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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1910
Page
4
Gertrude Ellis Skinner is announced as associate editor with Skinner and Ulmer Publishers. The notice identifies Ellis Skinner and associates as key editorial personnel and reflects publisher leadership shifts.
The piece laments a slow June ride with few weddings. It notes a belief that everyone must eat a peck of dirt before street sprinkling begins in Austin. It cautions that state law prohibits letting noxious weeds go to seed on land you own or control and assigns responsibility for the adjacent street area to landowners.
Elkton Minnesota church St Johns Ev Lutheran will hold its annual mission festival next Sunday June 19 at the Elkton area church grounds two and a half miles northwest. The morning service starts 10 30 with Rev H Schiutz from New Richland delivering German sermons. An English sermon follows in the 2 30 afternoon service. All are invited to attend both services.
The column records Miss Phillips returning from Austin and a new auto owned by Matt Schmidt. It mentions the Cresco old settlers picnic, Miss Downey's funeral in Austin, visits by Warren Dean and others, a Montana trip by Dc Varco and son, and residents Mrs. Thomas Rounce and Myrtle Willis returning to St Paul. The creamery is reported to be doing well from the start.
Moscow Miss Minnie Rannum led the close of Dist. 127 school term in Moscow on Friday night June 10. The decorated hall hosted programs as Maurine Tolerud, Adolph and Sanford Rannum provided organ and violin music. Lovell and Herzog sold baskets totaling 28.75 dollars, with Miss Rannum's basket bringing 3.25 dollars. The social was a success and attendees reported a fine time.
Sargeant Mr and Mrs Miles McGowan of Waltham called on friends here Monday. Arthur Kopplin returned from Red Wing where he attended Commencement. John Anderson and T Abrahams of Austin transacted business here Tuesday. The Smock family and Mrs G Stimson went to Hayfield on Waltham Tuesday evening. Theo Knudson Jake Patri Ferd Swartz and Fred Smock went to Austin last Monday. F W Smock and Ferd Swartz went to Kass Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Henry Hahn Mrs Emma Swartz Mr and Mrsopperud went to Austin Wednesday. Mrs Henry Stephenson and family and Mrs G G Stimson went Friday evening. Mr and Mrs H Kezar and Lyall visited at Owatonna last week. Mrs Oscar Nelson and Dorothy visiting at B Swartz home. Mrs A E Hilker of Austin spending a few days at the home of G G Stimson. F W Smock and family Mr and Mrs G G Stimson and guests A F Watkins and Mrs A E Hilker of Austin took a joy ride to Austin Sunday.
The farmer of today buys a larger share of food for the table than ten years ago. This broad choice is positive for health and strength but requires careful selection. The text notes a city trend toward oats spurred by scientific demonstrations linking Quaker Oats to endurance and mental vigor, urging attention to diet for youths and families.
A Detroit Free Press piece describes a year in Hamburg where boys are trained in practical business through a two-firm simulated trades, starting as office boys and advancing to directors. The program blends hands on work with lectures in bookkeeping mercantile law and economics, stressing discipline and rapid learning.
The article recounts how Persian rulers used poisoned coffee to eliminate rivals. In Aspadan’s past, a governor feigned friendship with a mountain chief, inviting him and his two sons to a royal visit. After a week of hospitality, a guard presented a poisoned coffee cup to the chief, who drank despite faint hope, and was then killed by a host signal.
A London newspaper muses on why breakfast invitations faded. The piece cites a mindset of the free citizen at morning hours as alienating, noting past customs where Gladstone hosted Thursday breakfasts in 1884 with tea eggs bread and butter. It recalls the Scotch influence on a substantial breakfast and Motley’s embassy remarks on English dining habits.
The article notes Dr. Johnson worshiped at St. Clement Caves with a brass plate on his pew in the north gallery near the pulpit, installed by parishioners in 1851. It recalls the 1884 centenary memorial service and Boswell’s account of Johnson’s devout demeanor on Good Friday and Easter.
The London Chronicle notes that in Russia one letter in ten is opened by authorities as routine. Postal experts worldwide have refined methods to open mail without obvious traces, using steamed paper and bone tools, seal matrix replication, and edge splitting techniques.
An observant man found a drinking fountain with two conflicting inscriptions. The original Bible line read And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely. A placard above urged Please do not waste the water. The scene illustrates life’s contradictions between generosity and conservation.
Joseph Chamberlain drew on a nurse learned rhyme to mock opponents Beaconsfield and Salisbury after their Berlin talks with Bismarck. He quoted If all the seas were bread and cheese to punch their use of if and made the audience remember the line for its wit.
The text describes a biannual Tunis marriage market where hundreds of Tunisian girls display dowries and wear a dagger in a golden girdle, signaling proposals when removed and returned. It also notes Corsican maid customs in markets where a lit lamp signals rejection or acceptance after a suitor blows it out and the girl relights it.
A jumble of handwritten sale offers and requests including house painting needs for concrete buildings, livestock such as a cow and six week old piglets, trades for labor cement blocks sand dirt and city property, requests for a house, team driving gear, single harness, and multiple wagons. Also mentions a surgeon and free measurements for classes with contact nights.
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