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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1951
Page
7
A noblewoman boasted of hosting an artistic dinner and demanded Beethoven’s best dress. He arrived late, sending a message with a full dress suit and a card saying the clothes would ensure her party’s success.
A funeral director asks a 98 year old mourners age, remarking it may not be worth going home. The exchange underscores a solemn, lightly humorful moment at a local funeral service.
A taxi driver with a twenty cent fare receives two dimes from a rich customer who asks if it is correct. The cabby insists it is correct yet not right. A separate scene shows a busy butcher and a hurried woman demanding cat food, then implying patience from another waiting customer.
Edgemont South Dakota pastor G W Sietsema formerly led Aurelia Congregational church visited Aurelia on Wednesday. The Sietsema family travels followed the death of Mrs. Sietsema's father A J Nor they of Milford. Local residents hosted guests at the Pat Cline home with Arnold Albers Janet and Herman Linquist in attendance.
Recollections include weddings of Lois Pixler and Floyd Peterson in Jackson Minnesota and Margaret Nelson with Gaylord Franken in Dakota City Nebraska. Local property moves involve Mrs W E Tutt selling the Aurelia post office building to Mrs Wade Brown. Cherokee County Farm Bureau Women win top state fair honor with Pageant of Poetry scoring 100 percent.
A new brick front was built onto the restaurant building, updating its exterior appearance and potentially attracting more patrons.
James Scott purchased the Loft farm of 240 acres in Afton township at 120 dollars per acre. Mrs. Ida Henderson of Kingsley plans to open a millinery store in the Mongan building vacated by George Garber.
By E. D. Plass M D winner of the 1951 Iowa ACS bronze medal for cancer control contributions. The article defines cancer as uncontrolled cell growth that loses tissue function and becomes parasitic, continuing to grow as long as the host lives.
Cancer does not have a single cause. At least three influences may raise malignant transformation: chronic irritation from chemicals or heat, increasing age, and heredity. While cancer is not inherited, it is more common in people whose relatives have died from it, similar to trends seen with high blood pressure.
A Q A on hog cholera notes it is the deadliest swine disease and that vaccination by a veterinarian near weaning is advised for healthy pigs. It explains transmission, signs, and the need for clean housing, proper ventilation, water, and aftercare following vaccination.
Cancer is neither contagious nor infectious and cannot be caught from another person. Physicians and nurses who treat cancer patients are not at higher risk than the general population. For cancer questions contact the American Cancer Society in Mason City.
A group of Chicagoans tease a visiting Texan by pitting Texas stockyards and boots against Chicago skyscrapers, then prank him with snapping turtles in bed and a joke about boot hill bedbugs, ending with the Texan humorously accepting the jibe.
A boy named George resists bedtime as his mother insists on an early night. He questions why he must sleep, while his father observes and asks for explanation. George predicts his mother will scold him in the morning for growing too big to sleep.
A man wanders the town street as a steam roller crushes his car and he stays silent. He then offers a quip about a one wing versus two wing bird, noting the difference is a pinion.
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