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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1908
Page
3
Local notes include illness updates for Miss Nina Bascomb and health visits by Dr. C F Lewis and Dr Hegge. Community events cover church suppers, picnics, school openings, dances, and family news with many from Austin and surrounding towns.
Miss Grace Wilder received a cobweb themed parcel shower at Miss Irma Owen’s home on Saturday. Hosts Miss Owen and Miss Machacek organized the surprise with ornamental and useful gifts. Refreshments were served on the lawn and guests reported a delightful time.
Mrs. Stuart Evans returned to Calmar from Austin after visiting relatives. The note promises 25 percent savings on laundry work and promotes Austin Steam Laundry. Louis Andrew is asked to call for laundry services.
Roy Jeffries is recovering after a serious illness. Mr and Mrs Anthony Lickteig returned from Adams. Austin Steam Laundry urges locals to support local services. Mrs H M McGuigan visits her parents Mr and Mrs Paul Zender. Suits French Dry Cleaned and Pressed for a dollar with thorough cleaning advertised by French Dry Cleaning plant in the Northwest.
Admiral Evans recounts being wounded and trapped in a sand filled hole after the Fort Fisher assault. A Marine named Wasmouth is killed saving him, and Evans narrowly escapes with a revolver, firing on a cowardly fellow sailor hiding beneath sand as shells rattle overhead.
A New York Post account recounts the Pascagoula tribe’s stand on a gulf point. Surrounded by pine, marsh, and cypress, they chose to drown rather than surrender, singing as they retreated into the water. The tale frames white contact, conflict, and a revered farewell to freedom.
An Irishman returns from Italy and, when asked about lava, replies it is only a drop of the crater in the kitchen exchange.
Archie declines to disclose his proposal reply until next Thursday night and the decision will not be released before 12:00 a.m. The Chicago Tribune notes the secrecy surrounding the upcoming announcement.
The Plumstead churchyard holds a 10 year old boy's epitaph from Master James Darling. The verse warns moderation during the cherry harvest and reflects on mortality. The scene ties to poet Bloomfield’s Shooters Hill visits and a centuries old parish church.
An eyewitness testimony in Brentford county court elicited a reply that the judge pressed for witnesses. The respondent named his uncle as a witness but added the uncle is blind and not present.
A brief, wry exchange turns on a deal valued at a million dollars. Gob asks if the other party should make anything on the arrangement and Golde answers with a guarded estimate. Mydass adds a skeptical remark about the value of each million.
A celebrated foreign born singer dined with a host whose nineteen year old daughter sat beside him. After focusing on his meal, he spoke to her in the Latin fashion, calling her “a flower among vegetables.” She retorted that he could not expect to be first in her thoughts at dinner.
Cardinal Richelieu once heard a humble shoemaker preach with strong confidence. The shoemaker explained he practiced by reciting to a field of cabbage beads, one red bead among them, which gave him the poise to address the cardinal.
The text contrasts moslem architecture in Agra and Delhi with India’s art and social norms, noting western influence on eastern styles and the enduring yet brief nature of these monuments. It discusses India’s age in literature versus its social systems, and the gap between Hindu castes and European antiquities, with Buddhist sculpture as a bridge to Greek forms.
A customs official recalls the line between shrewd and overreaching. Captain Harrow of Islesborough trades at Key West, buys twenty dozen chickens at four dollars a dozen, then offers a hotel man a choice pick. He selects canary bird sized birds and pockets a higher price.
A painting of a Scarboro, Maine, sea captain long presumed dead at sea resurfaced years later. A passing vessel recovered the portrait off the African coast, bearing the captain’s name and home port and symbolically restoring the lost ship’s memory.
In Honiton England a town crier in traditional uniform proclaims the fair’s opening with Oyez cries and a decorated pole topped by a gilt gloved hand. The custom dates back to a grant of a fair by the lord of the war in 257 and features the glove rule delaying arrest until the glove is taken down while coins are tossed to children.
Hiram declares five years of paying respects will end next August and protests the installment plan. Sally agrees and they embrace as Pa consents.
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