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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1957
Page
8
An Iowa region tale describes a grocer catching two bullheads on one hook witnessed by his family at mealtime. The piece also mentions Gov Loveless vetoing an omnibus tax bill and a lawn mower incident with a robin collecting worms, plus a Mortgaged Acres note on children's unexpectedly large feet in wet weather and soil dumping.
A teenager’s letter to a daily paper condemns youth excess and urges home discipline while a reader laments bureaucratic strain on government departments. He reflects on a 1928 class, recalling family photos and memories as a career ends with a deadly truck death on the road.
A man races to push a car uphill at high speed and pass before a dangerous top of a hill arrives. A distant memory surfaces of an old baseball mitt, once cared for and pliant, now dry and forgotten in an attic.
A transport truck carrying 37 000 pounds of dry beans jackknifed on a soft shoulder near Sidney and slid into a ditch. The trailer stayed on the road. Crews from two wreckers and three trucks were needed to recover the vehicle and restore the highway.
Mrs William Novak of near Tama suffered severe burns estimated at about 45 percent of her body when fuel spilled into a wool stove and caused an explosion in the basement. She was hospitalized as frames of her glasses melted from the heat. Francis Kim of Blairstown escaped serious injury after slipping on a plank and falling 13 feet to a concrete floor, with no broken bones. May 18 marked Marta Jensens 106th birthday at Dysart, celebrated in her brick home where she has lived 87 years. She is a Schleswig Holstein native who came to the United States at 19. Typewriter ribbons for sale at The Sentinel office.
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