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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1902
Page
2
Austin Minnesota readers are informed THE DAILY HERALD is issued every afternoon with Sunday exceptions. Subscriptions listed include rates for one year in advance and three months in advance, with per week pricing and similar terms.
Letter contends Sam Sweningsen abuses authority by moving the post office from the business district to the James Keenan building despite free delivery. It argues the change harms merchants and banks and isolates the post office from hotels, East Side routes, and the Armory, fueling business disruption and public anger. The writer links the action to past grudges over a Bank Examiner appointment and asserts the postmaster's decision ignores community interests.
A Belgian law targets profanity in public discourse while ensuring post offices remain in the town business district. The measure signals a push to curb offensive speech without disrupting essential postal services.
The Georgia Supreme Court says parents need not force medicine on sick children. The decision favors Christian Science practice and hints that individuals should manage their own affairs. It suggests doctors lose patients, delaying accountability for deaths linked to their treatment.
At the regular meeting of the Bankers' Union on Saturday evening December 20 1902 the following officers were elected President Michael Mayer Vice President Mrs Johanna Jones Past President F A Rouse Chaplain Mrs Mary Sprague Secretary Lillie H Wiseman Banker Dr H F Peirson Overseer Chas Bush Guard Victor Pettit Sentinel Lafayette Crandall Trustees Jesse Jones James Schra die Frank A Rouse Physician Dr Peirson.
Albert B. Pettey advertises baggage transfer and local express service between depots at reasonable rates. Orders may be left at Malloy's drug store and the advertiser promises prompt and careful attention with a trial to please the customer.
All sizes and varieties available from Evergreen Farm as advertised by A V Ellis Special A M and F Fidelity Lodge reports a special communication on Tuesday evening December 23 with work on second and third degrees. No work this evening. J H Anderson W M.
A noisy town discussion questions moving the post office and rural delivery. Dr Kendrick touts savings from removing the office while citizens worry about access and late mail. The satire mentions Uncle Sam, a southward rural route, and a proposed stamp with Swen singsen’s image.
The note asks if the adjusted mail schedule is the new post office Tawney planned to obtain, per the Register. It hints at changes in delivery logistics affecting Austin readers and questions the source of the proposed post office location.
The first of April would be an appropriate day for the removal. Register your letters now. The concensus of opinion is best expressed in a word that rhymes with Sam.
Charlie Pitcher faces higher compensation as he continues delivering mail far from town, prompting talk of increased wages for extended routes.
The Sunday School at Christchurch hosts its annual Christmas Eve service with a Christmas tree. On Christmas Day December 25 Holy Communion at 7 am and a 10 am morning service with a musical program including Adeste Fideles Christians Awake and The Message Upon the Midnight Clear Prelude.
T W Thompson an old settler of Mower county died at his Red Rock home Saturday morning. Funeral from the house Tuesday at 2 PM. Deceased was about sixty four years of age.
Sunday December 21 marked a joint officer installation for Austin trainmen and their wives. About sixty attended a banquet, showing strong lodge health as preparations begin for the new year. Local L A to B R T and B of R T officers and names of officers are listed, with related holiday travels and school events noted.
The Atchison Globe laments fading manners in a quizzical note on rustic speech. It recalls an old fashioned man who calls a boil a gathering and a coal a stone coal, a playful roast of quaint diction and social gentility.
A Western congressman recounts two Iowa brothers Ed and Jim who traded wool from their home. Jim joins a revival and gains religion, urging Ed to convert. Ed, weighing the situation, replies that someone must still weigh the wool, implying practical concerns persist.
Market roundup lists Wheat Corn and Oats futures and provisions trading alongside the latest moves in New York Stocks. Traders monitor supply signals and price shifts as global markets react to crop and commodity data.
Market letter and information book offered free upon request describe how and why the business continues to grow. The notice invites readers to visit the business to obtain the materials and learn more about the services.
George August Bunge shot and mortally wounded Helmer Deboor during a daytime quarrel over land rent. Bunge is in custody. Both men are farmers from the area.
Miss Mary Healey returned to her teaching duties near Blooming Prairie as part of a municipal personal property tax record. The document lists numerous names with amounts and marks, indicating assessments or payments, including Royston A Rogers, Rosenthal Reynolds, J Reynolds, D J Rutherford, and others, with various figures and checks.
The article reflects on how methodical development reshapes life from animals and flowers to human sensibilities. It notes breeding and training enhance beauty and usefulness in animals and plants while preserving native charm, evoking memories tied to American Beauty carnations and chrysanthemums.
