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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1906
Page
2
The Austin Daily Herald lists John H. Skinner as editor and proprietor with Gertrude Ellis Skinner as associate editor, reflecting the paper’s masthead arrangement.
Merry Christmas to Herald readers. The commission orders grain and lumber rates remain lower than new schedule rates, with no fixed joint rates. If companies fail to adjust tariffs for reasonable joint rates, the commission will set them.
The article notes Austin residents return home for Thanksgiving and other holidays, with travelers reporting trains crowded with people coming home. It praises the town for supporting those who travel for education or business and hopes visitors keep warm memories and welcomes for their return.
The Minneapolis Journal awarded a 1000 penny prize to Anna McBride, now Mrs Nicholsen of Blue Earth City, for a metrical story poem solution. Many correct entries came from across the northwest, with judges favoring clever, pointed verse.
Nine inmates break from Hamilton County Jail through a doorway tunnel and a sawed window bar. Desperate fugitives include Clarendon Henri who was jailed over the theft of a painting at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Two escapees were recaptured, while several others remain at large after a police chase and a brief shootout.
The Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission in St Paul on December 24 issued new carload commodity rate tariffs based on mileage. The schedule, effective after January 25, slashes rates across most goods with large cuts in grain, coal, and timber tariffs while livestock rates remain largely unchanged.
Minneapolis market summary from December reports shows wheat futures with December at 7 cents and May at 78 3/4 cents per bushel. July futures listed at 78 3/4 cents. On track No 1 hard at 79 1/2 cents, No 1 Northern at 78 1/2, No 2 Northern at 76 1/2, No 3 spring at 73 1/4.
St Paul market summary lists cattle from good to choice at 4.25 to 6.25 per cwt, common to good at 4.00, cows and heifers 3.50 to 4.81, veals 4.00 to 5.50. Hogs quoted 5.90 to 6.09, sheep and lambs in the 4.50 to 7.25 range with prime spring lambs at 6.60 to 7.25 per cwt.
Mixed grain and livestock prices appear from Duluth and Chicago reports with bids for wheat at multiple futures, flax, oats and pork values. Cattle and sheep ranges and gains show fluctuation at Chicago Union Stock Yards as the market moves into year end trading.
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