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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1919
Page
1
The piece rails at greed and profiteering while urging weekly urban cleanup to restore public order. It cites a Wall Street Journal case where a shoe plant valued at 10 million dollars was capitalized at 36 million, boosting shoe prices and signaling investor profits. It notes Plymouth County voting for paved roads and hopes Cherokee County will follow.
The year 1924 is cited as a future boundary for tobacco restrictions, with speculation that a large amount of smoking could occur in the interim. The key unseen factor remains the price, which could determine how far the habit spreads before any ban.
Farmers glimpse freedom from rail shipping by truck and same day returns while road funding questions prompt caution. A letter-writer notes that paved roads will tax land only within a mile and a half of the road, counters opposition myths, and urges readers to study county publicity. A girls' party, chaperoned by Mrs. Garber, stays at the Villa on Lake Okoboji with Misses Waddell Garber and Howell relatives.
Storm Lake Iowa August 9 special J W Gibson of Storm Lake seriously injured when his car was struck by a Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul freight train on the Storm Lake Rockwell City branch. Gibson a retired farmer nearly 70 suffered crushed hip broken rib badly cut head and his left heel severed.
G J Lewis offers three hundred boxes of Fancy California Freestone peaches for canning with a two week window to buy. A Ford safety alert promotes Security Auto Lock from S M Fouta. Local travel notes report G J Lewis and family’s trip to Omaha and visits at J H Adams and other friends. A sewer disposal plant project is advancing southwest of town on W P Dawson’s plot with mains and laterals being prepared. Grandma Westphal dies at ninety eight in Aurelia, services at German Lutheran church in Afton township. Ira Mann rents his tie in and feed barn to Motor Inn Company for a Cherokee shop, with Cement floor planned. Mrs J A Rapp suffers electric shock during storm but recovers.
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