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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1911
Page
4
Readers are urged to join a July Fourth effort with a safe children’s program at Lafayette Park. The notice highlights a wide string of community events including a peaches delivery to Austin and a call for businesspeople to support the parade and festivities.
The big Barnum and Bailey circus comes to town in a major event for the city. It promises a once in years spectacle with a vast canvas, thrilling acts, and a memorable day for hundreds of boys and girls. Let children have the day free from chores to enjoy the show.
A Baltimore American comment on tailoring with a quip about pressing mourning suits, noting a tailor's knack for fitting occasions and mood in dress, reflecting local wit.
The Mississippi Valley Power Boat Association regatta in Dubuque Iowa July 3 6 will showcase hydroplanes as ships of the future. W H Fauber built fifteen prototypes before success with a sixteenth craft that flew off the water at high speed. Dubuque expects 19 hydroplanes plus numerous power boats drawing up to 60 000 spectators for the event.
Havana reports the Maine excavation rising from the cofferdam with officers quarters plates and parts of the captain’s dinner service found stacked as left by stewards after dinner. An ammo box holds six millimeter cartridge clips and rusted bayonets. A bronze hilted dress sword remains upright behind a door.
Ole Stederson a Lewiston contractor aged forty five was found dead at his home near Lewiston after a ten day disappearance. A note left for the coroner said he could not accept Bible teachings and cited criticisms of medical science. The body was discovered in heavy brush behind the residence despite a search of the dwelling.
Simple mixture using castile soap and soft water boiled to dissolve. Add sulphuric ether and wood alcohol then shake and cork. The solution promises to remove spots and stains from clothing, especially woolen garments, with magic-like effectiveness.
Fire destroyed the seven story Jack Daniel Distilling building and an adjoining lumber yard in St Louis causing losses estimated over 100000 dollars. Two thousand barrels of bonded whisky burned while 300 cattle were saved as flames threatened nearby mills and woodshops. Distillery owned by Tennessee interests. Cause unknown.
A US Geological Survey bulletin notes the Ojibwa name for Chicago as She Kag Ong meaning wild onion place with a root implying bad smell. The Chicago Tribune is cited as saying this etymology is notably blunt among derivations.
Waynesville North Carolina June 19 four convicts were killed twelve mortally injured and seventeen others more or less seriously hurt when the bullpen housing them on a mountain pass near Waterville collapsed. The heavy log structure slid sixty five feet down the slope and none escaped uninjured. Each convict wore a ball and chain which contributed to the high casualty and several prisoners aided in rescue efforts prompting immediate pardon applications to the governor.
Former boxing champion Robert Fitzsimmons was hurt in an automobile crash near Batavia on June 19. Traveling from Cleveland to New York with his wife and chauffeur William Lafontaine, the ninety horsepower car swung off the road while attempting to pass another vehicle and overturned, causing severe cuts and bruises.
Baseball scores list St Paul Indianapolis Toledo Minneapolis Columbus Milwaukee Louisville Kansas City 5 3 1 3 2 7 6 3 4 5 and standings show Columbus 604 Kansas City 599 Minneapolis 524 Milwaukee 516 details of club percentages and other city matchups follow. The piece also notes Des Moines Denver Omaha Lincoln Sioux City Topeka Pueblo St Joseph results and cites a Cincinnati Commercial Tribune report on articu lated skeletons shipped globally from Paris with price ranges 50 to 300 dollars and distinctions between cheap and expensive specimens.
Mrs Oldcastle muses on Botticelli during a return from the picture gallery as the hostess jokes that nothing rivals good old fashioned raspberry jam. The brief exchange captures a light domestic moment from the Chicago Record-Herald.
Train departures and arrivals listed for Chicago Great Western routes to St Paul Des Moines Omaha Mason City and other points. Times include 4 30 a m 3 49 p m 2 38 a m and 11 45 p m daily except Saturday with Sunday only services and 12 01 p m arrivals to St Paul Minneapolis Chicago and Kansas City.
Rochford Land Co lists two houses for rent and multiple farms and lands in Red River Valley and Mower County for sale or trade. Offers fire and tornado insurance, improved lands, a 80-acre farm for trade for city property, and invites calls to start purchasing a home.
A brief exchange questions whether a prisoner overstepped ethical bounds in his defense. The reply is blunt, stating he simply ended up in jail.
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