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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1910
Page
3
The Carver School of Practical Photography advertises twenty complete, inexpensive courses by mail. It invites amateurs and professionals alike to learn photography, promising better results, lower costs, and professional advancement without obligations.
For Sale 400 acres of land adjoining Aurelia offered aligneance or in tracts to suit purchaser. J. C. Lockin & Son also list a six room house and hay for sale via G. C. Wilhelm or P. D. Wine. Miscellaneous goods include pony team age five, a top buggy two years, a duplex spring piano wagon three years, driving harness sets, a phonograph with fifty discs by R A. Gustafson. R. A. Colby appears with a 37 phonograph.
A notice invites anyone needing a well dug to contact H A Holmes for fast digging service and cement well curb. They advertise skilled labor and ample help with a phone contact.
For sale a fearless horse with buggy harness, 7 lap robes, 2 bell strings, and two wooden blankets. Horse weighs 1140 pounds and stands untied. suitable for autos and steam engines. Seller Hankens notes no use for a horse.
Carlburg and Reeve demand settlement before the first day of January 1911 for the charges noted in their account. The notice specifies the sums of 9 percent and the year 1910 as due.
Date muffins editor Janet McKenzie Hill promotes dates as a nutritious ingredient. A recipe uses butter sugar milk flour baking powder salt and chopped dates to make light digestible muffins with a slow initial bake. The KC Cook’s Book offers ninety recipes and a free copy with a purchase certificate from JAguas Mra Co. Chicago.
Local brief items include debts to settle before January 1, bakery and meat shop notes, Christmas sales at Johnsons and Gillhams, farm sales by Aurelia Land Agency, bank closures for Christmas holiday, and community news on church events, petitions, and court views. Numerous names appear: G J Lewis, B A Colby, Olive Hoagland, D P Mahoney, Wm Knight, Harry Hortman, Lassher Hansen, Charley Grigsby, Willie Diercks, Florence Porter.
Patrons are asked to cut these names from the notice and paste them into the directory. The office will close from noon to 3 p.m. for Christmas.
A column recounts Mr Frank Scott addressing the Young Mens Guild with praise and notes an upcoming talk by W P Dawson, Representative, promising another strong address. It invites Methodist Sunday school friends to a Christmas Eve program with songs, speeches, gifts, and a toy drive for the Orphans Home, urging toy and breakfast food donations and holiday cheer.
Regular services Sunday continue. No Young American Club meeting Saturday afternoon. The week of prayer begins January 11 preparing for the January 16 revival at the Methodist church. The pastor urges full cooperation in prayer and consecration toward a fruitful, obedient church. Watch night services planned with program to be announced.
The Des Moines Capital proposes a six day a week paper priced at $2.00 offering new subscribers the balance of 1911 free during a Bargain Period. The paper promises thorough coverage of 1911 events, strong market reports, and Iowa uplift through better roads seed corn and education.
W H Wightman, Illinois Central agent at Roche Iowa, suffered a broken collar bone two leg fractures multiple rib splinters and numerous cuts after clinging to hand rails of a fast moving train for over a mile. He was brought to a Council Bluffs hospital and is expected to survive. Wightman resides in Parkersburg Iowa.
Marriage of George William Sones and Cora Leora Wright on December 15, 1910 at the bride's family residence in Willow township. They will reside in Silver township. both come from long-standing local families in Cherokee County.
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