Rochford Land Co Wants Column Highlights Bargains
Rochford Land Co proprietors John H. Rochford and Peter Capretz offer a series of real estate bargains. Listings include a house with two lots on Maple Street six blocks from Main for 1325, a $600 bargain, a No 1 house with shade trees on a 200d street, a house near Milwaukee depot, a large 16 room rooming house with steam heat gas hot water and electric lights, and multiple lots on Kenwood Avenue Winona Bridge and Railway streets. Also for sale a house barn and an acre and a half near the city and a rental option of 240 acres west of the city.
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Main St
Maple St
Milwaukee Depot
Kenwood Avenue
Winona
Bridge
Railway Streets
Local notices and society items from Austin and vicinity
Births mark a son for Mr and Mrs William Keefe on Sunday and a daughter for Mr and Mrs H Averitz on Monday. Local visits and returns from Rose Creek Minneapolis and Waterloo. Hunts at the ORIENT. multiple farm and building updates. a sand pit planned by Nels Mickelson. various travels to Hot Springs and the Twin Cities. Looming electioneering by Carey and Carr. theater programs at the Gem Family Theatre. regular laundry and dry cleaning notes. school openings and staff changes. community events at Presbyterian and Christchurch churches. social visits among families across Austin and surrounding towns.
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William Keefe
H. Averitz
John Cole
Grand Meadow
Ethel Mady
Rose Creek
Local Notes and Social Items From Bloomfield Area
Mrs Ralph Bloomfield returns from Calmar and Ralph visits Montgomery for the summer work train. Helen Mayer returns from the cities while Miss Anna Hunt leaves for New Prague to teach. Conductor Ole Torbertson injures a finger. Frank Clay Sam Swenson attend the state fair. Families visit Blooming Prairie Austin and Minneapolis connections noted. Purity Laundry ad copy invites business with price and service pitch.
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Oscar Felch
Lee Dumphy
Minneapolis
A. E. Hilker
Dora Roble
Grand Meadow
Geo. Cross
Butte
Mont
F. W. Kimball
Loretta
Michigan
George Rochford
J. Z. Rogers
Maggie White
Lansing
Guinney
Austin
Frank Clay
Sam Swenson
Helen Mayer
Frank Tichy
Blooming Prairie
Ole Torbertson
Theresa Mayer
Kansas City
Anna Hunt
New Prague
Clem Hunt
Card of Thanks from the Wengerts
The Wengerts express heartfelt thanks to friends for kindness and sympathy after their sorrow. They especially thank the Elks lodge and others who sent flowers.
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Elks’ Lodge
Herald Job Rooms advertised for quality work
Bring your job work to the Herald Job Rooms where experienced workmen turn out fine work at moderate prices. A pleased customer is a walking advertisement and the Herald has many. Ring phone 6a for service.
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Herald
Teachers Host Picnic For New Educators At Lafayette Park
City school staff who held posts last year entertained the new teachers with a picnic supper at Lafayette park this afternoon. Mr and Mrs Hugo Auer hosted twenty relatives for a six oclock dinner celebrating their silver wedding anniversary. Tonight the celebration continues at Turner hall with the Auers as guests of honor and two silver rings presented.
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Lafayette Park
Hugo Auer
Turner Hall
Mrs. Auer
Torrens Family Reunion At Oakland Avenue Home
The Torrens family held a delightful reunion at their mother’s Oakland avenue home Sunday. Twenty relatives attended. the three oldest children Flora Lynbarge George and John could not be present.
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Torrens
Oakland Avenue
Flora Lynbarge
North Yakima
Wash
George
San Diego
Cala
John
Luverne
Minnesota
Sir Knights Call for Regular Commandry Meeting
Sir Knights are asked to attend the regular Commandry meeting tonight with good attendance desired and expected.
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the Commandry
Schools Open With Large Attendance and Room Adjustments
Schools opened today with high overall attendance though exact figures could not be reported as room reports were still coming in. There has been population shifts causing longer preparation time to ready rooms for work.
Downing Street and the British premier's residence
A compact portrait of Downing Street in London as the center of the British empire. The piece notes 10 Downing Street as the prime minister's official residence and highlights Sir George Downing's American ancestry and Harvard ties.
