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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1901
Page
4
A collage of old ads touts Allen's Foot Ease for swollen feet and foot troubles, a salt water boil tip, laundry blues, and various cure claims. It also mentions a Tide of Newfoundland, a Nebraska college, and a ledger of office equipment spending, all in brisk promotional prose.
Chicago to New York fares listed with return prices and daily sale. Wabash offers through trains from Kansas City St Louis and Chicago plus various summer special rates. Notices refer to ticket offices and promotional items, with stray consumer lines and ad copy about products and money.
Travelers urged to beat the heat by rail trips to Colorado and Utah, via Missouri Pacific, Denver and Rio Grande, and Rio Grande Western routes. The piece extols cool mountain scenery, hunting and fishing, and the health benefits of a summer excursion far from sweltering plains. It closes with a New York Times tale about a husband presenting an artificial bouquet, mistaken for real flowers.
In Philadelphia several shops offer costumes for weddings and funerals at reasonable rates. Renting masquerade outfits and men s cre\n tug clothes is an old trade, akin to pawn brokering, but large scale rental of wedding and funeral attire is described as a new development.
A fragmented verse reflects on monarchies resisting change and war. It foresees storms, mutinies, and a coming period of conflict as nations prepare for action, vowing resilience and a future of freedom led by a defining world leader.
A dialogic rural moral crisis unfolds as two men debate violence over Tillie Adams. George Peterson and Will Garrison discuss who should shoot whom, weighing love, loyalty, and policy while debating a fatal plan amid frontier sentiment. The scene moves toward a grave, fatal choice framed by local bravado and looming consequences.
In Knott county the two wealthy young men Bill and George plan a staged duel to settle a love triangle with Tillie. A crowd gathers as they approach for a dramatic gun exchange during Rev Ball’s revival service, but the staged clash escalates amid laughter and local bravado.
In a crowded scene George argues with Bill while Lori screams for her baby as chaos erupts. A pistol fist, smashed windows, and crying women give way to a preacher delivering a solemn ceremony naming Thomas Benton Brammar and Matilda Jane Susan Ann Adams.
Prof. Hilprecht of the University of Pennsylvania reports the discovery of the Great Temple Library of Nippur, dating back 5,000 years. The site yielded 18,000 clay tablets inscribed in cuneiform, revealing ancient dictionaries architectural plans and temporal data that show early civilization comparable to modern times.
A Chicago Record-Herald piece recounts America's earliest Protestant church at Jamestown. Built from ship sails and logs, a 1611 log cabin followed under Governor Thomas Dale, and by 1638 a brick church 56 by 28 feet with an 18 by 18 feet tower stood. Fire damaged it in 1678 but it was restored and used until 1723 when the capital moved to Williamsburg.
Many Highlands churchyards are described as shockingly crowded and filthy. In North Harris authorities have halted burials in a small ground to prevent overrun. Moraig cemetery is said to be mounds of bodies, reflecting local customs and crowding in old parish graves. Newer cemeteries fall under government control to curb overcrowding.
The King of Hugland holds ten maces in the Tower of London, each of different degree, all to be used at the coronation. Lords guard their own maces and will not permit the Commons’ mace to enter their house. It accompanies the Commons to the door of their lords’ house and is always left outside.
By the will of the Baroness Na toaniel Rothschild the Paris Conservatoire has come into possession of a valuable collection of manuscripts from the works of Chopin and Auber.
Population figures show 23.6 percent or 166 198 residents in Duda Pesth are Israelites. The note references a medicinal claim about Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children, touting relief of inflammation and windcolic, with a sales figure of 2508 bottles. The statement ends with a proverb about the eye and mind.
A grocery notice urges customers to ask for Defiancts Starch a full 16 ounce package at ten cents. It claims rival 10 cent starches are only 12 ounces and promises satisfaction or money back. The ad also reminds buyers to include soap for dishwashing.
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