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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1902
Page
2
Tuosk witnessed crocuses emerging in the Minnesota March sun after a harsh winter. Bins are requested to print invitations and menus for a banquet honoring Senator Sveningsen’s twenty first year in office.
The piece urges county voters to participate in the primaries and nominate themselves rather than rely on a few politicians. It argues the law succeeds only if broad turnout and self nomination occur, warning against reliance on politicos.
A new survey reports about a million adherents in the United States and Canada. It tallies 650 societies 350 lecturers pastors and platform mediums and 1500 psychics active in public spirit manifestations, with mediums estimated at 10000.
The passage notes a faction in Van Sant's party seeking change and hints he may run when the contest closes. It criticizes his costly special legislative session costing taxpayers an extra 50,000 and claims the call was unnecessary and his own political maneuver, with the failure laid at his door.
Dr Shoemaker, a 20 year veteran educator and graduate of the school, is appointed to the presidency of the St Cloud Normal School. He has served as Summer school inspector and is expected to win broad statewide support for the new role.
The piece notes that naming commissioners on the Water Street bridge is inappropriate as a monument. It suggests avoiding memorials on infrastructure and hopes for a tablet listing county commissioners city council and Carnegie when the Carnegie Library is completed.
The Tus Paderewski gypsy opera Maniu is hailed as the season’s most important musical event. It marks the first major opera produced in the country under its composer and New York witnesses its premiere as the fifth city.
State Superintendent Olsen completes the March apportionment of state school funds. Total pupils 343,662 with $294,452.79 to be issued this month, down from last March when 341,609 pupils shared $427,424.10. Regional allocations include Freeborn $4,029.85, Fillmore $5,260, Mower $3,984.80, Steele $3,061.
A verse fragment about March bringing warmer days and renewed life. It invokesWinter receding, rivers rising, birds returning, and youth singing as Dame Flora hastens spring. The poem pleads for winter to depart and spring to arrive.
The Ferris bill passed the senate to remedy a defect in the game law by adding deer and fawn to the closed season provisions. It closes a gap that allowed deer hunting outside the November window and moves to the governor for signature.
The piece advises making the coil fine through repeated working and pulverizing, adding fertilizer such as bonemeal if stable manure is unavailable. It recommends hardy plants, open soil, weed control, and engaging children in daily work, citing Eben E. Rexford in March Lippincott's Magazine.
McClure Phillips & Co announce that Red Saunders and his doings West and East, as written by H W Phillips, are nearly ready for publication. Saunders is a genuine cow puncher with sharp Western humor and will perform entertaining feats in any venue.
Miss Laura Murane of Austin closed district No 119 near Coring for a Wednesday program with parents. Pupils participated and class work from the year was shown. Mike Lena Christianson read a humorous "Coring Times" piece that drew laughs.
Daily trains run from Iowa to the Great Northwest carrying 25 to 30 freight cars of stock goods and farm implements. A tourist coach carries the immigrants. The lure is cheap land in North Dakota with widespread land advertisements. Thousands of acres have been sold in the county mainly for speculation.
The annual meeting of the Austin Cemetery Association will be held Friday March 7 at 2 p.m. to elect a trustee in place of A. Sith and to transact such business as will be found necessary.
The advertisement lists a wide range of fabric goods including Broedcloths Etamines Granite clothe Camels-Haire Serger Whipcords Ven etians Englich tweeds Cheviots and other novelty fabrics. Colors named include graye oxford mixthree browns greene navy cadet royal olive red and black with special bargains on black silks.
The text explains how the date of Easter shifts each year. It notes the sun’s March progression toward the equator, the equinox, and that Easter is the Sunday after the first full moon following the equinox. It links Passover timing to this arrangement and cites March Ladies' Home Journal.
On Tuesday March 8 at 2 PM the Ideal Restaurant assets will be sold to the highest bidder. The auction includes dishes furniture fixtures one steel range three bedroom sets bedding and a large stack of cigars. J F FarrBANKs Trustee.
Runaway Match drew a large crowd with fresh jokes and strong laughs. Audiences called the show a rare treat for theatre-goers and praised the timely humor throughout the performance.
Tickets available daily throughout March and April for travel in three sleeper cars on the Chicago Great Western railway. Information from any CGW agent or J J Elmer, GPA, Chicago.
Paterson New Jersey reports improved flood conditions by early morning. Between midnight and 10 o clock a rapid fall in the flood waters occurred, though River street remained flooded with passage still impossible even for boats.
Melbourne reports a single plague case traced to a steamer from Sydney. Sydney’s outbreak totals forty six cases with fourteen deaths to date.
Eight farmers tracked James Miller and Daniel Butler through fresh snow for eight miles after a shooting confrontation. The two burglars were found looting a general store and the Herbert post office. A four hour siege at a railroad pumping station ended with surrender.
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