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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1901
Page
3
Christmas shopping and local errands fill Austin headlines as merchants promote candy butter eggs and flour at East Bridge Street stores. Shoppers are urged to see Joseph Keenan for cutters and popcorn balls, with Molloy Bros tree decorations and Miss Carragher's Fair honors mentioned amid travel and holiday plans of residents and visitors in Iowa Wisconsin and Dakota, plus Christmas greetings and tax reminders.
Riverview Faum advertises Strictly Fresh Eyes siwage or tap and invites telephone orders. Ed Barr will buy all kinds of poultry at the Cold Storage located at the corner of Mil and Franklin opposite Williams House. Time 12 to 1 month.
A. D. Seames offers prompt repairs for furnaces and stoves and handles all kinds of repairs. He also installs eaves troughs and steel ceilings. Located in the Crocker Building on Bridge Street.
Notice from Frep L Pees at Riverview Farm Austin advertising a few Black Minorca and Barred Rock cockerels and about fifty Barred Rock pullets at bargain prices for quick sale.
Advertising copy offers rooms at $1.00 to $1.25 per day with weekly board at $4.50 and meal options including a 21 meal ticket for $3.50 and single meals at 25 cents. Addresses not provided.
A Christmas item dense with local names and events notes Mrs Boostrom in Des Moines for holidays, 60 papers issued on Christmas, Prof Boostrom at a State Educational Association in St Paul, and a Health club donation of $20 to McIntyre Post. Mentions shops, dances, sales, and upcoming New Year events. Rounds up residents visiting relatives, travel plans, and festive activities across Austin and nearby towns.
A woman buys a $2.50 box of cigars for Christmas and saves the paper rings from her husband’s Perfectors. She wraps the rings around the same priced cigars to make a gift, judging by appearance rather than taste, hoping to surprise him tomorrow.
A. E. Haseltine promotes a Yuletide assortment at the old stand with Christmas sweets and a selection of oranges lemons apples dates and figs at pleasing prices. Other local notes report visits and travel of several residents and a small fire at Boreys restaurant quickly controlled by the fire company.
A historical note describes Christmas rules in Connecticut where a man keeping holly at home on Christmas faced a penalty of one shilling and confinement in the town stocks under blue laws.
The Degree of Honor Lodge plans a dance and social at their hall on Thursday evening, December 26, inviting members and guests to attend the community event for fellowship and recreation.
The friends of Mrs. Hyatt note that a $5000 claim left by her late husband was paid by O Shaughnessy of New York. A $250 installment was settled yesterday and the remainder is due May 1.
Decorations of evergreens for temples and houses during winter months were popular among the Romans and Druids. They did so to aid the dryads and wood spirits, who must die unless sheltered by native foliage.
A dealer offers prime bargains on ranches and cheap farm lands in the country. Interested buyers are invited to write Onas. F. Exits at Mandan North Dakota for easy terms and further details.
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