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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1908
Page
3
Local notices report residents traveling, returning from visits in Blooming Prairie North Dakota and Minnesota towns. Events include church meetings farm transfers and a typewriter bargain with Loomis Bros. and plans for a Thanksgiving ball at the auditor ium plus Passion Play at the Gem theater.
A San Francisco Chronicle item recounts a bright little woman lecturing her husband on how he invites male friends to cigars and meals while giving wives tepid, half hearted offers. She urges men to invite wives with the same warmth shown to male companions.
Mrs. R. Bloomfield is ill. Mrs. J. Smaby went to Peterson this week. Casper Swenson has gone to the cities. Eddie Larson traveled to Minneapolis. Walter Reeder of Watertown visits the Clay home. Mr. and Mrs. James Mariner returned from the cities. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louden is quite sick. Jo Laufie takes a night roundhouse foreman post. Gertie Mandler of Adams visits sister Mrs. Anthony Licktieg. Chiz returns home after a week with daughter Mrs. Frank Pizak. East Side W C T U meets Thursday at 3. Albert and Clarence Gaffey visit Easton aunt Mrs. H J McDonald. Loretta Rheinartz, operated on at St Marys Rochester, is recovering nicely.
A special train to LaCrosse runs September 23 and 24 via Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway leaving Austin at 6 15 a m both days. Return service from LaCrosse departs at 8 35 p m with extra coaches. For details, contact J E Ober, agent.
A tooth car penter mentions ancient Indian dentistry amid a comic exchange about race. The man in the chair reacts with disbelief and a cruel stereotype, while a dentist adds a potential extra charge, all in a Chicago Post flourish.
A London Truth quip frames a parson questioning a wife about her husband's absence from church. She quips that his heart is right but his trousers show the issue. The curtain joke highlights social satire on propriety and hypocrisy.
A Connecticut cobbler conceived a three wheel watch that evolved into Waterbury’s then world famous cheap timepiece. Investors funded a long build, many trials, and a vast ad campaign. Though initial parts failed and the firm later collapsed, the Waterbury watch became a global symbol of inexpensive reliability.
A satirical line from Bohemian Magazine contrasts gender roles with a pun on a Welsh rarebit dream. The quip imagines Cynical Man-Nature pondering the creation of woman and the New Woman.
In 1773 eight year old Robert Fulton attended Quaker Caleb Johnson's school where his love of invention clashed with strict discipline. He favored making things over reading and once told his teacher that his head was full of original notions with no room for dusty books. Century Magazine.
An English traveler recalls a grisly South American outlaws story where a farmer wakes to stealthy noises and intruders cutting a door, using a rawhide thong looped on a hook to force entry. The scene hints at a daring burglary by desperate criminals.
A New York Mail recounts a farmer aided by a improvised lasso snagging a robber through a door hole. The struggle ends with the thieves aborting rescue plans as one member is killed to keep silence.
A Nepaul maharajah’s wife dies by suicide in horror over smallpox disfigurement. He first attacks physicians, then orders firing at idols in a temple. Gunners refuse, he hangs several workers, survivors yield, and the guns finally fire blowing the idols to pieces. Leipsie Missionsblaft.
A young man asks the heiress’s father for her hand and faces a sharp reply. The father jokes about which hand signs checks with, bolding the scene with humor and wit.
A dispute ends with the lodger asking to take his belongings but the landlady refuses, stating his other collar is still not back from the laundry. The Kansas City Independent reports the unresolved tension and the odd domestic snag.
A Washington Star quote features Senator Sorghum noting that a man’s influence may shrink his party though it is not desirable for a man to be greater than his party. The wry exchange reflects political tensions and party loyalty in a compact line.
Little Miss Hamlin receives many gifts from relatives and friends on her birthday. A friend notes the kindness, and she quips that Dr. Grantham will soon arrange her appendicitis operation, promising it next month when he is less busy. The exchange reflects playful, humorous social chatter from Youth's Companion.
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