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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1909
Page
1
In a Pittsburg Press column a cat and dog fancier offers an imported Persian cat for 1000 dollars to a millionaire who just bought a 5000 dollar bulldog. The witty exchange questions value and taste in showy pets.
Faribault resident Tim Wieben praises Dr Addi son Jones for a painless, nonoperative cure that avoided work delay. He calls the doctor honorable and claims his treatment restored health without surgery.
Destructive blazes amid brutal cold lash Manitoba Minnesota Iowa and Kansas with losses totaling about 1 million dollars. Winnipeg Kalamazoo Fort Dodge suffer major fires as firemen battle frozen conditions. One death reported in Minnesota while a Norfolk Nebraska reading hits 18 below and Sioux City Iowa reaches 10 below.
A Vatican delegation sought to ease tensions by commissioning Cardinal Vincent Vanutelli to bargain with the United States Ambassador John G. Leischmann on an influential diplomatic end.
The War Department announces former Senator J C S Blackburn has resigned from the Isthmian Canal Commission, approved by President Taft, effective December 4.
A naturalist David Starr Jordan observed three Macacus monkeys named Bob Jocko and Mono to compare instinct and reason. Mono handled an egg with inherited skill though never seeing one. Bob treated the egg as a nut then ate shell and contents, showing mistaken reasoning. Jocko rejected the egg after trying it, displaying dislike and discard.
A Philadelphia Record item recounts a young man in a cafe who claimed he was the most unfortunate person and wagered money that he was correct in using un fortunate. He won $15 in small bets after others bought a dictionary and learned the standard spelling. He later boasted of a prior $10 win on the same wager.
Fifty members of Central American colonies in Mexico City condemn Secretary Knox and President Taft for US policy toward Nicaragua. They form an organization and charge US intervention menaces all American nations by setting a precedent that no country may punish North American criminals without US retaliation.
Governor Eberhart announced a state government sponsored conservation conference in St Paul for March 9 and 10. He will invite Richard A. Ballinger secretary of the interior and Gifford Pinchot chief forester to speak on conservation. An effort aims to bring Dr. Eliot Harvard president emeritus to visit St Paul in March.
An old advertisement claims a reward for curing catarrh and touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from Gates and Co Toledo. It asserts F J Cheney is honorable, mentions Walding Kinnan & Mars wholesale pharmaceuticals, and notes testimonials and 75 cent price. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Valentine Buschek aged sixty five shot his wife aged forty seven in their home and then killed himself. The wife is severely wounded with a penetrating abdomen injury and intestines severed. recovery is unlikely. Neighbors say jealousy may have driven the act. the couple were alone at the time.
Dr Chas F Lewis surgeon advertises eye services and throat treatment. X ray and electrical therapy offered. Office at 1972 Interstate 276 in Austin with two phone numbers.
Rome reports Pope Pius X is deeply anxious for the United States to establish a policy or action in response to a pressing international matter. The note cites high Vatican concern and seeks prompt American involvement.
The passage discusses how gravity changes across celestial bodies. It asserts that a man on the Moon would jump easily and an elephant would be light, while on Jupiter or Saturn heavy gravity would impede movement and crush large animals.
The state department says a telegraphed report about the United States demanding President Zelaya of Nicaragua resign and retire by month’s end is false. No such demand or self-stated retirement has been announced by Zelaya. A Panama to New Orleans report ordering executions of Americans with the revolutionary army is also discredited.
James J. Hill told the National Corn Exposition that a new farming system will greatly raise soil productivity and prevent a food shortage as population and demand rise. He warned Congress that current tilled farms may fail to feed the nation in the near future.
Great Falls Montana December 10 Hewitt Clingan twenty four year old son of BH Clingan former Belt postmaster died by his own hand in a self inflicted gunshot no motive has been determined and police report no other details available
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