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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1889
Page
5
A column mixes social commentary on women's roles and domestic labor with tales of servant hiring, a Kentucky farmer anecdote, and personal vignettes. It contrasts class attitudes, labor expectations, and urban life through brief sketches and anecdotes.
A New York broker, Chauncey M DePew, is observed on Fourth Avenue with two ship chairs bearing his name. He claims the chairs were used as a publicity stunt to advertise his voyage to Europe, insisting the proper ad should be in newspapers. An officer intervenes, warning the shopkeeper to settle disputes away from the sidewalk.
An elderly temperance lecturer, who has spent years promoting reform, denounces the liquor repeal by drinking heavily. In a park near a fountain, he vows to surrender to the majority’s will after learning Connecticut’s twenty five thousand vote against prohibition. He plans to “wallow” rather than continue lecturing.
A South Carolina woman, Mrs G, living in Indianapolis and married to a Brazilian doctor, miscommunicates in Portuguese when villagers ask for their physician. She suggests the doctor is in Inferno, then corrects to Infermeren with help from her shy daughter.
Had 2 great Tia and Abner Dykes meet Roy Bowlegs after returning. Abner humorously notes bones and watermelon buds on the grounds as proof of a big camp meet. Barnum promises Bridgeport neighbors a British bow and no exhibition next year with a Europe trip looming.
A Philadelphia gentryman signs papers in Gliwrar’s office when a banana pen slips from a clerk’s hand. The anxious lawyer recalls a dying man's delay over a will caused by a dropped pen and notes the fate of bequests. The tale shifts to the notorious Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton in prison, then to a cemetery for noted horses at Sheepshead Bay with three famous equines buried there.
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