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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1919
Page
1
The Glenwood Tribune reports a busy compilation of local items. Residents include Homer Carmichael and Pick Edwards visiting from nearby towns, plus outings by A. D. French and families. Local events cover O. O. F. memorials, high school graduates, and community observations.
An essay notes how nice and pretty shifted from opposite senses to their current meanings. It traces nice from French source to foolish then pleasant qualities, and pretty from proud to magnificent to handsome and fine. The piece ends with local classified items and small ads from Glenwood, Iowa, including milk customers, furniture for rent, dressmaking, lost items, and farm for sale, with contact numbers.
The article outlines early time measuring devices including clepsydras used by Egyptians Greeks and Hindus. It describes water clocks as predecessors to sands and hour glasses with floating rods marked for intervals and a pointer as a clock hand. It notes artistic clepsydra uses such as child groups and tear representations.
A new oil burner attachable to solid fuel stoves avoids altering the stove and preserves solid fuel use. The device uses a rock-mounted oil tank and a nozzle inside the grate. heat turns oil to vapor, and compressed air or steam converts it to a smokeless flame. In Calto compressed air is piped to houses.
Mary Pickford comments on French fashions and the return of long skirts. She notes the style could hinder some girls, then smiles at her Myrtle shoe, saying the long skirts would pull them down to the ground. The remark blends humor with fashion critique.
Record of instruments filed from May 31 to June 6 1919 in Mills County Iowa includes deeds W D and CW D transfers in Glenwood Malvern Pacific Junction and Silver City with amounts shown such as 70000 212500 145000 2000 1075 6260 and 100-6260 reflecting property transfers and agreements.
Readable bits mention a boundary or neighbor reference with dates and numbers garbled. Difficult to extract a clear event, location, or persons, but indicates a local item or notice fragment requiring context to summarize accurately.
A damaged OCR fragment shows scattered words and names with unclear context, including unusual spellings and interrupted phrases. The legible parts reference people, places, and dates in a fragmented news excerpt, lacking a coherent event or clear reportable detail.
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