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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1917
Page
1
A column of satirical quips on wartime economy and leadership mocks fundraising pleas from the Red Cross, calls for bread, price gouging, and claims of conflicts of interest in the Council of National Defense amid calls for restraint and morale.
A summary of local visits and gatherings from Spring and Afton area residents. Ernest Schewen and family visited Minnesota to see his parents. A large crowd attended Otto Mollar’s July Fourth dance. Local residents, including Phelan, Stablefield, Tilton, and Stief families, report travel, dinners, and shopping in Aurelia and nearby towns. Roy Phelan and a relative traveled west of Cherokee to view land. The piece also notes early references to spectacles in ancient writings with uncertain details.
A compilation of small notices reports Mrs. Roy Buck of Washta dies at 31, Red Cross funds raised in Galva, Arch ie Plagman ordered to Great Lakes camp, Storm Lake streets paved, David Hughes enlists, near-fire incident saving a child, Gus Rosburg accident, Yeoman picnic in Storm Lake with speakers, Casino dances led by Kennedy, Denhardt appendicitis and hospital stay, lightning destroys a Standard Oil warehouse, Henry Wissink license revoked and car arrests noted.
Hastings of Inovale Nebraska visits relatives. Goorke and Shaw spend week at Spirit Lake. A A Sawvell of McGregor visits brother C J Sawvell and Mrs Herman Hahn. Bridge crew near Hayes place to finish this week then move toward Quimby. Red Cross Auxiliary hosts ice cream supper at Mt Olive church. Can ning demonstration Friday morning invites all ladies to attend for pointers. The note ends with a stray line about Buddhists and religion.
The article links Bapaume as a historic gateway to Flanders noting its sieges from Louis XI through 1641 when De la Meilleraye's siege and D Artagnan's bold attack breached walls. It recalls repeated warfare including the Thirty Years War and a Franco Prussian clash, with Bapaume as a strategic axis and a bustling 4000 inhabitant manufacturing town.
A field note classifies birds by wing shape and speed. Sprinters like king birds quail and ruffled grouse burst from a standstill with rapid wing strokes while distance runners boast sustained flight. Gallinaceous fowl are sprinters and arrows of wingbeat produce loud whirring sounds. The quail reaches full momentum within sixty feet. quail cover forty five to fifty feet in the first second. The ruffled grouse wings roar audible up to two hundred yards.
The famed handwritten will of George Frideric Handel with four codicils sold at auction in London. It records bequests to Handel’s amanuensis Christopher Smith including a large harpsichord a small house organ music books and five hundred roundsers. The collection also features relics of early English masters and a manuscript score by Sir Arthur Sullivan written when Sullivan was a choirboy at the Chapel Royal.
A cryptic wartime exchange echoes a bettor’s challenge as an elder man is pressed about his winnings. The fragment hints at a conversation where luck and age intersect in a terse street moment.
Franklin favored a vegetarian diet inspired by Tryon and practiced frugality to save money for books. The piece notes his early experiments with self‑boarding, improved health, and sharper intellect. It also mentions beliefs about lunar cycles affecting plant, animal growth, and pork cooking.
The article lists beliefs about the moon from new to full and wane phases. It notes new moon viewed through glass as unlucky, seeing it outdoors over the left shoulder as lucky, and the full moon as auspicious for events and births. It warns against cutting eyelashes during the wane.
St Alban is described as the first British martyr for sheltering priest Amphibalus and aiding his escape. He was condemned by the Roman governor and beheaded during Diocletian’s persecutions, which were restrained in Gaul and Britain under Constantine.
The Kansas City Star discusses tornado depictions but farmer Willan Soda summed up the twister that wrecked his home with one line. When asked how long the storm lasted he replied, “Feller, I don’t believe she worked more than two minutes, but while she worked she worked like the devil.”
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