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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1905
Page
2
A Tenderson report notes farmers seek cheaper lands in Colorado and Canada. Six travelers returned Friday with purchases: Wilbur M. Houser paid 4400 for 240 acres, Jd McChesney 3250 for 160 acres, and Guy Boileau bought 180 acres for 100. Others included UW G. Hockenbury Z A Wouser and Herb Buck led by J. W. Triplett. The piece also covers postal, telegraph, schooling, local incidents, and a child’s death.
Glenwood Masonic lodge installed officers for January 1906 including Alfred Davis master and T Winn senior warden. Treas Win Gamia and Secretary Audi Howe named. several deacons and stewards listed. Nearby lodges elect officers for 1906 with grand officers named for K Pythias Woodmen and Odd Fellows chapters, including J P Achenbach and FM Criswell in their respective roles.
Miss Lillian Lookabill remains hospitalized at her father's Hastings home after a serious typhoid fever attack. Other notes report DM Chiver returning from Clark Missouri to Mills County to farm on George Shaw's land south of Hastings next year. Also mentioned are visits and health updates for several locals, with scattered garbled lines reflecting a period column.
Miss Hicks is described as a progressive teacher who makes the school room a pleasure as well as a place of instruction, aiming to delight and engage her pupils.
A prominent burglary gang described as aristocrats operating in Moscow has been arrested. Thirteen men and women are in custody, with a town house and country residence cited, along with luxury furnishings, telephones, and electric lights. Their May venture reportedly yielded over 4100,000 in securities, gold, and diamonds. The group wore fine fashion and traveled with purebred horses and carriages. one member was detained while sending a telegram to an Odessa contact.
The piece parodies modern finance and society with a tale of a clever street theft and a boastful financier. It mixes light satire about a glove maker and a matinee idol with a note on Roentgen ray experiments in Berlin, highlighting curious urban curios.
Editor Marvin of the Shenandoah Post Sentinel warns of widespread cheating of postal rates during Christmas. He notes third class items pay one cent per two ounces, fourth class one cent per ounce, and first class requires two cents per inch if a letter is enclosed. Mailers often hide writing inside packages to evade postage, with Omaha clerks saving the government about 700 dollars monthly by inspecting sealed items.
B Moore of St Charles Missouri recalls an encounter with a teen who sought book recommendations for a young man’s library. He noted the visitor carried J. D. Rockefeller’s card and expressed hope the work would leave a social impression wherever it goes.
A milkman ponders joining the army when spoken to by an enlisting sergeant and asks playful questions about pay. Kansas chatter notes prairie chickens, an engineer’s dangerous rising tempo near Ellis, and a humor piece about Victor Lugo and Victor Hugo with a wry library anecdote.
Foot Ball as it is played recounts Malvern Iowans first game on Thanksgiving day. Malvern defeated Cornell Bluffs 5 to 0 amid chaotic field antics with players in masks, whistles, war dances, and noisy cheering as spectators bet and shouted bully boy Boll.
The Glenwood band gave a Wednesday night concert in Plattsmouth for St. John's Catholic church. The Plattsmouth Journal praised the Iowa State Band for an excellent program and near flawless playing. The duet by C L Winn and C M Van Zandt drew an encore, A B Stevenson’s cornet Rosary was artistically rendered, and E W Schulhof was commended as leader. Mrs Lillian Caldwell impressed audiences with her charming performance and earned an encore.
For sale or trade a six room house and lot in Glenwood with barn coal shed brick cave cistern city water fruit trees and other features. Inquire at Tribune office.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Malvara and Tabor with times 443 pm 11 ean 6 py 1140 wm and 40pm potential event clues. No clear event, date, or outcome identifiable. Unable to determine concrete entities beyond place names.
A rural oculist warns spectacles can worsen eye trouble if misused by reading in moving or distant settings and advises low nose placement. Moody, in Moody’s Wit, supposedly visits an eastern town to preach, and a minister contends with audience habits before Moody declares a twofold sermon to sinners and saints. A peddler's humorous sales pitch to a stern matron ends with her declaring a purchase for a friend.
The Salvation Army waste paper operation in London collects paper and rubbish daily by horse van and workers with bags and handtrucks. At its settlement unskilled workers sort the material into 52 classes. Last year the army gathered 7085 tons and earned just over 50000 dollars.
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