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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1916
Page
2
Descriptions of vanity in a comic opera, royal intrigue, and a minister’s downfall interweave with tales of haunting desert cries. Reports note Gobi sounds, travelers lured by phantom voices and horsesteps, and Irish banshee echoes tied to owl cries, reflecting superstition and fear.
The American Boy notes wintergreen oil relies on young workers who harvest three inch plants in Monroe County. About 600 wintergreen boys pick leaves April to November, bale them, and transport to distilleries by pushcart. They face dangers like rattlesnakes yet rarely get bitten.
North Elk and Brooke News covers Henry Dlugosch and family visiting Ed and Sig Matzdorf in their Storm Lake area home in a new Dodge. Fragments mention entertaining youths, Decoration day trips to Aurelius, new Ford purchases, local ball game attendance, and church house cleaning by the German Lutheran Ladies.
Elmer Sanderman and wife of near Storm Lake visited relatives this Sunday. Fred Mueller and wife of Galva spent Sunday with friends in the area. Many locals voted at Monday’s primary, the community showing unusually strong participation. Henry Grieme and family of near Storm Lake were there Sunday. A large number fished at the lake last week.
Excavation by Eckley B. Coxe Jr. at Dendereh reveals ancient graves with polished bronze mirrors placed with women, a cow and child burials, and a 3500 B.C. queen or king linked artifact. Museum officials call the find highly valuable, noting dates and beads among the contents.
Cyril Anderson, a famed New York publisher with a checkered past, chairs a tense dinner with Lily Holmes. She rejects gossip about his divorce and earns his guarded respect, leading to a confession of love as he recalls his own wasted years and vows a fresh start.
The article surveys the Kurds origin theories linking Chaldeans Babylonians and Assyrians. It notes the Kurds pride in Gurdu meaning warrior and explains their mountainous Kurdistan homeland east of the upper Tigris with about 60 000 square miles and no usable railways or roads. The Kurds face mistrust from Persians and Turks and are described as religiously and socially measured by others.
In late winter ten tenured department store posts open as debutantes join Frozenstar Brothers & Co. to sell goods for charity with 26 percent commissions. Corinne Delacroix leads furniture sales while Filbert Frozenstar watches, hoping to enter exclusive social circles through staged philanthropy.
The diary notes from 1867 recount Carroll's observations in Berlin and Petrograd. He highlights the prevalence of colossal figures of men killing beasts, especially dragons and lions, and notes Berlin’s fossil slaughterhouse-like landscape. In Petrograd an equestrian Peter the Great faces a serpent at the hind feet but is not depicted killing.
Illinois Central timetable lists East Bound Passenger 16 at 8 25 a m and 632 at 6 20 p m. West Bound Passenger 681 at 8 25 a m and 16 at 2 18 p m. Passenger 633 at 6 50 p m. Local Freight 692 at 8 05 a m and 691 at 4 00 p m. Local freight carries no passengers.
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