21 Feb 1918
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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1918
Page
1
The Aurelia Sentinel humor column mocks political figures and wartime topics. It riffs on Trotsky, Hindenburg, and Henry Ford while joking about tractors, garden microbes, and a proposed anti submarine machine. The piece blends satire with light current events.
The speaker urges Mr. Hoover to ensure all vegetables and fruits raised this year reach markets rather than being dumped in rivers or rotting in fields, claiming such action would ease the food shortage.
Chancellor Von Hertling insists Germany must be thoroughly whipped to secure a just lasting peace. The Washington Post quips that Dr Garfield should withhold fuel from Congress, arguing the capital is heated by hot air rather than fuel.
A motivational verse stresses that belief shapes outcomes. It argues that thinking you can or cannot achieve determines whether you succeed, framing success as a matter of mindset. The text urges positive self-perception as essential to achievement.
Matt Sheridan relocates to the old Sheridan farm three miles south of Mt Olive. Floyd Allen visits home folks. Herman Hahn suffers rheumatic attack. Coal shortage hits the area as neighbors report empty church coal house and shelling corn remains common.
The Cherokee local draft board and the district board disagree on the number of men to send on February 26 with the local board listing eighteen and the district board seeking fifteen. Mobilization begins Sunday evening with departure to Camp Dodge Monday morning. among the named registrants are Peter Laueritsen Miller Marcus and George D Bulger Marcus, plus others from Aurelia LeMars Marcus Sutherland and Holstein. One listed deserter Wilfred Maxwell is believed elsewhere in Canada.
Man with engine sought to pull a twelve foot grader to grade twenty to twenty five miles of Diamond township roads. Bids to be received at Diamond Center school house Monday afternoon April 1 or mailed to clerk C E Gustafson township clerk. Right reserved to reject any or all bids.
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