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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1910
Page
4
Pacific Junction social and business notes cover visitors from Plattsmouth and Ashland, medical concerns near Unionville, a wrist injury, a rising river, a lost heirloom watch, and communityAmbitions. Local tradesmen Purcell, Jungquist, Mendenhall, Haynie, and Shannon families are active with salaries, consrtuctions, and new ventures.
The second session begins June 20 and lasts six weeks with teachers including President Long and Prof Gilliland teaching history sociology economics civics physics biology and more. A sewing and dressmaking course by Miss Blanche Stevens offers elementary and drafting for garments with certificates and a teachers examination at the close.
Dr. AL de Quervain of Zurich explains cloud evolution from cumulus to thunder clouds at six or seven miles, with anvil shapes and fleecy forms indicating weather. Hooded and delicate fleecy clouds forewarn storms, while balloon data links cloud height to temperature drops and thunderstorm timing within 24 hours.
The piece discusses how male mortality is higher in early life, with females living longer, and notes the rise in male death rates after age twelve. It also comments on planned commemorative tablets for an ancient Green Bay oak and warns against vandalism to trees like the Boston elm, describing police protection and the threat of desecration by vandals.
Sir T Lauder Brunton spoke in Edinburgh on advances in medical surgery and nursing. He recalled a night nurse found asleep on a hearth after being told she scrubbed all day. He noted old diagnostic methods were primitive with only two clinical thermometers in Edinburgh, carried like a gun case and taking ten minutes to record a temperature.
A witty exchange from a New Yorker questions the value of the Washington monument without rentable offices. The comment blends humor about national symbol with real estate concerns and local business mood.
The two year old son of T G Markel was seriously injured when a frightened calf struck him against a nail in a gate post injuring his left eye. The incident occurred Sunday morning and he was taken to a hospital in Omaha. Eight steers owned by Pat McCormick died from clover bloat last week. James A Chipps’s condition remains similar after a recent injury at Silver City. Mr Lewis is nursing him. Bessie Thomas visited her home south of Glenwood, and Maud Goodman of Red Oak with her father Joe Banister visited Chas Goodman. Alfalfa hay shows high moisture, worrying haymakers. Cemetery Social grossed $75 with expenses about $30 leaving a $45 balance. A touring car stalled near the Beach after rain. Milton Knight plans a red automobile for speed. Claude Brooks worked for S R Hurst. Ominous clouds kept many from Sunday afternoon services where Rev Peter Jacobs spoke on Wrong Obsessions and Strange Dispensations. Ralph Donner and Harry Deardort of Malvern attended church Sunday afternoon.
Mr and Mrs D McMillien spent weekend at Bartlett visiting daughter Mrs Ad Engle. CW Kelley and Ed Hathaway prospected land in North Dakota. Epworth League delegates Lola Boney and Anita Wright were chosen for the Atlantic convention on June 20. Mr and Mrs Dave Henderson and family left for Bennett Nebraska to attend the funeral of their daughter Mrs Minnie Hill, a former Hastings resident.
Mme. Highnote makes her debut amid laughter and nerves as a brown mouse scurries across the footlights provoking a panic yet the manager praises the final high note. The piece blends a backstage mishap with musings on blood and nature’s pulse through shell and ear imagery.
The Mills County Tribune from Glenwood Iowa reports local news and events for June 17 1910. Notable items include community updates, upcoming meetings, and brief notices affecting residents.
Notice to interested parties that an instrument purporting to be the last will of Mary L. Dalton, deceased of Mills County Iowa, was filed June 7 and July 18 1910. The court fixed a time for proving the instrument at the Glenwood courthouse, with objections to be heard. Dated June 9 1910.
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