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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
4
Cheroking residents visit and travel events fill Aurelia notices. Local business ads report farm supply, seed, and shoe front items while county candidates and Memorial Day events highlight civic life.
Georke Bros. offer six Shorthorn bulls aged 6 to 18 months for sale. Also notices stray red steer 900 pounds, dark brown mare one year old with white hind feet, and an eight year old black pony. Finder is to notify and may receive rewards from listed contacts.
Moses Mummert explains in a taxpayer letter that he logged 196 work days in 1915 plus mileage and courthouse committee duties, asserting higher effort than peers who he says neglect road work. He notes he receives five cents a mile, uses his auto for county labor, and claims his labor saves the county money.
Will Glienke, a Sioux City caller, visits. Rev H Webking and family meet Rev and Mrs Noack near Odebolt. Fred Hoffmeier travels to Sioux City for tonsil removal. A new girl baby arrives for Mr. and Mrs. Will Whrede. Several locals visit from Truesdale and Odebolt. Farmers begin plowing corn and people attend Smith Oatman wrestling match in Alta where Oatman is victor. Community urges farm stays to fuel national wealth growth.
The Republican County Convention of Cherokee County Iowa will meet July 1 1916 at 11:00 am in Cherokee Court House. It will nominate county office candidates and elect six delegates to the State Convention in Des Moines July 19 1916. Delegates allocated by precinct and votes for W S Allen in 1914. D W McNeal chairman.
The piece urges setting a real life aim beyond fleeting moments. It argues that without purpose time is wasted and growth stalls, while steady striving yields character and usefulness. It compares life to a ship with no rudder and cites the maxim Better little talent and much purpose. Milwaukee Journal.
South African mine owners conclude tremors arise from large-scale underground cavings and pillar crushing. At depths above 1000 feet, unexcavated pillars fail, causing rock bursts that transmit shocks to the surface. While underground bursts can be deadly, surface effects are limited and not catastrophically dangerous. Technical guidance on preventing rock bursts is provided.
A prosperous looking young man strides into the lunchroom with brisk steps as if planning to buy something. The readable fragment centers on a purposeful calm entry without revealing outcomes or specifics.
A student ignored a fountain sign and swapped glasses. He mixed a powder with water, spilled some on a chair, and swallowed the concoction, leaving two dirty glasses and a damp seat while the lunchroom gained only a bit of exercise.
Ruth Alexander Pebb le in the Erie Record contrasts a well off child playing with a toy roadster with a poor boy dragging a rock in a wooden box tied to a rope. She questions the value of expensive gifts for children.
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