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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1909
Page
1
Glenwood reports a flood of small items from loans to hometow n visits. Local business moves include Jargais, Bower Bros, and Red Cross Drug Co. Trusses. Several residents travel to Omaha Kansas City and Des Moines for work and asuntos. Sprit of community shown through arrivals, illness notes, and property transfers.
The National Association of Suggestive Therapeutics held a convention in Nevada Missouri drawing about 400 delegates from across the country. W H Cowgill of Holdrege Nebraska was elected president, with N W Weltmer as secretary and School of Healing activities in Nevada. Distinguished speakers included Elbert Hubbard and R F Outcault, while the group vows to shield members from unfair laws and defend their practice.
Mr and Mrs John Myers visit from Logan to see her parents Mr and Mrs George Stille. The James family reports not worrying about smallpox. Rev Goodrich sick with grip. Grandma Ostrander near death. Rev and Mrs Ferdinand Seitz visiting relatives. Jamison's holiday goods given away to customers in January. Farm for sale north of Glenwood 180 acres, 100 arable, 32 by 40 barn, $75 per acre. Wanted mules and horses. Farm of the late John E Scott to be sold to close estate. D. G. Jamison & Co. promoting January free goods from their catalog.
Mrs J S Chamberlain of Glenwood received word Wednesday of the death of her aunt Mrs B B Horner of Boise City Idaho. Mrs Horner passed through Glenwood on No 4 the day before with Mrs Chamberlain and was taken ill on arrival at Akron Colo. Heart failure caused her death shortly after. Mrs Horner traveled with her two young daughters en route to Boise from Leon where they had visited.
Wall Street style report notes public health cautions with no church gatherings until small pox fears subside. Two new cases reported this week, including the Gearhart and Swith families. Creston visitor Mary Daker returns home. Red Oak couple Chipps back from two week family visit. Donners supply wood for Sherman Jones. Fred Fisher’s sale goes well. Axtel buys corn at 53 cents per bushel near Malvern.
Mrs B F Pierce and children return from a three week visit with her mother Mrs W M Travis at Mound City Missouri. Mr Pierce accompanied her both ways. Mr and Mrs G W Haynie visited Glenwood Monday. Mr and Mrs B R H Wilson shopped in Glenwood Monday. Rey AH Briggs is busy putting up ice. Morgan Alexander is moving this week. BREH Wilson reports the loss of one valuable colt last week.
Glenwood churches announce morning and evening services with Epworth League and Bible topics led by Nell Bogart and Rev L S Brainerd. Baptist and Congregational notices include sermons on children’s conversion and a missing boy reward. Also two South Dakota land bargains described near Huron and Sheffield with detailed farm features and prices. W F Hill at Tribune office in Glenwood provides further information.
Des Moines, Iowa January 1. A petition filed in district court alleges that Capital Insurance Company executives deceived buyers by padding the 1905 annual report by ten thousand dollars and declaring a five thousand dollar dividend in January 1906 when not legally warranted. W. D. Burk J. S. Dowell and E. E. Campbell seek an accounting after purchasing half the stock for fifty one thousand thirty dollars and paying all but thirteen thousand due today, with a temporary restraining order blocking contract nullification. They claim a white elephant purchase and demand a reckoning before further payments.
The document presents a transit schedule fragment with times such as 9 0 am and 4 80 pm and 3 120 am and 80 p. specific routes or destinations are unclear due to garbled OCR. No clear events or entities beyond locations Caitlver and Tanwoo appear.
Public sales set for Tuesday January 19 at J H Dwyer’s farm northeast of Glenwood. Seven horses thirteen cattle tools bees and household goods. Thursday January 28 at J F and C H Spelman’s farm south of Council Bluffs and northwest of Glenwood. Ten o’clock starts with twelve horses fifteen cattle ten cows twenty five shoats eight dozen chickens seven hundred bushels corn three hundred busheats oats implements and goods. Byers Bros Auctioneers.
Closing out poultry stock to breed Single Comb White Leghorns. Two dozen Brown Leghorns available at a good price for enthusiasts. Located at Pacific Junction, Iowa.
Post Master R C White lists letters for H G Davis Bertha Smith and James Stodgill. Jamisons to give away thousands of holiday goods worth up to 76 cents to customers during January. They aim to clear inventory with no leftovers by February 1.
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