23 Feb 1912
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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1912
Page
1
Local paper Aurelia Iowa announces advertising rates and subscription terms. Public notice details display advertising costs and a yearly contract rate of 100 dollars payable in advance for within county. outside county rate 125 dollars per year.
Thursday filings confirm two tickets for town officers with authorities. Voters will decide next month. Senator Kenyon faces sharp editorial criticism from the standout press over his stance against Stephenson of Wisconsin, yet Iowa voters are expected to back him. Sam Sherman of the Sutherland Courier challenged McCulla of the Cherokee Times on Methodism last week, defending his fellow editor’s methods.
The piece argues Congressman Hubbard will return to fix breaks in political fences as critics claim only holes remain. It contrasts Scott as lacking compelling reason to change, noting his desire for office.
A group of prominent national figures renounce LaFollette and back Roosevelt, citing his illness and campaign methods as factors in fracturing the progressives. Yet historians may later place LaFollette among the era’s great leaders.
The article reports that Friends of Roosevelt question why he delays a presidential bid, warning each day costs him allies. It contrasts Taft with reactionaries, notes Proudfoot and standpats entering, and argues progressives need capable leaders like Holden and Clarke without lengthy delays. The SENTINEL ends mid-remark.
If this is true then the automobile has been of great service to the country. Let the good work go on and every one boast. Our readers will notice the principal Jeilers in the movement and the one who gave one of the best addresses at the meeting was our own neighbor W P Dawson.
The week starts with Hungarian partridges released by the local flu and game warden to stock the country. Two dozen birds are placed in the Frank Parrott grove, others at Sellers nursery and on J. N. Rice and Dawson farms. Hunters are warned the birds resemble quail and to target carefully while observing a strict protective rule that fines apply to early shooting before 1915. The bird is praised for winter hardiness and potential to solve the quail decline, though it cannot survive heavy snows as quail do.
A compact fragment from Theodore C. Williams contemplates resistance and momentary meaning. It likens roses and angelic arts to perfection and hints that grasping the meaning of a moment grants eternity. The tone is philosophical and poetic.
A Sioux City editor denounces the Daily News for fraud in liquor advertising while accusing the paper of publishing misleading figures about dry county inmates. The letter claims Plymouth county has more murder and injury cases tied to liquor, contrasting with Cherokee’s few incidents over ten years.
The following are the trial jurors drawn for the March term. Jurors are cited to report on the second Monday of the term, March 25, at 10 o'clock a m.
Seasonal venison dishes paired with chestnut sauce and wild grape jelly are shared. The chestnut sauce recipe includes onion carrot butter flour stock parsley bay pepper and chestnuts with orange juice. A squirrel pie method covers cleaning joints seasoning stock, cooking two hours, and thickening with flour.
The Civil War battle of Chickamauga yielded the war's greatest combined losses. Sergt John W Stevens a railroad flagman in Oak Park recounts the First Day actions near Camp Chattanooga detailing regiments Second Minnesota Thirty fifth Ohio Light Brigade and a fierce Confederate assault as they held their position and recaptured captured guns after a brutal fight near the Lafayetter farm.
A Civil War account recounts Captain Robert Eddy leading a 290‑man charge to seize a rebel battery near Petersburg on April 2 1865, with 85 total casualties. It also narrates James Ford’s night crossing into abandoned rebel lines on April 3 and the subsequent city patrols toward City Point and Alexandria.
This guide lists seasonal menu ideas for a Hallowe'en supper with eye catching centerpieces using pumpkins and gourds. It suggests dishes featuring hens or ducks, apples, doughnuts, coffee, chestnuts, and themed chafing dish options including cheese sandwiches and tomato soup with toast and eggs.
A quip on fate and character from Shakespeare notes that human ends are shaped by inner virtue rather than outward show. It contrasts opinion as folly with inward judgment guiding deeds.
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