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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1920
Page
1
A local Aurelia Iowa newspaper page features humor about marriage money and divorce with quips on fashion and ethics. The column jokes about wives guidance and the idea of a man being bought. A note on paper stock and a punch about cutting out cigarettes appears.
A humorous roundup from Lawrence Kansas reflecting on politics and daily mishaps. A professor quits teaching to become a janitor with a higher salary while a Wyoming romance tale ends with a buggy mishap. The piece bounces between social commentary and lighthearted misadventures with playful regional observations.
The notice advises readers to place want ads for used furniture farming tools and equipment in The Sentinel. It notes low 5 cent per line rates and reports weekly sales from classified ads, highlighting growing use and ready sales of advertised items.
A reflective line states that self-imagined injuries often cause more harm than real harm. It notes that perceived wrongs arise from internal judgments rather than the heart of the speaker, highlighting how apprehension wounds more than actions.
Reports state Admiral Kolchak was killed after a firing squad refused orders as a commissar shot him amid smoking his cigarette in Irkutsk. In Cambridge Mass a plan for regular New York to San Francisco airship service is discussed, using helium to power a $2.5 million dirigible with potential naval interest and future weekly sailings.
Professor William Hulme of Western Reserve University traces the word booze to early English forms. He notes bowse meaning to drink in excess as far back as 1300, with later slang forms bousing and bouser appearing in the 16th and 17th centuries, challenging its reputation as a modern outcast.
The Daily Sketch reports disquiet among British regiments with suspected Soviet agents stirring dissension. Stern measures to crush the organization are planned with imminent arrests and wholesale deportations expected.
Nogales Arizona establishes county record as H A Atkins nets 100 dollars from selling eggs laid by 170 White Leghorn hens on his Parker Canyon ranch near Patagonia. He purchased feeds and prepared eggs for market.
New York reports a latest ballroom trend named the cat step also called the creeping cat. Dignified yet playful the movement unfolds in three slow variations with a creeping motion and a kittenish finale. Alexis Kosloff, former dancer with the Russian imperial ballet, originated the step.
A patient with shell shock had his stomach opened by Dr Dres hach US public service surgeon. He had swallowed a wire diet with sixty nine foreign items including thirty ralls of tin four tongue depressors nails buttons buckles needles and sticks. He is expected to recover.
Indians brought to Winnipeg for Hudson Bay anniversary pageant named the bicycle as the most wonderful thing witnessed. They noted the vehicle’s visible workings contrasted with their understanding of complex trains planes cars and vast city structures.
Berlin reports hundreds of millions in revenue lost to fake import and export permits. German bands forged seals with initials M R linked to Melissinger, targeted by police with border searches and air reconnaissance. Arrests follow in Duesseldorf Mayence Flensburg and Hamburg as illicit trade networks collapse.
Mme Pierre Tartone wife of the famed artist owns two turples birds imported from Colombia. The birds insured for $10,000 sing grand operas and are very tame, often perched on Tartone’s shoulders on Fifth Avenue. She will demonstrate the talent at Delmonico's.
Montreal reports division over officials and guards who let a gang steal about a hundred bags of potatoes from Bordeaux jail storehouse. The theft puzzled residents who feared an escape and hauled the bulky loot away by wagon. In Chester Ghost In Cell Policing Wild Night as three Richmond Va burglars claim a ghost caused their disturbance. officers struggled to quell the uproar.
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