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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
2
An ad touts a springless, leverless balancer for a pedal cultivator. It highlights a balance rider with adjustable frame height, wide or narrow tread telephones for sizing, and low hitch. It claims ease of use, horse comfort, and 100 percent cultivation performance.
The Brunswick House claims long tradition and high standards for its tires. It touts rare workmanship, strongest fabric, encasing tube-wall construction, and premium features as proof of superiority. One Brunswick will win your decision to own all Brunswices.
The Mt Olive column records community events and visits amid church services. Families such as the Porters, Gearees, and Dabes attend gatherings while neighbors share farm tasks, cattle shipments, and Sunday meals. a newborn is noted and residents plan church and Sunday school.
Important petroleum developments are expected from the French districts of Morocco where one small well at Dgecel is producing three tons of oil a day. Twelve more wells are being drilled and committees consider leasing springs at Pechelbronn and Alvace near Strasbourg. Exemption from import duty is contemplated and industries are adapting furnaces to burn oil instead of coal.
A Chinese Masonic society branch formed in Echuca Victoria with attendance from Chinese settlers and local officials. A carnival banquet followed a ceremonial flag raising but a clash arose when the Chinese flag was flown alone, prompting workers to raise Australian and British flags atop the pole.
Soldiers left books behind as mystery surrounds large dumps of volumes in camps in France awaiting disposal. One camp reportedly holds 490000 volumes with even larger collections at other sites. Inquiries to authorities and organizations that sent books to troops fail to trace owners of the derelict volumes.
A bill was introduced in the French chamber of deputies on August 9 to canalize the Rhone and use water power. The project is valued at 2.6 billion francs with an expected power output equal to at least the amount of energy from the canal.
The Montana agricultural extension exhibit uses a three foot square graveyard and several models to dramatize how convenience in the farm home saves lives and improves well being. It contrasts scenes of bleak neglect with improved kitchens and water systems to urge greater domestic comfort and practicality.
Washington reports the United States mint earned 8.37 million dollars in the 1919 fiscal year. Nickel and bronze coins produced 4.13 million, while pennies minted reached 466.89 million. The year saw massive silver dollar melting and the minting of coins for several foreign countries.
Bay City Michigan freight car crashed through the house wall while Telford E. Hill, manager of the Mueller Chicory company plant, was bathing. Two cars stood on the switch and, as the crew moved more cars, they were sent forward into Mr Hill's bathroom with the wall collapse and coal car intrusion.
Funeral rites for Hyacinth the Persian cat were held at Lenox Estate attended by Mrs. Carlos de Heredias staff. The cat, valued at 36,000, was buried in a metal casket on the New York owner's summer property after being transported there in a special vehicle.
The Sacramento Valley leads a new ice growing industry in California with an estimated 21 million dollar gross from the 1939 rice crop. Research by the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, shows three years of experiments culminating in the first commercial rice crop planted in 1912. The 1939 rice crop is expected to exceed the value of wheat and peaches.
Paice Idaho reports higher costs for rattlesnakes as a Cleveland firm seeks details on sourcing snakes. Officials pass the inquiry to the state game warden as prices soar to 250 dollars an ounce amid Idaho’s hot rocky snake habitats.
Reverend Dr. Russell H. Conwell, founder of Temple University, spoke at Grace Baptist temple about three nightly visits from his deceased wife. He said the visits provided clues to locate several important papers he could not find, leading him to retrieve them as instructed. He called the experience uncertain but real in securing the missing documents.
Paris landlords deny affordable housing as rents soar. A major agency warns that no two rooms and a kitchen can be found for under 6,000 francs annually and warns newcomers to stay away as Paris becomes a “palace” for the wealthy.
The 1919 coffee import mix shows Brazil supplying 54.3 percent of US purchases down from 75 percent in 1914. Central America and the West Indies boosted receipts. The US remains the world’s top consumer overall, with per capita gains after national prohibition took effect. In Bowling Green Kentucky a nine year old girl, Ethel Gosnells, is hospitalized after a ring caught on a nail while she and other girls fled a shed, gripping her finger and causing serious injury as her heart faltered.
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