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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1908
Page
6
The London Chronicle notes the expanding use of vermin to include rats mice cockroaches cats dogs sparrows and canaries as disease carriers. It compares derivation from vermis to current loose usage citing Purchas Walton and Tennyson for varied applications.
A French marquise hosting guests during hunting season kept a guest register for desires and criticisms. Notes accuse Count de R of owing 25 louis and complain about burned peas and flirtations. The marquise withdrew the register as retribution looms.
A short humor piece describes Mrs. Billings pestering fellow passengers about nautical procedures on a cattle steamer. The gag centers on the claim that cattle temperatures are taken twice daily and the impossibility of inserting a thermometer in a cow’s mouth without sterility issues. The second excerpt notes a study predicting a child’s hair type from parental hair, citing blue eyed parents as likely to yield blue eyed children and discussing curly hair probabilities.
A brief column from the Louisville Courier-Journal recounts a sharp comeback anecdote about a wife and a tale of a man who made a million dollars, illustrating wit in a quick-handed exchange.
The Comtesse de Boigne recounts a 1806 Dieppe visit showing dire poverty and fear of the sea, with scant bathing facilities and crowds watching the first bath. She notes Dieppe’s later rise as a bathing resort and claims Dieppe was the origin of modern French sea bathing.
South American ants defend Cecropia adenopus trees in Brazil by living in hollow stems and attacking leaf cutter ants. The ants feed on Mueller’s corpuscles inside the tree and enter through a groove near each leaf node, a structure shaped by natural selection.
Horace Greeley and Mary Young Cheney wed the day they first met after a mutual friend arranged the match. She warned she was not in love at first sight, yet their long marriage endured until her death, and Greeley mourned her loss.
A humorous exchange shows Uncle returning and asking what to pay while Tommy lists buns cakes sandwiches jelly tarts and more. The London Tit Bits quip about base running ability versus an ice wagon adds a playful local flavor from the Louisville Courier Journal.
The Duchess of Cleveland invites a relative to her husband’s funeral and instructs him to bring a gun declaring the pheasants must be shot. This remark appears in Sir Algernoon West’s Reminiscences.
A fragment from a 1920s Atlanta Constitu article describes a worried mother asking about Willie Chopsticks after he reportedly fell down a well, with a professor recalling a memory tied to a glass of water and a time near ten o clock.
A dense listing of Austin Minnesota merchants and services across categories including gas, groceries, furniture, hardware, clothing, lull merchandise, and professional services. Notable names include Nations, Burlingame Bros, Hormel, J.Fairbanks, Austin Furniture Co, Donovans, and Southern Minnesota Normal College with various product claims and offerings.
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