Local Austin Roundup of Holiday Visits and Events
Miss Rena Anderson visits Austin for Christmas and returns home. Dr. and Mrs. H. M. McGuigan, back from abroad, spent the holidays in Red Wing after visiting Chicago and eastern cities. Local residents, including Charles Siebert and Mrs. Van Bronkhorst, traveled to and from Austin. Community notices mention Beeman’s dance at the Auditorium, revival services, sales, and local health and travel updates. Many names and places appear, with social, business, and civic notes throughout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rena Anderson
P. D. Beaulieu
H.M. McGuigan
Minnesota
P.H. Zender
Red Wing
Chicago
New York
Brooklyn
St. Elizabeth
N. J
Baltimore
Washington
Michigan
Charles Siebert
Wells
Austin
van Bronkhorst
Grand Meadow
Beeman
Etta Robertson
Pikesville
George Corneveaux
Max Erdman
Enoch Hall
Wes Newman
Jean Gillett
Bart Shabaska
Geo. Nelson Farm
Hunt
J.C. Hawkins
St. Paul
Hawkins
J. E. Stadhem
Stella
Lake Mills
Iowa
B.H. Whiston
Christian Church
Pleasant Grove
Dave Dunkin
Bagley
Wis
James Orr
LaCrosse
Harold Ryan
Moscow
Mary Geegan
Ashland
Lincoln School Tools Arrive for Manual Training Program
East Side locals report arrival of tools for the Lincoln school manual training department with benches expected soon. Work is hoped to begin by the first of the year. Several residents visit Wells and Farmington for holidays and socialize with Mrs Rickard, hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln School
Oscar McGee
Joseph Tucker
Wells
James Rickard
Thomas Keating
Jack Rickard
Thornton
Farmington
Last of the Old Orators and John Warwick Daniel
The essay lauds Senator John Warwick Daniel of Virginia as a masterful orator of old fashioned style. It highlights his Lee and Stonewall Jackson speeches before entering Congress as his finest enduring legacy, suggesting they rival the world's best orations and would have pleased Cicero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Warwick Daniel
Virginia
Conscript Fathers
House
Senate
Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Cicero
Champ Clark
Bearded Women in History and Folklore
The New York American notes bearded women as factual curiosities. It cites a beardswoman captured by Russians at Poltava, a long beard of over a yard measuring, and Margaret, governess of the Netherlands, with a long stiff beard. It also mentions Mlle. Boes de Chene born in Geneva in 1834 exhibited in London in 1858 at age eighteen, described with hair and mustache.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poltava
Margaret
Netherlands
Mlle
Boes de Chene
Geneva
London
New York American
Deadly mine gases and the fear of firedamp
White damp is the gas most feared by miners because it is tasteless odorless and colorless. When mixed with air in about one part gas to nine parts air it becomes firedamp and forms an explosive mixture. The passage highlights dangers of firedamp damp and after damp in mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Monthly
Late Rising Birds For Sale Says New York Sun Quote
A selling dealer touts two singing birds as the property of a late rising family. The seller jokes that birds can be trained to follow any hours. He warns buyers to check early training if they are likely to stay abed till noon, or wake the neighborhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
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VicBride
Terridale Creamery
Heinz
Heinz Ketcup Snyders & Blue Label
Ketsup
Hour Mel’s Provision Market
E. A. Dalager
Nee
Maurek’s
Bohemian Ladies’ Lodge
J.C. D
Austin Firemen’s Oerse
Leonora M. Lake
Austin Plumbing and Heating Co
E. H. Tubbesing
A. M. Smith
Twin Place
L.T. Lobdill
Elmer Lloyd
Charlie Lawrence
John Barber
Spring Valley Sun
M. Gahagen
Oakland Avenue
Bryan
James Deneen
Albert Lea
Sunshine
N.F. Banfield
John Robinson
Steele
N. Dak
Judge Robinson
F.E. Gleason
Rousevotc
Pacific Coast
Boyd Transfer Co
Minneapolis
Minn
Duodecim Society
Alice Avery
Norinne Huser
Spencer
Herman Kunath
Mower County Lumber Co
C. E. Heisey
John Christgau
Dexter Township
Geo. Ryan
Currie, Minn
Isabelle Bannon
William Bicknese
Wykoff
J. A. Schroeder
A. D. Sea of
Odkland
Charles Bowell
Aberdeen
M. J. Meyer
Leonard Decker
Homer Ryan
N. W
W.L. Brown
Amy Hart
Park Avenue
F.G. Sasse
Watertown
Water Street
Herald Office
Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
Charles Kaufman
Omaha
Ben Hormel
Nebraska
James Stephenson
C. A. Brown
Emiline
Ada Hart
Rose Creek
Roy Kaufman
Panama
Canal Zone
Isthmus
Hirsh’s
A.M. Pike
Lime Springs
Etta Howe
Frank Cipra
Evergreen Farm
F. H. McCulloch Printing Co
Mrs. Williams
Cedar Falls
Roy Woodward
F. M. Callinan
S. Dak
J. M. Hollister
Ed. Goebel
Leffingwell
Leona
Rosemont
Ruth Cronan
Alex Nelson
St. Olaf Hospital
A. O. Robertson
Epler
A. Collins
National Guard
Ray L. Hamilton
Winona
Mrs
Geo, List
East Side
J. E. Malloy
Mellin's
The
Rexall
Bucklin’s
Mow*rr County Agricultural Society
Court House
Inn
E. H. Smith
Sec’y
Briebach
Postal
Fred L. Palmer, Lyle
L. L. May & Co’s. Northern Grown Nursery
Photoplay
Kentucky
Nestor Film
American
Flying A
Dee
Austin Dee
Arctics
Storm
Gj Penton Astin Minn
the Home
Yema
Arizona
First National Bank
Minn US
O. W Shaw
H. L. Banfield
Axs
August Thomas
America
Captain Barnacle
Chaperone
Vitagraph
Essanay
Abraham Lincoln
Pathe
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