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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1913
Page
1
The Aurelia Sentinel published weekly with the proprietor E. C. Lighter announces rates for local and display ads. Subscription is 100 dollars per year in advance, with outside county at 1.25 per year and 50 cent cards of thanks.
Mrs Juber and Hanna returned from a ten day visit to the eastern part of the state with friends. D C Thompson visited Fayette county and reports Mrs Thompson's brother improving but not recovering. Rev J C Hoover of Le Mars preached at Mt Olive and visited grandchildren in Waterloo. Rev Lockett preached in LeMars in exchange. Howard Pelton suffered a sudden illness, underwent appendectomy at home, and is recovering with good care and hopeful for restoration to full duty.
Lloyd Ohlson and sister Neta leave for a short visit to Minneapolis returning next Monday. Mt. Olive church Young People's Society leads Sunday evening services at eight with select recitations readings and a emblematic exercise The Light of the World accompanied by music from a full choir. Everyone is invited to attend this worthwhile public service.
Bloodhounds used in Waverly to track a Sunday morning theft from Henry Woodford's bedroom. Bonds totaling 318,000 were found inside a window, while 26,000 in large denomination currency remains missing. Housekeeper reported the loss and Woodford offered no comment.
On the Canandaigua lake shore at Tichenor Springs a venerable tree, said by experts to be at least eight hundred years old, was spared after public protest halted planned improvements. The highway commission chose to let the tree stand rather than remove it.
Sioux City fair schedules vaudeville acts September six to nineteen with seven headliners. The Ishikawa brothers, known as the almost human fighting machine, will perform as band balancers and tumblers alongside ten Arabian athletes led by Hobker the whirling shiek. The program features hazardous gyrations and human pyramids on large grandstand stages.
A promotional offer invites readers to subscribe to The Register and Leader for one dollar, giving four months access from now until January 1, 1914. The appeal highlights Iowa’s greatest daily and urges readers to send payments via the post office or directly to the Des Moines paper.
Experts from Ames and state agencies will lecture September 15 to 19 at the Interstate Fair. Dr. G A Johnson will discuss preventing animal diseases including tuberculosis, and tapeworm control. Demonstrations on canning fruit and domestic science will aid housewives and form canning clubs in Iowa.
Neighborhood residents recount a pale blue glow in a deserted upper floor window that flickered like a phantom. A timid servant girl in the home watched as an electric car on Columbian road passed by and briefly shone its headlight into the rear windows, casting a ghostly reflection on the front panes.
A discussion of reform era marriage ideas leading to Kent Blakeman's plan to seek freedom from his wife Estelle Woodruff. He pursues a new, experimental approach to marriage while she clings to the prenup and faces the social upheaval of their separation and its impact on their two children.
The House and Senate move toward finalizing the currency and tariff bills as Underwood leaders steer reform. Lobby probes expose loan sharks and congressional editing disputes while Washington binds to baseball fever and political shifts with Lennwood’s bid facing La Follette opposition.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions a live event and misty conditions with unclear names and roles. Incoherent wording obscures specific persons, dates, or locations, leaving only general references to a performance or occurrence and disrupted text.
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