Aurelia Weekly Note Published as second class matter
Published every Thursday and entered as second class matter at the post office at Aurelia Iowa.
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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1918
Page
1
Published every Thursday and entered as second class matter at the post office at Aurelia Iowa.
Donation update shows H. W. Prescott and Frank Anderson contributing. Total this week is $56.25 to support Our Boys in France tobacco fund.
The Red Cross outlines a wide array of needed items including foods apparel hospital bedding surgical dressings instruments drugs and building materials. It also lists portable X ray machines sterilizing outfits field kitchens phonographs games and other equipment with a costly disinfecting system priced at 59 000 francs awaiting deployment in army camps and behind trenches.
The draft board announces an 8000 man call to Camp Dodge for September 3 to 6 with about eighty men expected from the county. Training may begin September 4. A second call for 600 men to Fort Riley and bond transfer requests at banks are noted.
A Popular Science Monthly note explains silk goods are sometimes weighted with tin tetrachloride derived from old cans to boost weight and profits. The practice, tied to high silk prices, reportedly adds 20 to 800 percent weight, affecting affordability for average shoppers.
Local item listings advertise live poultry at 25 cents per pound and special 15 cent large tomato cans at Harris the savings store. Community notices include a Defense League meeting, dental visits by Dr. Rosell, and real estate listings. Local movements mention farm postings, convey travel to Kingsley and Estherville, and military service updates from Camp Cody with Aurelia residents preparing for overseas service.
Donald Burns faces a comic tangle when invited to a house by two women named Dorothy. He recalls contrasting relationships with Dorothy Reynolds and Dorothy Dalcom, both charming and elusive, while awaiting a house visit and contemplating engagement. The muddled courtship unfolds with mistaken assumptions and romantic games.
Dr Ronald C Macfie of Aberdeen Scotland explains exercise relies on internal explosions in muscles not in engines. He notes muscular power comes from burning substances inside, needing starches and ample oxygen, and recommends potatoes walks in open air rather than movies.
The parrots show a tendency to seize objects with the left claw and use it more for climbing than the right, indicating a left handed inclination in their behavior.
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