Silver City Corn Show Brings Strong Entries Despite Rain
The Silver City Corn Show held December 5 and 6 drew solid interest and good attendance despite continuous rain. Ames College judge F D Steen opened Friday with corn judging, followed by domestic science awards and talks on town building and club work. Saturday featured hog cholera expert Dr. Rice from Ames, an exhibit auction by Col R M McKenzie, and musical preludes by local talent. Premium winners include Louis Miller and Guy Parker in corn classes, Basil Hunt on under 12s, E S Warren in single ear sweepstakes, and numerous domestic science prize takers led by Mrs. Fred Van Horn and Mrs. J G Flanagan.
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Military Company to Own Its Armory
An armory meeting last Monday evening agreed to create an armory company to fund a Glenwood Military unit. Citizens would advance funds and take stock. the company will guarantee seven percent interest on that stock until repayment. The military group pledges a thousand dollars from armory rental, five hundred from drill money, and ten dollars from annual camp pay per member to secure stock and eventual ownership.
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Iowa Tax Complaints Deepen Party Tension
Public sentiment grows hostile as tax hikes prompt criticism of state Republican administration. Voters face higher bills in spring primaries and November, with rail tax cuts cited for some and farm land values rising nearby. Capitol grounds extension fuels condemnation. Congressional races split along approval of officials. Democrats gain momentum with a President backed reform agenda.
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Seventy Three Drowned in Brazos River Flood and Other Reports
Seventy three persons were drowned by the Brazos river flood in Texas. Eye strain in schools is blamed for helping trigger criminal tendencies. Sebastiana Sortino faces trial at Omaha for killing her lover, invoking the unwritten law. A Canadian steam-tractor test shows a 32 horsepower unit plowing sixteen acres in a day. A note warns against tying a horse’s tail in cold rain. Hog cholera losses reach sixty million dollars in 1912. Fuel comparisons show flax-straw and coal results in different acreage costs. Hamburg citizen George C Noblitt dies after Minn. operation. Agriculture records show 1,048 Pure Food cases with fines totaling 26,462 and Live Stock quarantine fines of 10,275. A Georgia representative proposes higher rural carrier pay. The youngest grandmother in Mason City is 33. A white-snow squirrel is shot near Woodbine. A Hillsdale baby boy measures 3 feet tall at nine months. Tests claim pulse rate readings determine heart health. Crop estimates place corn at nearly 2.5 billion bu and wheat at 764 million bu, the latter a record. A Chicago Great Western switchman, Charles McGrew, is killed in Council Bluffs. Farm women' inquiries reach 55,000 with concerns on water, labor, and sanitation. Blueberry cultivation in Indiana shows promising profits. The Elliott Graphic brags of heavy ad display in its December 4 issue, asserting it beats exchanges in ads.
Berlin street-cleaning costs and economies compared
The Berlin street-cleaning department uses eighteen pottery-driven sprinkling and scrubbing machines at a daily operating cost of 4.41 dollars per unit and ten horse-drawn machines at 4.57 dollars each. Electric machines clean 55 496 square yards per day while horse-drawn machines cover 44 013. the electric set is about 30 percent more economical. Also notes thrift in Ackley families who butchered a horse for winter meat amid a broader anecdote on frugality.
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Real Estate Transfers In Glenwood And Silver City
Real estate transfers listed include Susan Anthony to C A Anthony for lots 8 and 9 in Wickham and Woodrow's subdivision of block 34 Glenwood. M J Tipton to N J Pratt for lot 9 block 20 Glenwood. W Swarts to Gertrude Lacock lot 5 Huffakers addition Silver City. Albert Feist to J A Baldozier lots 3 4 6 8 in section 6 Deer Creek township. W W Mickelwall to E F Rager for the SWG of section 29 Center township. Albert Marshall to L W Lambert lot and N half lot 7 block 21 Glenwood. Jane Caldwell to Ed Wright N half N Wig part of section 24 Glenwood township.
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Cienwood Township
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Subscribers push Tribune to the 14 class in Mille County
Carol Jackson and Gertha Anderson join the Tribune’s 14 class with remittances. George-Schade, Bada, Cade Rogers, Henry Banister, J M Eaton, Martin Saar, M D Maxwell, Thomas Colgan, J H Duvall and others update subscriptions from Silver City Stockham Western Henderson Henderson Centralia Moberly Platteville Council Bluffs Mille County. Farmers finish corn husking as Mille County news continues.
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