West Oak notes and community updates from Glenwood
Charlie Dick drives a new rig and Miss Katie Doran spends a week in Glenwood. Mrs Doran hosted guests, West Oak Sunday School records 50 attendees, and various neighbors visit friends. Several locals assist ill or dying relatives, with hospital stays and care arrangements noted. A church minister change is reported in Glenwood, and a family takes in a ten year old girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie Dick
Katie Doran
Glenwood
Mrs Doran
West Oak
Wfl Krecklow
Goldie
Albee
Christian Church
FB Donelan
Otis White
Flliott
Local incidents and accidents reported in brief
John Warner near Hancock shot and killed his 7-year-old daughter while unloading a shotgun. At Osceola a wedding drew seven hundred guests who stayed for breakfast. Near Grant a boy’s fish pole pierced a playmate’s eye, causing blindness. Lightning struck a barn in Adams county repeating a prior hit. A 1-year-old girl in Willsea burned fatally stirring a fire. D. A. Scott of the Griswold American faces a $10,000 libel suit from C. J. Chase of the Atlantic Democrat. A Sidney resident caught a 3 ft 44 in eel in the Nisuna river weighing six pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Warner
Hancock
Osceola
D. A. Scott
The
Griswold American
C. J. Chase
Atlantic Democrat
Mr. Chase
GEM CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE ADVERTISMENT AND OFFERS
An old paper ad lists GEM CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE in Quincy with 1400 students and 20 teachers offering bookkeeping shorthand and penmanship training plus an illustrated catalogue. It also notes a stallion near Byers farm and a job travel ad for a firm with 250000 capital and a $1072 yearly salary. A guaranteed cure for piles with LAZO OINTMENT is advertised with refund terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Hidden Wealth in Long White Gloves Wedding Gift
Esther Blake discovers a secret stash in her mother’s gloves a ten dollar bill in each finger revealing a past quiet wedding gift and renewed hope as her father plans to use the heirloom gloves at her own wedding amid financial strain and family pride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blake
Mother
Dogwa
Jae
Mike
Ius
Imu
Letus
Saat
Hather
Esther
Mana Blake
Uve
Dr. Blake
Che
Carter
Date Experts and Desert Dates Across Civilized Lands
A garbled set of snippets discusses date varieties, date palm cultivation in oases, and experts who can distinguish seventy one kinds. It mentions Burmese rice growers and a Burmese diet, plus a curious note on a Bengal tiger and lion reacting to Chinese crackers lit as fuses. The text blends travel observations with animal antics from a London Times style fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burma
New York Press
Phelhen
Mills County
Beecher
Glenwood Athletic Association
Tongue Twister Collection and Odd Local Notes
A fragmentary clipping notes a collector of tongue twisters with examples such as six thick thistle sticks and other phonetic phrases. It mentions Willian Alexander of Montrose and a postscript about a skeleton found near a lake with a dog skull, plus unrelated garbled text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tongus
Modbury
Grimes Jin
Gil Gig
Stephen Striper
Willian Alexander
Montrose
Cote
Nodirge
Dake Wis
Bin
Vetver
Bissard
Vash
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Wugeng Coleman
Ralph
Joe Kirkpatrick
Marion White
Harry Duval
Hastings
Bo Dick
Kates
Council Bliffs Road
Mercy
Council Billi's
S N Shanks
Tabor
Mary Randall
Council Blolis
Julia Ganister
Hiram Hunter
Randall
Grandmother Hunter
Fay
Ethel
Eariny
Grant
Adams Ccounty
Willisea
M.A. Brown
Sidney
GEM City Business College
Quincy
Mwinois
D. L. Maisselman
Pres
Quincy,Ninovis
Glentotus
M. W. Rogers
Byers
Jady
Jos
A. Alexander
Iowa
Misthorfhikis
Tharee
Christus
Abe
Uynor
Wble
Christias
Diet Bowrhur
Qeurmre Ute
Carolinna
Testhoer
Hey Mnother
Hunter
Grage Medigal
Des Moines
Yhan
W. G. Templeton
Pacific City, Lowa
P. O. Pacific Junction
Rid
Emerson
George R. Beecher
Trinity Episcopal
Bowmas Specialty Co
Institution
Bowman Co
San Francisco
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