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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1919
Page
1
The Aurelia Sentinel voices discontent with profiteering and high prices, urging a return to affordable goods. The writer laments scarce jobs, warns against escalating costs, and jests about Christmas hardships if profiteering continues.
The army pushes for ready volunteers while potential enlistees hesitate. A tension exists between the duty claimed by recruiters and the reluctance of young men and women to join, highlighting hesitations about commitment and risk.
A fragment notes the public’s run on army food supplies after wholesalers hoarded stock and resold at high profits. It also mentions empty jails.
The article warns that the nation will go to pot unless the league covenant is ratified without alteration or reservation. It argues amendments would worsen the crisis and pushes for swift action to approve the covenant as written.
Notice announces a special election in Aurelia Iowa on October 27 1915 from 1 PM to 6 PM at Town Hall. Voters will decide a bond issue of 165000 dollars to construct a new school building and superintendent residence for the New Aurelia Consolidated Independent School District in Cherokee County. Secretary E Kiernan states the board order and petition sufficiency.
E C Lighter swears as owner of the Aurelia Sentinel Aurelia Iowa that he is editor and owner with no bonds mortgages or securities 1 percent or more and that the statement is accurate to the best of his knowledge as of September 17 1919 witnessed by Notary W H Pischel with commission July 4 1921.
The memory of heroes endures for centuries in folklore. Alexander the Great looms as a vast legend. Turks honor him as Iskender Bey. Steel’s India Through the Ages notes far reaching Hindu reverence, where Alexander’s name remains in villages and even village doctors claim to follow the Ionian medical system.
War Savings Societies distribute hand grenade banks to American workers as savings devices. About 20 090 industrial groups are lined up with at least 100 000 to be included. Workers buy three War Savings Stamps or one each month for three months to obtain a grenade bank and use it for personal savings or future Treasury Savings Certificates.
New Savings Certificates in $100 and $1000 denominations are distributed across the Seventh Federal Reserve district. They can be bought in September for $84 and $840, maturing January 1, 1924, issued registered to prevent theft. They pay 4 percent interest compounded quarterly, are tax free except certain levies, and can be exchanged for 1919 War Savings Stamps.
A short verse extols savings stamps as a safe stock for all, noting their cost of lying is high but highlighting what they can buy from a summer trip to new clothes. It frames the stamps as a way to fund purchases and urges counting their value.
Mrs E L Wood of Perry Iowa credits non surgical cancer treatment by Dr O A Johnson of Kansas City for curing her cancer in nine weeks and no recurrence in fourteen years She praises his institute and cancer research lab and asks others to seek his medicinal treatment and his book Cancer Truths for sufferers.
A note from the Columbus Journal voices concern over self authored poems being kept or discarded as editors weigh intellectual honesty. The piece critiques pride and urges restraint in publishing personal verse.
A letter from Auckland describes two British soldiers aboard a transport who, while dying of influenza, amused themselves by counting out one two and then out while awaiting death. The account notes the grim irony as one did not answer and the men faced their end with grim humor. The letter recounts travel details ending with a trip toward Salina and Abilene before reaching Salina.
A Salina soldier far from home for two years received a Sunday pass after arriving at Camp Funston Kansas where trains proved too slow for his homeward journey. He plans to spend the day with family in Junction City before return.
They forced an entrance into Gowdy's store but did not stay to search. The Gowdy bulldog is described as sleeping in quarters within the shop as the incident unfolded.
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