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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1911
Page
6
Al Mapes departed for Waverley to spend Thanksgiving with relatives. Various residents from Austin, Hayward, Spring Valley and surrounding towns traveled to visit family or attend meetings. A large social scene included servants, dances, and multiple gatherings as the community observed the holiday with guests and hospitality.
The young folks will have a social dance at Allman’s Hall Friday evening. Everybody invited.
Mr Weeks suffers a serious accident and remains bedridden after his tram runaway. Georgia Farley her niece Tressa Auer and friend Winifred Hickie spend Thanksgiving at Georgia’s home in Tappi before returning to Austin. Jules Estwold serves Weeks as engineer. Le Roy residents Mr and Mrs Dutzenrod visit for Thanksgiving. Leota and Joe Gosha visit Cahill family. Mrs Frank Chamberlin retires to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner. Henry Putvin joins home folks for dinner. Calf raffle drawn by Peter Kasel with Matt Korst buying 100 numbers at 50 cents each. Cautions about riding horses on icy ground.
Cedar City resident Kate Deming visits Fort Atkinson and Ruth Fraser stays with her sister. Several families attend a Campfire gathering at Coffee school house and Thanksgiving visits occur among Fraser Brandon Monahan Duerst and Chandler households.
Chicago December seventh. After eight years of legal maneuvering ten Chicago meat packers face trial for alleged Sherman antitrust violations. Jury selection proceeds with thirty challenges per side as government questions stress regulation of private business and potential defendant ties. Defendants present include several attorneys listed with government teams led by James H. Wilkerson and James A. Shean.
A triple wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Devil's Bend near Manor, Pennsylvania, killed six men and injured five. The dead include engineer Frank Daly and J Mr Uhlman, Jer sey City’s James Arthur Bend, Robert Milne of Bradford, Oscar Beardingham the express messenger, and an unidentified man. Two freights collided, delaying an express that then struck wreckage. Twenty horses on the express perished. Uhlman was reportedly buying horses in New York, with receipts for ten horses totaling 44 000 dollars. Estimated value of all killed horses ranges from 50 090 to 60 000 dollars.
The Ekberg Turnblad civil case ends with Swan J. Turnblad paying $20,000 in cash and conveying 34 82 acres valued at 15 dollars per acre to Isaac Ekberg and other former stockholders of the Swedish American Publishing Co. The case filed in 1908 spanned three months of trial and is noted as the longest civil trial in state history.
Letters from the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers in Indianapolis request executive board members in various cities to advise on whether to meet to discuss the McNamara cages outcome and the association’s official stance. Temporary Secretary H S Hockin said he acted under President Ryan’s instruction. The U S district attorney’s office said the grand jury would begin Dec 14 to probe if others were involved with the McNamaras in unlawful transportation of explosives.
Judge Bartlett Tripp former minister to Austria under Grover Cleveland is seriously ill at his home in Yankton Wisconsin.
Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, rejected charges linking organized labor to dynamiting plots. He challenged critics to prove the tie and said labor will endure despite enemies and distorted press coverage.
Duluth report lists wheat and flax prices with futures as of December 6. No. 1 hard at 1.01 and 1.03 for May, No. 1 Northern at 1.00 and 1.04 for July, No. 2 Northern at 0.67 for May. Flax December at 1.97 and May at 1.99.
St Paul market summary lists cattle prices with Good to choice steers 6.50 to 7.00, fair to good 5.75 to 6.35, cows and heifers 4.75 to 5.25, years 6.00 to 6.75. Hog prices reported at 5.50 to 5.90. Sheep quotes show wether 3.00 to 5.60, yearlings 3.25 to 3.75, spring lambs 4.00 to 5.35.
Chicago market notes list futures for Wheat Corn and Oats with Dec May and July contracts and prices. Pork Butter and Poultry prices are shown for Jan May and different product lines. The report records creamery and dairy prices and a remark on Kess pricing.
Minneapolis market report shows cash close on track for various futures. Prices listed include No 1 hard at 1.91 percent, No 1 Northern around 1.01 percent, No 2 Northern near 0.99 to 0.95, No 3 Northern 0.94 to 0.96, No 4 corn around 8.50 to 8.60, white oats 0.45 to 0.46, No 3 oats 0.42, barley 0.65, flax 1.99, and delivery notes for arrival and settlement terms.
Chicago cattle and hog prices show ranges for several categories. Cattle include Beeves Texas steers Western steers stockers and feeders cows and calves while hogs list light mixed heavy and rough grades. Sheep are reported for Native and yearling stock with varied values.
A stone inscription on the riverside promenade at Ems records the July 13 1870 meeting between Wilhelm I and Count Benedetti that precipitated the Franco Prussian War. The emperor later refused to memorialize the event claiming it sorrowful, and noted the spot where he dismissed Benedetti at 9 10 a m under a tree.
A reader's simple experiment shows color depends on sunlight. In a dark room, burning carbonate of soda in a gas flame yields orange yellow light that illuminates objects but erases color, making crimson, blue, red, and yellow appear gray or white and faces look repulsive, proving color loss is a great deprivation.
On December 1 the United States had 94,657,000 people and per capita money circulation of 34.54 dollars. The total money in circulation reached 3,270,582,753 dollars with government assets at 345,943,922 dollars, summing to a national money stock of 3,616,526,? dollars. The April 15, 1910 census recorded 91,972,266 people.
Rochford Land Co lists rent and sale options including three to four room houses with barns on Jay Street and Elm Street in the Third ward. Modern six room house available with price 2500 and monthly payments, plus Mower County farms for sale at five dollars per acre and up. The firm buys sells trades and handles loans insurance and non residence property holdings.
Leave orders for sand and blocks and fence posts. Mike offers to find buyers and arrange deals with little space to advertise. Wanted: a house to rent. three parties seek houses. For sale: three farms, multiple houses in Austin Third Ward and Oakland area. Buy on easy terms. sand or grit available by the load. Mike at 121 North Main St Republican Bldg Ground Floor.
Schedule notes show Great Western Railway and others serving St Paul Minneapolis Des Moines Chicago Dubuque Mason City Omaha Council Bluffs and La Crosse with departures and arrivals at various times including morning and afternoon slots. Data appears garbled but lists multiple daily trains between major hubs.
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