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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1908
Page
2
The item notes St Patrick’s day morning observations and local life. It mentions manual training classes in schools as an effect of local causes and records H C Waldecker sharpening twenty saws on Saturday. It also reports the groundhog’s emergence after six weeks, finding an unsatisfactory foundation for spring.
A Spring Valley man nicknamed a He Carrie Nation returns fire in a political column, calling his attackers pinheads as politics heats up in the Valley.
The Milwaukee railroad plans examinations for firemen with three years of service. Those who pass will be promoted to engineer positions on the Pacific coast extension. The rule prevents hiring outside engineers and requires promotion from lower ranks, a regulation the Albert Lea Tribune says will yield good results.
The excerpt reflects on Ireland’s past from Druid worship to legendary love regions, noting a blend of myth and fact. It praises Ireland’s early civilization, cultural depth, and enduring charm amid vivid joys and sorrows in its storied history.
The United Brethren church at London was dedicated with morning, afternoon and evening services drawing about 300 people. Rev. E G Reed preached the afternoon sermon. Cash and pledges totalled 367 23 with further pledges expected to clear the debt. The building measures 36 by 24 feet with a corner tower and a side 6 by 12. A ladies parlor will be added next summer bringing total cost to about 2400.
Lawyer and journalist from Christiania Norway Mr Hans Jervell presents an illustrated lecture on Through Norway and Northern Europe at 8 tonight. Views include the Land of the Midnight Sun Paris London Rhine North Cape Westminster Abbey Cologne Notre Dame cathedrals. Admission 25 cents adults. students and children little.
We express sincere thanks to neighbors teachers school mates and church members for their kind acts and sympathy during our recent sorrow. Mr and Mrs Josern REGNER.
Violet and Viola Padeiford accompany Bersie Weis to Lime Springs Iowa for a few days visit while Sidney Helebrant is sick with the grip.
The Co T A U defers cancellation of St Patrick’s Day event due to sorrow over Father Devlin and family and proceeds with the program. Maas at 9:00, address by Father Reardon, parade at 11, noon dinner, procession from church on Kenwood to Winona to Main to Auditorium hosted by St Augustine’s women.
State president Mrs Bessie Laythe Scovell spent the weekend in the city as the guest of Mrs John Fairbanks. She spoke at the YWCA about mothers and daughters and later at the Baptist church on the temperance wave in the South. She outlined four WCTU departments and urged women to act in a woman's way.
The Heraid reports March 14 election results: Mayor O W Gibson. Alderman at Large Wm Todd. Assessor Geo E Wilbour. Treasurer N F Banfield. Recorder Johan Wold. Ward Aldermen Seymour Johnson C L West C J Miller. JOP J D Sheedy N K Noble E Meyers. Constables E Clark Jerry Ingalls John Becker. Two missing assessor candidates E G Bascomb and E G Tompkins. Stephen Cook gathers petition signatures for license question. 120 collected of 135 needed.
Miss Bernice Castello gave a refined performance at Library Hall praised for grace beauty and child like simplicity. The Albert Lea Tribune notes her versatility portraying American girl spinster aunt and Japanese girl in Koto San and her singing solo adds to the charm of the Japanese life story.
The Cosmo features Gunner Mob versus Tiger Smith in a clear engaging bout. The program also offers Pheasant Breeding The Story of an Egg Class Mates Julius the Sandwich Man and an illustrated song When Sally said Good Bye.
Ten members of the Boston Athletic Association Gun Club competed in a 100 bird handicap for a gold shield donated by Dr. W. G. Titcomb. Dr. H. A. Ellis won with a score of 94 birds out of 100.
Bassett and Jacobson announce they have shipped seven carloads totaling 141 horses from their livery sale barn and invite more horses every Saturday to fetch the highest market price.
Notice to voters announces G Bascomb seeking the assessor position citing experience on the equalization board and in real estate. The statement emphasizes business men and taxpayers support and personal qualifications for public service.
In 1680 the first duel on American soil occurred between Edward Doty and Edward Leister, servants of Mr Hopkins. After quarrel over a trifling matter they fought, one wounded in the thigh and the other in the hand. Authorities punished them with bound heads and feet for twenty four hours without food or drink, but they were released after one hour.
