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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1916
Page
2
The Rural Improvement club hosts an equal suffrage gathering at Mrs Grace Bower home on Friday afternoon. Forty two ladies attend including Mrs Nash from California who delivers a profitable talk on equal suffrage. Ice cream cake and coffee are served afterward.
Bert Steiner of Lincoln township devised a method to eradicate gophers by connecting a Ford exhaust hose to a gopher hole in his pasture. He ran the engine to suffocate the rodents, claiming the technique rid his farm of the pests.
Our Henderson column reports Grandma Perkins canvassing for her firms from Carson origin and returning names of residents like Vera Braden, Juanita Walker, Gayle Boilenum, and others. It notes births, visits, travels, court appearances, new Ford roadster owners Sam and Art Phelps, hospital and legal updates, church lectures, and upcoming alumni banquet plans with multiple local households and events.
R. M. Shipman visited Emerson on Thursday. J. O. Mitazner took his son Ralph to Omaha for an appendectomy at Wise Hospital. the operation was serious, but the boy was reported to be recovering well. Mrs. Ballain and Mrs. Rounds planned a Presbyterian Thimble Bee at Mrs. Geopfarth's home May 11. K. Weed sought treatment at Expositor Springs, Missouri, for health issues. J. Q. Graham of Council Bluffs and Miss Laura McDowell were seen in area towns. Iva Hutchings of Hastings paid visits. Mrs. L. L. Scott, Cameron, and Mrs. Claude Barnes visited Shenandoah. Omaha’s W. W. Chambers, founder of Chambers' Dancing Academy, has gone bankrupt with liabilities over $26,000 and assets of $105, amid a web of creditors and chattel mortgages tied to the Forsyth rental and related bills.
Rev Kight Lectures at Malvern Christian church with W S Kight D G M Des Moines as guest speaker. The event on Thursday night May 11 is free, open to all, and promises an entertaining talk. attendees are urged not to miss it.
Hazel Hamilton of 822 South 15th Street recalls suffering monthly from age eleven to seventeen with headaches backaches cramps and fatigue. She credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for restoring health and regularity. The ad notes the remedy’s forty years of popularity and offers confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
Advertising copy extols Old Kentucky plug tobacco, claiming Burley leaf pressed into golden-brown plugs yields mellow taste and full fruity flavor. It asserts slow pressing preserves juice for rich quality not found in other chews and urges readers to ask their dealer for Old Kentucky.
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