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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1909
Page
5
The article discusses the cotton seed oil trust challenges and state actions against monopolies. It notes hog and wheat market highs, potential soft coal price trends, and rumors of a large coal trust forming. It ends with social commentary on trusts oppressing the people and a curious anecdote about butter odors.
The article notes the reboot opening on Monday and the year’s work beginning. It highlights a strong corps of teachers, with the high school welcoming a new principal and an assistant principal, Prof. Beth, a Grinnell graduate with strong recommendations, and Miss Jutta Porter from Mt. Pleasant, who brings solid training from the State Normal.
A fragmented pledge urges residents to support local projects and buy home goods. It vows to boost the community, back public works, patronize the local paper, and speak positively about town and its people. The handwriting note invites clipping and posting.
This week the Sentinel prints a photo of a splendid modern home recently remodeled by Mr Lockin. The exterior has been beautified while the interior was upgraded with oak finishings and added conveniences. Rooms enlarged and windows increased for more light in this twelve room residence.
The article recounts Francois Picaud a Paris cobbler jailed in 1807 by imperial orders on suspicion of spying. After a Milanese priest’s 7,000,000 franc fortune and hidden jewels were revealed Picaud sought vengeance. His crimes culminate in his own brutal murder at the hands of his former captor Antoine Allut Elow after years of torture and extortion.
A vivid account describes driver ants marching in formation across roads and homes in Nigeria and southwestern Africa. The column is compared to a long black snake, leaving worn paths and driving people, horses, and pets to flee. Fire and burning paper are noted as effective repellents.
A husband criticizes a $15 hotel dinner as grotesquely mismatched and over rich. He recalls the lobster soup sweetbreads Virginia ham and Reine Victoria pudding, blaming the wife for selecting the menu and noting men insist on ordering in high society meals.
In the Westlake district a day pupil named Marjorie receives an aluminum collapsible cup from her mother to avoid sharing a cup with others. The next day she returns excited claiming the other girls at school like the cup and find it fun to take turns using it, per the housekeeper’s account.
The Real City Attorney case in Cherokee district court questions whether Wm Mulvaney or Guy M Gillette is the legal city attorney The dispute hinges on Cherokee population whether above or below 4000 under city law The dispute may rise to the supreme court despite district court rulings and possible future actions by Mulvaney Gillette holds office by appointment while Mulvaney claims holding over or election rights
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