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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1909
Page
2
The piece critiques Senator Aldrich and the Iowa politics clash with progressive influences. It argues Dolliver’s cotton schedules spark debate and suggests some old guard papers warn of GOP fractures while predicting continued Senate aims.
A Cincinnati Enquirer item describes the pyrophore a bright inch and a half firefly used in Brazil. One insect reads fine print three illuminate a room and three on a traveler’s clothes provide visible guidance through forests. When dim a quick cold-water dunk restores full luminosity. The creature known locally as cuepgo and scientifically as elaterides serricorn sternlose is noted.
In a Swansea gale a captain chose to save his crew over his wife on board. He ordered the boats prepared while he stayed on the bridge, told the men to save themselves, and as the ship sank he kept his wife below to sleep and perished with the ship.
A genial young man in a busy cafe offered a dollar bill for ten cent chances, claiming it could be inspected. Fifteen men contributed ten cents each, drawing slips from a hat. the man pocketed the winnings, noting the dollar was useless to him and he would use the money for fare home.
London Antiquary records show St Andrews students paid nothing for rooms but £3 10s per quarter to dine at High Table. Poorer men paid £3 14s 1d for a six month session. Breakfast at 7 am included ontmeal toast and half a pint of beer. supper offered bread and beer with broth and beef at High Table. Sterlings and flounders appeared on the board. Beer was abundant and the porter Drewlouse could sell ale to students.
An amused account recalls a London church congress banquet where a bald vicar dropped a napkin and the bishop misread a scene as a melon joke. The bishop quipped about preferring pineapple as dessert, while banter and a stray image lingered.
Weary speaks to a farmer under an apple tree asking for an apple while the farmer notes the fruit will not be ripe for months. Weary, patient, replies there is no hurry, showing humor and understatement.
A garbled passage describes a fired person and a daughter, mentioning money owed and various reactions. The text hints at marital tension and suspected ulterior motives around payments or settlements.
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