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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1906
Page
1
Local events fill Glenwood with box socials and dances while residents travel to Omaha and Des Moines for visits, meetings, and shopping. The town sees auctions, clerks returning to work, new property moves, school gatherings, church sales, and a broad mix of personal notices and preparations for holidays.
Captain Lewis Ijams told 1000 stories over 302 weeks to Abram Brokaw, the famous Illinois pioneer. The Blooming ton court compensated him about 5 per story for recounting tales about early Illinois agriculture and Lincoln era figures. A standout highway tale involved Jacob Spawr and a jury oath delivered with a box and a warder inside. Also recounted were wolf hunting yarns, and Lincoln and Douglas dueling bravado, with Shields and Todd episodes that led to a famous duel scare that ended in friendship.
Frank Pullman defends Silver City merchants against Mulholland. He suggests Mulholland may interfere with catalogue houses but cannot woo Silver City customers, noting Mulholland offers rail fare to Malvern buyers for purchases of 810. The letter argues Silver City customers are wary and won’t be swayed.
Combination sale conducted by A EH Dean SM Lee and I E Dashner on Wednesday December 19 at the Dean farm ten miles south of Glenwood. 6 horses and 40 cattle including 18 cows and a registered Shorthorn, 1 head of hogs including 45 Durham Jersey spring pigs, a dozen chickens, 50 tons alfalfa hay, farm machinery and miscellaneous items will be sold.
Friday and Saturday December 14 and 15 a sale at Miss Struble's millinery shop featuring dollies centerpieces pillow tops silk embroidery mont mellick work and all kinds of shopping pullers Pearl Miller supervises the display and sale.
Money to Loan to Farm up City property. Bred Lewson, Glenwood, Town. Best results can bic hud out of Mal verg Nour vy usius only half ao wake of yeast for every U lugres of bread.
Travel Magazine notes remote eastern Kentucky communities still observe Jan 6 as old Christmas. Ancestors from England settled mid 18th century, preserving calendar and customs. They have been isolated for 130 years with limited outside contact and have learned little of modern changes.
One of the oldest and safest remedies is Brandreth's Pills a blood purifier and laxative. Purely vegetable they suit old or young with safety and maintain consistent effect with a constant dose. One or two pills nightly help constipation indigestion dispersia and impurities of the blood. In use for over a century and sold in drug stores plain or sugar coated.
Well improved 920 acre ranch two miles from Dustin Nebraska. Fenced and cross fenced with creek through the center four springs and rich soil including 150 acres of wild timber and wild fruit. 128 acres cultivated with 128 more arable. 150 tons hay and pasture. Priced at 16 dollars per acre with easy terms. Barrett Bros Dustin.
Notice to customers says Pulay a Honey and Tar is safe and non narcotic though misprinted. The District Court in Mills County Iowa shows a divorce petition filed by Vandra C. Davis against Lloyd D. Davis on desertion grounds. If defendant fails to appear by January term starting January 16 1997 in Glenwood, default will be entered. Genong & Genong attorneys for plaintiff.
In Mills County district court a petition seeks a divorce from Angeline Atumbaugh on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. The matter is set for the January term at Glenwood, beginning January 6, 1907, with default possible if she fails to appear. Dated November 6, 1900, by Genong & Genong.
There is widespread catarrh described as a constitutional disease needing constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo is advertised as the only constitutional cure, taken internally with claims of blood and mucous impact and a $100 reward for any failure. Also promoted are Hall's Family Pills for constipation and Foley's Kidney Cure with user testimonials from James Donihue and A. J. Mowe, plus a Glenwood laxative syrup.
The piece decries mercerized cotton jargon in men’s clothing. It warns of outfits labeled as mercerized but containing mostly cotton with a wool veneer that wears off quickly. It endorses all wool Hart Schaffner & Marx suits as trustworthy and promoted for sale.
Train schedules show RN Tabor and Nowktay arriving in Malvern with arrivals at 445 pm and 639 pm and departures at 380 pm and 860 am, listing times and stations in compact timetable form
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