07 Jul 1911
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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1911
Page
1
An analysis notes sickness as a societal burden beyond Providence, citing prevention via sanitation and disability costs. It cites European statistics from Ludwig Leipsig and the Courier-Journal, highlighting industrial illness, age-related sickness days, and the paradox of indoor work limiting access to fresh air for workers and tenement residents.
Local residents and visitors gathered in Glenwood for the Fourth with family events. Notable notes include Postmaster White ill, several trips to Lincoln and Bozeman, and visits from Hastings and Omaha. Reports mention weather impacts on George Downs and Frank Choate's heat illness. celebrations mark sixty years since Glenwood's first Fourth.
Local church listings show methodist, episcopal, and christian services with pastors and timers. Des Moines Bible Training School speaker Mrs Sanford to preach, union service at Baptist church. Also a classified note about subscription offer for Des Moines Capital and an automobile for sale in Glenwood Iowa.
A Mills County ad warns that copying and re recording patents wastes time and funds. It urges using Mills County Abstract Company abstracts in Glenwood Iowa to avoid expensive errors and delays. T. Y. Records presides with Walter Breen as secretary.
A famed auto designer who pushed speed records may have sacrificed more for glory than for science. The essay questions whether obsession with speed improves life, noting risks to makers and the public. Other items: a California judge on poker, an umpire fined, and various quips on society, crime, food, and travel.
Heat across Mills County tops 100 daily as threshing begins and yields look good for winter wheat. Hay is short while alfalfa regrowth shows resilience. Corn holds up but drought hurts some fields. water tables rise from Missouri River impact. Des Moines bulletin notes widespread drought with scattered rain, pastures dry, early potatoes failing, and most small grains fair to good if rain arrives soon.
Lake Manawa continues to fall with the June rise offering little hope of replenishment. A river trench is attempted but boats struggle to reach the pavilion from Kursaal as the shore recedes. Many water areas become mud flats hindering yacht racing and daily boating parties end in stranded itineraries. Old newspapers offered for sale at the Tribune office.
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