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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1936
Page
2
A mother and her young daughter journey across the Atlantic on their first sea voyage. After three calm days the ship began to roll and pitch, leaving the child puzzled and asking her mother where they were.
A humorous profile praising Kemp Morgan as the top oil driller. It recalls his extraordinary feats from drilling through alum pockets and freezing oil gushers to pulling rubber from a Brazilian tap and shipping dry hole posts across borders, all illustrating his legendary grit and ingenuity.
A humorous Western Newspaper Union piece recounts Stanley Suchwalke and Laddie Dornik claiming a northern Michigan giant fish swallowed by myth. Buyers paid high sums for its parts including scales and stomach revealing a golden throne, while a Nebraska farmer’s onions saved his crops from despondent grasshoppers after a drought.
The germ theory of disease is described as older than Pasteur in a New York medical society note. It says Pasteur first used it practically, with serums for anthrax and rables, while a 17th century German scholar Athanasius Kircher reportedly observed contamination of wells and food.
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