30 Mar 1914
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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1914
Page
1
Glenwood and area share social calls and travel notes as residents visit relatives in Red Oak Omaha and Clarinda. Local events include the Clarions temperance entertainment at the Courthouse and a social at the I C O F hall. A cattle shipment, a road convention, and a tuberculosis lecture visit also appear, along with housing sales and a bicycle accident injuring a boy.
A reader in Mills County writes from Sumas near the U S Canada boundary describing Seattle's growth and spirit as well as the region's scenery cattle logging and rail and steamship traffic He mentions his health improvement from mountain air and pine balsam notes plans to visit Sumas with his children and potential future letters if readers remain interested.
Inspectors from the State Dairy and Food department visit Glenwood to warn merchants about upcoming prosecutions for violations. They instruct on protecting foods from dust and filth, marking net weights, weighing coal loads, selling potatoes and apples by the pound, and penalties for bad eggs or selling dry goods by liquid measure. The aim is to protect consumers and ensure accurate quantities.
Grace, newly in school, asks about pumpkin seed colors. Her mother probes the vines while Grace humbly notes she has not yet been taught the vine color. The dialogue captures a child's wit and the classroom-knowledge gap.
Classified notices include items for sale such as a good team inquiry at the Tribune office, a navy blue kid glove lost with return requested, house and three lots for sale in Glenwood by R. E. Cogley, eggs for hatching from pure bred Buff Orpingtons by Mrs. R. O. Jackson with phone 14F2, a pearl handle knife with three blades lost with finder to report at the office for reward, and a house for sale or trade in Balfour Iowa with inquiry to H. D. Shultz in Glenwood.
Local classified items list rents, sales and services. Entries include rooms for rent near the Tribune office, farm help seekers, baled hay and clover hay for sale, pasture land adjoin Glenwood, tomato contracts, dairy pigs for sale, oats yield, an old model Chalmers 46 auto for sale, and burr oak posts with telephones for contact. Various names and locations in Iowa.
In Mills County May Term 1914 Guy L Wolfe sues Mande E Wolfe for divorce on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. The petition seeks custody of Darrel Wolfe with Clifford Wolfe named. If Mande E Wolfe does not appear by noon of May term starting May 12, 1914, default will be entered and judgment rendered.
A local endorsement proclaims Dean's Kidney Pills as a reliable remedy for kidney and back pain. A tailor named Daniel Lingseh from Grenwood testifies the pills relieved pain and dizziness after being bought from Red Cross Drug Co. The ad urges readers to request Dean's Kidney Pills by name and notes price at 60 cents.
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