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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1903
Page
4
Societies list Austin groups including Motherwood American Yeomen No 4483 meeting Saturdays and Wednesdays at various halls with named officers. Fidelity Lodge No 3% AF and AM and other lodges meet in Austin and Moon venues on specified midweek dates. Officers listed include John Robertson, Ed Carter, Mattie Fairbanks, Jane Todd, and others.
Austin ann Pe 638 holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesday each month at 7 p.m. at Woodman Lodge. Visiting members are welcome. Herbert St Ledger delivered the note with Scovell serving as scribe.
Meeting brief lists Court of Honor No 414 sessions on the first and third Tuesdays in the M W A hall. It names officers Kevin Miller as W C Mrs Sarah Foster as Recorder and Marie Bannister as Lady Commander with limited address details and roles noted.
Austin Lodge No 32 of the A O C W holds meetings on the second and fourth Thursdays each month at New Ellis hall on Main Street. C M Hall Mw OH Harris Recorder.
Fragmentary OCR notes include street names and a time marker 7100 DM evening. Readable text mentions a local area and indicates a brief item about city streets without clear events or outcomes.
Sunday morning service at SE Corner Water and St Paul Streets with Holy Communion and morning prayer. Sunday School and Bible Class scheduled. evening Bible Class and winter summer service. St Cecelia Guild and Ladies Guild meet on specified days. Choir rehearsal on Saturday evenings.
The Minneapolis & St. Louis R R reestablishes Homeseekers Rates to Minnesota North Lakota Montana Idaho Washington and Oregon and other western regions. Valid on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of April May and June 190% with a round trip fare of one fare plus $2.00, limit 21 days from sale. Inquiries to any M S L ticket agent or A B Currs GP T A Minneapolis Minn.
Colonist Excursions to the West offer one way tickets at very low rates to California Washington Oregon Montana Idaho Arizona and more. Tickets valid daily through June 15 with through tourist cars and details from Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Minneapolis agents.
The Iowa Central Ray reestablishes Hemesekers Rates to Minnesota North Dakota Montana Idaho Washington Oregon and other western and southern points. Rates are one fare plus 2.00 for round trip valid 21 days from sale on the first and third Tuesdays of April May and June 1903. For full particulars contact any Iowa Central ticket agent or GP&TA A B Cutts Minneapolis Minn.
Through via Chicago Great Western travel to St Paul Minneapolis Superior Ashland Duluth and other Minnesota resorts with summer sale June 1 to Sept 30 good to return Oct 31 Also to Colorado Utah black Hills New Mexico and Texas with stop over privileges Apply to any Great Western agent or J P Elmer GPA Chicago Ill See add elsewhere in this paper for Iowa Central connections Rates and info via A B Cutts GPA Minneapolis.
The C M St P Ry runs a special train from Austin to Blue Earth City on June 9 1903 for the Modern Woodman Picnic. Train leaves Austin at 6:30 AM with round trip fare of 1.75 dollars. Inquiries to agent C W Snere.
Travelers Protective Association announces a special fare from Indianapolis Indiana for a six day event June 9 to 14 1903. One fare plus two dollars round trip tickets on sale June 7 and 8. Return allowed until June 18. For details contact any Great Western Agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago.
Minneapolis June 1 13 1903 event offers $3 round trip to St Paul or Minneapolis via Chicago Great Western Railway Tickets on sale June 2 4 8 and 11 Good for three days for further information contact any Great Western Agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago
The new coaches placed in service between here and St Paul and Minneapolis by the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway have greatly increased travel comfort and boosted the line’s popularity.
Chicago Great Western Ry offers travelers a choice of three through tourist cars to California. Ask any Great Western agent for details and schedules.
Mayor Sert sent a tele gram to E. F. Ware, pensions commissioner in Washington, inviting him to Kansas City to verify claims that Kansas needs no aid while 4 000 families and 20 000 people are homeless. Lumber interests plan nationwide subscriptions for flood relief. In St Louis the river continues to fall and threatens Broadway east, likely destroying much of the street and nearby areas.
A hackman driving horses for Nic Roner lost control near Fourth Street and Nicollet Avenue during a fireworks laden parade. The frightened animals charged into Danz's band, wounding six musicians and injuring several others. Charles Hubbard, R Schultz, Max Mathien, and Charles Gardner were among the injured. Crowded sidewalks and street spectators minimized further harm.
In Vienna on a Friday drive, a man with a stick rushed the emperor's carriage. The coachman struck the assailant and the horses were urged on as police seized Jacob Reich, an unemployed agent declaring himself the son of God and bearing a message from the Almighty. Reich was deemed insane, jailed, then released.
