06 Apr 1916
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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1916
Page
1
Local brief notes report Mrs T Z Jones improving after illness and Porter Rowe recovering from scarlet fever. Daughters, visitors, and movements include Miss Ila Boyd, Miss Carrie Crawford, and Linnie Moore seeking or changing posts. Sunday worship at Baptist and Methodist churches, St John’s Episcopal offers Lent services. Hillsdate church to host new member reception April 7.
The page lists varied ads from Red Cross Drug Co and individuals in Glenwood Malvern Pacific Junction and nearby towns offering goods for sale such as seeds potatoes wallpaper cabinets glass and paints plus farm labor milking cows and eggs. It includes notices for found items rent homes wanted help wanted and requests to return a lost muff with a theatre box office reward.
A historical note describes chronic dry pleurisy with adhesions and drag pain, often unimpaired overall health for years, weakened breath sounds, possible chest on spine changes, and heart displacement. It attributes inflammation to a subluxated third dorsal vertebra affecting pleural calorific nerves and claims restoration through vertebral adjustment.
A Mills county audience heard lectures by Prof. Tobin and Engineer Dodds on hard surfaced roads and bond financing. The talks showcased ancient roads, the Appian Way, and bridge projects as proof of durability and cost savings. A booster for wide tires argued for broader adoption to improve rural highways amid rising auto use.
Friday night at the picture show marks Women’s Club evening. Notices invite Grenwood women for suffrage meeting with Mary Rathike, baby health conference details, and a talk by Lous J. Stearns for the Iowa Equal Suffrage Association. Socials include Y P S I party and a birthday gathering for Matt McCluskey with neighbors and friends.
John J. Higgins, a longtime Malvern shoemaker born in 1832 in Cork Ireland, died April 3 1916 after a life in Council Bluffs Hillsdale and Malvern. He was married to Rebecca Cook sixty four years with no children and is survived by nine nephews and two nieces. Funeral held at Malvern Catholic church then interment at Council Bluffs St Joseph cemetery.
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