Glenwood News Roundup Teems With Local Happenings
Various Glenwood items note rain delays and events including court sessions set for July 6, two county conventions, and Glenwood Chautauqua upcoming in two weeks. Mentions new Adams Express truck, Scout camp, balloon race plans, local theatre shows, and visits from Mildred Lewis of Omaha and Elmer Buddington of Red Oak. Also reports improved Vine street bridge approach, nurse Randolph starting duties, and community donations to the Christian Orphanage.
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Glenwood
Simple spinal adjustments restore nerve power, claim
Advertises spinal adjustments to relieve nerve pressure and restore strength, claiming drugs baths rest cures and exercise fail until spinal openings are cleared. Promises free consultation with no obligation and urges readers to call today.
Advertising notices and classifieds mix in Plattsmouth paper
Readers search for farm and wood items plus vehicles and services. Listings include corn fodder, a snapped corn note, a nearly new farm wagon, an Indian motorcycle, a second hand auto truck, and a general want ad for farm work. Contacts include Rex Theatre, John Richardson, C L Brill, Walter Stroud, and A A Walling with locations Glenwood Emerson Walling IA.
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Walter Stroud
Glenwood
Lost items and rewards advertised for Tribune office
Lost notices seek rewards for items and a watch with monogram RR and initials MCR. A complete set of Indian motorcycle tools and a junk and second hand furniture buyer asks to leave at the Tribune office for a reward. Locations mentioned include Glenwood Ta How Henwood Square and Glen Wool, Trowi Louis Iturst.
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Glenwool
Trowi
Louis Iturst
Etween
Glenwood
Pinder
Tribune Office
Henwood Square
Lady's
Welcome Message for Commercial Hotel Dining
A historic notice invites visitors to stop at the Commercial Hotel for meals. It promotes good meals and lists daily service hours from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for dinner and 6 to 8 p.m. for supper, with a price given as five cents in the old-fashioned rate.
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Commercial Hotel
Trucking Request For Auto and Live Stock Hauling Prices
A Glenwood caller requests price quotes for auto trucking and live stock hauling. The message notes contact as Win, 1 Stont, phone gosW, seeking shipping options and rates.
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Stont
Phone
Gosw
Glenwood
Livestock Hauling Offer From Nebraska Operator
Stive secures a new 144 ton truck and offers hauling of live stock and various goods. Priers right Aubry area near Glenwood on 640 acres improved farm land near two towns and the Burlington railway. Asking price of 15 dollars per acre. For details write CCJ Canan at 317 Railway Exch Bldg Omaha Neb.
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Stive
Priers
Austin Aubry
Glenwood
Nebraska
Burlington Railway
J. Canan
Omaha
Neb
Would You Forgive Drama At The Barber Shop
A fragmentary notice lists a noon Monday close for a barbershop on a July date with a staged drama titled Would You forgive Rex Friday only. It also mentions miscellaneous items including Mutt & Jeff and News, and a note about clerks issuing twenty two marriage licenses in June 1920.
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C. MM. Maxwell
Rex
Mutt
Jeff
Ladies Welcomed at Auction Sale of Furniture
William Slezak announces a Saturday July 3 auction offering first class furniture items. The sale encourages ladies to attend and shop at their own pace in what he calls a splendid chance to buy quality pieces.
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William Slezak
Mob Thought on Mobs and Despotism in Power
Henry Watterson in Marie Henry notes that crowds err collectively far more than individuals and warns against trusting the so called people. He argues despotism often seems wise but is actually selfish and tyrannical, requiring revolution to reform.
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Paris
Henry Watterson
Marie Henry
Forgery a Capital Offense in 1652 England
The 1652 act in Elizabethan England declared forgery a capital offense with double costs and damages, public punishment in a market, severing of limbs, and branding. By 1700 many similar offenses were removed from the legal list, though the monstrous law reflected the harsh era's penalties.
