06 Dec 1920
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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1920
Page
1
Local notes from Glenwood include social visits, family events, and upcoming repairs. Items mention Bond bids for mail box posts, theater listings for Rex Theatre, births, visitors from Omaha and Des Moines, and roof paint promotions by Fackler. The column also notes church moves, travel plans, and a humor about political views.
Misses Bord and Nash from Omaha visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter Breen while Dr. F M McCluskey returned from Des Moines after Masonry instruction. Council Bluffs editor Leavitt and Mrs Leavitt joined Glenwood trends guests. Emma Mincks and son Forrest Prine of Seattle visit Glenwood, planning a Iowa tour. Attorney C E Dean is ill at home. Hon Ty Bridges of Omaha consults with Dr Plimpton, no change in condition. D G Jamison learns daughter Margaret to join San Diego High School senior play. Cora A Wheeler sends merry Christmas and New Year greetings from Denver, praising winter sun and Southwest weather. Iowa and Iowa people keep up.
Dr. Herbert Shipman, famed orator and pastor, read a caustic poem to his congregation denouncing profiteers and the exploitation of war victims, accusing merchants of bleeding soldiers’ kin. The article also notes a separate Iowa City hospital theft investigation involving a radium atom valued at $3,000 and a large search with an old electro scope.
A Ladies' Home Journal recounts the sensation when forks entered dining rooms in France during a 1674 dinner hosted by Meury III. Guests avoided fingers, using forks for meat and salads, and even artichokes and beans, then washed hands after the meal despite touching food only with the forks.
In a central Oregon branch line station early one morning a narrator scolds a traveling companion for a ramshackle Mack bag. A womanNearby interrupts, revealing the bag belongs to her. The moment blends humor with social tension as a travel delay exposes vanity.
In Batatan near Sao Paulo a vast 600 acre snake garden serves as a research nursery. Scientists study snake biology to obtain serum for Brazil's bite cases. The facility is split into three departments for cobras crotalids bathrops and nonpoisonous snakes.
A garbled listing of for sale notices and notices from Glenwood area merchants and residents. Items include a fresh cow, dry wood, two frame buildings, tires, barred rock cockerels, fall sheep, fat hens, potatoes, junk and second hand furniture, a seven room house, and various contact names and phone codes largely garbled or incomplete.
Ruandre of Millbank shipped two wood ducks to H. Willard Son & Co. in Marshalltown. Warden Beckwith intercepted the shipment and Roantree was arrested to be tried at the next federal term in Cedar Rapids. No open season on wood duck.
A trucking note describes a 144 ton Kissel Wick vehicle ready to haul live stock anywhere. It features floor space for 15 to 20 hogs, indicating capability for livestock transport. The item lists Stout, Rhone 303W, Glenwood as potential contacts or locations.
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