Alteration Sale Week Promises Sweeping Prices
As work nears for the store improvement a large stock must be moved. A double effort will cut stock to make room. The week will feature sweeping prices and emphatic values never seen before.
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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1903
Page
1
As work nears for the store improvement a large stock must be moved. A double effort will cut stock to make room. The week will feature sweeping prices and emphatic values never seen before.
Rare values appear across garments, suits, and carpets in a limited sale. Extra fine finishes and a wide assortment include a 10 by 11 velvet rug for 12.50 and hats, hosiery, and rugs offered at low prices to entice shoppers within a 10 day window.
Belgrade June 13. The assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga was carried out by a group of officers in the royal palace. Prince Peter Karageorgevitch was proclaimed king, with discussions of republican sentiment among the intelligentsia. The attack left seventeen dead and ten wounded, as crowds watched a tense transition toward a new government and awaited foreign attitude. The palace massacre ended with the royal couple found slain and buried in Belgrade cemetery.
A major Chicago hotel strike spreads with 25 leading hotels struck including Auditorium and Palmer House. Wages and hours demand union recognition while proprietors push arbitration. Pickets surround properties as restaurant workers threaten to close hotel eateries.
The Morenci strike ends with workers accepting nine hours pay for eight hours work. Territorial guard departs camp today. Five troops of regulars from Fort Grant and Fort Huachuca under Colonel Lebo are on site. Italians are excluded from the settlement.
New Haven Conn June 13 awards were made public Friday night at Yale naming prize recipients. Edwin Clapp of St Paul Minnesota won the first Winthrop prize for juniors. William Spencer Robertson of Oxford Wisconsin earned the George Washington Eggleston historical prize for an essay on Francisco de Miranda and the Revolutionizing of Spanish America. Ernest Frank MacGregor of St Paul Minnesota won the Allis scholarship in the divinity school. James Harold Wallis of Dubuque Iowa received the Barge mathematical prize.
In Duluth on June 13 the Commercial Travelers began their tenth annual district council with a mass meeting at the armory and closed with a dance that continued past midnight.
Webb McNall of Kansas chosen supreme master workman with officers elected except one trustee. Other notes include a case against W F Vernon for forging drafts, Iowa leaving the Degree of Honor jurisdiction, and Roosevelt-Cassin discussions on the Russian Jewish situation with no definite outcome.
Milwaukee Turnverein celebrates golden jubilee with visiting Turners from Wisconsin and Chicago. The event includes a jubilee overture by Christ Bach’s orchestra, welcome by Henry Hauhn, a Turnverein chorus, and a dramatic tableau sequence ending with a gold laurel wreath for Milwaukee’s Turnverein children and women’s classes.
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