23 Dec 1937
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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1937
Page
1
A family scene opens the year with a table moment between a couple and their child. A mother boasts about expertise in potato salad and marmalade tart while the father and child share quiet banter. Billy aged four jokes about the world’s shape on a globe.
A humorous Feature from Tit Bits Magazine notes a Scoutmaster asking what good deed readers did today. A mother has one dose of castor oil left and the narrator lets his brother have it, framing a cheeky domestic vignette.
The piece traces the misattribution of the sayings there’s a sucker born every minute and you can fool all the people some of the time. It identifies Adam Forepaugh as originator of the first line and notes Barnum’s supposed knack for humbugging the public.
The piece recounts 18th century rumors that Congress made George Washington a military dictator, noting John Adams denied the claim while acknowledging expanded powers for the general. It argues British propagandists spread such stories to erode Patriot morale and hinder Washington during the Revolution.
Reports of a Nantucket sea serpent drew attention when a rubber monster created by a famed artist was used as a publicity stunt. The episode followed earlier hoaxes in Sandusky and Lake Erie, with Nantucket chosen because the artist summered there and the store founder was born on the island.
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