10 Jun 1918
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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1918
Page
1
Walter Glenn starts with a new Chevrolet steering wheel while residents travel to Omaha and Iowa City for enlistment visits. Families send greetings, care for the ill, and news of moves. A German female aliens registration notice appears, with locals discussing friends, military plans, and community events. The railroads’ valuation team visits Glenwood, and a Red Cross auction nets 1036.71.
A cluttered Glenwood advertisement page lists houses for sale or rent, automobiles, canary birds, seeds, hog feeders, and farm supplies. It includes household help Wanted at once, a large eight room house with two acres, and machinery for sale. Local social notes reference visitors, a wedding, and funeral attendance, plus police and civic items from Mills county.
Notice in probate for Mary E Hougas last will and testament filed in Mills County Iowa with court dates in 1918 and 1928. Hearing set at Glenwood Court House for proving the instrument, with Deputy Clerk Hattie M Brown noted. Also includes an advertisement for Doan's Kidney Pills with a Glenwood testimonial from Mrs Lizzie Miller.
Sunday marks the first entirely English service at the Mineola Lutheran church under Rev. O. Stidler as parishioners show loyalty to the government. The congregation follows the governor’s proclamation with King James II in sermons. Other items note threshing crew purchases, memorials, and medical concerns among local residents.
Estell Pratt, serving on the Battleship Nevada, returns home on a 12 days furlough. Mrs. BE Stevens and Grace of Woodbine visit with her parents. Harry Plumb of Camp Wheeler Macon Ga. writes of Southern hospitality. Camp receives a car load of peaches. Audrey Nipp Lillian Kruse Ruth Schoening played three numbers at a recital in Omaha June 4. Rev VanDyke of the Methodist church wrongly accused of being pro German. investigation finds him loyal.
Food Administration warns consumers who report large food reserves or hoard sugar. Buy sugar for canning in fifty pound lots on certificates and avoid prosecution. Milk products are plentiful and meatless days encouraged. Barley flour plentiful to save wheat for soldiers. Eggs and shipping details noted. a zoo anecdote with a stork joke closes.
A rambling guide describes making a 12 inch service flag from red white and blue ribbons with a blue star, detailing cutting sewing and applique. It also notes an Iowa Glenwood city ordinance requiring garages to have a watchman at the door to warn pedestrians when backing out to improve public safety.
An advertisement seeks customers for updating old windmill towers with newer mills, mentions Woodmanses Manston and Baker mills, and offers repairs. It also promotes selling and repairing pumps, Pump Jacks, gas engines, well digging, shallow wells, cisterns, cave spouting, soldering, and invites calls to discuss prices and projects.
Readable parts show an oblique reference to prohibition details but the fragment is insufficient to determine the exact event or entity. No clear persons organizations places dates or outcomes are identifiable from the readable text.
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