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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1911
Page
1
The Aurelia Sentinel announces Friday publication as the official paper for Cherokee County with local post office entries and advertising rates. Display ads cost one cent per line per insertion, with yearly subscriptions at 100 dollars paid in advance.
Mt Olive reports a fine rain and talks by Prof Lee of Sac City during the weekend. Willis with typhoid fever shows mild improvement at Beresford, S D. Monthly covenant meeting planned Thursday evening. trap shoot at the store. Diamond and Silver boys may play ball. Several residents attend Des Moines State fair. farmers await cooler weather and plan fall plowing.
After a long absence the scribe resumes duties with short notices of local happenings. Laposky Bros. thrash Week as Porter attends State Week in Des Moines. The Mens club gathers at Mount Olive church Tuesday evening for a lecture. Mrs. Ole Johnson returns from Storm Lake. Aly and Mrs. Wm Jameson visit Ed Jameson. D C Thompson visits Eastern Iowa relatives. A plowing match at Rock Top drew a good crowd. A forty dollar diamond ring is lost. Mike Doubes heads to the fair for a few days. Prof. Lee preaches at Mt Olive. Local humor notes close the item.
Local newspaper offer promotes Your Home Paper and The Sioux City Daily Tribune together for $3.00. Describes sections including late news, editorials, sports, women’s pages, market page, and family features. Encourages subscription at the office.
Puffett, a financial official, urged prompt attention to overdraft formats at the National Bank. He emphasized swift action to prevent escalating losses and protect depositors.
The steamship Seneca docked at Bush docks Brooklyn with 1400 tons of cash money spilled ashore but few police present. An American syndicate bought Korea’s 300000 tons of cash, planned melting for silver and copper, with minting use by the government in future coinage.
Miss Charlotte A. Cary, Moody Bible Institute superintendent, urged at the dedication of the new women’s building that a decline in character accompanies changes in dress talk and conduct. She warned that while women gain education and polish, integrity and principle lag, harming the nation.
Mrs Emma Martin moved her St Louis home after neighbor Mrs Arthur Moore objected to painting from ladders on Moore land. The two sisters in law had not been friendly, so the house was shifted two feet to complete the job.
The new Zoological Garder restaurant in Berlin debuts with capacity for 20 000 diners indoors and on summer terraces. A 1000 waiters staff and 500 kitchen workers handle meals. It includes its own laundry and bakery as officials and citizens attend the unveiling.
A massive tree crashed through the roof of a Ridgeport home as the Crates family prepared for bed. The trunk split the residence in two, tearing through a parlor and two bedrooms, trapping the house in debris until removal is possible.
In Pittsburg nineteen year old Fronta Jennings wandered from home during sleep and woke at the neighbor Grace Hawk’s house around 1 am. She asked if her brother Paul passed his exam for high school, then traveled barefoot about eight blocks along a railway line but suffered no harm.
Two enormous sea birds unknown to local naturalists were captured at Long Beach after attacking onlookers. Measured wings spanned 7 12 feet, brown bodies with white heads and seven inch hooked bills. Fisherman R H Floyd trapped them while angling for yellowtail, one bird hooking the bait, the mate aiding before both were hauled aboard and caged.
Patrolman Patrick Kerwick found a large roll of chewed bills hidden between floor joists while repairing a house he recently bought in Trenton New Jersey. The money is believed to belong to a former owner who trusted banks. The exact amount is undisclosed, and the notes will be sent to the Treasury for redemption.
Clarence Edwards, 17, was treated at Cooper Hospital after a moving picture scene caused uncontrollable laughter. He resisted ambulance attendants and had to be strapped to a cot until calming an hour later. This marked his third such episode in as many months.
Physicians in Manchester Conn organize a medical and surgical trust and publish a price scale for services. Amputation of one limb costs 10 dollars with 5 dollars for each additional finger or toe. Cost to hive twins is 6 dollars more than a single baby.
Joseph AL Carter of Jefferson County Tennessee, 73, known as the smallest adult in the state at 42 inches tall and 58 pounds, died at home. He served as era inter for Jefferson County sixteen consecutive years. A college graduate, he was a bachelor and school teacher.
Dr. Jacques Bertillon reports 1910 births at 774,358 and deaths at 703,777 in France, a net of 70,581 with birth rates near a century low. He notes 1907 marriage reforms boosted weddings to 309,289 last year, hinting a possible rise in births, yet overall population growth remains uncertain. A San Francisco Navy transport tale contrasts with a humorous shore leave on the Sheridan voyage with the Talerito couple.
Niagara Falls New York health board orders Henry Mitchell to keep his Plymouth Rock rooster and other fowls at least twenty feet from the theater stage after multiple incidents during performances. A black Minorca hen and ten chicks appeared on the stage amid a murder scene drawing protests.
A crow battled a rattlesnake at Hazen sandpit Mount Bethel with the bird pecking the snake’s eyes and gaining supremacy before workmen and foreman Moore Hazen intervened and killed the quake. Providence, The Atlantic mills in Olneyville reopen after a ten day shutdown as hobble skirts drive cloth demand.
The Norwegian government honors Captain Jenathon Moore Smith of the Pacifica River with the Silver Cup for mimicking the shipwrecked crew of the Norwegian bark Munsfort of Drammen in the Gulf of Mexico on October 16, 110.
A pilot named Dryle Williams attempting an air voyage collided with a grazing cow during a low flyover in Los Angeles. The plane struck the cow, sending the aircraft and a shocked Williams two miles before a hay stack halted the wobbling craft. Williams was.unhurt and assisted by friends to stop the buzzing machine. A second item reports a gigantic salt fish captured near Concarneau by ushmen, eight yards long and four yards in circumference, with a territorial female accompanying it aboard the tow.
A dangerous midair descent ends with aeronaut Wilson pulling a ripcord over Altoona as wind pushes toward the Elbe. He lands in the city center near the fish market, drawing crowds and concerns while ash dealers clear the square. A later note mentions a new naturalization and a Captain Geore Auger with ties to Wales and London.
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