Christmas Dinner Guests Across Many Families
Social event notes list numerous households hosting Christmas dinners and reunions including Trowbridge Jeffries Laufie Tuftee and Wilder families. Yeomen report a festive roast chicken and goose meal. A large Rogers family reunion gathers all children and grandchildren at their home with relatives from Palermo N Dak Minot Rochester Austin and Missoula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. W. Rogers
George
Harry
Palermo
N. Dak
Wilmar
Edith
Minot
Tom
Rochester
Austin
Local notes and holiday visitors in Austin area
Side Locals report ill conditions for Mrs Barney Bushman and sick list additions for Margaret Warfield. Hazel Dugan arrives from Davenport to spend Christmas with parents. Mrs W L Nichols visiting relatives in Austin for the holidays from Fargo. Coroner's jury pins Russell Plum death on a faulty crossing. boardwalk too high above track. Mr and Mrs A M Lickteig visit before leaving for Stevensport to oversee Prudential offices. Edith Padden travels from Lake Itlya to Austin for Christmas. Elsie returns from Hamline. Lutheran church services Sunday at 10:30 in Scandinavian and 7:30 cantata The Prince of Peace.
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Barney Bushman
Hazel Dugan
Davenport
N. D
W.L. Nichols
Fargo
Thomas Dugan
Margaret Warfield
Russell Plum
Northfield
A. M. Lickteig
Des Moines
Iowa
Stevensport
Wis
Prudential Insurance Co
Edith Padden
Lakelly
Austin
Elsie
Hamline
Prince of Peace
Touchy Japanese Nesans and Hotel Etiquette
A St Louis Post-Dispatch excerpt notes that Japanese servants, especially nesans, are often untidy and difficult yet admired for charm. It describes their habits of arranging grooming items into artistic displays, causing minor damage like boiling-water spills, and the manager’s careful, smiling admonitions to avoid scolding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Melodrama Gaffe Ends Scene With Father Statue Reveal
A country theater audience roared as the lead actor in a melodrama lifts a drape to reveal his statue father upside down on stage. The blunder, caused by mistaken prop placement, sparks laughter and the manager’s anger, abruptly ending the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert
London Telegraph
The Parisian Cabman Slang and a Historic Insult
A French slang note explains why calling a coachman Collignon is a supreme insult in Paris. The term traces to 1855 when Collignon murdered a professor over an overcharge, was executed by guillotine, and thus “Va Collignon” endures as the ultimate rebuke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Cabiman
Collignon
Paris Cor
New York
Rebels Execute Ten Civilians In Mexican Revolt
A Dec 24 report from Chihuahua states rebels executed ten civilians hostile to the revolt, including one judge. General Navarro’s position at Pedernales is described as not precarious, able to march out if reinforcements arrive. Correspondents Gerald Brandon and F A Sommerfield returned, with Sommerfield wounded by a grazing shot. Rebels distributed circulars urging citizens to stay indoors after 6 pm as they planned to enter Chihuahua, but a patrol drove four rebels back to the mountains. Over a thousand reinforcements are in Chihuahua, with towers built at the penitentiary and more material readied. government troops from Sonora are two days from Guerrero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chihuahua
Mex
Navarro
Pedernales
Gerald Brandon
Mexican Herald
War Office
F. A. Sommerfield
Summerfield
Sonora
Guerrero
Not That Kind of Woman In Church Gibe
A Chicago Record-Herald quip recalls a hostess brushing dust from a $2,000 grand piano while joking about genu flections. Mrs Oldcastle asks for a reverent moment as the hostess rejects in church etiquette.
A Book Farmer Knicker Jones Nicknamed by Reporters
The New York Sun notes Knicker Jones is described as a book farmer and mentions Booker Yes having exhausted two checkbooks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knicker—Jones
Booker
New York Sun
Grain and provision price report from Minneapolis
Grain and provision prices from Minneapolis dated December 23 show wheat futures at various months around 1.01 to 1.04 dollars. Spot quotes for on track No 1 hard and No 1 Northern range near 1.01 to 1.03 dollars. Northern and aggregate notes vary with minor decimals across grades.
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Minneapolis
Northern
Duluth Wheat and Flax Prices Decline With Dec Track
In Duluth on December 23, wheat on track with arrivals. No 1 hard 1.0534, No 1 Northern 1.0254, No 2 Northern 0.954 dollars, Dec 1.014 dollars, May 1.051 dollars. Flax on track with Dec 2.39 and May 2.44.
