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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1901
Page
5
A plea to women with heavy daily toil to seek Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief. Mrs Annie Belleville of Ludington, Michigan, credits the medicine with stopping painful menstruation and restoring energy to perform housework for eight.
A jumble of medical claims and household ads tout remedies and tonics. Products like Vako Urative Bron Quinine Tablets, Defiance starch, and Putnam dyes headline a page filled with tips and quotes, urging cures, purchases, and household goods while interspersing maxims and marketing overtones.
The text notes January 25 as the start date for Galinger’s son Brother Leo in the Order of the Atonement at Graymore Monastery near Garrigan-on-Hudson. After two years he will be ordained a priest and become a missionary. The piece also references various unrelated items and ads from the era.
The article explains blowing a glass sphere about one meter in diameter to form blanks for watch components. Material is removed for thickness, discs are cut with diamond-tipped compasses, and skilled workers can cut up to 6,000 glass discs in a day.
Yale authorities will not proceed against a whisky establishment using the Yale seal unwarrantedly. The stance mirrors the Boston Herald comparison of a man who would not object to a street confrontation by an actress but objects to being used as advertising for her show.
Helen Dauvray, former actress and ex wife of John Montgomery Ward, plans a return to the stage after domestic life with Lieutenant A G Wittenhalten of the United States Navy following a divorce from the ball tosser. She longs for applause and a full play of the lights.
A Lake Geneva graduate nurse Miss Lillian Dreese of Peshtigo speaks on her twelve years as a trained nurse and endorses Dodd's Kidney Pills for diabetes and kidney trouble. She credits improved health and endurance after using the pills, a view shared by clergy and lawmakers, with widespread physician support and patient cures.
Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston paid 1110 for two seats to a symphony concert last week. Regular seats cost 12, but preferred chairs sold out, forcing her to buy from the purchaser. A separate ad notes a $148 upright piano on easy payments with Schmoller Mueller at 1215 Farnam Street, Omaha.
South Omaha and Kansas City report a lively cattle sale with steady to firm prices. Cattle demand favors good beef steers and heavy cattle, hogs move higher early then slow, end mixed with Friday closings. Sheep demand softens, with bids trending down from yesterday while Illinois and Western markets show mixed gains.
James Summers, sheriff of Madison County, was shot and killed at a cabin in Morgan Gulch about twelve miles south of Ennis while en route to serve a search warrant on John Woolf. Woolf, aged 18, fled after the ambush, which occurred this afternoon. Detective note: Virginia City dispatch.
In Enterprise Abilene Kansas on January 26 Mrs Nation's assailants were tried and found guilty with a one dollar fine each. Joints reopened and did big business. Eight jointists face injunctions to close their establishments, with building owners named in the suits. The County Temperance union launches a county wide crusade to shut all joints.
In Atlanta on January 25 J T Patterson asks police to locate his 13 year old son Alonzo who disappeared from home last Tuesday amid fears of kidnapping. Meanwhile the Fraser family of Georgia Tech mourning as the missing student’s brother travels from Alabama with no hope for recovery of $500 in gold paid to a Negro promising to return Fraser to his kin.
BIOAX CITY Iowa Jan 26 Candy makers from six states including Iowa Missouri Kansas Nebraska and South Dakota have agreed not to introduce a chocolate drop manufacturing machine that could replace forty workers. The pact preserves hand production for more than 10 000 girls employed across numerous cities.
Reports say George Durbrow of Standard Salt, with a force, has squatted on government saline lands near Salton in the Mojave Desert awaiting a signed mineral lands bill. The Liverpool Salt Company is said to derive its supplies there. Trouble is expected.
Washington Jan 25 Representative Sherman of New York introduced a resolution referred to the naval committee proposing a select committee of five members of the house to investigate hazing at the naval academy at Annapolis.
In New York the Chemists' club of the New York section of the Society of the Chemical Industry discussed the Manchester panic and arsenical poisonings traced to beer. Dr. B. Hentke of Milwaukee presented a paper on the presence of arsenic in beer, read by secretary Dr. H. Sewelt-Zor.
Public school principals praise Union Pacific publications as educational tools and advertising. Descriptions include Overland Route maps, Our New Colonies on Hawaiian islands, and Wyoming fossils attracting readers and lectures. The effort links railway progress with irrigation, history, and regional development, shaping school curricula and public knowledge.
The Union Pacific Passenger Department received a letter from Superintendent Pearse praising Omaha public schools for their Paris exhibit. The schools earned a gold medal for geography teaching, aided by Union Pacific maps and publications. Pearse thanks the railroad for support and highlights travel notes about the Overland Limited trip from Missouri River to California.
The Monadnock's monitors have suffered illness among captains during two years at Manila. Poor ventilation and close water proximity prompted a new order limiting officer assignments to six months per monitor. A woman comments that quaffering brings no pleasure if done in gly ce.
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