The London T. P. Weekly recounts a comic tale of King James I and a Spanish ambassador seeking a professor of signs. In Aberdeen a clever butcher Geordy impersonates a sign professor, fooling the envoy with gestures over God and life’s luxuries, while the scholars praise the imposter’s contrast with the ambassador’s demonstrations.
About thirty friends surprised Mrs Art Padelford at her home Saturday night. She and Mr Padelford were away at a show and returned to find friends present. The evening featured games music and a fine supper with a set of silver knives and forks as a keepsake.
Louise Smith entertained the S. W. D. club on Saturday night with a seven o'clock dinner. Tables featured red decorations and place cards. The evening included games and music.
An archival ad offers one hundred dollars for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin, wholesale druggists in Toledo, confirming F J Cheney’s honesty and solvency. Claims the cure works internally and on mucous surfaces with testimonials available. Prices 75 cents per bottle. pills for constipation promoted as well.
The Wall Street Journal likens banking reserves to a hospital emergency bed, arguing reserves exist for active use in crises rather than mere display. It warns some bankers treat reserves as a nonessential asset, risking unmet needs for actual emergencies.
A mother asks how Tom earned good arithmetic marks. He explains that they did ten examples daily, he had five solved with the teacher’s help, Eric Jones did five, and they swapped help.
A party of horsemen along Bridge Creek Wyoming hear a rattle and search for a rattlesnake. They learn the sound comes from a burrowing owl in prairie dog burrows often with rattlesnakes. The owl gives a third rattle when they pass, causing horses to shy at the spot. The tale is cited by the American Naturalist.
A fragment notes a man named Bloom neglecting his wife and an only known outing occurring after a gas explosion. The text hints at marital strain and a suspicious event surrounding the couple.
Frank Presbrey notes the Great North Road from London to Edinburgh praised for 400 miles of smooth macadam nine foot thickness and few curves. He observes heavy motoring, police speed traps, and accessible village information on trap locations near Biggleswade Buckden and Weston as part of a long road admired in Outing Magazine.
Dr. C. A. Wood writes that birds have keener eyesight than humans, with water birds and kingfishers among the sharpest. He notes humans growing more nearsighted due to urban work, while hawks, hummingbirds, woodcock, owls, and kingfishers show exceptional adaptive vision across air and water.
Sir Spencer Walpole argues in Contemporary Review that Homer imagined a world limited to Greece and adjacent lands, with Africa and Egypt glimpsed beyond. He notes Homer’s sea as a minor Aegean inland sea, yet Homer felt the Mediterranean as vast and fearful, surpassing the Atlantic in terror to him.
Day Allen Willey in Metropolitan depicts a brutal seal hunt as hunters strike seals with bats and knives. The account details killing multiple seals, flensed pelts piled, and a relentless daylong slaughter with flags marking each kill on the ice.
A Philadelphia Ledger quote shows a college girl recounting a missionary talk that urged women to become fishers of men. The students mocked the sermon, prompting the speaker to complain of a deplorable spirit of levity among the audience.
During a European tour Sir Henry Roscoe witnessed Vesuvius erupting and met an American who claimed America lacks such spectacle yet boasts a river that could extinguish the eruption in five minutes.
In Sir Henry Drummond Wolff’s Rambling Recollections a Victorian vignette notes England’s boastful forbearance toward high-born friends. A governess, asked to inspect a lady’s daughter, remarks the foot pain could be a bunion were it not for the exalted rank of the mother.
A Bohemian joke depicts an Irishman declaring his youngest son will be a surgeon after his child is seen cutting out the pages of a newly bought book with scissors. The humor rests on the child’s early use of medical tools.
A reflective comparison links joy to lamp oil. when it runs low the wick glows red and emits black smoke. The piece argues life loses profit and spirit without joy, turning mood dark and sad.
A brief aphorism notes a hawk devouring a dove while the sentence suggests the hawk faces as many dangers as the dove, reflecting predator and prey risk in nature.
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