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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1908
Page
2
Ben Davis and McBride the grocer figure in a brief item about a local dollar sale or promotion. The note hints at a promotional event involving a person named Ben Davis and a grocer, with a likely price or deal referenced.
A strictly modern eight room house on Alleghany between Kenwood and Greenwich is available for rent or sale. Down payment options offered. contact architect W. Feele for details.
Local notices promote Eclipse Lumber Co for coal wood lime cement and plaster plus Amber products. Ben Davis apples priced at 90c a bushel and HUB Grocery introduces New Drop New Orleans Molasses. Also public notices invite Sunday church service at the Prestyterian church with Growth in Grace and Lost Opportunities. The Lady Forresters election and Muncon Chatwood recital at the Methodist church are announced with admission 35c adults 1B for children and students.
Vintage Gillette safety razors offered with triple silver plated handles and 12 blades. Morrocco grain cases with violet plush lining priced at 5.00. Other sets include badger hair brushes, shaving soaps, and leather or seal grain cases priced up to 12.00. Accessories feature plate glass mirrors and perfume bottles in various grain cases.
A jumble of anecdotes spans a femme fatale plot, a bold talk on railways by early American visionaries, and art praise in Franz Hals Museum reflections. The excerpts include a late marriage, a curious husband, and a diplomat’s edible delicacies as cultural contrasts unfold.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat item explains the megapode, a bird from Australia that builds a natural incubator. It lays eggs in a mound of leaves, relying on fermentation to generate heat for hatching. The piece marvels at the bird’s self-contained incubation method.
The Glasgow Times recounts the old parable of bell the cat and notes Lord Grey’s remark who will bell the cat. It says the black Earl Archibald Angus took the task during Stirling meeting and was famed as Archibald Bell the Cat for life.
The globe trotter recalls an Allahabad census listing quirky roles such as 35 men who roll with threats of violence and 226 flatterers for gain. He suggests Americans might reveal similarly odd traits if they answered honestly.
A London Tit-Bits joke recalls a schoolmaster testing boys with a riddle. A cabman travels at six miles an hour leaving London, followed three minutes later by another at seven miles an hour. The students answer they would meet at the nearest public house.
An office boy jokes to the bookkeeper that he deserves extra pay for overtime after dreaming about his work all night. The exchange is recorded as a light, humorous vignette from the London Truth.
A Native and a Tourist discuss soil quality and crop choices. The Native notes that planting depends on the seed used, influencing which crops are grown in the area.
A brief Houston Post exchange has one speaker urging influence to invite Jinx to a poker party. The other retorts that Jinx is the poorest poker player seen, a claim the speaker admits.
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