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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1917
Page
1
The Aurelia Sentinel publishes weekly on Thursday with subscription rates for Cherokee county outside Cherokee county and foreign countries. Advertising rates include display per inch single column locals per line and cards of thanks.
A string of satirical lines mocks peace, inflation, jails, and propaganda. It notes the futile war rhetoric, protests by ammunition makers, and humor about Europe’s idle rich while hinting at wartime skepticism. The piece reflects chaotic sentiments from 1916.
The annual meeting of Maple Valley Mutual Insurance Association members will be held Saturday January 13 at 1 p m at the office of J C Lockin. F H Crepps president 402.
Evelyn Hickey five year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs W F Hickey of Diamond township died suddenly on New Years Day from over exertion at play. Mrs Anna M Hansen of Aurelia died Monday morning December 81 at age 58 after years with dropsy. John Grigsby and family moved back to Aurelia into the former Sheldon house. Miss Fannie Finch wed C G Woodhill at her Nevada Missouri home December 26. Aurelia friends extend best wishes.
Homer Robar of Aurelia and Misa Gladys Cook of Early wed at the Methodist parsonage in Storm Lake with Rev. R. T. Chipperfield officiating. The couple plans a honeymoon visit before starting housekeeping on the rented home farm.
All accounts due the Aurelia Lumber Company must be settled at once as we are anxious to get the books straightened up before leaving Aurelia. An early remittance will be greatly appreciated. 8. B. Golden, Manager. 392 A local in our for sale column will sell it.
A school report for the fourth month ending December 22 1915 in Aurelia lists pupils who were neither absent nor tardy and details those who were tardy and the number of times. It highlights that about 95 percent of failures in class may be pupils with tardy marks and names many students across multiple grades with frequent tardies including George Fritz Ralph Fritz Garret Robar Elsie Nelson and Hazel Holmes.
The article accuses New York City of fostering fake goods as a wartime dodge to fool buyers. It describes shops displaying pressed glass sold as genuine cut glass and likens the practice to pawnbroker era bogus sales, with deceptive labeling and showy displays to lure customers.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram quotes a survey of workers who seek easier tasks or different roles, noting office clerks, street workers, shop clerks and housewives all express frustration with current jobs and hope for better days.
A brief essay on how couples miss each other's dull habits and the strain when a husband’s work eclipses time for home. It notes the tension between love and pursuit of work, and ends with a twofold commandment about love and success.
A newly married woman in Buckten Switzerland burned valuable early railway building minutes from 1850 after mistaking them for worthless paper. The documents, stamped with the scarce Dove of Basel, were valued at about $50 each and nearly $5,000 in total, with the minutes likely worth even more.
A Popular Mechanics note describes a Los Angeles driver equipping his mules with bicycle style tail lights. The lamps reflect ruby light when cars flash headlights, offering a visible warning as the herd moves at night after prior crashes prompted the device.
A contemplation on nations and history from Polybius via Plutarch. The text critiques Carthaginian ethics where wealth gains immunity from blame, describing a thriving yet self-satisfied society driven by enterprise and extravagant finance.
A bank in Cherokee County Iowa has filed a sworn financial statement. Cashier W Hf Bischel attested the figures as true to the best knowledge and belief. The document lists totals including 381 781 96 dollars and various line items in the hundreds and thousands.
A Philadelphia Bulletin critique argues against a proposed two to three dollar annual tax on every single man, labeling it unjust. It contends single men are heavily taxed indirectly through rents, services, and dining, and suggests addressing taxation with philosophy and targeted levies on jewelry rather than broad penalties.
Green the historian notes that cheap photographic portraits unite the empire. Homesteaders in Canada seek a home for their loved ones who gaze at their portraits. English Irish and Scottish mothers in Britain gaze at sons in British Columbia linking home and trenches. In Melbourne posters promote snapshots from the Home league inviting amateur photographers to send pictures to soldiers in service with incentives to win home.
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