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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1907
Page
3
The Millinery Department advertises half price hats ideal for Christmas. It highlights 10 cent counter specials with hundreds of presents, 25 and 50 cent counters, and tea cups and saucers on sale. Foot-Schultz shoes stocked with ladies’ shoes at 1.19 and men’s at 2.50 and 3.00.
Notices announce hearings before Mower County Board of Commissioners on January 9 1908 at Austin for three petitions to transfer parcels from Districts 62 to 32 107 to 114 and 86 to 78 based on distance to schools and land ownership. Also a liquor license application by Freund Bros in Johnsburg Adams in Mower County with hearing January 9 1908.
Local notes report Oakland village school closed Friday for a two week break. Miss Campey will stay at her Preston home during the vacation. Several locals hosted visitors and attended gatherings, including Frank Pace and Mr and Mrs Phill Norton visiting relatives.
Adams notes show Miss Alice Cummings shopping in Austin. Mrs Betterath and son left for Fon du Lac Wisconsin for a family illness. Miss Isabella Krebsbach returned from St Paul. Miss Kate Meehan returned from Sleepy Eye to spend holidays. Miss Carrie Slindese returned from St Cloud for the holidays. Edward Howell home from Mobridge LL D for Christmas. Regena Dilligan Marguerite Carr and Carl Krebsbach home for holidays. Miss Julia King of St Francis Wisconsin to attend a sister's funeral. Sheriff Nicholson of Austin in town. Bavarian china signs spotted at F O Hall's Grocery.
Local notices list visits and plans for Christmas including travels to Adams and Carrington. Merchants advertise holiday specials from Goblin china to Nipon ware and guitars, while residents plan gatherings, photo specials, and charity events with Hormel’s Provision Market and Hall’s store promotions.
A London Tit Bits account describes Sir John Trevanion a prisoner in Colchester Castle who receives a letter from a loyal ally. The note hides a prearranged cipher revealing a plan to aid Trevanion's escape during a private chapel devotion.
Tennessee bred two famous speakers Andrew Johnson and Gustavus A Henry debated for governor. Johnson mocked Henry as an eagle without talons or blood, and Henry fired back that the American eagle is a proud bird that feeds not on carrion.
The article notes birds possess great strength with examples such as a fourteen pound eagle lifting a forty two pound pig and cites the ostrich kick as capable of breaking a thigh or horse leg.
A tale from Pearson's Weekly recounts Colonel Tiny Hay a famed peninsular officer and gambler who survived a near fatal Salamanca wound by sheer willpower. After a grave backball bullet required a dangerous operation he bet Major Windsor £50 he would not die and won proving mind over matter.
A compilation of famous maxims and lines attributed to Swift Keats Franklin Kempis Butler Southerne Coke Lee Colley Cibber Milton and others. It notes misattributions and distinctive phrases like Bread to the staff of life A thing of beauty is a joy forever God helps those who help themselves and Richard a man is his castle.
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