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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1935
Page
7
A dainty pillow project offered by Home Craft Co includes silk and rayon cuttings in white and peach to sew petals for a pillow or pajama bag. Complete directions, price 40 cents, or 10 cents for instructions, plus stamped return envelope to Dept A at 19th and St Louis Ave, St Louis Missouri.
A Joliet team and physicists lab created radioactive elements in the lab and transferred radioactivity to aluminum boron and magnesium. The new elements emit rays like radium for a limited period potentially enabling direct treatment of cancer at reduced cost.
Columbus named the Virgin Islands on his second voyage after searching for saints to honor. Lacking enough saints, he shortened the tribute to Virgin Islands, drawing on the legend of St Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins as a nod to their beauty.
In Wilton a young widow Marcia Howe bonds with her late husband’s niece Sylvia Hayden who visits hoping for kinship. A weary stranger arrives at Marcia’s home sparking curiosity as the small community debates eligible bachelors and future happiness.
A drenched stranger arrives at Marcia's shore house after a fogbound voyage. He fears trouble with a wrist injury and asks Marcia to guard a small flat box hidden in a hearth brick, while Doctor Stetson is summoned and care is arranged.
In a foggy harbor scene Marcia guards a jewel case dropped during a tense encounter. Doctor Stetson and Elisha Winslow assist as a concealed theft and a wary stranger, Heath-Stanley Heath, assumes a clinic role while claiming medical need.
Sylvia debates a shipwrecked stranger's origin as Marcia and Ileath Stanley Meath remain tight lipped. The scene unfolds with talk of names and clues found in an old sea chest as curiosity grows onboard.
Marcia hides a stranger’s past as Sylvia questions his arrival. Dr Stetson and Elisha treat the man found after a fogbound voyage while Jared Stetson notes his fine clothes and possible means. Sylvia doubts guilt though uncertain who he is.
A nostalgic reminiscence recalls Notre Dame legends including Joe Brandy and the Gipper, gloves on cold field nights, and Rockne’s decisive calls. It recounts 1930s era games against Army and Princeton, highlighting strategy, near misses, and the famed Four Horsemen.
An American explorer ship anchored near Australia caused native panic when a beautiful opera voice played from a gramophone. The fear arose from not understanding the source, illustrating how ignorance fuels bigotry and suspicion across cultures. The piece, a general reflection on prejudice, cites the incident from a WNU Service dispatch.
William Brown of Los Angeles sneezed at a Pocatello Idaho CCC camp causing his shoulder blade to pop out. He was taken to a hospital where ether was used and a nurse assisted. A misdirected sneeze pressure snapped the shoulder blade back into place.
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