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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1925
Page
1
The Aurelia Sentinel appears weekly with second class mail at Aurelia Iowa. Advertising rates listed include display per inch and foreign per inch rates. Readers’ lines priced at 10 cents per line. Proprietor E C Lighter signs as publisher. Local notices and ad details follow in the issue.
The text presents a jumble of quotes and phrases about willpower eggs roosters and melancholy days. It references Iowa farm life hog feeding and social norms with obscure opinions and incomplete sentences.
A collage of quips about marriage footwear luck and weather talk. A husband jokes about shoes as wives label them disreputable while a prisoner jokes about execution next Friday. Regional dialects describe post Christmas weather and helping children.
A string of social calls and visits from East Afton and Elk areas is noted. Helen Edna Britt Sem Corrington and Rose Corrington were at the Corrington home near Quimby Thursday night. Glen and Galen Dyslin were Cherokee callers last Wednesday. Mrs Albert Meyer was an Aurelia caller Friday morning. Carl Ammons was a business caller in Cherokee last Wednesday. Ed Klockow returned home Saturday after a brief Aurelia visit for tonsil removal. John and Mrs Honsbruch moved to the Henry Honsbruch farm in Alta to spend Christmas vacation with her mother. Mrs Howard Nortis and daughter from Laverne Minnesota, and Andrew Brangwin of LeMars visited John Booth Wednesday.
A week before Christmas the Jackson families seek a loan from Uncle Jim to save a failing business note. Three letters arrive asking for $5,000, and Uncle Jim, an irate bachelor, confronts the audacious requests with sharp fury.
Ailing Uncle Jim faces reverses and cold garret life until nieces from Mrs J J Jackson arrange Christmas visit. They send two fifty dollar fare token and invite him for the holiday. The BRPs and WJs also echo the gesture prompting renewed care and letters.
Mr and Mrs Campbell's family enjoyed dinner last week with relatives visiting from near and far. The gathering included a busy couple who surprised them with a camera and a festive air, noting the evening as a warm, bustling occasion.
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