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Elizabeth
Edward FA
Asmith
Heney
Chpitel
Street numbering versus named avenues noted abroad
The piece criticizes street naming by numbers and letters as a familiar American practice, calling it unimaginative. It cites foreign examples such as Paris Rue du 29 Juillet and Rue du Septembre, and mentions Buenos Aires with Parque 3 du Febrero and 25th of May street to illustrate that other nations use picturesque dates for streets.
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United States
Paris
South America
Buenos Aires
Nearly Drowned At Glenwood Lake Rescue Ends in Recovery
A Tabor youth nearly drowned at Glenwood Lake on Tuesday while swimming with Carl Cardwell and three others. Cardwell could not swim well and disappeared underwater after drifting beyond safe buoys. Wyver Vanaton, bathing nearby, rescued him after a third submersion, bringing him to shore where Glenwood Boy Scouts and Dr. Plimpton provided first aid and Cardwell recovered enough to sit up.
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Tabor
Glenwood Lake
Carl Cardwell
Cardwell
Bardwell
Wyver Van@aton
Glenwood
Dr. Plimpton
Mr. Cardwell
Post Mistress Esther Olson Receives Four Year Commission
Miss Esther Olson, present post mistress of Pacific Junction, received on June 16 a four year commission as post mistress for the next four years signed by President Wilson. Since October 1919 Pacific Junction has been a third class post office with Olson’s appointment dating from May 1920 through civil service. She will represent the government in the city mentioned, and her appointment is expected to be approved by patrons of the office.
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Esther Olson
Paciic Junction
Wilson
Pacific Junction
Miss Olson
Icapa
Civil Service
Leap Year Picnic Report Near Glenwood
A group of six young women invited six men to a country picnic east of Glenwood. The event featured supper prepared by the young women or perhaps their mothers, highlighting Leap Year customs in a rustic social gathering.
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Glenwood
Glenwood Library Notes Highlights New Books
The Glenwood library announces closings on July 5 and introduces new titles The Woman Citizen by Boyd and The Young Woman Citizen by Austin. Readers are urged to check Vacation Trips in America in the Literary Digest June 5 and Summer Playgrounds in Travel for suggested reads, along with Our National Parks illustrated.
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Glenwood Library
Boyd
Austin
America
Literary Digest
Reading and library hours encourage youth during vacation
The article notes library closing times through September first on Tuesday Thursday and Friday at five o'clock. It highlights June circulation gains over past years and invites parents to explore departments with children. It emphasizes character building stories and varied books for children as key to life success.
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National Geographic Magazine
Ibrary
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Beau Brummel
Eld
Mildred Lewis
Pat Kilmartin
Malvern
Glenwood Troop of
Boy Scouts
Court House Park
Luella Townsend
Gordon, Neb
Ralph Townsend
Deacon Dubbs
Miss Randolph
Arthur
Vine Street Bridge
Ed Mitchell
Elmer Buddington
Red Oak
Norville Davis
Fred Moore
C. P. Hamilton
Mr. Moore
Germany
Mills County
Christian Home
Council Bliffs
B. J. Hamilton
Morse
Silver City
Rex Theatre
Walter Harper
Helen
Marjorie
Evansville
Ind
Kemp
Mr. Kemp
Mr. Harper
Folsom
Council Bluffs
KODAK
L.S. Robinson Corner Jeweler
Glenwood, Iowa
Lyon & Lyon Chiropractors
Glenwood, la
Charles King
Cail Rex Theatre
Plattsmouth
John Richardson
C. L. Brill
Emerson, Ta
Walling, In
Walling
South Side
Major McNutt
Ruth Plimpton
Chicago University
Clyde Pace
Mr. Yarbrough
George B. Miller
Warsaw
N. Y
Walt Jamison
W. J. Lucas
Hemmingsford
McCook
Glenwood Cemetery
Lyon
Byron Surber
Rodman & Killmon
Wm. Lugsch Tailor Shop
Cians
Jess
Carl H. Otis
Iowa
Hamilton & Matthews
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