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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1927
Page
1
A collage of ironic maxims on women and success, a weather whim about a comet, Ty Cobb’s big game heroics, and a retrospective on the Alta Advertiser’s fiftieth birthday highlight changing attitudes and local press pride in a fragmentary eventful clipping.
The article details Afton Township's religious roots with a Methodist Episcopal church built in 1887, seating 250, and a Baptist society without a local building. It notes a strong public school tradition with nine houses, 246 pupils, 17 teachers, and records from 1870 onward, plus population figures: 483 in 1875, 690 in 1880, 831 in 1885.
Rev L A Miller resigns from the local Baptist church and accepts a call to pastor the First Baptist Church at Independence Iowa, starting May 1. The change is announced in county seat news. A separate business petition seeks band concerts on Wednesday evenings this season rather than Saturdays.
A pretty home wedding occurred Wednesday as Lyle E. Rutledge of Waseca Minnesota married Albertyo Virginia Olsen daughter of Mr and Mrs A P Olsen hardware merchant of Storm Lake. Postmaster and Mrs L E Kis Lingbury welcomed a ten pound baby boy Monday. Gust Glieneke of Chicago visited Alta seeking a site for a proposed fifth filling station.
Treat ferns weekly by soaking in lukewarm water overnight to keep soil moist but not soggy. Water with a bi monthly castor oil dose near the roots and a weekly ammonia mix to prevent warmth. Remove leaf insects with soap and lukewarm water and spray well. Remove suckers to maintain thriftiness.
At a Royal Society festival dinner Professor Huxley awarded Gunther the Royal Medal for ichthyological studies. He quipped that when asked about whitebait he did not know, but suggested studying Gunther’s four volume work on fishes.
New York report describes a daily outdoor hiring line on Nassau Street between Ann and Fulton where unemployed waiters and dishwashers gather each morning for downtown lunchroom work. The scene serves as a free employment bureau with employers selecting workers as police overlook the curb.
Lancaster Ohio boys John and Robert Gostin found a mummy in a cave 100 feet above a creek bed near Lancaster. C H Shetrone curator at the Ohio State archaeological museum called it of great importance noting accompanying pottery and relics suggest high rank. The body lay in a reed woven shroud using burial rites for tribal leaders, likely a daughter of Parke Crane chief of the local village.
In Dover Ohio Donald Mason and ten Boy Scouts stationed on the tracks waved flaming red bandannas to stop a speeding Cleveland & Pittsburgh passenger train from colliding with a 25 ton boulder dropped from an overhanging cliff. The group alerted engineers just in time to avert disaster on the line a mile north of town.
At Oglethorpe University in Atlanta Helen North, eighteen, named most beautiful girl, and Luther Davenport from Greer South Carolina, nineteen, named handsomest man after Lords club pup proclaims elect. Previous title holder Migs Noft from Atlanta high school noted for bobbed hair and dance interest.
The first grade works on an alphabet book and May baskets while reading poetry from Sing Song and Silver Pennies. Second grade highlights include perfect attendance, spelling feats, and a round box May basket in handwork. Third and fourth grade report perfect spellings, memory tests, and ongoing language and math lessons, with biology and history topics in high school.
A New York Sun note recalls the Royal Bodyguard of Gentry in England once bore a standard lost at Naseby. The guard perished protecting King Charles I and his son Charles II, and no replacement colors have been issued since the disaster.
A New Orleans Times-Picayune fragment describes a puzzling scene where a person named Binks receives a note and a photograph. The note triggers questions about attire and a cheap shirt in a moment of personal curiosity.
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