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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1901
Page
3
Furnished heated rooms for rent one block from the Court House. Also items for sale including an Astra kan fur collar blue lining a small black umbrella shawl and two horses with harnesses and buggies. Employment ads offer weekly wages for at home work and there is a lost pin notice and other assorted listings.
A D Searles does furnace and stove repairs and general repairs. He handles eaves troughing and steel ceilings. Shop at Cracker Building Bridge Street. Also advertising repairs and repairs of bags and footwear. Gordon Hotel offers rooms and meals with rates listed. Mary Arnot hosted guests. G W Harter out after bronchitis siege.
Local ads list Maloy Bros groceries and candy stores, Campbell flour and Butter and Egg shop on East Bridge, and Guillemin’s Opera House with BonBon boxes, cigars, pipes, and New Year hints. Residents Ada Tolbert, Bessie Waterman, Magphine McKenna, Ella Weisel, Grace Miller, Mae Cook, Mae Webb, and others visit, travel, or gather for holidays. many announce vacations, visits, and upcoming events.
Waurek's People's Store on the East Side announces a large and unmatched Christmas stock with varied discounts. The ad lists 100 lb granulated sugar at 6.25, 25 lb sugar at 1.35, citrons raisins figs currants nut meats and assorted candies including mixed candy at 8c per lb, broken taffy 12c per lb, and handmade creams 49c to 50c per lb with chocolates at 25c and 124 per lb for selected items.
Christmas trees in all sizes priced low with ornaments and specials for schools and Sunday schools. Also nuts and candy naval oranges lemons bananas vegetables sweet potatoes cabbage beets rutabagas onions and pickles sauer kraut dill pickles Betfy's cider and other provisions for a complete well chosen pantry.
Dressed young fatted hens and turkeys listed with live geese ducks and chickens priced 6 to 10 cents. Armour beef and other meats described as carefully selected. Fine lard bacon hams and mixed nuts offered with prices for almonds filberts pecans walnuts hickory nuts and peanuts per pound.
John W. Davie of Lime Springs will spend Christmas with his sister Mrs. Plummer. Samuel Plummer is on the sick list. Miss Georgie Hyde visits Lime Springs for holidays. Mrs. Gallagher goes to the cities. Mrs. Owen visits Jackson. Bertram returns to Adama. Geo Merrimanie is sick. Mrs. Hawkins and Mrs. Lowe of Owatonna visit the Campbells and Hankins. Jus McLane goes to LeRoy. Warfield spends Sunday at home. Rice family heads to St Paul for holidays. Engineer Smith returns after three weeks away. A. E. Hasevzine invites readers to West Side for Xmas canaries and fruit.
An excerpt from McClure's January issue presents "Army Jack" a dog biography. The piece portrays an old white bulldog and its soldierly, sincere owner, leading to a poignant burial with military honors that leaves readers emotionally moved.
Invitations issued for the marriage of Miss Ada Morgan and William Crane at Christ Episcopal church on Wednesday afternoon in January at 4 o'clock.
There will be no dancing classes Dec. 24th. The next lesson will be on Dec. 31 at the usual time. The informal at 9 o'clock. Very Respectfully, Guensie Wilkinson. The Degree of Honor Lodge will give a dance and social at their hall Thursday evening, Dec. 26. Ed Kelly made a business trip to Adams today. Miss Sarah Nemitz has returned from her visit to Waltham.
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