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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1913
Page
4
County Cribune Glenwood Tow a January 6 1943 display advertising rates listed: 5 inches plus composition ten cents per inch, readers one cent per word plus ten cents per insertion up to 60 words, larger readers 26a per inch plus 26c per insertion. Owners and publishers and printer named.
Auction notices list sales by Tom Lincoln at five miles NW of Pacific Junction including horses cattle farm implements and produce as he moves to Glenwood. John Valentine four miles north of Glenwood on the Council Bluffs road with live stock and goods as he closes out. Peter Nelson seven miles NW of Glenwood and Wall Hollow with live stock and produce as he leaves. George P Fox one half mile east of Dumfries with livestock and produce. Auctioneers are T G Byers and Nipp and McKenzie.
Mills County supervisors met in the Auditor’s Office with C E Lakin chairing and members Estes and Cheyney present. Bills allowed include county printing Emerson Chronicle Mills County Printing Malvern Leader and various express, mileage and office expenses. Also listed are road labor costs, jail coal, grand jury service, and conveyance expenses for Holden to Knoxville.
The Mills County Board records list contractors and labor for county road projects including Seaton Davis & Anderson and J Powers. It details repairs, bridge funds, poor relief, lumber purchases, and miscellaneous claims with adjustments, adjournments, hearings on highway alterations, and permission for Central Station Engineering Company to erect poles along public highways for up to twenty years.
Malvern residents recount a collision near Silver Creek when a fast oncoming car forced an SUV off the road. Mrs. Suits sprained her ankle while both drivers fled the scene. Local updates note neighbors visiting relatives, farm sales, and ongoing illness as community chatter fills out the week.
A golfer at Weston Super Mare hit a ball that struck a skylark in flight. The bird carried the ball to its nest in the next hole at London Glebe, where the unfortunate bird was killed.
An Abbe Genous of Plagnes, France, died within twenty minutes after a bee sting entered his mouth and throat while he walked near Annecy. The sting caused acute inflammation and severe throat swelling leading to death. The account preserves the historical, period voice and local details of the incident.
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