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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1908
Page
3
A Washington Star letter reports an elderly veteran with a wooden leg begging along a railroad line from Paint Rock to Nola Chucky. He followed the afternoon express, pestering passengers at open windows with insistent solicitations. Public nuisance prompts calls for stop to such begging along the rail.
Local notices report visits and travels of residents from Adams Lansing and Blooming Prairie. Movements include births illnesses, theater plans and upcoming meetings. Community events feature church programs, a G A R gathering, improved homes and shopping notes.
In Hammond Indiana Billy Sunday struck the Donkey Publishing press, smashing $3 500 worth of sermon plates with a sledge hammer after clashing over publication. He warned against issuing the edition and left the shop amid tense scenes with Decatur firm Her man Poole Co and Sunday’s attorney siding with the evangelist.
Mrs J M Thomas advertises a selection of pretty ties and collars as essential wardrobe additions.
About sixty friends gathered at Mrs Mary Lovell’s West Bridge street home on Thursday to celebrate her birthday. Guests arrived from two to six pm and a lawn supper followed at six. The party was described as joyous with Mrs Lovell among the happiest. A dance at Maurek’s Hall Thursday night featured Kelly’s Harp orchestra and was well attended with good music and a reported good time.
The ladies of Fish West and Thon stores hosted a surprise silver shower for Miss Maye Cross at her East Water street home on Thursday night. Guests enjoyed games music and singing with light refreshments. A tramp seeking charity briefly interrupted the party. The Birthday club plans a September 16 ride to John Frank farm near LeRoy. About fifty guests attended.
The Story Sermon titled Dreams That Came True emphasizes extraordinary achievements and personal transformation, presenting narrative examples and inspirational lessons. It frames success as attainable through faith, discipline, and perseverance, urging readers to pursue lofty goals.
Mr. Smith Davison is laying off. Johnny Hasserud had his right hand fingers smashed yesterday. Mrs. Art Beers and daughter Wini fred returned from Miles City Mont. Dreams That Came True. Mrs. Nelon has returned home from Spring Valley after visiting the Swenson family. Miss Anna Johnson left for Charles City Ia to visit Mrs. Theodore Thompson for a week.
WANTED Live hustling representative to sell knit goods Earn $30 to $50 weekly Experience not needed Apply at New Way Knitting Co Williamston Michigan Also day labor available 803 Railway Street Flax Wanted in bundle Austin Tow Mill pays top cash for flax in bundle and 2.50 per ton for straw Phone 194 N W or 363 R Interstate J H Mitchell manager
Charles D. Stewart argues in Atlantic that a course of ox labor embodies steadiness and self containment. The ox toils without flashy effort, unlike the responsive horse, and his simple progress offers a remedy for the era’s ills.
Local advertisement announces the Dumb Hero at The Orient for tonight with chalk pictures titled Dreams. Patronize Austin Steam Laundry and avoid sending laundry to Albert Lea for proper service. Telephone number 2.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars bounty for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney Co of Toledo is endorsed by Waldin Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists. The cure is described as an internal remedy acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials available, price seventy five cents per bottle, sold by druggists, plus Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Our business has grown and we offer a special rate for family wash rough dry at four cents per pound. Flat work is ironed in the rough dry wash. Telephone 86 Purity Laundry.
A ladies' gold watch and fob chain are lost between the Milwaukee depot and Campbell's Mill. Finder should leave them at the HERALD office. Lost notice dated 11 31.
An advertisement touts family washing at 4 cents per item or laundry work for 2w, promoting ease and affordability for households and servants. It emphasizes saving labor and time with convenient service options.
The fountain of wisdom portrays the millennium as a period when people act on their best intentions. The piece suggests a reflective critique of hopeful plans versus actual deeds.
A caption notes a photographer’s trick to evoke a natural look from a sitter. The sitter admits the small invitation in the photo is a trade ruse to produce an interested expression. The exchange is recounted as a humorous Tit-Bits moment.
A doctor asks if champagne and oysters were provided to a patient as ordered. The wife explains she could not afford them and instead serves ginger beer and whelks, highlighting frugal substitute choices in a London setting.
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