Local notes on entertainment and society events
Park Goodwin improves but cannot attend office. M F E Ladies present a church playlet His Old Sweethearts tonight and Saturday with 15 cent admission. Mr and Mrs Fay Lawrence visit from Fedora S D. Owa tonna Fruit Store advertises 10 cent candy, Christmas varieties. Funeral attendance for William Kelly. Carl Gerhart ill with pneumonia. Bijou features Anna De Lisle Trip. Oakland Baptist women raise over 570 at bazaar and dinner. Albert Lea Motor Co buys vacant Water and Chatham lot to build a cement garage.
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M. FE
Fay Lawrence
Fedora, S.D
E. H. Green
Anna de Lisle
Bijou
Owatonna
Christian Church Sunday School
Brotherhood of American Yeomen
Christmas Vesper Service at Young Women’s Association
A Sunday four o'clock vesper service in YWCA rooms features Mrs. Levi Decker reading The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke. Mrs. R. A. Pooler and Mrs. S. M. Clafton sing Shelley's Hark! Hark! My Soul. Hosts are Mrs. H. J. Zender and Miss Ethel Page. light refreshments follow. Austin women and girls are invited to share the afternoon.
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Young Women’s Christian Association
Levi Decker
Henry van Dyke
R. A. Pooler
S. M. Clafton
Shelley
Twico
H. J. Zender
YWCA county plan to expand in March progress described
The YWCA aims to meet girls needs across the county with vesper teas monthly and socials drawing over 200 attendees. Plans include a county secretary, county branches in Austin and small towns, and Thursday lectures at S.M.N. college chapel alongside social and cultural activities for fourfold member development.
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Y.W.C. A
Decker
Rey Pooler
Association
LOEB GOES TO WASHINGTON IN SUGAR SCANDALS
William Loeb Jr., New York port collector, left for Washington likely to confer with President Taft and Secretary MacVeagh on widening sugar scandal probes. Six American Sugar Refining employees near trial. Ernest Gerberacht, former superintendent, arrested and released on $10,000 bail after secret arrest.
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New York
William Loeb, Jr
Washington
Taft
Treasury
MacVeagh
Arbuckles
National Sugar Refining Company
American Sugar Refining Company
Ernest W. Gerberacht
United States
Hitchcock
Death of Mrs. Horace B Taft at Johns Hopkins
Mrs. Horace B Taft wife of a Taft brother dies at Johns Hopkins Hospital where she had been treated by Dr Harvey Cushing. The body will be sent to Water town Connecticut. She was operated on about a month ago and had recently returned from the South for recuperation.
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Baltimore
Horace B .Taft
President Taft
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Harvey Cushing
Taft
Watertown
Conn
South
Attack on Ballinger Dominates District Funds Debate
Washington lawmakers spent nearly five hours on the District of Columbia appropriation bill for 1911 with a total of 10 million dollars allocated. An automobile provision for the engineer commissioner was struck down. Rep Hitchock pressed for a probe of Bal linger and the Cunningham coal land cases, while Rep Shephard urged reviving the expenditures committee to push investigations of federal departments.
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Washington
House
District of Columbia
District
Macon
Arkansas
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger
Cunningham Coal Land
General Land Office
Shephard
Texas
Wisconsin county board plan eyed by legislature
Local notes report residents returning from Rochester and Minneapolis and corn shredding activity by John Farrel and John Schmacher. A valuable horse was lost to barbed wire and hay is being pressed for shipping. The Wisconsin educational bill creates a five member county board of education with four elected in spring and a chairman, with duties to select a superintendent and inspect rural schools. The piece ends with a call to a Sunday men's meeting at the Bijou.
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Wisconsin
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised with testimonials
An old advertisement offers a reward for a case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It states F J Cheney & Co of Toledo assures the cure and lists Walding Kinnan Marvin Wholesale Druggists as endorsers. It notes the medicine is taken internally and sells for 75 cents per bottle with Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F.J. Cheney and Co
Toledo
F.J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin Wholesale Druggists
Mac’s to Lead Men’s Meeting With Music at Bijou
The Bijou theater hosts a men’s meeting next Sunday at 8:00 p m lasting one hour led by Mac’s with extra fine music. Everyone is invited to attend.
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Mac
Land Office Chief Denies Corruption Charges
Washington December 17 Fred Dennett North Dakota commissioner of the general land office repudiates corruption claims in the land service amid House criticism by Representative Hitchcock who accuses the bureau and past administrations of fraud. Dennett calls for full congressional investigation if corruption exists.
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Washington
Land Service
Congress
Land Office
Fred Dennett
North Dakota
General Land Office
Hitchcock
Nebraska
The
Richard Ballinger
Secretary of the Interior
Dennett
Department
Accidental Shooting Kills Iowa Man Burning Hay
Sutherland Iowa December 17 Charles Micerti age twenty was killed when a shotgun discharged while he handled a load of hay Ed Lenhard nearby summoned help and returned to find the hay had ignited burning the victim’s body severely and fatally burned
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Sutherland, Ia
Charles Micerti
Ed Lenhard
Test case seeks ruling on flour bleaching ban legality
A test case to determine the legality of Secretary Wilson's ruling prohibiting flour bleaching will go to trial in New Orleans, likely mid January.
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Washington
Wilson
Agricultural Department
New Orleans
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Park Goodwin
Henry Stevenson
Sargent
Mike Schummel
Rose Creek
Austin
Christian Church
George Kelly
Des Moines, In
William Kelly
Carl Gerhart
Oakland Baptist Church
Harry Gilmore
Calmar
Albert Lea Motor Company
Water and
Chatham Streets
County
Y. W. C. A. Association
Loeb
Horace B. Taft
Baltimore Hospital
Hitchcock O
Lyle Township
Mre
Jos. Cafourek
Rochester
John Farrel
Sadie Roberts
John Schmacher
Dermont Brant
E. Comrine
Rena Dahl
Minneapolis
Perry
GEO, A. Hormel & CO
Cadillac Desk
Donovan & Goslee
Main St
Court House
Lowa
Owatonna / Co
Qwatonna Fruit Co
Austin National Bank
Austin, Minn
Dunfee Bros. Cigar Store
Dunfee Brothers
Herald
Bentons
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