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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1921
Page
4
Community items include births at the Pierce and Stief homes, travels of families to Des Moines Okoboji New Ulm and Mt Vernon and a plan to revive lawn tennis. Local sales requests bills due by July 1 and a Congregational Aid food sale are listed along with fishing trips and travel to Pipestone Storm Lake and surrounding activities.
A long column of community items records a birth to Mr and Mrs Henry Lanson, visits by Wilford Diercks and Miss Arline McCarty, attendance at alumni banquets, business notices from Farmers Elevator Co and local lumber accounts, travel by T A Darby and family, military funeral in Marcus, and various club meetings including the Chatter Sew and K P lodge events. Many names, places, and dates populate a day by day community ledger.
A humorous verse contrasts blame and praise as a flying fund. It asks how much money a campaign would raise if every word of blame or praise equaled a dollar, highlighting the influence of rhetoric on fundraising.
For Sale two bottom self lift tractor or gang advertised by J B Pierce. A chair of F Schoonover at room table contact 1 92. For Sale or Trade a Dodge ton and a half truck described as two years old and in good running order listed by O C Jones. Also noted are items marked Taken Up Four Or.
A Chicago church faced debate over a proposed psychoanalysis lecture course after clergy consulted medical experts. The piece notes rising lay interest in the mind and warns of potential overreach by psychiatrists, while also listing coconut oil use and production data as a separate note from the discussion.
The Villager notes Washington’s cabinet aged under 40 on average with Hamilton at 32 Jefferson 46 Randolph 36 Knox 39 and Osgood 41. It questions the belief that earlier leaders were older and asks if today’s middle age disdain is a new impulse or a myth from powdered wigs.
Tips urge dieting changes and outdoor exercise to lose weight and avoid fat forming foods. Readers urged to skip sweets and rich fats, eat lean vegetables and salted toast, claiming fat loss comes from self denial. A Cincinnati Inquirer quote notes a safety first idea as a humorous aside from a hobo and a hungry traveler.
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