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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1909
Page
8
Benjamin F. King drove from Dexter with 25 head of beef cattle, eleven heifers and twelve cows arriving in Chicago after a cold trip. Cows sold at the top of the market five cents, heifers at 6.25, stock being shorthorns. King, striving for 15 years, returned home pleased with the prices.
The Samaritan lodge elected officers at its annual gathering led by W. J. Bell as G S and Mrs S Emerson as L V G with Carl Johnson as Levite and Scribe Frank Meyers. Installation is set for December 22, 1909.
The Bonificient and Samaritan degree members meet at the Elks hall at 1 40 PM Friday to attend the funeral of deceased member Mrs Julia Emmons. Signed W J Bell G B.
Invitations extended to all Chapter Masons and their ladies for a reception at the Masonic hall Friday night. Also a note of a Progressive League meeting tonight on a business matter with expected large attendance. A. W. Edson to become Austin citizen next spring after purchasing the John Teeter house on Garfield street and adjoining land from Thomas Beatty, including 20 acres north of the city for future building.
The Rutgers Targum states hazing is indefinable yet ubiquitous, shaping sophomore and life stages at West Point. It calls hazing an education for those who would be slaveholders or leaders of groups, and even a method to test strength of teams and walls.
The article recalls Millet’s long hardship with wife’s support guiding him to the Barbizon cottage. After years of toil he began The Angelus, a work he doubted many times but restored by his spouse. The painting eventually hung in the Louvre and propelled Millet toward lasting fame among artists.
Two neighbors quarrel over scratched potato rows as each keeps hens. One neighbor secretly sells his birds then returns home to threaten more shots. The next day he shoots a hen in his garden and throws it into the other’s yard, escalating a feud that continues.
A neighbor refused to share his hens and, after a seventh visitor arrived, struck him on the head. The assailant then retrieved the hen and threw it back shouting that they preferred pheasant and that he had sold his hens, as reported by Pearson's Weekly.
Two Canadians boast about salmon rivers with fantastical heat and mineralized fish. One claims boiled salmon from springs and heat up the stream. The other says tin mine ore colors the fish, making them ready tinned for market.
The article notes that modern embalmers still hide much of the ancient Egyptian process. It cites Herodotus and Diodorus describing three embalming methods with costs of about $2,000, $60, and a third affordable to all, according to New York American.
The piece notes Spain as the land of the onion and cites Mr Shaw of Spain of Today in a brief verse. It contrasts travelers’ appreciation for truth over form and alludes to garlic and a drink as a playful image.
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt shows a dialogue about drink habit and cure, suggesting irony over recovery claimed by price and thirst as remaining urges. No identifiable persons or organizations are fully named in the fragment.
Quotations from the New York Journal feature a terse exchange about love and self-loathing. The dialogue contrasts neighborly sentiment with inner distress in a brief, sharp exchange.
A note records that the first star catalogue appeared circa 1590. It marks the shift to systematic celestial listing and reflects early Renaissance astronomy. The entry highlights the historical milestone in star mapping and the evolving science of astronomy.
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