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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1906
Page
2
A brief newspaper notice notes John H. Skinner as Editor and Pro with Artrude Ellis-Skinner as Associate, indicating a refined editorial leadership arrangement. The short item signals a professional staff update within the publication.
A satirical Potpourri notes business struggles pushing a church bazaar as a remedy. It laments Vortelyou and calls for divorce of politics from the post office while joking about Alpine shoes for ice and editors urging early Christmas buying without action due to money.
The Sunday speaker from Fairmont launches fiery denunciations from a hill above Worthington, targeting moral faults and the citadel of sin with relentless passion and heated rhetoric.
Readers stress the lack of readable street names in Austin while a stranger laments the issue as the city’s post office and local schools face criticism. Postmaster concerns about appointments clash with Sweningson’s tenure, and teachers are advised against formal Christmas gift exchanges to ease burdens on students.
We were shown such great kindness by all that our hearts go out in thank fu'ness to the various orders, kind friends, neighbors and Catholic Forrest rers who rendered such kind assistance during the death of our dear beloved son and brother Mrs. THOMAS MEANY AND FAMILY.
The A U W Austin Lodge No 32 AOUW will hold its annual election of officers on Thursday evening December 13 at Elk's hall at 7 30 p m You are requested to be present L O Fairbanks Recorder London notes a humorous misprint and a joke item follows about a mistaken whisper in a drawing room ending with a quip about eyesight in a London humor column
A renowned collector bought a 1489 Aldus book believed real by its dolphin anchor mark, only to learn it was a modern fake. The piece details expert forgeries of Shakespeare first folios and other rare volumes, plus the work of skilled restorer forgeries and market manipulation targeting bibliophiles.
A description notes the devilfish able to alter its own color and the surrounding water hue as it lies on a rock observing land crabs nearby.
A man sought a lecture at a lyceum bureau presided by two managers. He impressed them with lecturing skills, but the senior member was departing on a trip and unavailable.
A young lecturer is pressured by a senior partner and a junior manager to present a reading. After weeks of persuasion the senior refuses the work as useless, but the young man reveals the critique, saying the senior’s warning proved the reading was not better. The tale ends with the surprised partners acknowledging the truth.
A meditation on jealousy, conflict, and rights. The Atehixou Globe comments on how troublemakers swell their ranks, how defenders face critics, and how people resent meddling in their affairs. It laments the ease of causing trouble and the clash between those who support a doctor and those who deride him.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Penhurst Place in southern England as Sir Philly Sidney’s birthplace and Edmund Waller’s courtship of Lady Dorothea Sidney. The poet’s reply to the countess mocks her aging beauty, saying he will write again when she is young and handsome as before.
A note from Notes and Queries on Garrick's Miss In Her Teens cites Tag speaking to Flash in Act 2, urging a fight and remarking two gentlemen fit yesterday, illustrating an Americanism discussion within the play context.
An advertisement for a round trip Wabash railroad excursion from Chicago to Texas. It states a $25 fare for the round trip with itinerary details and contact at P H Tristram, A G p 9 Treet, Chicago to obtain printing and timing information.
The Wabash operates sleeping car service through Hot Springs with daily departures from Chicago at 11:20 a.m. and connections to Cape. In Hot Springs, timing notes include an 8 o’clock listing, and readers are invited to request illustrated matter from FH Tristran at Adams Street, Chicago.
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