Bloomington Illinois June 13 Augie tana Synod of the Swedish Lutheran church in the United States formally organized for a week's session by electing officers Rev Eric Norelius Vasa Minn president Rev C B Lindberg Rock Island treasurer Rev C J Battgston Rock Island The fourth anniversary of the founding of the Lutheran church of Paxton TL was celebrated with addresses by Rev J Telleen St Paul Minn Rev A Edgren Opheim DL Rev Carl Swenson Jindsburg Dr C A Evans Chicago Dr Custax Ander ton Rock Island
General Alexander McDowell McCook U S A retired died of a third stroke at 6 a m in Dayton Ohio at the home of his daughter Mrs Charles Craighead on West Monument avenue The widow Mrs McCook and daughters Mrs Chauncey Baker of Washington D C and Mrs Craighead were at the bedside at the hour of parting. Annapolis Naval Academy reports twenty five more candidates passed physical examinations with midshipmen named William Cherney W C Ulrich and F W Lagerquist among those rated.
In Wise Courthouse Virginia on June 13 F W Hepson a 36 year old black man was hanged for the brutal murder of 67 year old John Salyers during a December 4 1902 chicken theft.
National League results list Boston at St Louis 12 3 and Philadelphia at Chicago 12 5 with New York leading, while standings show New York .678 Chicago .667 Brooklyn .511 Cincinnati .432 Boston .400 Philadelphia .295 St Louis .280. American League games include Philadelphia 2 Cleveland 1 in fourteen innings and Washington 6 Chicago 11 with standings Boston .614 Philadelphia .600 Cleveland .561 St Louis .552 Chicago .512 Detroit New York .439 Washington .256. Other notes cover Columbus 4 Minneapolis 8 Louisville 6 Kansas City 8 Toledo 7 St Paul 12 and Indianapolis Milwaukee forfeiture after manager ejection. Milwaukee standings listed 683 St Paul 636 Indianapolis .558 Kansas City .472 Minneapolis .465 Louisville .482 Columbus .281 Toledo .365.
Market quotes for wheat flax cattle hogs sheep and dairy across Minneapolis Duluth St Paul Chicago with prices in cents and dollars. Wheat prices at various maturities and track figures. cattle hogs and sheep price ranges in Minneapolis St Paul and Chicago. butter poultry and eggs listed with creamery and dairy quotes. assorted grain and livestock futures and cash prices.
The churches in Mexico are never finished as workmen continually add new features while authorities limit church property ownership to individuals. An unfinished building avoids taxes, delaying completion under the current government policy.
A London innkeeper found fame by a musical oyster that whistled from a newly opened barrel. The oyster’s air movement through a tiny shell hole produced the sound, drawing hundreds to listen until the creature died and the mystery ended.
An artless maid asks for the secret to the art of conversation. The learned man adopts his customary calm, urging her to listen. He declares that listening is the essence of conversing agreeably.
A Washington Post excerpt shows a character waking at 2:50 AM and accusing someone of idle pursuits. The man replies that neither a sick friend nor a lodge meeting is involved, claiming he was gambling at poker and lost thirty-five dollars.
The article notes several species driven to extinction in the nineteenth century and early 1870s, including the great auk on both sides of the Atlantic by 1844 and 140 years earlier, the South African quagga around 1870, the Calapagos tortoise around 1875, and the black emu of South Australia. It cites Danish West Indies as another example where only six of fourteen catalogued species remained.
The poet Shelley preferred simple tastes and long solitary rambles. Bread became his main sustenance as his regimen grew austere. He could live on bread alone with no complaint. He joked that Mr G does not like bread, then explained most dislike bread only in excess. Shelley often ate bread with raisins from small grocers.
Like all serpents, sea serpents live in the sea and breathe air. Their flattened tails aid swiftness in all directions and help them surface to breathe. Nostrils are at the tail end, and their nasal branches have valves to prevent water entry. They shed salt skins, eyes poorly adapted for air, and they immobilize small fish with venom to feed without fear of spines.
The Atlantic essay by Mary Moss portrays the nurse as essential during crises, guiding care, maintaining order, and providing quiet support. It stresses professional skill, discretion, and adaptability to each household, including duties beyond medicine such as reading aloud and managing family dynamics during and after illness.
Two ancient kings were buried in secret Attila king of the Huns died in A D 453 in Hungary. His body was hidden in a gold casket then silver and lead and the slaves slain to hide the grave. Alaric king of the Goths died at Corenza in south Italy. His body and treasures were buried in a riverbed and the stream restored. No traces remain for either tomb. Moses is said to share the secret of an unseen burial.
The mean height of land above sea level is 2250 feet and the ocean’s mean depth is 12480 feet. Only 2 percent of the sea lies within 500 fathoms, while 77 percent lies between 500 and 3000 fathoms. If land filled the sea hollows, water would cover the crust to two miles deep.
Local witness recounts a disturbance at last night’s meeting as McGowan allegedly struck the chairman in the eye. He was reportedly expelled and the scene quickly settled, with others insisting the gathering remained harmonized and quiet.
In a sharp exchange, one asks for a real objection to polygamy while another retorts that a man cannot serve two masters. The quip captures a lively, era-typical debate tone from Town Topics.
A scene portrays a man offering to kiss away a woman's tears as she weeps, followed by her worsening crying. The exchange hints at emotional strain and unresolved tension between the two characters.
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