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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1906
Page
1
Glenwood gossip covers Chautauqua attendance, visiting relatives, business calls, and local notices. Residents from Crete to Plattsmouth join tours, auctions, and social events while tradesmen advertise services and missing receipts.
J P Jackson Glenwood weather man cites Dmpire outlet from Alton to claim Kansas facedlaws intricate weather with extraordinary hail. Antone Rose reported 18 inch deep hail last Saturday and three weeks later hail stones linger in Grant township as large as hickory nuts, challenging belief beyond Kansas.
Hx County Supervisor Geo Estes of Glenwood announces another run in the fat man race at the Pacific Junction reunion. The event, staged Aug 30 to Sept 1, restages the Fourth of July mishap with a dislocated shoulder. The six fat men, including CG Buf fington Clarence Miler Tom Hall Mark Evans and Andy Leak, will compete.
Quincy Illinois offers the largest business college with 20 teachers and 1400 students. It features a $100,000 college building and courses in bookkeeping shorthand typewriting penmanship banking and more. Graduates readily secure employment. write for a 64 page illustrated catalogue.
Show cases eight foot long for sale to display watches and jewelry with newer floor cases replacing them. Also eight foot tables. Thoroughbred Duroc Jersey boars for sale from Orion Jr. herd with noted sires Proud Advance Orion Nebraska Belle Sengation. Hereford bulls for sale from 12 to 4 months old, headed by Hesiod Lad No. T1079, 2560 lbs. Second hand sasolene engine also for sale. Offices of Doctors James and Frank Donelan. Tribune job work advertised. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea 35 cents. A J Hows.
East End teachers staged a still hunt at the Mills County Teachers Association election rushing to seize offices. West End delegates countered, preserving two executive seats as Malvern figures aligned with county sentiment. The body then elected President R E Davenport Henderson Vice President R V Fletcher Silver City Secretary Fanny Potts Malvern Executive Committee L C Bryan Glenwood W B Gregg Pacific Junction Enrolment reaches 121. Two new instructors began teaching the week Miss Viola Waller Charles City and Miss Louella Crowder Hamburg.
Washville Tennessee reports Kingston saw a negress give birth to six children on Wednesday. All six are described as well formed and were alive at the last accounts. The unusual birth item comes from a Pacific Junction friend sent to the Tribune.
Material is being unloaded for an interlocking switch plant to be built at Balfour on the east end of the double track. The main line will host the system as soon as Red Oak work ends, where a similar installation is under construction.
The Burlington advertises August 4 5 and 6 round trips to Chicago from Glenwood at 8 dollars with return by August 14. Similar low fares from all Burlington points and up to September 30 for Omaha via Chicago Great Western. other routes to Minnesota North Dakota Wisconsin and lower Michigan. J W Murphy named fruit judge at Iowa State Fair aims to exhibit Mills County fruits. The Tribune offers illustrated Glenwood edition souvenirs and notes alfalfa as weed control.
Ira W. Kelley of Mynsfield Pennsylvania reports two years of kidney and bladder trouble and costly physician visits with little relief. He credits Foley's Kidney Cure with his recovery and urges others to try it based on his testimony.
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