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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1921
Page
4
Hill Arlea and Davis are listed as owners and publishers with J R Graham serving as editor in this newspaper masthead style notice. The item identifies key personnel and their roles within the publication.
Doc Newton, once shunned by the railroad, proves his nerve in a dramatic late shift. He stops the Night Express by blocking tracks at Clay City, earning a thousand-dollar bonus and a future as a division inspector at $2,500 a year. Ruth, his fiancée, cheers his rise.
Fragmentary line shows an individual urged by a judge to take work for herself, describing resistance to labor and social expectations. The wording hints at a legal or moral pressure about self-reliance and employment.
Jujiro Wada, a lone wilderness traveler, has spent 30 years pioneering near the Klondike and Mackenzie. Employed by Vancouver capitalists and a New York syndicate, he works toward Arctic riches at Herschel Island, braving 00 degrees below and returning with samples if treasure is found.
In Cremona Italy solicitor Gandolfi a poet and meddler became a spoof candidate when his name was added to government lists by a jokers party. He canvassed villages but received only his own vote as election day showed. A communist candidate named Lodolini was seized and forced to stay in seclusion during the polls under threats tied to the Third Internationale.
A Kansas City Star report quotes a Quarks resident noting Uncle Dunk appears to age and seems frail. He visited the county seat with his father, arriving around nine in the morning, chatting with locals yet recognizing no one and having little business there.
The peanut offers a milk substitute nearly identical to cow's milk. It curdles, yields buttermilk when churned, and can form cheese. Developed at an American university lab, peanut kernels are converted into four products with fat content from to percent and protein between 24 and 33 percent. Production costs are said to be much lower than dairy milk.
In St Louis area the Boy Scouts reduced bird housing problems by a contest won with 2,808 sturdy bird houses. The winning troop formed a bird treause, with executive praise and plans for distribution to parks and reserves amid proposed community improvements.
In a 1921 tale from a Western Union newspaper page a Boston Transcript inspired plot follows Earle Barton who buys a Tibetan prayer mill, seeks Velda Tresham, and loses a love but finds a fortune and a chance at marriage after a tangled chase involving Ward Tolman and Velda Morse. The mystery centers on a rich family seeking the mill and a final confession to Velda at the Tresham home.
Farmers face low corn prices at under forty cents a bushel as buyers at the local elevator offer. The article notes abundant old and 1919 crop, reduced demand, and worries over husking costs and wages, with ideas of production curtailment and cost-price concerns for the farming year. It discusses prior high prices and the impracticality of cutting production to boost value.
The speaker notes that farmers must plan for weather and pests, since outcomes are unpredictable. A crop like corn requires a year of work and cannot be halted or instantly replaced, unlike manufactured goods. Reducing production risks hunger for farm families who depend on yearly yields.
A local advertisement extols Doan's Kidney Pills for age related infirmities. Mrs. Nancy Parr of Locust St Glenwood reports relief from disordered kidneys backache and dizziness after using the remedy. Price 60 cents at Crescent Pharmacy and other dealers. Doan's Kidney Pills FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY.
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