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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1908
Page
4
A playful exchange between peanut and popcorn unfolds about news and mood. Lucile R. Willson’s line suggests a lighthearted verse from Austin friends, noting men eagerly seek a “switch” of headgear while women show none.
Peck, the home missionary, forecasts three weeks of Indian summer followed by two weeks of January thaw, saying the milder spell will cut a large portion from winter. The speaker hopes the forecast is accurate.
A city doctor pledges 25 dollars to a popular subscription for river dredging and a traveling salesman adds another 25 dollars. The calls for ongoing agitation emphasize community support to complete the dredging work.
The passage describes exposed foul sediment after water was drawn from a river near a dam. It warns of an impending epidemic like Mankato’s after years of contamination. The writer cites a $25,000 plan for a clean eight foot deep lake and urges the Progressive League to act. The Mason City Globe Gazette notes criticisms of Billy Sanday’s language.
The passage frames a preacher’s Sunday sermon as a journey through biblical spaces from Genesis to Revelations. It narrates scenes in Genesis through Psalms and Prophets, then to the King of Kings, the Apostles, and finally Revelations, concluding with a choral proclamation of Jesus’ lordship.
Mrs. Jo Prizler died at her daughter’s home near Oakland after a five week illness from liver tumor. Born December 8 1837 in Bohemia she had lived in Freeborn County since emigrating 31 years ago. Survived by husband, a son Jo and seven daughters including Jennie Crane Ramona S D Josephine Maurek Austin Mary Schrndle Lansing Annie Fumfar Oakland Carrie Brinker Madison S D Kate Luksik Oakland. Funeral at 1100 from her old home six miles southwest of Austin with Hayward Township burial. She was a Catholic and remembered as a gentle wife and mother.
J H Hickok an old and respected citizen died at his home on Maple and Second street this afternoon of heart failure. Obituary and funeral arrangements will be published in tomorrow's Herald.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure as a remedy for deafness caused by catarrh and inflamed Eustachian tube mucous lining. Claims nine of ten cases due to catarrh and offers a hundred dollar reward for uncured cases. Provides address in Toledo Ohio and urges purchase from druggists with Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Citizens' National Bank of Austin was sold today to investors from Iowa and Wisconsin and local Austin citizens. Purchasers include Robert Thomson John Shiels John McNaughton James D Sheedy P H Friend J W Mackie Lafayette French and others. National Bank Examiner J L Root supervised the transfer noting the bank will be among the strongest in Southern Minnesota.
Local theatre highlights a big feature Romeo and Juliet at the Gem tonight with Fay's vaudeville act from Black to White headlining a double header show.
The New York Tribune recalls two European benefactors. A Parisian poor man's $500 subscription to honor Pasteur rivals a grim scene at Notre Dame as a miserly donor quarrels with a servant over a burnt-out match. In Marseilles Jacques Gareot leaves 250000 for his city to fund a cheap water supply, citing plague year lessons from 1720.
A Frenchman in New York praises American beaches while contrasting them with European ones. He jokes that European seas are fouled by sewage pipes and littered with lemon peels metron newspaper scraps. He recalls bathing in Nice where the sea was warm yet dirty.
In a tense scene at a doorway Mrs O'Toole blocks the path with a rough stick while a stranger asks for Mr O'Toole. She responds with blunt humor as they size each other up, the exchange hinting at unresolved tension inside the frame.
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