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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1911
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR notes show a timetable entry with 4.80pm arrival for 11 vGany 23 on Tayue 1m F4iym Tam 34upm. Names, times, and places are unclear, but indicate a scheduled arrival at Leaven and related codes.
In a college town Rosamond Goodwin and her sister Miriam open their home to a struggling freshman Daniel Cook. After misgivings about a donor plan, Cook stays, earns his degree, secures a post graduate assistant position, and asks Rosamond to share his life. She accepts, joining him in a quiet, hopeful future.
A study notes Kahars or Jhinwarb in Punjab have long served as runners and water fowl catchers. It cites Bainey’s Magazine claiming they can cover 100 miles daily. An authenticated case mentions Mita Ram carrying dispatches in three days. Census in Tokyo shows river boatmen over fifty five years.
A drug store displays a sign saying no stamps or tal cards and a customer questions it. The clerk jokes about being asked to charge and deliver stamps. A maid asks to charge and ship a package for Mrs. Dollars, and the druggist ends up paying almost one dollar in express charges.
A terse line recalls a singular person known as Nippers. The speaker notes he has been abroad for six months and failed to send a single souvenir postcard, highlighting a curious absence of mementos.
Charles Knight and family returned to town occupying John Higgins property. MHS baseball team visited Glenwood and won little, cement sidewalks and porch added at New City Hotel. Various residents travel, plans shift due to illness, and a Ford runabout is now in use. The Malvern band concert opens summer series. White House of Mumper & Jackson foreclosed. Guy Smith to manage thereafter. A factory accident injures Ernest Minott’s hand. doctors amputate a finger. A farewell for Miss Myrtle Grown precedes news of Dan Cupid’s telegram announcing Sadie Green and August S Tarris to wed July 11 1911 in private ceremony.
Born to Geo Dunsden and wife a son and to Ernest Hardy and wife a daughter. Mrs G Gregory of Pueblo arrived for a visit at WG Gregory’s home. Mrs Edward Krohl of Linvala Neb visited relatives. Mrs John Tipton cut her hand removing a jar lid. Helen Wiine left for Glyde Ohio to visit. Anna Ivory and Lucile Dall accompanied. Curtis and Art McClure assault case dropped after complainant withdrew. Fred Laird and Leo Loomis wedding at Fremont Neb. Sheriff Lou Rifle and son Clarence visited relatives. A McMahill bought a Shenandoal meat market and will move there. Masonic and Eastern Star members bid farewell to Prof and Mrs WB Johnson. Johnsons move to Washington DC where he loses a Patent Office post.
A tirade from Puck urges "fellow-millionaires" to unite and strike against labor. It calls for firing every laborer on payrolls, opposing taxes, and blaming workers for potential starvation, framing a plan to self-sustain by production and construction while attacking police and soldiers.
A witty note claims surgeons pronounce aprde again with a joke that the word appendicitis sounds like lucrative, highlighting playful language in medical chat.
A Paw Paw Michigan woman writes that after seven months of treatment a surgical operation was avoided. She describes four weeks in hospital and worse after surgery, then credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with her recovery and urges others with female complaints to try it. The letter promotes the product as a thirty year standard remedy for women's ailments and a path to restoring health without surgery.
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