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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1908
Page
3
Partly cloudy to night and Thursday cooler. Will Milla returns home. The Warner Comedy Co. stars at Gem theatre. Numerous residents travel, visit, or host guests. Meetings include Elks, Ladies of the G A R sewing, and a Socialist rally on Mill and Main.
Austin friends mourn the death of Mrs. Minnie Heflin Walker on Monday September 21 at Kenseth In. She suffered from spinal meningitis and passed away while staying with her brother Dr. Frank Heflin. Her mother and sister Mrs. Pells were also present. funeral details not learned.
The Warner Comedy Co. brings a premier repertoire show to the Gem theatre tonight featuring Miss Cora Warner acclaimed as the world’s greatest illusion dancer. The company promises up-to-date specialties and a complete vaudeville and dramatic program with a continuous performance from start to finish. Canning pears 75c per crate at Hub Grocery Department.
A London Globe reflection notes that in Australia a guest may stay as long as they like at a country house. Hosts welcome prolonged visits without strict dates, with good nature and gaiety as the era’s hallmark.
The governor questions a newly arrived prisoner identified as a commercial traveler. He is urged to take up a trade, but the prisoner wants to continue selling goods on commission, preferring his old trade to factory work. The exchange highlights a comic clash over labor expectations in a fictional London setting.
Mrs W L Wells of 601 W Kenwood Ave gave a five o clock tea for friends visiting from South Dakota. Guests included Rev and Mrs J Davis Mrs H G Rudd and daughters Ruth and Gladys of Orient South Dakota Mrs H A Dutton Mr and Mrs Loren Clark Flossie Fern and Floyd Mr and Mrs Frank Dearborn and Ray. The event featured social conversation and music as the hostess and husband entertained.
After a Tuesday regular meeting at G A R hall the W R C hosted a reception for Mrs. Augusta Sargent as she plans to join her daughter in Washington in late October. Mrs. Cass Fairbanks presented a gold purse on behalf of the Corps. Sargent thanked attendees and refreshments followed.
A small group met at the parsonage on Tuesday evening to bid farewell to Dr. Rodgers and Miss Julia Wagner. Rev. Lutz presented each with a cut glass keepsake as their departure tomorrow takes them to new homes in the cities.
Carl Cook celebrated his fifth birthday Tuesday afternoon with a small gathering of close friends.
Miss Ivy Pace entertained the D. D.'s last evening at her home on Lansing avenue.
Mrs Fredenton entertained a small group of friends at a six o'clock dinner Tuesday evening. The gathering was a pleasant social occasion with light refreshments and friendly conversation.
Miss Hattie Mills received a surprise party Tuesday night organized by her pupils. The event gathered students for a festive social with gifts and congratulations.
The Birth day Club met Tuesday evening at the George Hormel home. Mr and Mrs Hormel returned from Mantrap Lake with muskel longe and a quick fish dinner was prepared. About thirty members attended with W F Gilbert of Crookston as the sole guest outside the club. The terrace lighting created a pleasant scene for the social event.
Eassie J W Mackie is back to work after illness. Mrs Jake Stromer and children left by noon train to visit Iowa. Mrs David Turner returns from a week with son George in Monmouth. Miss Hilda Reinartz came back from Rochester where Loretta is recovering. Mr and Mrs Herbert Warfield return from three weeks with friends in Kansas and Oklahoma visiting Oklahoma oil fields noted as worth seeing.
An elderly man ignores a plea for aid as a breathless woman warns of a mob beating a hurdy gurdy man nearby. He questions the victim's size and refuses to accompany her, noting the supposed danger is overblown. The exchange appears in the New York Press.
The Doomsday Book is a British survey begun during William I's reign, around 1080 to 1086. It functioned as a registry to determine land tenure rights, quantify land extent, fix homage, and settle obligations for military aid.
A Cleveland Leader quips that a maiden has won every breach of promise suit she filed, reflecting a sharp, sardonic tone about love and legal cleverness in a brief literary aside.
A Montana official recalls a lawyer’s dramatic closing in a murder case. The attorney sought a ten minute recess then returned to deliver a patriotic plea asserting national destiny and naval salutes, arguing the defendant should not face prison or hanging for a single fatal shot.
The London Globe recounts an editor complaining about copy errors and sloppy writing. He criticizes misspellings punctuation and illegible text while sorting fashion notes and a poem titled An Ode to Death. The scene ends with the editor sending a love letter to his sweetheart through the office boy.
Lady Charlotte Bury’s The Diary of a Lady In Waiting recounts Queen Caroline executing a witchcraft prank on King George IV by roasting and melting a wax figure with horns after dinner. The description notes rumors of superstition and spite, provoking both laughter and scandal.
In the mountain village of Laituk on Burma's northwest frontier a sacred pool is said to harbor a nat i a demon. The tale places the demon within a revered water site, reflecting local beliefs about sacred landscapes and protective spirits.
The legend names Shearpanial as guard spirit of murderers. A murder nearby turns the pool’s water red signaling villagers the wardens must guard against attackers. If a killer washes hands in the blood red water and the god of murder is appeased, the pool returns to normal.
A fragment notes a man freed from pursuit and immune to molestation, while if caught or blocked by village guards at the pool he would face anger as punishment for his crime.
E P Powell notes in Outing Magazine that pear trees outlast apples, with hardy trees near Monroe Michigan planted by French settlers before Penn founded Philadelphia. Pears stay productive for about 300 years while apples for about 150, and one 115 year old apple tree remains fruiting as well as 60 years ago.
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