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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1911
Page
2
Abstracting service promises prompt, careful work with guaranteed customer satisfaction. The firm specializes in abstracts and maintains up to date books and facilities. Office over post office Room 4 Cherokee Iowa.
Maple Valley Mutual Insurance operates in Cherokee County east of the Little Sioux River and in four townships west of Buena Vista County. F. J. Crerrs serves as president with J. C. Lockin as secretary.
The Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid society backs three credit unions in Fairfield County Connecticut, Rensselaer County New York, and Ellington Connecticut. Each branch raised 500 by selling shares, with a 1000 loan from the society at low interest. Boards of directors manage loans for productive use on easy terms. This marks an early U S effort mirroring established European unions.
Count Jacques de la Tour Blanche praised Americans as the most honest and honorable people, noting their noble minds resist European adventurers. He contrasted European dupes with American prudence and quoted a Paris meeting where a fortune hunter was challenged by a sharp American socialite.
Ned Mather, a longtime local, is credited by Watertown Standard with origin of the free lunch concept. The claim places the first lunch in Baltimore around 1805 at Barnum hotel front bar where patrons allegedly praised a Smithfield ham and local cookery sparked a philanthropic idea.
The surgeon general reports antityphoid vaccination greatly reduces typhoid fever. For the year ending June 1909 cases were sixteen times higher among the unvaccinated. By October 1, 1910 only five cases occurred in the non immunized, four mild with uncertain diagnosis and no adverse effects from the vaccination.
The New York bureau of occupations formed to raise interest among college women nationwide about suitable employments and career paths. It follows a model used by the War Educational and Industrial Written work to direct young women toward better opportunities through organized guidance and training.
Fragmentary entry describes training porch vines using a child's wooden hoan and strong wire. Instructions mention centering boreh opening and attaching cords from hoa to various sidestep points. The text references a peony wall and decay but is largely garbled and unclear.
The mayor recounts a tale in which a farmer uses a finger print enlargement from an overripe peach to confront a thief. A bystander jokes about the impression on his corduroy pants, highlighting flawed reliance on fingerprints.
A clerk recalls a dream where Andrew Carnegie wakes to The Wearing of the Green played by a Scotch Piper on Ninety first street. A lemon-sucking boy provokes the piper to collapse, and an Irish foreman fires a shotgun from the street, ending the scene.
The young princess Patricia of Connaught, famed for wit and art, fills Bagehot park with caricatures of the king and duke. One piece shows the king with a hungry caption while another mocks the duke in uniform. Her works travel with her to South Africa and Copenhagen.
Tarpon Springs locals describe the main water hole feeding the springs as bottomless, with a jagged rock center. Reports claim depths exceed 700 feet and divers note a deep, unbottomed shaft near the lake outlet from Jutler Lake a mile east, a site once famed as a Silvered king's tarpon playground.
A photographer presses a reluctant sitter to imagine a coronation crowd while the man protests the resulting portrait would be sent to relatives and friends who want to visit him, expressing irritation at the photographed scene.
Prof. A. F. Chamberlain argues the language of the Urua Puquinas near Lake Titicaca and the Peru Bolivia border forms an independent language family. He has collected a vocabulary of hundreds of words and many phrases and sentences. A few descendants of Urus still live along the Desaguadero between Titicaca and Poopo.
Mrs Grace R Shaw wills a $45000 trust to Harvard University named the Henry Russell Shaw fund. Income supports graduates to travel abroad. Awards not based on scholarship but on character and potential for success in careers.
A clipped quip reflects on money drawing threads of value from plain worth. The irony contrasts wealth with virtue as society weighs what truly matters beyond silver and gold.
T. P. Palmer of the United States biological survey asked Idaho State Game Warden Hen Gray for estimates of antelope and moose in the state. Antelope are increasing, especially in the Mackay district, with protection helping their numbers though they remain scarce outside isolated valleys where farmers protect them. Wolves and other predators affect their status.
A satirical colonial scene describes King James J. Sir Almroth Wright praising soap while imposing a tariff on soap produced in England. The Westminster Company of Shipmakers gains a monopoly with a royal proclamation praising soap and forbidding imports. Tax payments to the company reach about $150,000 annually.
A new coal seam was struck north of Dover in Kent with quality touted as superior to any previously found in the district. The seam lies about seventy feet below the surface and is estimated to extend to substantial depths, suggesting a major coal find for the region.
Virginia California hosts the world's smallest postoffice on a lonely stage road north of San Diego City. The five foot square pine building serves a few ranchers with mail handled via outside boxes. The postmaster works only when the stage coach passes and uses a door drop for stamps and mail.
German Oriental society reports progress at Babylon with palace areas laid bare and fortifications traced. A small Nebuchadnezzar temple shows preserved black and white Assyrian color, while a massive wall and Gate of Arash are identified. Dr Andreas probes Assur temple. Hatra ruins yield ancient materials from Bedouin trade.
In Kaiser Wilhelm harbor, Dr Hesse gang serves as medical officer and packs his routine rounds with natives seeking his opinion on tattoo like scars. Locals prize self inflicted wounds and scars from sand, bamboo and shells as a cherished art form. A young native with extensive facial and body scarring is highly admired by dusky belles.
A quaint scene describes a birthday party plan where mothers staged a snowball game for children. Cotton balls wrapped in white crepe were tossed as “snowballs,” with red thread details and clipped ends. Children chased the faux snowballs across the lawn.
In Hartford Connecticut six men formed a jury to decide if a lady's dress fit properly. Women argued men are not competent to judge such matters and that the panel should have six women. Mrs Caroline Corbin says the men were fulfilling their God given duty and the jury room is a notice for women.
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