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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
3
Mrs F d Lewis plans to join her husband at Osage for a few days at the fair. Advertisements highlight sewing at 704 Lansing avenue and new fall skirts with prices. Laundry services tout low rates and a standard of perfection from Hunt's Baking Powder. Community events include Hose Company No. 2 ball and millinery openings at Williams & Cowson.
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For sale items include a Golden oak sideboard bevel glass bookcase and writing desk English oak piano new bedroom suite one new wood cook stove No 8 bedsteads chairs etc The ad notes Harry King 31 South Chatham Street and mentions other sale items at 600 Medary Street Corner of First Street Also a line about Dreams That Came True and Austin Steam Laundry celebrating fifteen years in Austin as an institution.
Austine and Wes Tal promote services while urging savings. Williams & Cowden plan an up to date fall data line at their opening Friday and Saturday September 18 and 19. Purity Laundry offers 4 cents per pound family wash. Transfer Co. of Minneapolis advertises reduced rates and fire tornado insurance via W W Ranney. Mower County Lumber Co and Eclipse Lumber Co invite remodeling and building material offers.
William J. Bryan tours New York State delivering 17 speeches amid vast crowds from Weehawken to Syracuse. He attacks Roosevelt and Taft, endorses Lewis Chanler for New York governor, and urges voters not to fear threats of panic while stressing Democratic unity.
A small village about thirty miles west of Madison suffered a major blaze that gutted a solid street of business buildings. Loss is estimated at $25,000, partly insured, with the fire's origin listed as a mystery.
Lightning hit a five acre earthen tank owned by Texas Oil Company near Sour Lake. The tank held about 40,000 barrels of Oklahoma crude oil and the estimated loss is 55000 dollars.
At Rochester New York on September 17 Patrick McCarren assailed Charles F Murphy over the Chanler Dix ticket dispute. Farley won the state engineer post with 105 votes to 21 for Parley and 92 for Smith amid calls for harmony after the feud. The party leaders outline a plan aligned with the Denver platform and slate the state ticket.
In Appleton Wisconsin on September 17 N M Jones Bangor Maine manager of Kathahdin Pulp and Paper in Lincoln Maine warned that a tariff cut on wood pulp could force paper mills to close unless sulphite prices rise. The remark reflects industry fears over raw materials and labor cost differentials between the US and Canada.
The committee questions Mr. Jones on pulp wood reserves and cost. He argues mills must source cheaply, warning U S supply may exhaust in the Middle West while Maine remains ample, possibly forcing a shift to Canadian pulp wood.
New York September 17 Police Commissioner Bingham after returning from vacation publicly retracts the figures in a magazine article claiming that half of the city’s criminals are Jewish. He says the data were not his and were unreliable and that the piece aimed to push support for a secret service fund rather than reveal any race or nationality of criminals.
Manila reports 31 cholera cases with 12 deaths to date. Health authorities authorize 100 more inspectors to survey city sanitation, aided by churches and schools in a push to end the outbreak within two weeks. One more case on the Sheridan prompts three extra days of quarantine. Most cases involve Filipinos.
Naples aboard Sept 17 greeted the Maine and Alabama, flagship vessels of the American Atlantic fleet, as they arrive to complete a globe circling voyage. Thousands crowd the waterfront, guns salute, and officials plan royal entertainment with many decorations and a display of the Stars and Stripes. Commanding officers praise the voyage and the sailors’ fitness for the unprecedented world circumnavigation.
In Madison on September 17 a fire at the Arena destroyed several business buildings. Fire crews struggled to contain the blaze amid strong winds, with the extent of the damage and the specific properties affected not fully confirmed. Initial reports indicate significant commercial losses downtown.
In Towanda Pennsylvania on September 17 County Detective Charles E McCracken was shot in the left breast by Patrick Kennedy who resisted arrest. Dr Leonard Pratt former mayor assisted and was wounded in the stomach. Pratt expected to recover.
Cracking is thought to be fatally injured while Detective McCracken served a warrant. Kennedy, described as demented and harmless, faced a lunacy inquiry when Dr. Pratt swore out the arrest warrant. The shooting occurred during the warrant service.
Chicago officials report the city’s population at 1,924,060 from the just completed official school census, up from 1,714,144 four years earlier. Americans lead in nationality, followed by Germans and Irish.
The West Indian hurricane has crossed the Bahama islands and is moving toward Newfoundland Banks, according to weather bureau reports from Washington dated September 17.
St Petersburg official bulletins report 249 cholera cases and 70 deaths in the city as of September 17. The notice notes the disease is spreading among higher social strata and authorities warn of escalating danger.
Woersoff, manager of the Schlussel burg Steamship Company, is stricken with the disease, signaling spread to higher classes. Novoe Vremya calls for the St. Petersburg prefect to be given full power to manage the crisis amid municipal inefficiency.
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania on September 17 the state and national Republican campaign opened with a mass meeting in the armory attended by more than 5000 people. R P Habgood presided and read letters of regret from Judge Taft Governor Stuart and others before introducing James B Sherman who was warmly received.
The stock exchange house of E. R. Chapman & Co. reports a $30,000 loss from forged checks. The checks were uttered by a man employed as a branch manager who has disappeared. The firm filed a statement detailing the fraud discovered in New York on September 17.
A fragment notes a remark about men needing 300 words and a woman who adds more, attributed to Puck. It is a terse, non-specific aside without identifiable people, places, or events.
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