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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1918
Page
1
A Thursday publication notes Aurelia IA postal matter and soapless day calls. It remarks on Mr Hoover's push to bring flour to the people and comments on Wisconsin Senator La Follette's minority status. The piece mentions profiteers targeting Secretary Daniela over policy phrasing and ends with a toast to Josephus.
In the ongoing fuel administration affair the public clings to the belief that spring will arrive, offering reassurance that milder weather and renewed energy supplies will come eventually.
A year of robberies boosts fear while food profiteers’ role is ignored in estimates. An Italian in New York eats twenty eggs in one meal and should be prosecuted for hoarding. The piece laments Democrats and Republicans reassessing each other and notes a contrast in views of peace between Russia and Germany.
Officials pursue elusive food barons through a heated chase, losing them when garments gain a lead. They must slow down and steady the pursuit to land the suspects.
A feisty verse laments wartime austerity and shortages in daily life. The speaker lists clothing and amenities left out as war demands bite, concluding with a pointed anti Kaiser sentiment and a taunt at the enemy.
Miss Sadie Georke starts at Garber Mummert store. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Wm Dean northeast of Aurelia. Dick Hansbrook buys 96 acres north of Aurelia at 100 dollars per acre from CG Mummert. I T Lewis and family plan Idaho sheep ranching in ten days. Len Lewis heads to Pocatello Idaho next week. Charley Gustafson seeks a cook and partner in Ida Grove. Bride Emily Peterson, Diamond, is well known. Roy M Phalen marries Rosalie Speelman at Congregational parsonage. Phalen rents Hunte farm two miles north of Aurelia. Make of note.
Have you any articles about your premises you want to dispose of put a want ad in The Sentinel. Good second hand furniture farming tools and other equipment are always salable and it costs but 5 cents a line to let people know what you have to offer. Every week someone reports a ready sale at some article advertised in our Classified department the use of which is becoming more and more general.
Grace Hunter will lead a children's study hour at the library Saturday from 3 to 4 PM in the rest room. The program targets first and second graders and younger, featuring tales that echo the Pied Piper and Anna Taylor the Story Lady, highlighting storytelling as a civic growth tool.
More than two thousand storytelling hours in a year attract over 40 000 attendees. Librarians assist Miss Taylor as substitutes when absent, with older children reading when storytellers are unavailable. There is no compulsion. children attend freely. The piece lauds war savings stamps as accessible savings for all, contrasting with bonds. Phone 196 for all drugging needs.
The fragment lists names C. M. Jones R G Parrott M.S. Madsen A. J. Whinery O. W. Finney and Chris Oleson with a prior note referenced as Previously reported .50. The context is unclear but appears to be a roster or scoring note from a past event.
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