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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1901
Page
4
The board of education adopts a rule barring gifts to teachers during class hours and requiring anonymous delivery to teachers' homes. Officials say the aims to curb favoritism amid charges that teachers favored children of wealthy parents who brought them presents.
A collage of 1900s era notices: reduced Wabash rail fares to Buffalo New York and Omaha Saint Louis Chicago routes with stopovers at Niagara Falls. Also mentions starch promotions, laundering tips, and a Macedonian student who earned a Yale master of arts while working as a trolley conductor in New Haven before planning studies in Germany.
Wealthy Mrs Evelyn Wilurray aids horses by providing a soda stop after giving a truck driver a quarter. The gesture offers horses rest during a heat wave while the driver embarks elsewhere. A jumbled ad-like note promotes Wizard Oil for emergencies and endorses personal virtues.
A garbled mix notes popular tonics like Defiance 10 cents and Red Cross Ball Blue while claiming vast rail travel figures. It hints at cures, slogans, and advertisements, presenting a cluttered snapshot of a late era market page with scattered prices and product names.
The article notes three Seminole War veterans living on the pension roll. Charles Benedict, an old Mason, resides at the Masonic home in Wallingford Connecticut and is listed among Uncle Sam's pensioners. Also named are Samuel Hart of Rockport Massachusetts and Samuel D Calkins of Norwich.
The article explains that King Edward VII never used the name Albert in public and chose to sign as Albert Edward only to honor his mother Queen Victoria. He often asked to sign simply Edward, but the queen remained firm. After Victoria’s death the king announced his wish to be known as Edward VII.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into shoes as a remedy for swollen feet, smarting and burning feet, sweating, corns and bunions. Priced at 25 cents with free samples. Addressed to Allen R. Olmsted, LeRoy, New York.
The proclamation opens Wichita and affiliated Indian lands for settlement under federal law. It outlines land descriptions, registration periods from July 10 to July 26, 1901, drawing procedures, and eligibility for homestead entry, townsite rules, and neutral strip preferences with protections for Indian fences and restricted areas.
A compact selection of quotations from Rousseau Mamie Necker Ariel Voltaire emphasizing resilience and contentment. It contrasts fortune with character and offers guidance to stay persistent, avoid discouragement, and cultivate gratitude in daily life.
A compact meditation on honesty conscience and principle and the cost of pride. The piece argues that honesty is the best policy and that lack of conscience yields folly and misfortune while prudent self focus marks good business sense. Spits' paradox hints at the fool’s belief in happiness amid discontent.
The flower garden feature highlights tree peonies thriving in good soil and suited to beds lawns pots or conservatories with blooms up to nine inches across. It praises Rhodesian pink varieties and Ethopian lilies, Wisteria climbers with lavender racemes, and double ivy leaf geraniums for balconies windows and trellises with long lasting summer flowers.
An 19th century style summary notes chocolate adulteration and global pricing with cocoa from Venezuela, production steps, and high level claims of cheaper final markets. It also recounts Maurice Barrymore’s witty remark after a friend mislaid a 50 cent piece, highlighting his humor in social circles.
A Liege built car priced at 20000 dollars ships to Teheran for the Shah. It seats five with a driver, a royal blue body, carmine wheels, and pearly gray satin seats. Lamps from a gilt frame illuminate the driver area, lions and suns decor the panes, and green and red hues are noted.
In a Springfield Field dispatch Frank Dellinger in the Philippines curses the temperance movement for abolishing the canteen. He says soldiers facing beer and whiskey bans turn to the Filipino drink "beno" which he claims wrecks bodies and sometimes drives drinkers insane. He cites cases of mental collapse linked to beno and notes prices and starch items in a damaged text.
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