A small audience enjoyed the Foxy Boy company at the Austin opera house on Saturday. The act featured Mr Wims with imitations and whistling, praised as the best ever heard in Austin and recalled several times. Mr Fields and Miss Whalen received encores while Messrs Phillips and Molston, the show's proprietors, promised more performances forthcoming.
A native notes an elderly man famed for extreme thrift. The old man supposedly saves every penny, even joking that his prudence prevents him from wasting heat in summer, lest he need it in winter. The Chicago Post is cited for the anecdote.
The Chicago Great Western Railway will sell one way second class colonist rates to the west southwest and south on the first and third Tuesdays of November and December. For details inquire with any Chicago Great Western agent or J P Elmer P A Chicago Ill.
Homeseekers tickets to nearly all points at low rates by Great Western Railway on the third Tuesday of each month November to April. Available in through tourist sleeping cars. For details apply to any Great Western Agent or J. P. Fiemer G. P. A. Chicago Ill.
Notice promotes superb new train service to St Louis and Kansas City via the Iowa Central Railroad. Rates and details available from A B Cutts G P A Minneapolis. see advertisement elsewhere in the paper.
The C M and St P railroad offers excursion tickets to stations within 200 miles at one third fare for round trip. Tickets are sold on December 24 25 and 31 1902 and January 1 1903 with final limit through January 2 1903. Agent C W Snere notes details.
Travel special to Chicago for the International Livestock Exposition priced at 11.4 dollars round trip on the Chicago Great Western Railway. Tickets on sale December 1 to 3 with return valid through December 8. Inquiries to any Great Western agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago IL.
Regions in Iowa Illinois Minnesota and Missouri along the Chicago Great Western railway touted as the nation’s best agricultural belt where farmers prosper and businessmen thrive.
Through tourist cars offered by the Chicago Great Western Ry provide travel options to California. Passengers may inquire with any Great Western agent for details on itineraries and pricing.
The Chicago Great Western Ry presents a selection of three tourist cars to California. Ask any Great Western agent for details and schedules.
Nathan Banfield Arron Torrens Ethel Wold Floy Myrtle Edson Fred Snyder and Carl Bandler are home from the University, returning after studies.
A New York to destination registered parcel yielded only waste paper when opened. Inspectors traced the odor of the glue used at multiple offices to a counter gluepot and caught the clerk stealing part of the money, after setting a watch on the staff.
A unique beacon sits on Amish rock near Stornoway, visible to fishermen across the channel. Light from Lewis lighthouse windows reflects off a mirror on Amish rock, creating a lantern aura with no lantern room or keeper on site.
A fashionably dressed New port woman told Elizabeth Cady Stanton she thought women speaking publicly was not modest. Stanton replied that a public convention had fewer people than a ballroom and a sensible speech in quiet dress is more modest than displaying bare arms at a dance in a strange man’s embrace.
The Chicago Chronicle notes a surgeon's hand washing ritual after operations. His sleeves are rolled to the elbow and washing runs from the crazy bone to the fingertip. It includes soaping, tincture swab, lime soda scour, and bichloride rinse to curb disease.
A brief humorous exchange unfolds as a tired wife quips that posterity may regret discovering the poet if it takes time to find him. The witty line highlights frugal living and a house drift into shared fatigue.
Prudence Wisdom applied to practice is called prudence. The text notes a man avoiding alluring prices on substandard goods as applying wisdom to practice. It highlights dependence on high quality and low prices as practical prudence from C. A. Emmons Austin Lumber & Fuel Co.
The Austin Hose Company No 1 hosts its fourth annual New Year’s Eve ball on December 31 at Armory Hall with Tichy’s Orchestra. All are invited to attend to ring out the old and ring in the new per committee order.
State of Minne ta issues order for hearing on petition to convey lands on contract. Hearing date and parties involved are listed in the proceeding, with the land description and terms of conveyance referenced in the court filing.
A Pullman tourist sleeping car on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul route runs weekly from Chicago and Milwaukee to St Paul and Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe lines via Austin Calmar Monticello Marion and Kansas City. It leaves the twin cities every Tuesday morning and reaches Los Angeles Saturday morning. Double berth rate is six dollars with tickets and berth reservations available from any ticket agent of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Ry.
Travelers may reach California by the Chicago Great Western Railway with a close connection at Kansas City to the transcontinental Limits. Three through tourist cars via different routes are available on this line. Inquiries can be made through any Great Western Agent.
The Chicago Great Western Ry offers choice of three through tourists cars via different routes for first time travel with notable comfort. A booklet about rates and routes is available on request.
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