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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1903
Page
1
Advertising rates listed for local inserts with price breaks for multiple ads and class items. Community notes report merchants stocking early Christmas goods and local residents planning post holiday business moves, with a fire loss at a dairy plant and a fox sighting near the city.
An afternoon reception at the F A Ticknor home on Main Street drew a congenial crowd from 2 to 6 pm. Mrs Ticknor and Mrs Yardy hosted with Mrs Parker, Miss Parker, Mrs Waing, and Miss Wardy assisting, with holly decorations and service of ice cream, cake, coffee, and wafers. Governor Van Sant’s lunch anecdote is relayed in a humorous note, while a Great Western train mishap near Water Street ends with a horse-drawn bogey narrowly avoiding damage.
A dense church notices page lists St. Augustine's, Oakland Presbyterian, Universalist, First Church of Christ Scientist, Christ Episcopal, and Baptist services with times and sermon topics. Also mentions Sunday School schedules, evening services, and invitations. An advertising block promotes Newbro's Herpicide for dandruff and hair loss with a Detroit-based distributor.
A Chicago dispatch reports the Interstate Telephone corporation formed to merge over four thousand independent exchanges across Wisconsin Kentucky Missouri Iowa Indiana Pennsylvania Nebraska Minnesota and Michigan into a long distance network while retaining local exchanges. The new firm plans to coordinate long distance service amid competition, with independent local operations continuing as before. Also noted is a High School seniors party near Austin with Miss Coxe and Mr Harris enjoying cards and supper before returning home. E J Loya visited Tuchester on Friday.
Fragmented OCR text references VFabruont Minnesota with names and entities garbled. Mentions Tyedd, Las Phe Ghieaga Crean W Toulwar, a rail or travel context, and an agent of J P Kime in Chicago. Details are incomplete and unclear.
On December 24 25 and January 4 the Minneapolis and St Louis branches offer reduced rate excursions. One and one third fare applies for outbound and return. Contact agents for final details and schedules.
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