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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1921
Page
1
A set of humorous aphorisms about gender roles and domestic life. It quips that men dictate to typewriters but rarely to wives while noting widows as desirable second-hand articles. It adds a joke about pulling the banghole plug and women wearing out church carpets.
The piece scorns sensational claims about battleships made of tin and calls out Congress for ignorance of the war’s end. It questions a local inventor’s automobile fuel idea and mocks a six o clock dinner with school teachers hosted by the Alta school board, noting wives’ absence.
A spokesman states the motive is not self interest but paving the way for school board members. The remark emphasizes teamwork and local governance.
The Civic Improvement Department of the Womens Club met at Federated church on Friday afternoon December 9. Miss Clara Lockin arranged a two part program with Christmas themes and civic topics. Readings and papers covered church community benefits and library and school roles.
Army air service experiments with a parachute carried at the rear of the fuselage and connected to the plane by special equipment. If the pilot must leave the aircraft in midair he pulls a lever and detaches a section of the rear fuselage to deploy the parachute.
Community notes describe Christmas gifts in Carlberg Bros windows and a Lutefish shipment arriving around December 16. West Cherokee visitors include Mr and Mrs W H Fishman and children, Leslie and Roy Leonard, Henry Hahn and son, and N Nordine. Local families host at Anton Swanson home and Lewis store offers abundant trees candies nuts and fruits with promotional prices. The Versatile Four performed for lyceum, Knights of Pythias members visited Battle Creek, and George Lamm and wife returned from Sioux City after an operation.
The speaker recalls a past Christmas where fear and caution ruled as a child hid in a chimney to reach a stocking. With Santy nearby, breath held and steps taken carefully, now they worry that Johnny may be lost or unable to return home. The mood shifts from nostalgic danger to concern for the child’s safety inside a cramped, precarious living space.
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