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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1920
Page
4
A local store runs special one day sales on each dated Friday through Saturday July 16 to July 31. Deals include two for one on various clothing and household items, half price on caps and hats, percentage discounts, and a $2.50 special on $25 purchases.
June business was largest ever for Mulholland's but stock remains high. Prices are cut to reduce indebtedness and make room for fall merchandise. Items may be sold below cost to turn surplus into cash before the fall stock arrives. Prepare for the fair and school days as sale runs.
Extensive sale items listed with discounts across fabrics including Ginghams Voiles Silk dress goods and linens. Prominent prices include yard cuts for ginghams up to 1.00 and up to 25 percent discounts on silks voiles and embroideries with many items framed as “on sale” or “at discount” across dress fabrics undergarments hose and accessories.
Twenty five men qualified for the state rifle team at Camp Dodge two day elimination shoot with sixteen to be chosen to represent Iowa at Camp Perry, O from August 1 to 31. E R Wakefield won high score 473 and B G Simms was close second as Adjutant General Lasher will submit names for Governor Harding’s appointment.
A farmer laments volatile hog and livestock prices and market logic. He cites shifts in cattle, sheep, butter, lard, hides, wool, pork, and pork profits amid regulatory factors and a high retail price structure. He notes war promises and current profiteering prosecutions as sources of confusion.
War only. the Salon des Artistes Francais displays mostly front line misery rather than heroic battles. A lone soldier near the net, exhausted, holds a blood darkened handkerchief. Painters who served faced grim truth, while others painted abstracted or inspired by distant views.
A Blackwood writer notes that during James I era women wore the doublet and hose to achieve a fashion similar to bobbed hair. The piece asserts novelty is elusive, citing historical glimpses and an unnamed author’s ire at the time.
A 1620 lampoon condemns women’s attire for embracing clouded hats with ruffs and feathers and a trench doublet with hidden gowns. The author notes hair cutting to Puritan fashion as worse than vanity, linking modern maidens to Covenanter forebears in a scathing social sketch.
Al Wilson will perform a mid air airplane change stunt daily from August 1 to September 3 at the Iowa state fair. Advertisers hail it as the fair's chief aviation thriller and its first of its kind in the state.
Ruth Law has been engaged by the town fair to perform night stunt flying each evening of the fair. She will pilot an eliminated plane and collaborate with the fireworks display The Siege of the Dardanelles as part of the attractions.
Towans show rising interest as teams from nearly every county enter the state championship horseshoe pitching contest at the state fair. The event runs daily with a preliminary round where teams pitch 22 shoes per side, leading to an eight-team final stage of 21 points per game.
Burlington man J O Marshall testifies Tanlac restored weight and strength after a year of illness. He details stomach, nerves, sleep, and appetite improvements from the tonic and notes his willingness to continue using it. Tanlac is sold in several towns including Glenwood and Malvern.
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