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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1908
Page
4
A call to recognize the strain on American women who maintain homes, dress children, and manage duties while silently enduring pain and hardship. The piece urges acknowledgment of female burdens and the need to address their daily sacrifices.
Mrs. Ellsworth of Mayville New York and Mrs. Boyd of Beaver Falls Pennsylvania report improved health after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The advertisement asserts the remedy cures female ills including displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities pain backache and nervous fatigue and invites women to write for advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
In a St. Louis Republic snippet the doctor concedes fault after advising a husband to exercise. The husband has been out every night, prompting the physician to leave a prescription and promise a later follow up.
Three U S senators received letters from President Roosevelt asserting his supremacy as commander in chief over army and navy matters. The notes defend his actions in Brownsville and the exile of Colonel William F Stewart, with reactions stirring talk of a Republican conference.
The Euclid Avenue Trust company of Cleveland has assigned its affairs to the Cleveland Trust company. No liabilities or assets were stated in the deed. The bank, capitalized at 200000 dollars, is led by J. P. Madigan, county treasurer, as president. It is understood that
Lima May 9 The Comercio reports an order to retain funds of political prisoners arrested in a recent futile revolutionary movement has caused a bad impression and alarm in the commercial world. The paper says the evil effects of the order must be modified.
A Black 18 year old, Elmo Harvard, was arrested in Pulaski on a reported attempted crime and was fatally harmed by a mob of about 300 unmasked men. The crowd broke the jail, forced him to a bridge, and he died during the incident despite sheriff's protests.
Richmond Virginia May 9 section meetings of the national conference of charities and corrections advocated the establishment of a public health department by the United States government and the appointment of a board of control for the management of United States prisoners.
In New York on May 0, Jim Barry of Chicago fought Joe Jeannette colored of this city in a six round heavyweight bout. The bout was fast and even with no decision rendered.
Denver police report Roy Hisle arrested on the murder charge of Charles Huntington Wright the Globe express messenger shot in the express car of a Denver and Rio Grande train near the city approaches. The story also includes a series of quotes on acting and performances by Ellen Terry and others, reflecting on Shakespearean roles and stage inspiration.
A London Standard piece discusses the crown cap of maintenance used to symbolize papal supremacy, noting its history from Henry VIII to Edward VIII. It portrays the cap as a sacred emblem carried only by royalty, held aloft by a Protestant peer, and linked to papal overlordship in the medieval feudal order.
A Cleveland Leader quotation contrasts gendered betting norms with a punchline about argument control. The exchange highlights social attitudes toward gambling and dispute resolution between men and women.
This piece lists renowned writers who left works incomplete at death. Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Stevenson, and others saw novels or poems unfinished such as The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Denis Duval, The Siege of Malta, St Ives, Zeph, Blind Love, History of Civilization, Don Juan, Hyperion, Christabel, Agrippina, The Faerie Queene, and The Sad Shepherd.
A Parisian tale tells of a Frenchman who devised an original method to end his life. He locked his room, added weights to the window cord, attached six flatirons, placed a chef’s bread knife on the sill, and tied a balloon to his neck. He released the window clamp, severing his head, with the body found days later and the balloon and head later discovered eighteen miles from Paris.
The New Orleans Picayune notes an exhibit of antique maps at the Louisiana State Museum. The maps, printed in Europe, show Louisiana from New France in the north to the Gulf, and from Virginia to the Pacific, often featuring fanciful geography and rivers in places none exist today. One map portrays the Mississippi turning toward a gulf entrance near Florida, with a perilous zone marking the land of the mentioned man near Bay St. Louis.
A western man revisits J G Brown's studio and recalls his New York street days as a rmocel for a street bar scene. He now aims to own the group picture featuring him and his boyhood cronies as a keepsake. Brown cannot locate the work despite a $25 000 offer.
A Tennessee congressman tells a Mose anecdote from his district portraying a “darky” who blends philosophy with crime. Mose explains he earns more in fines and jail time than steady work, noting $7 monthly pay versus $10 or 30 days behind bars, a pointed social satire from the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
A physician tests his shotgun by firing from a bush near a river test target. He notes one barrel consistently hits while the other misses, diagnosing the gun as having a severe case of strabismus with astigmatism-like symptoms. The remark is made to a friend in Modern Society.
A playful dialogue explores English verb tense with a boy asking if a hat that once had a hole and was mended can be described as having “had had.” The parent confirms the logic, and the boy questions the correctness of the phrase.
A playful Kansas City Times quip notes that even brief partings feel lengthy for lovers and mocks the fuss over the goodbye as a lighthearted reflection on farewells.
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