradual shifts to black by late fifteenth century and contrasts colors used in Abyssinia Turkey Maori culture. It cites historical practices of red body daubing and red-tinted graves in mourning rites.
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Europe
Abyssinia
Turkey
New Zealand
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Vermont
Wwe
Steam Laundry
W. Bridge St
Wuieh
Snyder
Malloy Bros
T Herald
I. Frederikse
F. M
Moler
Barber College
Minneapolis
Minn
Seapolis
iHard Nor Nor
May Dee
Liverpool
Danube
U.S
Caxton Ridg
Moter Barber College
Minneapolis, Minn
George Duffy
East Bridge Street
Zender
East Side
Frank Fisher
Main and
Franklin Street
Portland
L.F. Torsleff
F. W. Kimball
Maple Street
A. Cressey
Andrew’s Music Store
Bridge Street
Herald
Ane
Railroad Street
Tallman Sweets, McBride the Grocer
Keefe
Mabel Hallowood
Blooming Prairie
The
Armory
Bertha Schroeder
Rudd In
West's
Austin National Bank
J. L. Mitchell
Jonathan Freeman
Moscow
State Horticultural Society
Michael Davy
Baptist Ladies
Miss Sims
Brownsdale
Gertie Horrobin
John Corneveaux
Mankato
Miss Peterson
Cedar Rapids
Lyle
Mrs. Wm. Brown
R. I. Greetags, McBride the Grocer
Mattie Chamberlain
Mason Chamberlain
Tappi
Ed Sutherland
Dakota
McBride the Grocer
Rebekah
J. E. Davis
C. D. Belden
Pres
Katie D. Johnson
Samuel Pettingill
Vreas
Sec’y
Inez Prouty
Davison
Edwin
Mrs. A. V. Manchester
Dr. Allen
Mrs. Regan
Riceville
Mrs. Dineen
McIntyre Post
G. A. R. Hall
Russell
Clara Goodwin
Georgia Hyde
Dora Armstrong
Jay Hormel
Lansing
Edith Carter
William J. Tyler
Rochester
Methodist
W.A. Hans
Waltham
Bessie Waterman
L. H. Carter
Rose Creek
Birkett
Arthur Olson
Bee Hive
Wm. Spicer
N. Dakota
Young
Ray Pooler
Northwood
A. C. Notting
St. Paul
Nettie Gray
Preston
Annie Johnson
George Gleason
Owatonna
D. H. Poole
Bismarck
N. D
East Side News
Augustine Barrett
Fairbank
George
Hazeltines
Gil Maurek
Kelly
Mrs. Ferguson
New Richland
Graham
Decorah
N.E. Pace
Minot
N. Dak
Ole Talbertson
LaCrosse
O. BR. C
George Smith
Esther
McFarlane
Manzanita
Dodo Vera Trefola
Frangipanni
Maurek’s
Peoples Store
A. J. Cummings
North Main Street
United States
Austin Furniture Coo
London’s
Thoroby
J, SR. Scovill, Jr
J. S. R. Scovill, Jr
Main Street
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