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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1922
Page
1
Local notices describe Miry Pickford coming to Glenwood’s Crystal Theatre for showings tonight and Tuesday. Community items include social visits, church events, a Kensington gathering, and county meetings with Republicans addressing temperance issues and regional notices from Mills County.
The notice touts chiropraxy as a simple effective health service. It claims to remove causes of ailments and offers direct results, urging readers to call today for assessment and treatment. It references high success and personal well being through chiropractic care.
Fragmentary note records Mary Pickford confection, a punchy line about Dip Western hat the Crystal Thursday and Daisy bread priced at ten per loaf, plus a mention of the Denverport’s Dakery. Exact context unclear due to OCR errors.
A jumbled list of ads and notices from Glenwood Iowa includes for rent rooms and pasture, for sale items such as turkeys potatoes and hardware, junk buyers, an unhelpful found pocketbook, old car trades, farm machinery, and various prices and phone contacts. The fragmentary text overflows with misspellings but shows a community classified page with real estate, goods for sale, services, and personal notices.
A fragmented notice from Nebsha Sales Agency PepL th Mair announces a Bacannes event featuring pi Htichiwetile accessor setts with a four year Ugable term, inviting potential buyers to check offerings at the Neb location.
Fragmented local paper notes announce Mary Pickford’s arrival with Daisy Brendls and humor about a theater show. Reports mention Mike Inn owning part of a business, a sudden death at a theater, and various local visitor updates including health, travel, and a grand total bottle count projection for a local bottling plant.
Tabor College students will give a program of music and readings in the High School auditorium on Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. No admission charges.
A brief historical note explains how a famous London thoroughfare gained its name from a nearby tavern and tennis court used by the royal household. It also describes the origin of a peculiar garment feature known as a pleck or peck, tied to fashion and social display in earlier centuries.
A sensational report from Le Petit Parisien states a Napoleon relic theft occurred at Grunnenbaumen by Germans, including Napoleons resting sofa and a gold hilt saber presented by Varis. Thieves also took Prince Murat’s saber and Blucher’s sword among other souvenirs, amid claims of repeated looting of imperial mementos.
County Treasurer Ralph P. Linville reports warrants outstanding across multiple series with accrued interest and calls. The notice lists warrant ranges and registers, indicating which warrants are callable, with dates and inclusive endpoints.
A New York opening date loomed as film editor moved a picture producer to arrange editing while en route from Los Angeles to the East. A lab equipped car trailed a troubled train and the crew edited nonstop, returning every scrap to containers. The project finished as the train reached New York with all film completed and ready for delivery.
Motorists on the highway between Greenfield and Pendleton struggle at a bad spot where a car sank to axle depth. A driver asks a farm boy for an alternate route to Pendleton. the boy says there is none and that a farmer will pull the car out for four dollars and seventy cents.
Gabriel Davidson of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society reports the drive to create a substantial permanent Jewish farming class in the United States. The movement began twenty two years ago with 216 Jewish farm families. now the number exceeds 60,000. In 1900 Jewish owned 12,020 acres. today over 1,000 acres are farmed by Jewish farmers, with rising rents and changing holdings.
A Broadway waitress observes ambiguity in a tip left beside a lunch plate. A diner, short on change, leaves no dime, then returns next day with two dimes to settle the bill, sparking a debate over whether tips are gifts or charges.
The fragment notes the late twentieth century just completed its twenty years and reflects on emerging technologies like wireless telegraphy cinema and automobiles, with brief mentions of newspapers and rapid progress.
Mills County Farm Bureau becomes the first Iowa county to install its own wireless market reporting outfit. After an inefficient receiver, a new system is now in operation. Radiophone reports from Omaha Grain Exchange station W A A W arrive at 5 pm 10 45 am 12 30 pm and 8 pm with Chicago and Omaha market data and lye stock figures. Mose reports will be distributed by telephone to county towns for farmer access.
Vitagraph declares Trumpet Island the biggest picture in studio history a flawless dramatic epic featuring an airplane wreck and a bride and groom in a storm. The seven reel feature plays at Rex Theatre with regular prices 10 and 26 cents Tuesday and Wednesday plus a comedy Dont Rock the Boat. Evening shows begin at 8:00 every night except Saturday when it starts at 6:45.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jamison tender their resignations as managers of the dance hall at the lake pavilion and of park and swimming pool duties. They state they cannot conduct both tasks and still fulfill responsibilities. They thank friends, patrons, and the Park Board for loyalty and support.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Jamison extend thanks for cordial assistance during three years of service, reflecting on their time and appreciation for support received.
At the May 1 meeting Glenwood Woman's Club re elected all officers. President Miss Nelle Bogart, Vice President Mrs J R Graham, Recording Secretary Mrs Clyde Genung, Corresponding Secretary Mrs Frank Choate, Treasurer Mrs F W L Hester. The program titled Questions of the Hour featured Mrs Van F Barnes leading a discussion. Papers were read by Mrs Van Barnes on The Russo German Treaty at Genoa Conference, by Mrs W S Brown on Americanization, by Mrs Flora Bennett on The Radio, and by Mrs B K Orr on Striking at the Root of Juvenile Delinquency.
Roy Zimmer celebrated his birthday with a surprise visit from his wife Mrs. Zimmer’s parents Mr. and Mrs. M A Stacy and their son Clifford Stacy and his wife and baby. They all joined the celebrant for dinner with the family last Sunday.
The Board of Supervisors consider the petition and remonstrance on the drainage district along the Silver Creek course near Silver City.
Shirley Mason stars in Little Miss Smiles at Rex Theatre with a Western The Call of the Blood starring Art Acord. Matinee and three evening shows priced 10 and 20 cents.
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