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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1915
Page
1
A young man calling himself Harry Hall used fake checks to buy goods at Noonan's Toman’s and Wo Griffin stores in Cherokee. He purchased trousers ham and gas-stove parts, receiving change each time. He fled. sheriff on his trail. Hall is described as 25, five feet ten, thin, with dark hair and glasses.
Arnold Bennett extols the virtue of braced will as essential to achievement and self distinction, likening disciplined resolve to a difference between him and a cat by the fire. He expresses personal approval of this self-imposed necessity.
Washta will host free street concerts every Saturday night through summer and into fall. The series aims to provide outdoor music for residents, with performances on local streets to entertain crowds in the warm months.
Mr and Mrs V Hitchcock of Marathon appear in a local notice in Elk and vicinity regarding a Sunday event. The readable fragments suggest a court or community notice involving the Hitchcock family and Marathon.
The Onlooker reports the 1915 consolidation election in Aurelia Ia. Citizens voted 81 to 49 in Aurelia Independent District and 61 to 64 in outside territory, yielding a 32 vote local majority but a 3 vote regional defeat. Supporters plan another campaign this fall or winter.
The county page notes Robt Leeds erecting a tenement on West Main. A wedding at Mrs Eliza Johnson's parlor on Maple, July 1, uniting Harley Goodrich and Ethel Barnes. Dr Rice returns from Oxoboji. weather dampened travel. Sixty eight graduates honored by Lew McDonald at the courthouse lawn. Clint Covey dies August 2 1915 of pneumonia. Weart Lysaght Co new elevator nearing completion with 39 000 bushel capacity, 75 feet high.
Charles Warren Gilman died at his West Twenty-ninth Street home in Los Angeles on July 22 after a brief illness. Born April 30, 1810 in Lyon Massachusetts, he lived in Iowa Colorado Nevada and California as a miner farmer and real estate investor. Wife and four daughters survive. a public notice honors him as a “good neighbor” and pioneer with a long, storied life.
The World in New York notes the petrified stump found in British Guiana is hailed as locating the Garden of Eden but admits the absence of a fossilized serpent leaves the proof incomplete.
Storm Lake police and fire crews responded to a French elevator fire described as a narrow incident. Details remain limited as reports note minimal damage and no injuries.
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