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Duluth
Northern
St Paul Live Stock Prices Cleared for Dec 23
cattle good to choice steers 5.00 to 5.50 dollars per cwt fair to good 4.25 to 4.75 dollars cows and heifers 3.75 to 4.50 yeals 6.00 to 7.00 hogs 7.55 to 7.70 sheep wethers 3.00 to 3.75 yearlings 4.00 to 4.50 spring lambs 4.75 to 5.50
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Chicago Grain and Provisions prices mixed by Dec market
Wheat and corn futures showed varied gains and losses with December settles around 92 1 2 to 48 1 2 cents, oats mixed above 31 4 to 34 cents, butter and dairies steady, eggs around 31 cents, and poultry values fluctuating from 10 to 21 cents for various items. Reinforced by December contracts and May positions, pork prices held near 19 85 per hundred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dairies
Chicago Live Stock Prices Reported
Chicago live stock prices list cattle beef values for Reeves Texas steers Western steers stockers and feeders cows and heifers calves hogs by weight and class and sheep ranges for natives yearlings and lambs with price spans across categories and notes for heavy mixed rough and pigs.
We once spurned every modern advance
A passage from Atlantic Monthly laments how a proud republic opposed new technologies. It recalls disdain for railways, telegraphs, coal, sewing machines, harvesters, typewriters, and early electric trolley talks, noting how ridicule gave way to progress as innovations reshaped society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic
Howe
A Cautious Scot and the Salvation Army Officer
The London train halted near Stonehaven due to a minor mishap. Andra the old porter chatted with a Salvation Army officer who claimed Aberdeen is a wicked place. Andra quips that the devil should be driven out of Aberdeen and driven north instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stonehaven
Aberdeen
Andra
Salvation Army
Exclusive right to Salvation Army name in New York upheld
The New York appellate division of the Supreme Court ruled that exclusive rights to the name Salvation Army belong to the Salvation Army in the United States. The organization founded by William Booth in 1889 secured the decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Selvation Army
Salvation Army
United States
William Booth
Supreme Court
Prospector Killed by Train Near Mystic
Deadwood South Dakota December 24 Tom Tracy an old time prospector and lumber man living near Mystic was struck by an eastbound Burlington passenger train near Mystic and died instantly with his head on the rails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deadwood
S. D
Tom Tracy
Mystic
Burlington
Injuries Prove Fatal in Canadian Forest Fire Duty
Wilford Fairles died in a Winnipeg hospital from wounds sustained while on special police duty during the early October forest fires. The fires burned Baudette and Spooner, forcing camps of rough elements to camp across the river on the Canadian side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Wilford Fairles
Rainy River
Baudette
Spooner
Wonders of lava and Vesuvius nonconductor of heat
The London American piece explains lava as rock melted by extreme heat that flows and cools into a ropy surface, with layers alternating heat and cold. It notes lava dust in eruptions, its global atmospheric impact, and the fertile Vesuvian soil that keeps populations nearby alert to risks for wine and life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vesuvius
Krakatoa
England
Herculaneum
Pompeii
Italy
London
An Author's Insight on Character and Society
A London Saturday Review note argues that great novels reveal universal social insight even when authors lack personal experience. It cites Disraeli and Trollope as examples, noting critics seek hidden meanings in works like Vivian Grey and The Young Duke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben
Dukes
Isaac Disraeli
Trollope
Disraeli
Vivian Grey
Duke
London Saturday Review
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P.K. Wilder
Sam Warrington
True Trowbridge
H. C. Trowbridge
George ‘Wilder
Hollis Wilder
A. B.wilder
F. R. Jeffries
L. Laufie
Harry Tuftee
Gus Ludwig
Lavange
Pat Jeffries
Arnold Johnson
Seymour Johnson
O. H. Hegge
Rutherford
A. E. Johnson
Blooming Prairie
Ira Padden
Truman Trowbridge
Justin Vareo
Andrew Jensen
Whit Watkins
Mr. Gillis
Phillip Reinartz
Walter Gibson
Missoula ,Mont
C. P. Bowell
Minnie Reinartz
Rapid City
S.D
Louis Reinartz
Dan Keating
George Sprague
Nick Serres
Caledonia
Mr. Serres
Arizona
Faby
General Navarro
Situa
Tion
Chicago Grain and Provisions
Reeves
Texas
And
Business Directory
Mount Vesuvius
Arthur W. Allen
St. Olaf
St. P
Actioneer
J. S. Attlesey
R.r.no
Austin, Minn
Great Western Railway
North Boung
Buque
Sas City
Fort Dodge
Council Bluffs
I Ha
Sunda
Y.m
Lyle, Manly
Mm City
Paul and Minneapol
Mason City
Jackson
A. M. Lewis
S. Main
King's Hotel
Hennepin Avenue
King Prep
Minner
Evergreen Farm
Austi
Physicians & Surgeons
G. M. F. Rogers
C. H. Johnson
Julce Moura
F. P. Dawes
N. Main St
Aust
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