This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1903
Page
2
The school board starts renovation and repair work on city schoolhouses focusing on seats and desks. The effort aims to address widespread defacing and obscene marks found on desks, linked to older pupils, with work continuing through the year and affecting teachers and students alike.
The Luella Forepang Incorporated Wild West Shows promises a genuine frontier experience. It features famed Western bands of Vaqueros Cowboys Frontiersmen Red Men Trappers and riders with authentic gear and animals. Will Exhibit at Austin July 7.
The committee choosing the pipe organ for the Congregational church has decided on a Kimball. The contract is signed and the organ should be ready in four months barring labor troubles. It will be installed in the organ loft and requires ten days of work after shipment.
St. Paul News presents life as a school where experiences teach all must learn from birth to death. Pleasures and hardships shape growth. truancy earns rebuke, discipline follows deviation, and diligent study yields reward. Quote from Roosevelt urges balancing play and study.
The Austin Choral Union met Tuesday at Andrews Music Store and voted to remain a permanent group. Prof. Steffens will lead, with plans to resume work in fall. The union reports paying all bills and maintaining a small treasury reserve and thanks supporters. President John Anderson presented Prof. Steffens with an ebony baton in appreciation of his work.
No rain farmers note, potato bugs abundant. The Red Rock judge visits Main Street friends. J H Holst drove to Dexter. Miss Madden visits sister Mrs N Georgen and returns home. Henry Logas gives Miss Madden a buggy ride. Three fishermen fail to find fish. G Dulitz visits near Mayville. Wilson Shuman wins horse shoe crown. Farmers toil near the churn while sons sort taters for cellar planting. The Red Rock Judge is talked about on the back porch.
H N Wheeler presents a humorous mock Poe style piece in the Quincy Journal. A narrator confronts a persistent street kicker on a yellow sofa, who answers only with Nevermore as the city’s future and booming building hopes are debated amid liquor and provocations. Strong imagery and a playful都市 mood pervade.
A note from James Cronan expresses disappointment that Bachelor cigars priced at five cents are not selling as hoped and asks if there is any way to persuade buyers to purchase more.
Mrs. H. L. Heinz traveled to Minneapolis this afternoon on a social visit. Purity in spices means flavor. Fruits canned with bulk spices often lose their freshness. Tone's spices are promoted as the best for cooking and preserving with lasting flavor. Most grocers now stock Tone's Spices in neat flavor retaining packages.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers Boston excursions June 24 25 26 at 24.00 to 40.50 round trip with June 30 July 4 trips priced 26.00 to 42.50 and Denver Colorado trips July 1 to 10 at 22.75. For full details on limits routes consult agent C. W. Snere.
Maud Berry from Winona county arrives at the College Tuesday to pursue the Teachers' course after teaching in Winona county this past year. About 25 students arrived on June 28. J. P. McDowell of Austin and Miss Elma A. Snyder wed June 17 at the bride's parents home in Freeborn. Rev Fisk officiated. The couple, both former Normal students, will live in Austin where McDowell has a position with Keenan & Reilly. they are praised by college friends for character and plans for a long, happy union.
Elkton reports Tom Anderson returned from a lengthy visit with relatives in South Dakota. Mrs. Fairbanks came back Friday from Rochester. Several local boys attended the ball game in West Sutton Friday. A large group went to the school picnic six miles northwest of town Friday. John Rogue and son Edwin visited Osage Friday. F G Christgau traveled to Watertown Wisconsin Friday.
A Sunday trip from Austin on June 28 via the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway offers free entertainment at Minnehaha Falls Park including a balloon ascent and parachute descent at 1 30 pm a band concert at 2 pm and a Minnehaha Falls Park baseball game at 2 30 pm between the Minnehaha Toozes and Ft Snelling Regulary. General admission is free for excursion ticket holders with a round trip rate of 1 650 from Austin.
Mr and Mrs John Malek of Rose Creek visited Mr La Clairs Sunday Geo McKenna is visiting at the Weber home Jay Treat of Blooming Prairie was in town Sunday News reached here of the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Frank L Enney of Northfield Frank O Malley former station agent of this place was married at Mason City last Wednesday to a young lady of Carpenter Iowa Children day observed in the church here Sunday evening Church decorated with flowers and ferns Mr and Mrs Shissler entertained company from Blooming Prairie Sunday A party of young folks from Blooming Prairie picnicked on the river near here Sunday M A Case was in town Sunday There will be a dance in the Court of Honor Hall Wednesday night and one in Sabra's Hall Friday night Nellie Vaughan returned from Adams Saturday.
There will be a special meeting of the order at the office of T. H. Prid ham on Thursday evening June 25th at 8 o'clock to consider giving a series of entertainments similar to those of last winter. 24-21.
Chas and Henry Nelson were sentenced to the lung and Sutton was given life sentence for the murder of Harry Krier last April.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.