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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1918
Page
7
Aurelia and nearby towns bustle with Christmas shopping. Red Cross drives urge memberships for 1919. Discharges return from camps. residents attend concerts and visits. farm and trade ads fill the local weekly notices.
The Sentinel notes that ready sales occur weekly for items advertised in the Classified department. Second hand furniture farming tools and other equipment are always salable and it costs six cents a line to reach buyers.
A terse exchange reveals strain over wartime duties with one party declining a calm discussion. The other cites lack of time and patience as the barrier to dialogue about ongoing conflict.
A German prisoner escaped from an internment camp and a recapture description circulated with a misread beard during a telephone transmission. The note corrected to read small for all. Japanese airmen will be sent to Italy with 14 or 15 volunteers, after war office negotiations with Italy.
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