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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1907
Page
4
The Tribune lists a timetable showing Arrives at Malvern with early morning and evening departures. Times include 1.00am 4.30pm 11.20am 8.00pm 1.20am 9.00am 5.00pm and 8.00pm, reflecting a schedule for passenger trains.
Homeseekers and investors are urged to consider Colorado land with irrigation systems and strong annual returns, plus an August 6 excursion. Also advertised are an 80 acre farm near Glenwood Iowa with water, buildings, and fruit, listed at 100 dollars per acre if sold by September 16, 1907, and another 80 acre listing four miles from county seat with fertile land, water, and farm improvements priced at 100 dollars per acre.
The article recalls Benjamin Franklin’s insight that a single direct experiment could prove if clouds are electrified. It notes D Allard, Canton, and Wilson carrying out variants of the proposed setup in 1752–1782, and records Franklin’s kite method in Philadelphia. It also mentions Richman’s 1768 death from a cloud discharge and Franklin’s reaction to the perilous nature of the experiment.
In Louis XI era France, Abbot de Balgne used hogs as sentient instruments. He gathered pigs, arranged them in a decorated pavilion, and by pulling stops linked to spikes he coaxed harmonious squeals. The court heard a recognizable tune as the hogs cried in pitch and order.
Ring island Ninafoa lies between Fiji and Samoa as a volcanic ring enclosing a two mile wide crater lake. Outer walls of black lava fall to 200 to 300 feet cliffs. an 1886 eruption formed a peninsula on the lake’s eastern side while the surrounding sea roars with wind.
The passage urges immediate self discipline as life offers four moments when discoveries reveal decline. It urges slowing the pace, straightening posture, and reworking sleep, diet, exercise, work, and habits. It calls on every person to resist gradual decay through revision of daily routines.
An English judge noted that a parasol and a sunshade are not the same. A witness countered that a sunshade keeps off sun and a parasol keeps off dirt. The exchange hints at a broader truth about overthinking small matters and losing capacity for grand ideas, per La Roche.
The article traces meal times from old English and Norman customs through Tudor and Stuart periods, noting three daily meals, dining in the hall, and late breakfast emergence. Carving as an art, forks late introduction, and hand washing etiquette are described, with meals ending in desserts and pastry. It cites Pepys, Henry II to Elizabeth I, and references to pudding’s rise around the Commonwealth era.
The Achison Globe laments vanity in women and terseness in men, comparing appearances to innocence and noting how people resist walls in life. It reflects on parental care, old age, and the frugality of charging to a spouse versus a father.
Pacific Junction residents Mil a Moore leaves for Rising City Nebraska to visit friends. JW Watts and Walter Haynie return from Ashland where they aided with baying GG F Timmons for three weeks. Mr and Mrs JE Shepherd depart Cres ton for Buffalo Niagara Falls and Hamilton Ont. to be away several weeks. Jack Groom relocating family to Council Bluffs due to hail damage. Mrs Mary McCandless returns to Whiting from two week visit. sister Mrs DeBolt accompanies her. Two new telephone office workers begin training Blisses Thelen Creal and Louise Martin. Mrs Henry Walker in serious condition with inflammatory rheumatism. sister Mrs Arthur Wamaners from Pacific Junction helps care for her.
A sales note touts Ovine Laxative Fruit Syrup promising to cure constipation headache stomach trouble or indigestion with a positive guarantee. If it fails, manufacturers refund money. Also mentions Good pasture near Glenwood with ample water and references Doctors James and Frank Donelan and offices on the second floor of the Mershall building on the west side of the square.
Local notes report Greenwood and Son completing a coal shed, Miss Noonan displaying goods at Malvern fair, and visitors from Gem Kansas to Emerson. Reports cover trips by Postmaster Graham, Pohu Cheyney, and JL 13 Cheyney to Colorado, along with a Red Oak race attendance and several social visits. A Red Oak resident, Margaret Janyison, remarks on Emerson as a beautiful city, while Mr Reynolds shifts to Burlington service. Newlyweds Mary Callen and Harry Traper from Red Oak plan to reside in Red Oak, with Callen a local figure.
Hastings notes report Mrs Yed Martin visiting her old home in Monmouth while Mr and Mrs Sam Scott from Lincoln Nebraska visited friends. Dave Richie’s brother came for a week. David Sandiland and J I Martin bought one hundred head of cattle near Warhfield. The third baseball team beat Emerson 18 to 10. Mrs B W Shaw of Glenwood Institute attended to property and friends, while Mrs Underwood returned from Burlington Junction improved in health.
Miss Lizzie Hutchings returns from Randolph to help her brother Ora. Mrs John Barbour visits from Glenwood to assist Mrs James Greig, now recovering. Miss Mary Chapin becomes post office assistant, Lola Boney takes over as mutual telephone operator. Lions and late threshing with the Buz wheels begun by James and Bert Lockabill at Ray Granteer's. J B Wicks suffers bruises from a runaway near Nisha bridge but recovers. L Greenwall heads to the K P grand lodge at Cedar Rapids. plans to move to Indianola for Bert and Cora’s college. Hastings watchers regret the likely departure of the family for the fall.
Malvern items report J M Strahan selling 12 cattle on the Chicago market and Ed Summers threshing 55 acres of fall wheat at 35 bushels per acre. Residents visiting relatives include Frank Bridges of Le Grand Oregon and Miss Grace from New York City visiting Royce.
A teacher will join Tipton public schools in manual training after visiting her mother in Columbia Nebraska. Phillip Hamsch of Strahan sails from New York to Germany to visit relatives for months. Ed Chamberlain suffered multiple fractures from bicycle mishap and a hay mow fall. Dr Campbell treats the family with splints.
John Lau bought the Lehmann residence for 750 dollars while Henry Nipp improved his property with cement walks. Miss Alice Craver of Glenwood visited the Iam Mantan home last week. Theodore Kay has threshing outfits active in the area and Mrs Chas Cheyney and children of Glenwood visited her parents here. CF Roenfeldt contracted a new residence costing about 3000 dollars, to be built by Silver City contractors.
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