Local Austin Notes Mix of Visits and Weather News
Local items report showers possible late night and Saturday with colder air. Numerous visitors stop in Austin including George Zeimer Waltham, John Condo Adolpho, J C White and Jerome Graff Rose Creek, Mrs J F Fairbanks, Mrs Clayton Smith, and others from Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis, and Iowa.
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John Condo
Adolpho
Austin
John Hormel
J. F. Fairbanks
Mike Feeney
Wm. Miner
Chicago
J. C. White
Jerome Graff
Rose Creek
Albert Thon
Fay Greenman
Rice Lake
Clayton Smith
Marion
St. Paul
Silver sugar spoon prize at Metropolitan Novelty Store
The Metropolitan Novelty Store offers a weekly incentive. The customer showing the greatest amount in coupons received up to Saturday night at 8 o clock will receive a silver sugar spoon as an ongoing extra premium each Saturday night until further notice.
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Metropolitan Novelty Store
Social Event for Happy Thought Club at Brownell Home
The Happy Thought club was entertained by Mrs. C. C. Brownll and Mrs. J. A. Brownell at Brownell home. Thirty eight ladies attended a bountiful luncheon after tying two comfortables for the hostesses. The next meeting is with Mrs. C. B. Sayles on November 2.
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Happy Thought Club
C. C. Brownll
J. A. Brownell
C. B. Sayles
Miss Mary White Hosts Granite Shower in Lansing
Miss Mary White received a granite shower at her Lansing home on Thursday night. About twenty friends from the city traveled out in a hay rack for the event. Supper was served around twelve. Austin friends then enjoyed a pleasant ride back to the city.
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Mary White
Lansing
Austin
Local notices invite rally and social at area church
J. B. Young visited Little Falls on business. Mrs. Carl Lyck and two daughters visited Brownsdale. Louis Bibert and wife stayed with relatives in Grand Meadow. The Lutheran Ladies Aid hosts a sociable at the church tonight. A Democratic rally in Lansing Court of Honor hall Saturday night features O G Christgau as speaker. Taft Johnson supporters urged to sign the Fox hotel roll to reach 500 names for Governor Johnson.
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Carl Lyck
Brownsdale
Louis Bibert
Grand Meadow
Lansing
Court of Honor Hall
O. G. Christgau
Taft-Johnson
Fox Hotel
Gov. Johnson
Silence of the Valet on Wine and Water
A courtroom quip links defense to a valet accused of drinking his master's wine. The master suspects water is added and the valet defends himself by insisting he never drinks wine and only adds brandy to keep its strength, a wry exchange about honesty and disguise.
Holy Grail explains sacred vessel lore and errors
The quoted passage discusses the holy grail as a vessel not the blood of Christ. Warton and Villemarque note the grail is a vessel containing sacred items, possibly diamond and emerald, with origins tied to Armoric legends. The term great derives from old French.
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Thomas Warton
Spenser
Joseph
Arimathea
Satan
Michael
M. de Villemarque
Percival
London
Fire Threat Ends With Heavy Neighbor Help
A wind driven blaze near the Cook Banfield and Teeter farms on Lansing road endangered houses and outbuildings. Tenants set a straw stack alight and neighbors with plows formed a line to stop the fire, saving the properties from near destruction.
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Cook-Banfield
Lansing Road
Cook Place
Billy Sunday denies plate smashing report in Peoria Star
W B Conkey Company of Hammond Indiana sends a letter to the Peoria Star stating Billy Sunday did not smash sermon plates or print plates. The firm explains a Decatur Illinois firm sent sermons for printing and Sundays later bought back plates to discard, while sensational reports accused him of violent acts.
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Peoria Star
Billy Sunday
W. B. Conkey Company
Hammond
Ind
Hammona
Billy
Decatur
Ill
Sunday
Yellow Journals
Chicago
W. B. Conkey
W. B
Local Notes and At The Deep End of Caesars
FAST SIDE Jimmie Downs visits Well. Avery's offers large wall paper sale. Fred Wendt returns from Lake field. Mrs W S Plummer travels to Lime Springs. Mrs Magdalene Felber of McGregor Iowa visits Austin kin. Mrs Tom Christianson Miss Wagner and Dora Christianson spend day with Austin friends. A Schall piano tuner visits the city. Mrs L W Bowen and daughters return to Spokane Wash. John Lang, son of Mr and Mrs Mathew Lang, has a minor home operation by Drs Lewis and Collins. John Hemmer prevents upstairs fire in Hilker building on Railway Street by using a kettle of water. smoke fills room before he finds burning clothes in a closet.
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A. Schall
Grand Hotel
L. W. Bowen
F. Clay
Spokane
Wash
John
Mathew Lang
C. F. Lewis
A. N. Collins
John Hemmer
Hilker
Railway Street
Reilly
Schoolgirl Seeks Work Placement for Board
A narrated note asks a schoolgirl to inquire at the Herald office for a suitable placement. The request seeks employment or internship to support a board or committee role.
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Herald Office
Pithy quotes and wry lines from diverse papers
A collage of aphorisms and briefisms from Baltimore American Chicago Record-Herald Philadelphia Inquirer and Carlyle on luck pride dereliction of studies patience and the quirks of soda water. It blends humor with reflection and social commentary in concise lines.
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Minnesota
California
Lakeside Peas
Prunes
Mebride
Hormel
Briebach
Bnebach
John Briebach
the Meat Man
the Herald
Meeps
Mgr
Frank E. Long
Maha‘t
George Zeimer
Waltham
Correll
Mary
Sheffield
Iowa
Val Correll
Hunt
James Moore
Greeley
Col
Theodore Schleuder
Albert Lea
G. Schleuder
W. W. Harding
LeRoy
Our City
Arthur Schmaling
Carl Baumgartner
North Dakota
Christina Bandholtz
John Carlson
Osco, Inl
Anderson
Bandholtz
Frank Hillam
S. E. Hart
Minneapolis
Lulu Tidd Kaliher
Avery
Marcus Dressner
Andy Moonan
South Dakota
John Manning
Australia
Bud Smith
Thos Minto
Ramsey
Michigan
Merrill
Louis
Bernice Young
Avery’s
Charles Witt
City
George A. Hormel
Mr. Witt
Powers Mercantile Co
Loomis Bros
East Mill Street
Little Helen Hodge
Newburg
N. D
Fargo
Little Helen
Congregational Church
Mason Parmenter
Mower County
Minn
Fred D. Mason
Lincoln, Neb
Charles Coats
Coats
Bragdon
Alfred
Lucy
France
Montpelier
Fairbanks Bros
Pooler’s North Entrance
J. 3. Young
Little Falls, Minn
Lutheran Church
Jimmie Downs
Avery's
Fred Wendt
Lakefield
W. S. Plummer
Lime Springs
Magdalene Felber Af
McGregor
Tom Christianson
Miss Wagner
Dora Christianson
Baltimore American
Chicago Record-Herald
Philadelphia Inquirer
Henrik Thien
Carlyle
George
Hirsh
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