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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1920
Page
1
The Aurelia Sentinel reflects on booze runners, Christmas diets, and benevolence, noting prices are down yet hard to find. It jokes about subscribers, women’s beauty products, and economists, while quipping on farming, flour prices, and public interest in community welfare.
A fiery editorial notes that nonvoters would protest disenfranchisement as a citizen’s right, suggesting a strong reaction if abstainers faced removal from political participation. The piece frames voting as essential to liberty in the nation.
Figures from the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation special committee show farmers in Buena Vista County paid 81 cents per bushel to grow oats this year. Using the current selling price as a baseline, the year’s losses are estimated at under one million dollars.
The library teas brought pleasure and profit with a lively list of hosts and guests. Mrs. George Wharton entertained several ladies, followed by Mrs. Ray Green and others. numerous gatherings featured Mrs. J. Shank, Mrs. Parke, Mrs. W. A. Bischel, Mrs. Grace Waddell, and many more. Classified notices list farm pigs for sale, miscellaneous bargains, and a job ad for a manager at Peoples Co-Operative Telephone Company.
The Women's Club of Aurelia hosts a Parents-Teachers program at the high school auditorium Friday night, November 12. The open program begins at eight o'clock with a 7:15 business meeting in the eighth grade room.
F H Seeley of Chicago and Philadelphia, famed truss expert, will be at the Lewis Hotel Friday November 12 to demonstrate the Spermatic device. He promises rapid results, claims England and Spain awarded it, and offers charity fittings with government documents for inspection.
President C H Markham of the Illinois Central Railroad says the $27 109 768 equipment order for locomotives and cars has begun delivery. He credits improved rates for enabling investment after a period of anti-railroad sentiment and wartime control.
A Kansas City Journal humorous quip notes a general with many medals. An aide shadows the general, the speaker asks why an alderman clings to him, and the punchline rests on the general’s surplus decorations.
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