30 years ago October 15, 1992 Housing starts expected to be up by 25 percent in Hastings as boom hits area. Pizza Ranch to host teen dance on Friday night 80 years ago October 23, 1942 Annual turkey …
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30 years ago October 15, 1992
Housing starts expected to be up by 25 percent in Hastings as boom hits area.
Pizza Ranch to host teen dance on Friday night 80 years ago
October 23, 1942 Annual turkey festival scheduled for Nov. 21 at Guardian Angels church.
The Columbia Squires Circle is set to be instituted on Sunday at Saint Boniface. The group is for young men of high school age.
J. Lewis, son of Mrs. R. E. Lewis, is injured in a car accident, sustaining a crushed vertebrae. The car he was riding in with three others from a football game left the road and entered a ditch five miles outside Farmington.
Anton Dady of the King Midas Mill dies suddenly, shocking relatives. Deceased was a member of St. Joseph’s Court of the Catholic Order of Foresters of Hastings.
As a parallel organization, the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary is to be instituted for girls of high school age, also at Saint Boniface.
A Mission is reported at St. Mathias in Hampton, with the Rev. Father Venantius Buessing of New York. A missionary (i.e. “one who is sent”), the reverend is considered an eloquent and fluent speaker, drawing much interest. Homilies are given in English and German, with the mission closing at 8 p.m. Sunday with the Te Deum being sung.
105 years ago THE DEMOCRAT Published at Hastings, Minnesota October 26, 1917 Hastings is winner over St. Paul Park Hastings Runs away with St. Paul Park Our Boys Have An Easy Time Winning A score of 88 to nothing tells the story of the football game between Hastings and St. Paul Park with Hastings being the side that romped away for 88 points.
Hastings seemed to be a little bit slow in finding themselves and weren’t able to score but 27 points during the first half. When the boys got going the second half it was like a steam rattler going downhill. A total of 61 points were rolled
130 years ago
HASTINGS GAZETTE October 30, 1892 The announcement that the famous Whitney Mockridge Concert Company had been booked for Hastings on Wednesday, Nov. 2nd, has already caused the keenest musical interest. Prof. Lambert and other Hastings musicians have heard Mockridge and predict that the company will draw a crowded house. Whitney Mockridge is America’s greatest tenor and his concert company is as fine as silk. Hastings is in luck and only got the company because of an open date between Chicago and St. Paul. The company sings here on the 2nd and in St. Paul on the 3rd, and will give precisely the same program. It sings on Sunday, at two p.m., by special engagement before the five hundred convicts at the Stillwater prison. The Presbyterian ladies of Hastings are to be congratulated on having secured this superfine attraction. The tickets will go like hot
159 years ago HASTINGS CONSERVER October 27, 1863 What they thought (nineteenth century medical beliefs) The three camp diseases The soldiers in camp suffer from three diseases: diarrhea, rheumatism, and fever. The commonest cause of diarrhea is bad water; its cure, complete rest, and abstinence from every kind of food except plain boiled rice. All ordinary diseases will yield to this treatment in two and a half days or less. Rheumatism is usually brought on, not by getting wet, but by remaining in wet clothes. Hard drinkers are particularly liable to bad attacks. To avoid rheumatism, wear flannel and keep the digestion sound. Fevers are generally caught after dark in the open air. A man going out on night duty should never go hungry, and never stand still longer than necessary. Good food, active exercise will generally keep a man well unless the man is uncommonly deleterious.
To cure a not very severe fever, nothing seems so efficacious as a change of air. It is said that the removal of a patient only a few miles often works an immediate improvement in his condition. In scouting along the edge of a swamp at night, there is no danger so long as the party keeps on the windward side of it.* These doctrines are laid down in the writings of many surgeons and of physicians who have given much attention to the subjects discussed, and out, therefore, to be trustworthy.
* Not the air, but mosquitoes are the cause of many such ailments. Miasma theory held that ‘bad air’ was to blame for many ailments, hence the Latin “mal aria,” or “bad air.” Miasma theory would be replaced in time by germ theory, which holds microscopic organisms to cause disease.