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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1936
Page
3
The article traces progress from ancient oil lamps to 18th and 19th century advances in lighting. It highlights Leger, Ami Argand, and Auer von Welsbach for developing wicks, glass chimneys, and gas mantles that enabled brighter, more efficient illumination for modern lamps using gasoline and kerosene.
Washington Post reports astronomers at Lowell Observatory suggest giant planets Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune have atmospheres mainly of marsh gas. They propose a hypothetical ammonia island afloat on a hydrocarbon sea within these worlds, imagining life adapted to methane air.
A column promotes joining the Dizzy Dean Winners program with a cross-paper Grape Nuts advertisement promising valuable free prizes for participants. The note urges readers to read another column for details.
A rare sight of happiness unfolds as two longtime friends, separated for years, share a warm reunion. Their renewed connection shines with enduring affection and a quiet celebration of shared memories.
Michigan voters split with three of five casting Republican ballots while Senator James Couzens lost renomination as Wilbur Brucker won. Maine also swung Republican with Walace White beating Louis Brann for senator and Lewis Barrows taking the governorship.
The piece urges Pacific coast states to form an air militia with hundred flying machines and young pilots to defend the coast, arguing airplanes could be more effective than battleships. It also praises Hideyo Noguchi for eradicating yellow fever and notes social reform ideas and land prices.
An international writer responds to a reader blaming others for ingratitude and lack of obligation. The writer argues favors given without expectation may not be repaid promptly but reflect faith and genuine sentiment, while noting the reward is often disappointing. Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
The American financial center is located in St Louis. The Mississippi flows into the Gulf of Mexico. There is a woman in Roosevelt's cabinet. The island of Bermuda belongs to France. The Panama canal is situated below the equator. The Emancipation Proclamation was the chief cause of the Civil War. One must pass through Hawaii to get to China. The Volga river flows into the Black Sea.
Pattern 5572 offers seven kitten motifs for cross stitch and outline stitches on 5 by 8 inch towels. Includes color suggestions and stitch diagrams. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. at 259 W Fourteenth St New York NY with name and address.
A compact list of Latin French and Spanish terms with brief English translations. Entries include adscriptus glebae Danser sur un volcan en regle Fides Punica Gasconnade hacienda id genus omne nolens volens and more.
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