Untitled Notice with Obscure Pricing Fragments
Fragmentary OCR text shows fluctuating numbers and garbled phrases, including references to months and prices. The readable elements offer little coherent item or event to summarize.
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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1909
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR text shows fluctuating numbers and garbled phrases, including references to months and prices. The readable elements offer little coherent item or event to summarize.
A business man received a Christmas parcel from Canada containing a child’s ring, a cigar holder, and a book, triggering a 1.75 dollar duty that roughly matched the goods’ value. Local notes mention weddings, sales, and business changes, including Galt purchasing Holmes’s drag line interest and Fairbanks & Leonard selling grocery stock to Henry Birkett, with other society items and a rotary snow plow test.
A social basket sociable at Enterprise school house near Austin drew a large crowd with a pool program and an evening auction realizing over 40 dollars. The Bijou showcased The Price of Friendship, and Schleuder's advertised diamonds and cookware plus a variety of items. Laborers sought for ice packing, and community notices include a missionary box bring and sleds for sale at Holmes Hardware.
Mass at 8:00 and 10:30 a.m. Evening service held at 7:30.
Howard L. Johnson minister leads Bible School at 10 a m. Communion at 11 a m. Sermon at 11 30 a m. Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m. Evening service at 7 30 p m. Everyone is cordially invited.
Presbyterian service schedule lists William F Sloane as minister with 10 a m Seasiveting, 10 30 morning worship and sermon The Mantle of Elijah 12 m Central Sunday School 3 p m East Sunday School 6 30 Y P and E 7 30 evening service Topic From Fasting to Feasting The hand kiss discussion is cited as ancient practice linked to reverence and ritual objects with references to early writers.
The piece recounts a statue carved for Louis XIV that ended up on British shores. A captured Italian vessel yielded the unfinished figure to Sir Robert Holmes, who forced the artist to place Holmes's head on the French king's body. Holmes later governed the Isle of Wight, explaining the statue's location.
Rev. J F Stout, pastor, conducts morning service at 10 30 with baptism and reception of members. Morning sermon titled Now to Know God and the Truth in Him. Evening service at 7 30 features Attachments and Detachments. Seats free. All are invited.
Morning worship and sermon by F. E. Knopf at 10:30. Sunday School at 12. Christian Endeavor at 6:30. Collect gifts for the Christmas box to aid a home missionary family. You are invited to worship with us at St Paul and Mill streets.
Rev J A Emanuel Naess presides on the fourth Sunday in Advent with Scandinavian services at 10 30 am. The sermon is True Christian Joy with choir music. Sunday School at noon Bible Class led by Prof Sorflaten Young People’s League at 6 30 pm and an Evening English service at 7 30 pm on Conditions for Growth in Grace. You are invited.
Morning service at 10 30 led by Rev J H Carstens on What s the Matter with the Churches Sunday School at noon W B N B V at 6 80 topic Our Christmas Gifts led by Mrs Addie Dennison Special music Evening service at 7 30 with Is Christmas a Misnomer Baptism All are invited to worship at corner St Paul St and Oakland Ave
Christ Church at Corner St Paul and Water announces Fourth Sunday in Advent morning prayer and sermon at 10 30 a m Sunday School at noon evensong at 7 30 p m Choir practice follows. Christmas Eve midnight service Carroll Holy Communion Christmas morning 9 30 Holy Communion Holy Innocence December 28 7 30 p m Sunday School program and tree Midnight Christmas service will be full musical Please bring offerings for Christmas decorations and Sunday School fund and for infirm and aged clergy at Christmas day service
Sunday services in German to be held November 4 and 28 December 12 and 25 at 12 30 pm with Sunday School at 1 30 pm. Invitations extended to all interested. Rev C A Affeldt of Waltham Minnesota will conduct services with prompt attendance. Brownsdale Exchange telephone in care of Herm Meyer.
During Xmas week our store will be open evenings. Miss Camille Franklin is home from Rockford Illinois to spend the holidays.
The London drawn lottery of 156% funded public projects and drew 400000 prizes in cash and silver plate. A nationwide craze followed with lottery tailors tea merchants barbers shoeblacks and eateries selling chances, even a sausage stall promising up to five shillings.
A renowned Englishwoman lecturer recounts anecdotes from tours in small towns. She recalls a chairman praising her as the grand old woman after Mr Gladstone. and a blunt farmer quipping that she has hired the half and may leave if listeners dislike her talk.
The Temple tower of Bristol England, a square early Gothic structure about 110 feet high, leans five feet at the summit. Its inclination has no recorded cause and has remained unchanged for years, raising questions whether design or soil movement caused the tilt.
A social exchange reveals a rejected engagement between a lazy suitor Bilkins and a actress. She ends the match, fearing poverty and declares an aversion to a poorhouse.
The fragment shows a heated dialogue where one speaker demands answers and threatens consequences, set in a Boston transit context. The exchange features phrases like where have you been and don’t evade questions, with inaudible whispers adding tension.
A lighthearted note from the Binghamtoon Republican on Eskimo language terms such as igloo ah we k ah and ka loo loo ka, pondering what real baby talk might sound like.
A brief dialogue notes a child and mother with a fear of the father’s singing at bedtime. The fragment shows domestic sentiment and a protective mother figure.
A cryptic line attributed to Ralzae quotes a warning about power over women and the governance of an unspecified place or entity, suggesting themes of control and authority.
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