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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1913
Page
1
The Aurelia Sentinel shows pricing for classified and display ads with six cents per line, ten cents per inch for display, and a yearly subscription of 100 dollars in advance within the county. Outside county subscriptions are 1.25 per year.
The article reviews debates on the Panama Canal's purpose and defense, civil service reforms led by Carter, and calls for transparency in congressional records. It notes Senator Kenyon's resignation proposal, Castro and Mylius travel issues, Taft’s capital visits and the Lincoln Memorial commission, plus suffrage activism ahead of March events.
The piece urges a statewide plan for good roads with state paying one third of permanent road costs and a highway commission with full-time salaries. It favors optional local adoption and allows counties to choose permanent road types while the state reserves payment requirements. Other states are already acting, urging Iowa to move now.
Letter from Mrs. Woodcock of Storden Minnesota dated March 2 1913 recounts a two and a half hour delay at Bingham Lake and a derailment two miles from Storden with five coaches off track. Passengers received help from the crew and were re accommodated at a hotel with costs covered by the railroad. The writer expects to reach Westbrook shortly.
Iowa produced 13.8 percent of the nation’s corn and over 15 percent of oats in 1912, with corn 5.7 million bushels ahead of Illinois. The state led in barley and potato values, and the total farm product value excluding livestock neared 475 million dollars, with livestock bringing the total to about 850 million dollars.
Notice to qualified voters of the Independent District of Aurelia Iowa to be held March 10 1913 at City Hall for a school election.
A series of land transfers and lots are recorded including Flora Church to Jennie E Bushlow in Cherokee for 250, Josephine Scott to Jennie E Bushlow in Cherokee for 250, Frederick Bushlow to Jennie E Bushlow in Cherokee for 250, Emma J Woodcock to August Konnersberg in Aurelia for 800100, Elizabeth A Wilcox et al to Eddie Wilcox 1892 41 27526 80 acres, Watson Pelton to Myrtle Pelton in Cherokee 5100, and other transfers to various parties in Cherokee Marcus Aurelia and surrounding parcels with listed prices and acreages.
The article touts "Ocular Gymnastics" as a new eye treatment aimed at curing optic nerve paralysis. It claims several patients nearing total blindness have regained sight through physical culture exercises for the eye.
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