Glenwood Events See Pageant and Basketball Loss
Glenwood news notes a Red Cross pageant planned for Des Moines March 7 to 11, local high school teams losing at Shenandoah, a postponed sale, and community meetings with the Oaks Community Club. Also included are local visits, funeral notices, pornter on corn values, and a Lyceum outing with Lotis Williams as electrical entertainer.
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Red Cross
Des Moines
Tanlac
Humphrey & Howe
Maryland
Camp Fire Girls
Glenwood High
Shenandoah
Chiropractic Health Service Ad Promotes Subluxation Theory
An old health service ad touts chiropractic care claiming vertebrae misalignment disrupts nerve flow and causes illness. It promotes free consultation, house calls, and asserts adjustments enhance health and fight influenza and related ailments.
Classified Advertising Listings From Glenwood Area
A collage of local buy sell and service notices including for rent land sale farms livestock mules horses shoats and a missing car chain. Advertisers include AW Glenwood IA John Hopp C R Wyaffington Mrs Carl Lincoln Will Dalton Fred Thieschafer and Louis Hurst with various contact details and prices.
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Young
C. R. Wyaffington
Glenwood
Nursery stock and seeds offered by W F Hill Glenwood
W F Hill of Glenwood advertises nursery stock including Stark Bros fruits seeds and garden chicks with varieties Delicious and Golden Delicious and premier grapes. Order now to ensure spring delivery.
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Stark Bros
W. F. Hill
Glenwood
Local events and notices in Glenwood district
A March calendar lists a school election with three directors to be chosen. March 2 and 8 feature a big basketball tournament at the Armory, and an old time dance will be held under the Glenwood Fire boys. Community notices include church societies meetings, visits, license to marry Jerry Reeve and Maurilia Hurt, goat herd updates, farm leases, flu cases, and social visits among local families throughout Glenwood and nearby towns.
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Armory
Iowa
Glenwood
Glenwood Fire Boys
Jerry
Francis Reeve
Omaha
Maurilia Hurt
Sioux City
Nehemiah spirit and thrift drive cost of living
A reflective piece compares Nehemiah’s wall rebuilding to modern effort, arguing that a “mind to work” and thrift curb costs. It laments extravagant tastes and overclass fads, urging honest labor and frugal choices as remedies, contrasting excess with practical living.
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Civil Service Commission
Aircraft Commission
Jersalem
Nehemiah
Myer
Tanlac praised as remedy for widespread woes
The quotation laments excess in spending, consumption, and shortcuts to wealth while praising Tanlac as a beneficial remedy. It critiques low producer savings, oil stock surplus, and public discontent, urging old-fashioned honest labor and practical effort to improve conditions. Humphrey & Howe.
Delay That Saved Edinburgh Castle in Thackeray Tale
The article recounts Thackeray’s note on a two hour delay in 1775 when a party headed for Edinburgh Castle stopped at a tavern to toast the king, potentially altering history. Lord Mahon’s history cites a landlady’s quip about eighteen Jacobites lingering to powder their hair before the castle’s fall.
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Thackeray
Edinburgh
James
Lord Mahon
Edinburgh Castle
Marlborough
Mags
St. Paul's
Tennis in Olden Times Describes Early Forms
The article traces tennis origins in England from the fourteenth century with chalked walls and faults, notes palm tennis from France, and mentions crude early play under Howard IV and Henry VII. It recalls Queen Elizabeth and an Earl's game ending with a queen’s handkerchief and a royal racket incident.
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England
France
Howard IV
Henry VII
Hilnabeth
Earl of Hertford
Ervack
Talking Through Your Hat Phonograph Hearing Tips
A humorous experiment suggests hearing a phonograph with ears blocked. Sharpen a wood point and touch the record with the needle to hear clearly. If a needle breaks, insert a hat needle through a felt hat crown to reproduce sound in a large room.
