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Newspaper

Austin Daily Herald

Location

Austin, Minnesota, United States of America

Date

Dec 18, 1908

Page

3

Silk Lined Gloves and Accessories Featured in Trade List

A catalog lists silk lined gloves silk mufflers leather collar bags and a range of accessories including silk slipper bags fancy suspenders sets automobile gloves fancy arm bands McKibbin hats suit cases trunks and related items highlighting apparel and luggage offerings.

Freak Paintings A Tiny Work Of Art And Rosa Trans Form Harpsichord

Special canvases and gilded frames are not essential to great paintings. Artists have created masterpieces on scraps of board shells grains of corn and prison walls. The grain of corn piece shows detailed mill wagon and peasants. Rosas famous wager spans a lid landscape valued at 1000 scudi. The St Johns Wood artists painted large frescoes in Hodgsons studio in 1864 5 rediscovered decades later.

Mississippi River John Banvard Watertown Murillo Padua Salvator Rowa Provecce Lcr Rosa Manele St. John’s Wood London J. E. Hodgson Hodgson Kansas City Star

The Romans Invented Horsepower and Milling Advances

The Romans, noted for agriculture, devised labor saving mills powered by asses, mules and oxen. They spread these mechanisms to conquered lands, though the originator of this milling improvement remains unnamed.

Dates and Her Birth

An old joke from London Punch features an officer questioning Mrs Brady about her birth date. The exchange humorously notes the absence of formal dates at the time of her birth and plays on memory and age in pension proceedings.

Shiftless Neighbors Delays Borrowing Requests

Mrs. Borrow notes neighbors are shiftless as they never have what she asks to borrow. Mr. Borrow questions how she knows, highlighting the common complaint about unhelpful neighbors.

Mr. Borrow

Complaint of washerwoman charges and young housekeeper quip

A humorous exchange notes that a washerwoman bills by the piece would be costly, but a young housekeeper counters that she loses many items so her bills stay low. The banter plays on waste and value.

Christmas Pen Sets Offered In Various Styles

A printer’s notice promotes affordable Christmas pens suitable for all budgets. Plain holders in Chased, Mottled and black priced at $2.50, with Gold and Sterling Silver varieties in multiple patterns up to $10.00. Each set is presented in Holly boxes for gift presentation.

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