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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1906
Page
2
Government to conduct extensive dry farming experiments across the semiarid region. Professor E. C. Chilcott will lead studies from Canada to Texas, testing crop rotation, soil physics, and crop adaptation to plains climates to boost yields of corn, oats, barley, and wheat.
Professor Chilcott leads a three year crop rotation experiment across western plains to test best sequences for corn, wheat, oats, and barley. The study compares soil preparation methods and cross checks results from multiple crops each year with seeds supplied by M A Carleton. Cooperation extends to farmers and agricultural colleges in the region.
N O Nelson, a St Louis millionaire, offers to fund sending all children under fourteen back to school. He would pay half their lost wages while women clubs provide the other half, with December meetings deciding. He already aids seven cases by giving each about $4 weekly for leaving factory work.
Local Glenwood notices list money to loan on farm or city property for Fred Lawson, a second-hand gasolene engine from L. E. Geil, painter and paper hanger estimates by D. A. Adams with work guaranteed, a four-hole Marseilles corn shelter by Davis and Anderson, and Look Out for Santa Claus warnings. Union Fruit Farm advertises Christmas trees, L. A. Williams and L. A. Reasoner promote oil and gasoline delivery, plus unclaimed letters in the Glenwood post office from November 18, 1908. Also medical ads: Foley’s Honey and Tar for coughs, PAZO OINTMENT for piles with money-back guarantee.
The advertisement touts Hyomei a healing and germ killing treatment for catarrh claiming it reaches all respiratory parts via a pocket inhaler. It lists symptoms such as offensive breath throat pain cough and sneezing and offers a $1 outfit with 50 cent refills under a money back guarantee from A. J. Howe.
In Mills County Iowa district court petition of Richard Yada seeks to quiet and confirm title to the Southwest quarter of the Southeast quarter section 30 township 71 range 41. The case claims an omission in prior partition and names multiple defendants and unknown claimants. Defendants warned to appear by January term 1907. otherwise default and judgment.
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