Finding South With a Clock Face Method
A simple method to locate south using a watch and the sun. Point the hour hand toward the sun, then bisect the angle between the hour hand and 12 o clock. The line halfway between points to due south, a tip for travelers and explorers.
Davis Home Hosts Pleasant Evening At Five Friends
Mr. and Mrs. Earle A. Davis welcomed ten guests to a Friday gathering at their home. Miss Isabel Penhtony, sister of the hostess, left for Manchester the following day. Music and cards prevailed with both genders represented. Late refreshments included gal ad and whipped cream, two kinds of sandwiches, olives, cake and coffee.
Women’s Club to Arrange Tournament Entertainment
Work to secure judging and breakfast entertainment for the basketball players is assigned to the Woman’s Club. They seek volunteers to entertain on Wednesday Thursday and Friday nights at the high school. Interested persons should call Miss Nell Bogart or Miss Barnett to help arrange events. Up to 100 placements are needed.
Bankruptcy Notice of First Meeting of Creditors
In the District Court of the United States for the Southern District a bankruptcy notice announces the first meeting of creditors. The document outlines the debtor's filing, case details, and scheduled date, time, and location for creditors to attend and ask questions.
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the District Court of the United States
William J Lawshe Declared Bankrupt in 1922 Filing
In Hastings Iowa Mills county and District. Notice is given that on February 23 1922 William J Lawshe was adjudicated bankrupt. First meeting of creditors will be held in Council Bluffs Iowa March 10 1992 at 2 oclock p m. Creditors may attend prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and transact other business. Fremont Benjamin Referee in Bankruptcy.
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William Lawshe
Hastings
Iowa
Mills and District
William J. Lawshe
Council Bluffs
Fremont Benjamin
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Lamremyrnegatren
Antelm
Traney, Boles and Andrews
The
Oaks Community Club
Center Farm Bureau
Glenwood Chamber of Commerce
A. (. Murphy
Pearl
Sidney
W. K. Proctor
W. G. Bishop
Wesleyan University
University Place
Neb
F. E. L. Hester
Bishop
Nebraska Schoolmates Club
Br Estes
Osteopath
Osteopathy
Mills County National Bank
Malvern
Pacific Junction
Emerson
Tabor
Ames
Silver City
Balfour
Imogene
Staite
Burbank
Orc
Rex Theatre
Towa
Armenia
Tiflis
Methodist
Lotis Williams
L. S. Robinson
Garner Jeweler
Chiropractic Health Service
E. L. Michaelson
Lyon & Lyon
Glenwood, la
John Hopp
iGlenwood
C. Christenson
Bhone
Iischel White
Carl Lincoln
Puacitie
Olney
Grenwood
Louis Hurst
Farrow
Isale
Unbroke
Will Dalton
Ila
Enwood
Tribune
John Jens
Times
Fred Thieschafer
T Humphrey & Howe
Bernadine Huhn
Creston
D. FL Retber
Grover Mayberry
Andy Shanion
Don Lewis
Dr. Hester
Lyons Township
Don
Larence Carter
Vermitton, S. D
James Carter
Norman Harald
Loguna
Dick Samilton
Louis Kruse
Mineola
Pythian Sisters
Leonard Diamond
Linco
S. P. Stranathan
Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Chnch
George Mintle
Isabel Wolfe
Betty Eacrett
Bert Crewdson
Matt Bruce
Charles Griffis
Matt
Bruce
Clifford Williams
Mother Williams
Dumfrieg
Auditor’s
Cromwell
August Hoffman
Oak Township
Art Maxwell
Choate Farm
Mr. Maxwell
L. F. Potter
Harlan
C. E. Dean
Merchants Market Association
William B. Lawshe
National School of Cosmeticians Dept
Tower Court
Chicago, Ill
Terry Optical Co
Broadway
VanOrsdel Farm
Tlusdale
Antrim, Haney
Boles and Andrews
L. A. Deavenport
Donnelly
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