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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1902
Page
3
Agents wanted for all kinds of building material paper paste sewer pipe coal and wood. Let us estimate your bills. Phone 16. Anello Lumber and Fuel Co. Group W Buchanan Manager.
Industrial agent W J Reed invites prospects to join the Chicago Great Western Railway system. Demand for competent men with capital for creamery, mining, general merchandise, hardware, banks, hotels, stock buyers. Good locations offered. correspondence solicited. Mapseed Maple Leaflets. 64 Kedicott Building St Paul Minn June 59.
A fragmentary newspaper page extols Rocky Mountain Tea as a cure for beauty and health, with promotional lines about 35 cent sales and exclusive agency claims. It mentions Malloy Brothers, Guillemane ice cream, and various local notices including weddings, plays, social events, and community announcements.
Stillman and Co advertise a large stock of glass including single and double strength plate leaded and art glass. They offer Patton’s Master Painters Finishing White roof stains and sash work with George Keoguer supervising third floor operations.
An Australian inventor reports creating plate glass that almost blocks heat, allowing only seven percent of heat to pass at quarter inch thickness versus seventy five percent for ordinary glass. The non conducting glass could reduce solar heat and retain artificial warmth, with further notes on beer filled glass and local supplier details.
Building Mechanics Builders Exchange and Ryan Building in St Paul are listed in a contractor directory with firm names and location references. The brief entry notes the trade group and local builder firms.
The Rebeckah lodge began a new class of twelve members, ten ladies and two gentlemen, with a very fine time enjoyed. This also marks Odd Fellows week with celebration activities noted.
Closing quotations on Minneapolis grain and futures, with wheat, corn, and oats figures. Notable export sales and domestic visible supplies cited, plus Bradstreet data and European trade. Market described as dull but steady with advisories to favor buying on declines.
RACINE D A McKee and wife spent Sunday with friends near Washington Miss Horo spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in Grand Mound Jessie Reid was initiated into the Woodman lodge last Thursday evening Mr and Mrs Obas Sarborn visited friends in Rochester over Sunday E D Wattles and family were entertained at O Olivers Sunday Mrs Pege of Austin viewed at D O Sanborns part of last week John Utzinger expects to go to St Marys Hospital this week for an operation E i Leonard has been visiting his sons Fred and George the past week Mrs Herbert Eastman at St Marys hospital is gaining rapidly and is expected home soon It is reported that the new store Racine was to have is not coming for which we are early as We think we need two stores Rev Harbaugh attended a ministerial meeting at Pine Island first of last week Mrs Harbaugh and Mrs Levi Eastman attended the Epworth League convention at Plainview Saturday and Sunday Memorial services will be observed in the schoolhouse hall next Sunday Rev Jones of Stewartville delivering the address.
A home wedding at 2 PM united Clara W Sprague and Frank Kasak. Rev Jen sen Roseland performed the ceremony with ring exchange. The bride wore silk satin with applique and chiffon. Brides maid Helen Sprague wore Nile green. Best man Joseph Kasak, groom’s brother. A wedding dinner and reception followed with immediate family. out of town guests included the Spragues of Abbortford Wisconsin Colby Wisconsin and New Hampton New Hampshire. The couple will reside with Kasak’s mother on Water Street and a reception was planned for tonight.
A reader letter satirically critiques politics and society, lampooning Democratic politicians and civic duties. The piece mocks public discourse, education, tobacco use, and a moon figure who dreams of office while hinting at local humor and folly.
Representatives from Hastings Farmington Owatonna Faribault and Aneton compete in a Northfield inter high school meet on May 24. Each school will send two athletes in multiple events including sprints distances, distance runs, relays, throws and jumps.
Tom Macintyre was arrested today on a charge of rape involving Josephine Campbell of St Paul Street and was bound over to the grand jury.
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