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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1905
Page
2
The Austin Daily Herald shows JOHN SKINNER as Editor and Prop G 4RTRUDE ELLIS SKINNER as Associate. The paper is entered at the Austin Minnesota Post Office as second class matter.
A local buyer’s guide expands with six additional items for Christmas shopping. The list highlights practical gifts and popular quotable wants, noting availability and pricing to help shoppers compare options this season.
A reflective, lightly satirical piece recalls a Santa Claus scene in the editor’s sanctum. It lists gifts from readers and advertisers, including electric lights, coal dealer notes, and a humorous exchange of notes from insurers. The narrator muses on Christmas meaning and the commercial rush, citing Roosevelt pictures and a Minneapolis Journal ad.
The passage portrays all social classes during Christmas shopping, from busy merchants and practical buyers to tearful observers at shop windows. It notes children and elders counting gifts, the strain of budgets, and the universal lesson that sharing joy returns to the giver.
A Buffalo News piece discusses sleep as a wonderland and self hypnosis our waking and sleeping selves. It explains how we track time in dreams the heart and brain rest during sleep and how eye glands rehydrate upon awakening citing examples from sleep under fire and torture.
Masses at St Augustine's 8:00 and 10:30 a m with evening service at 7 30. First Church of Christ Scientist holds services Sundays at 10:30 a m on Maple St with Sabbath school at 11:45.
Morning prayer and sermon at 16 50 Sunday School at 12 no evening service. The pastor will conduct services at East Side Presbyterian Church at 7 30.
R Edward Jayles ministers at 10:30 morning service The Triumph of Love. Sunday School at noon. B Y P U at 6 50. Evening service at 7 30 The Great Arraignment. Newman’s Hymn Lead Kindly Light sung as solo with Stereopticon. You are invited to worship.
Morning service 10 30 Sunday School at 12 L Thomas Superintendent Christian Endeavor 6 50 Leader F E Knopf Evening service 7 30 You are invited to worship with us Morning sermon Wounded in the House of His friends Evening lecture sermon on The greatest men in the world
9:30 class meeting led by Rev A Cressey. 10:30 regular service with Communion and reception of members. Sunday School at noon. Junior League 3:00 pm Epworth League 6:50 pm with subject What Methodism Stands for led by the pastor. Evening service 7:30 pm Sermon by the pastor on Joseph the Antigrefter first of the great characters series with special music. Strangers and transients invited.
Miss Nott ings hosts a sale of decorated china and water color novelties running from now until Christmas. Call and see them.
The 14th century churchman and scholar John Florissant, born 1357, is famed as the Walter Scott of the Middle Ages. He traveled through France Scotland and Italy and produced chronicles based on his observations, depicting places customs and manners of his era.
A single, terse meditation notes life as an naked start and a troubled path, with an uncertain end. It asserts that doing good here yields good there, and laments that further preaching cannot add more. The voice condenses a lifetime of reflection into a stark, moral axiom.
The article recalls Wellington's decisive stance against placing Parliament near St James's, arguing for a riverfront site to ensure safe ingress and responsive governance amid a growing London population. It notes Napoleon's remark on the decision and hints at broader historical reflections from memoirs of the era.
The passage explains how opera evolved from the Latin meaning work, noting Dryden’s historic definition as a verbal and instrumental lyric tale with scenes and dancing. It contrasts this specialization with drama and poet, both rooted in basic meanings of deeds and makers.
On the line of the Chicago Area Western Railway in Iowa Missouri Illinois and Minnesota for business men professional men and manufacturers openings for nearly all lines ten live towns on progressive railway offering a square deal for all maps maple leaflets town talk and full information on request to Industrial Department O G W Railway St Paul Minn or E B Magill Megr Townsite Department Omaha Neb
A brisk pitch extols cushion sole Kid and Gun metal shoes as comfortable from first wear, claiming delicate variations in shaping provide firm yet flexible support. It asks if such a pair would suit a friend or relative and invites viewing at the store.
A local display promotes a selection of pictures with a promise of fine items and especially low prices for the year. The ad emphasizes affordability and a varied assortment to attract shoppers.
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