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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1907
Page
4
An editorial recounts I A Bruce description of Virginia in the 1600s with abundant cattle milk cheese veal beef and poultry. Deer, wild ducks, geese, fish, oysters, shellfish, fruits and nuts filled estates. Honey flowed from hives and hollow trees, while watermelons and hominy defined plantation fare.
Thousands of Trinidian residents bid farewell as the battleship fleet led by Rear Admiral Evans sails toward Rio Janeiro. The Connecticut leads four-column formation with ships Calgoa and Glacier trailing, aiming to cover about 14 000 miles in roughly twelve days with an expected Jan. 10 Rio arrival. The visit featured gifts, dinners, and widespread praise for the crew.
A local manager advises a touring agent on optimizing audience turnout by calling reserves during engagements. The piece contrasts excuses for slow business with a quip from the New York World about Saturday nights drawing crowds who are out getting shaved.
A Baltimore American quip notes a suitor asking about marriage and cooking. The exchange implies a barter over a dinner meal, with a sly remark on supplying the necessary materials. It frames a humorous view of domestic expectations and matchmaking.
Woman seeks housekeeper position to care for a small boy. Listing includes various rentals, farms, and livestock for sale or exchange. Offers include five room houses, a large modern house, and two modern houses, with nearby amenities and terms noted. Deals mention dairy cows, a driving horse, and property trades including a well-improved 240 acre farm and an 80 acre farm in Mower county.
A fleet of seven ocean liners the Campania Cedric St Louis Pannonia Pretoria Caronia and Minneapolis reached New York after a Christmas Day storm delayed them a day. The St Louis cabin passengers avoided the dining room during the heavy seas and the Pretoria officers used oil to calm the turbulence. None of the ships suffered major damage.
Newark reports an autopsy concludes a woman found in Hackensack meadows Harrison was murdered by blows to the head and drowned. The body is believed to be Agnes O Keefe a domestic worker formerly employed in Orange.
The body of Miss Emogene Kinner of Penn Yan New York was found on a creek bank near Michigan City Indiana where she disappeared on December 11. She set out for a walk and is believed to have become lost and died from exposure in a remote area.
St Louis on December 30 reports Speaker Cannon United States District Attorney Joseph B Kealing of Indianapolis and Thomas K Niedringhaus former Missouri Republican chairman met at the Planters hotel. The purpose of the conference was not divulged.
A broad snow storm covers Nebraska, Western Iowa, and parts of South Dakota with about four inches in the Missouri valley. Temperatures are normal and winds are light, as Pierre reports the widespread fall.
A historic call asserts rights to housing food clothes and schooling. It urges proper upbringing and social welfare, claiming youth deserve education training and strong families to prepare them as responsible citizens. It also promotes the use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs and colds.
Engineers describe the lock project in vast terms citing concrete needs that could build 22,842 eight room houses with basements and roofs. A 75 foot lot per house would stretch from New York to Philadelphia with houses remaining to line Philadelphia to Washington.
Secretary H. S. Myers reports from Lucknow with advices from Benyal and Orissa that 1907 saw only four days of rain in a year, causing widespread famine. He warns thousands suffer and hundreds of thousands may die before next August's crop without relief from Christian lands.
Miss Carmelia Mondileu, 55, perished while trying to save property she cared for. She rushed from her apartment to the office where flames were visible. the floor collapsed and she fell into the fire. Firefighters retrieved her body, burned and charred, from the street.
Pittsburg dispatch reports 16 year old Lastella Hartzell killed herself after pleading with husband George B. Hartzell to quit night work. She begged him to seek day employment, but he refused, leaving her alone at night. The article notes the family’s distress and references a humorous mock dialogue and a Harper's Weekly quote about liberty.
Kansas ministers from fifteen denominations will launch a year long revival campaign across the state with the slogan Kansas for Christ. Rev William Edward Blederwolf will lead the effort under a board of two ministers and two laymen from each denomination with Edward E. Taylor of Philadelphia named secretary.
Panic swept the Allegheny workhouse in Pittsburg when the chapel at Claremont burned after Christmas decorations near an open grate ignited. Inmates, locked in cells, cried out in fear as fire threatened the administration building and cell windows, with force used to restrain unruly prisoners.
The East Side agitation for lower rents continues with tenants flocking to the anti high rent bureau. Committees organize families in tenement houses and meetings are held to protest rents linked to poverty. Twenty seven heads of families in a large tenement meet on the roof to strike for a $1 reduction.
A December 30 fire in South Crookston destroyed a restaurant owned by Eli Rivard plus an adjoining building and a saloon. The blaze started from an overheated stove and caused about 40000 in losses with only around 1000 in insurance. The restaurant, adjacent structure, and the saloon building housing stock fixtures and liquor were all consumed.
A sundowner is described as the antipodean professional tramp who roams from one squatter's station to another, arriving at sunset to receive food and shelter for the night, while a swagman furthers the same pattern with his swag and blanket.
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