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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1908
Page
2
The record lists Gertrude Kilie-Pkinner as Associate Filitor at Skinner & Ulmer with a sworn circulation figure of 946 subscribers.
A fragment notes a husband described as a lifelong smoker and hints at plans to examine life insurance after John quits smoking. The text appears as a stray item from a local column with incomplete context.
A business man collapsed from dizziness and a doctor was summoned. A clerk retrieved a bottle while the man complained that the doctor charged him a dollar for a drink of his own brandy.
A Day of Hutchinson notes a rare 53rd day in the year and an extra Sunday. He predicts the 53rd day will not recur for 110 years and suggests readers use the day for worship or scripture reading, while pondering future consequences.
A large gathering of livestock breeders in the First Congressional district is urged to attend the Live Stock Breeders association meeting at the courthouse next Wednesday, March 4. The program includes brief talks on barn ventilation horse farming ice making on farms, cow care, roads and drainage, land as an asset, and sheep farming with several local speakers.
Walter Parson, son of Lilie Warner Parson, a Austin girl, died at home in Minneapolis after a year of illness. Diabetes worsened his condition and he fell ill Sunday, dying Monday. Grandfather Joseph Parson is ill with pneumonia. Mrs. Warner stays with him. Funeral planned in Minneapolis on Friday.
D. H. Dillon a former Chicago gambler was chained to a telephone pole in the jail yard after being fined for running a poker game. He was shackled at the ankles and kept in place until he pays the fine or agrees to work on city streets as advised by Judge McKenzie and Chief Pridwell.
Rochester date Feb 25 Louis Marber forty five killed his sister Mrs Jerome Lewis fifty five at their Medina home. He beat her skull with a poker after an argument over a trivial matter then shot her and herself likely fatally wounded. The killer lived with his mother and wife the sister. The incident ends with the suspect dying from his wounds.
In Bismarck on February 25 the wife of N K Hood a well known farmer eighteen miles east of the city drank poison. She left a note stating her intention to end her life claiming to suffer from consumption.
The Minneapolis Tribune reports Jack Leary, father in the city, was arrested on complaints by George Briebach and Frederick J. Manning over fictitious checks. Leary admits no local account, cites funds in Kansas City, and pleads innocence. he sought bondsmen but none were secured. Briebach and Manning were reluctant to prosecute if repaid the claimed losses.
The piece questions if Frank Cronon will run for mayor on a reactionary ticket. Cronon says he is seriously considering the race while his clever advertising raises speculation he may be using publicity to hint at a candidacy and promote his cigar business.
City of Austin Minnesota will hold a Democratic City Convention on March 28 1908 at 8 30 PM at the City Recorder’s office Court House to nominate candidates for Mayor At Large Treasurer Assessor and to elect ward officers and delegates Ward representation is First Ward 10 Second Ward 8 Third Ward 9 Precincts will vote 7 to 8 PM Signed M J Slaven M S Fisco Henry Herzog City Dem Central Com dated Austin Minnesota February 24 1908
The Cosmo tonight features A Midwinter's Dream with hearty laughs. Wednesdays and Thursdays showcase a new addition, a forty minute feature recreating key scenes from the Merry Widow Opera with piano accompaniment.
Mr and Mrs Frank Murphey who ran the Cosmo have rented the French Schlouder building opposite the Court house for a year and will open an electric theatre Monday evening. The theatre will be fireproof with a sheet iron operating room and class A views. They are joined by Mr and Mrs Branding who bought the J P Anderson home on First street to help make the venue first class.
Budd and Fay Smith, Oregon starters three weeks ago, rode a wrong train to Texas then bought land near Matagorda Bay. They settled on the St Louis Brownsville and Mexican railroad banks by the Tres Palacios river, near Blessing and Elmaton, with cattle, crops, and semi tropical fruit thriving in a dry, warm climate. They describe rail towns, deer and bear hunting, and Matagorda Bay oyster taxes, noting 47 inches of rain and rare frost as winter sun shines on their Texan venture.
About sixty members gathered for a social session with music and speeches after the work. Puccini provided red hot candy and attendees joined a candy pull, making the event a pleasant surprise for most attendees.
A small group of friends celebrated Miss Emma Laurie's birthday Monday evening with a supper at her residence 409 Division Street.
The Ladies' Whist Club and Monday Evening Whist Club hosted a Washington's Birthday gathering at Mr and Mrs Charles Snere on Oakland Avenue. Guests wore costumes including military dress, shared a 6 30 picnic supper, sang America during roll call, and played whist after a social hour.
Mrs J B Mills will take measurements daily this week for the unbreakable Spirella Corsets at the Mrs J M Thomas store.
The New York American quotes Descartes who turns inward like Bacon turned outward to study the soul with a microscope. He doubts all but his own existence and finds certainty in consciousness, claiming clear ideas reveal science and that the idea of infinite perfection proves God exists.
A Harper's Weekly fragment notes Tate Willie ran away to hunt red elkins but failed to find any until his father finished with him.
WALTHAM lL Mayville relatives return after funeral. blizzard described in Wisconsin but cleared in Minnesota. Miss Johnson of Austin seeks teaching work. Pastor Louis Ziemer from Elkton visited his father’s residence. Lewis Beneke arrives from North Dakota. Stockholder delegation attends a lumber yard meeting. Kammer’s dance draws a slim crowd. no dance held. Nichols sells a horse to John Kittleson of North Dakota for shipping. Granger buys steers. Decker buys hogs. McGowan trips to North Dakota. Bagley family reports sick children and quarantine for diphtheria. Krammer trades farm for Shiller saloon and opens it. Herman and Mrs. Beneke celebrate silver wedding on Feb 21. R Schieck returns home from Austin. Chas. Herington visits in Adolph. Anderson visits the doctor. several are sick. Frank Krammer travels to Blooming Prairie for flour.
Miss Mamie Smith returns from Austin while several townsfolk visit relatives and friends. Residents like Wm Donovan Delia Cummings and J A Heimer travel to and from Austin Napoleon Bowbells Mobridge and Decorah. Trips to Seattle Leavenworth Sleepy Eye LaCrosse and San Antonio are noted among daughters sons and siblings with health and relocation plans.
Federal Judge Peter B Grosscup and seven company directors and staff faced arraignment in Cole County on charges of criminal negligence and manslaughter tied to the Aug 30 1907 interurban collision near Charleston. Eighteen died fifty three injured. All pleaded not guilty and motions to quash were filed.
Washington reports in February that the senate debated ocean mail subsidy to build up an American merchant marine. Senator Gallinger led in favor, with Senator Depew endorsing the measure. Senators Simmons and Whyte criticized the Aldrich bill, Whyte saying he would not vote for it now. An hour was spent on revising the criminal code before adjournment.
A terse dialog unfolds as a woman asserts dignity of her face as fortune while a man concedes poverty is not a grace, yet inconvenient at times. The banter hints at social tension and gendered expectations in a witty exchange.
A Duluth Herald item quotes a woman writer asking why a man treats his wife poorly. The reply notes a moral, sensible, well bred man should avoid insults and implies no other man can do so. Cowper is cited.
Washington February 25 The house floor witnessed the speaker overrule the rules committee amid Dalzell’s bid to investigate peonage in the Southern states The army appropriation bill at 55097506 was taken up with later speakers including Hull Slayden Holiday Hamilton and Washburn debating military costs tariff revision and Sherman antitrust restrictions
Two artists brag about their realism in a joke. One says he painted a sixpence on the ground and a beggar nearly hurt himself trying to pick it up. The other claims a leg of mutton painted on a stone fooled a dog into biting part of the stone.
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