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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1909
Page
2
Aurelia Iowa notices show the weekly paper publish date and postal handling. Advertising costs are listed as 5 cents per line for local ads and 10 cents per inch for display ads. Subscription runs 1.00 per year in advance, 1.25 outside the county.
The press generally views the tariff DUT as costly and not worth the effort. It is conceded the bill failed to fulfill Taft’s promises and that Republicans must better live up to their pledges to satisfy American voters.
The Washington Herald salutes insurgent Republicans in the House and Senate who opposed the final legislation. It argues they may fare better with constituents than the reluctant majority who enabled the bill. It praises a courageous nay as a campaign asset and honors their patriotism.
The Kansas City Times condemns the conference committee version of the tariff bill as failing promises from both parties and riskier than claimed. It warns figures are specific only in appearance and may mislead consumers, potentially raising living costs instead of lowering them.
A garbled column parades quips on money luck, misaddressed gifts, and social foibles. It recounts a party game of worst faces, a farmer’s hotel tale with a lost night light, and a jeweler shop dream as oddities collide.
The Pain fireworks company plans its new Battle in the Clouds display at the Iowa State Fair. The act promises advanced pyrotechnics and a glimpse of aerial warfare as part of a mid century spectacle.
Iowa schools will be shown in a special educational exhibit at the State Fair this year. Preparations highlight progress in rural and graded schools, high schools, and manual training. The agricultural college exhibit also grows, with plans for a beginning display on common schools.
Capt Demitri leads a large corps of Cossack riders from Russia as a sensational vaudeville attraction at the Iowa State Fair from August 7 to September 2, 1909. The program promises many new and novel entertainment features beyond this act.
Oskaloosa and Fort Dodge provide bands for the state fair joining the Liberati musical organization. The Iowa Brigade band of Oskaloosa and the fifty sixth Regiment band of Fort Dodge are regarded as two of the best in the state. Both have extensive concert experience and promise an exceptionally fine program.
Readers learn how the teasel Dipsacus fullonum is used to raise cloth nap. The article notes extensive cultivation in France and large exports, with hundreds of tons produced in Austria, England, Belgium, Poland, and the Crimea. It highlights the plant’s prickly heads as a precise brush on spindles for cloth dressing.
The Philadelphia North American recounts a Bal d Mountain tale from Placer County Colorado about three immigrants who vanished on the Gap trail in the 1850s. They supposedly returned with gold dust after a brutal winter, were followed, and later found murdered in a canyon, fueling ongoing prospecting lore and warnings.
The New York Dress notes the sight of butlers in stylish homes with entrances on street level. A discreet servant peers from bronze doors while another sits by a circular marble table. Outside a hospital these figures appear unusually sorrowful.
A naval hospital tale recalls a West Indian shark encounter. An able seaman named Gordon says he fell overboard and a large shark clamped his leg, but he chose not to struggle and let the creature take the limb.
A column recalls Wagner preferring Vienna waltzes to Italian opera and notes a birthday gathering for Ming Strauss with famed musicians. A fan bears signatures and snippets, Brahms quips about the Blue Danube, and a playful exchange questions Father of His Country George Washington.
A fragmentary exchange warns that "Marry in haste and repent at leisure" and questions why rush when desire is leisure, reflecting caution in courtship.
Fragmentary line from a historical column reflecting on shifting fortunes and vanished friendships during prosperity. The text hints at personal or social change but lacks full context or details.
A Chambers' Journal account describes the green moray of Bermudian waters as unnaturally brilliant green and monstrously ferocious. It details an incident where a boatman fears the eel so much he would not let a money into the boat and the creature bites its own body before being discarded overboard.
The Paris gardeners force early crops by shaping climate in fields near the city. They use south facing land protected by walls and covered with glass frames and glass bells called cloches. New tech includes hot water pipes under soil to heat the bed, producing an artificial growing environment.
The bark Mexico ran aground at Hempstead beach Long Island early January 3 1837 carrying 104 passengers and a crew of twelve. Four passengers and four crew were saved by a surfboat under Raynor Rock Smith and others perished though cries were heard from the near shore. This wreck helped inspire reform leading to the creation of the United States Life-Saving Service.
The bayonet’s invention arose from a Basque soldier on a mountain ridge near Bayonne. After his regiment ran out of ammunition they fixed long knives to musket barrels and charged the enemy, a tactic that proved successful and introduced the weapon to European military notice.
A South American general, vaunting his wealth status and looks, paraded before a grand dance but his orderly whispered a blunt warning about lacking sense. The moment reveals satire on vanity and potential overconfidence.
The text presents a garbled comparison by a speaker named Lester Livermere Papia about differences between a vision and a usage. It then awkwardly juxtaposes “mogs” before and a girl after marriage to Pigs, making unclear claims about marital status and relationships.
The line exchanges a terse meal order in a plain interaction. A speaker notes a plain pleak is requested while another confirms the order in a casual exchange.
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