01 Jun 1916
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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
1
Glenwood neighbors and relatives visit and travel across the area from Malvern to Omaha. Charles Stater and J. R. Martin are noted readers, while families like the Nickersons and Craigs join Decoration Day activities. The piece highlights local ferryman, school events, alumni, and recent moves in the community.
Frederick Moxon’s verse laments futile reform, cloaked in ironic imagery of a speechless feast a bleaker banquet and non playing bandsmen marching at a moveless pace. The poem critiques efforts to stock the nation with bodyless, boneless boys, urging negative moods to prevail.
Classified style reader seeks including help wanted for washing and ironing, elder care, and lodging. For sale items cover cabbage tomato sweet potato plants 25¢ per hundred, a Shorthorn bull, a 1914 Ford car and Ford parts, a barn, plants at J J Burger residence, duck covering, and a five room rental near ball ground. Also market ads for real estate, a potential test location in Glenwood, and a testimonial for Chamberlain’s Liniment.
Misses Buckingham and Farrow request parents’ cooperation to have children attend rehearsals at the old Baptist church city hall at 4 o’clock on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. They plan to drill the children for the chorus and other parade pageant features.
The notice lists Baptist, Methodist, Christian, Church of Christ and Episcopal services for Sunday with times for morning worship, Sunday school and evening events. Also includes Ladies' Aid sewing bee plans and a restaurant ad about Chamberlain's tablets for bilious attacks and a light April Fool joke.
Week ending May 27 1916 unclaimed letters include Crabtree Harry J Noty J W Kolb Rev EH Milne Mr Wm M (2) Orton R Z. Call for these letters stating Advertised. If not claimed they will be sent to the Dead Letter Office Washington DC June 27 1916. W EL Bickel P M
Mrs Linda Harrod of Fort Wayne Indiana reports years of stomach trouble with only temporary relief until taking Chamberlains Tablets bought at a local drug store. She says the tablets gave immediate relief from heaviness after meals and stomach pain. Advertisers note many readers see the Tribune local column.
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