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Downing Street
London
Robert Walpole
George Downing
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Harvard College
England
Oliver Cromwell
Hague—Exchange
Feeding the Stock Humor in a Scots Pulpit Tale
The anecdote from Mrs. Henry W. Cole's A Lady's Tour Around Monte Rosa tells of Rev. Robert Montgomery early in his ministry living with a rural Scottish farmer. A servant asks whether to feed the pigs first or give the man his dinner, revealing humor in everyday clerical life.
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Henry W. Cole
Monte Rosa
Tea as a feminine vice in a hundred years ago
The Female Spectator criticizes tea drinking as costly and wasteful, claiming the tea table exceeds the cost of raising two children and ruins economy, housewifery, and productivity.
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Fudon Mall
Market Quotes Show Fat Lamps and Hog Prices
The page lists livestock market data with fat lamps and hogs priced around 6.5 to 6.5 per unit, veal and lamb references, and cattle prices from 280 to 150 per head. It reads like a brief rural market roundup with scattered figures and abbreviations.
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Shefp & Lambs
Acrobat Dilemma Unfolds in London Hotel
A London hotel proprietor finds a contortionist from a circus in his office after a knock at six. The performer, tangled with a leg caught behind his neck, asks for help to avoid an unfortunate outcome. He had descended twenty stairs on his hands in the strange pose.
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Mr. Berkeley
London
A Bedouin's Image of a Locomotive in Palestine
Professor H. W. Dunning notes that Philadelphia locomotives funded the Jaffa to Jerusalem railroad. The first engines arrived August 20, 1892, drawing crowds from Jerusalem and nearby villages, including a Bedouin who called it a big iron woman that screeches and then runs away, a phrase that spread quickly in Moab.
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Jaffa
Jerusalem
Philadelphia
H. W. Dunning
Palestine
Central America
Jaffa-Jerusalem
Jordan
Moab
The Lion and the Child at Vryheld
An East Rand Express report recounts a lion playing with a child near Vryheld. A Dante farmer and his wife watched as the boy teased the lion who appeared to enjoy the game. The lioness fled as the guardians shouted, and the pair organized a hunt but the lions vanished into thick bush.
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Vryheld
East Rand Express
Remarkable Garrick Tribute Sparks Cheering Tears
A London stage veteran, actress Mrs Chloe, famed for sharp temper, once shifted from praise to insult as Garrick played King Lear. Overcome by his power she sobbed then hurled a blunt tribute remark claiming he could even act a gridiron, provoking astonishment and lingering legend.
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Chloe
London
Garrick
T. P.’s. Weekly
Why Kelly Didn't Sleep
An anecdote from Father Dempsey at his hotel shows Thomas Kelly sleeping on a Westliche Post in a crowded recreation room with 200 men lying on the floor under newspapers as dust barriers. The priest notes Kelly will sleep only after a different bed is found.
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Westliche Post
Father Dempsey
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Why Indeed Why Contend Against Natural Advantages
Robert Lowe recalls a dear friend listening to a tremendous bore with an ear trumpet. He wonders why people fight against nature when natural advantages exist.
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Robert Lowe
Lowe
Why does he cry when he looks at you
A five year old probes his father about the new baby in the family. The boy notes the infant favors his mother and questions why the baby cries when seeing the father, prompting a wry exchange in a Chicago Record-Herald item.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Syndicate Takes Over Minneapolis Journal From Journal Pub
The Journal Publishing Company of Minneapolis has its capital stock sold to a syndicate led by Hershey Y. Jones, noted grain expert and editor of the Commercial West. Jones will run the business and editorial side, with a reported consideration of 1.2 million dollars.
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Minneapolis
Journal Publishing Company of
Minneapolis Journal
Herschel Y. Jones
Northwest
Commercial
Jones
No Hitch Wedding Prompt Ends With Last Minute Exit
A light exchange about a wedding ends with the bride backing out at the last minute, leaving two people noting the event proceeded with no hitch until the twist. The dialogue underscores an unexpected last minute change.
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