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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1900
Page
2
A crowded sale offers dresses, hats, hosiery, and carpets at deep discounts. Ladies 20c hose, 25c buckskin boots, children’s hose, sacks, and wrappers reduced. Suits, corsets, and tailor made items priced around $1 to $3.45. Carpets, ingrain and moquette rugs, and lace curtains offered at substantial markdowns, with many items quoted per yard or per piece.
Major S. H. Wireman relays a veteran's plea sent to Commissioner Evans. The letter mocks repeated medical exams for pension increases, recounts loss of a Civil War leg, wounds at Antietam and Wilderness, and the belief that pension has funded doctors more than the veteran. The writer vows to stop “show business” with doctors and urges pension rise.
The week ending Monday morning was warmer than usual with daily excess temperatures from 4 to 8 degrees. High southerly winds and full sunshine accelerated moisture evaporation, and rain is needed in parts of the northwest and west central districts. Corn planting is favorable and nearing completion in the south and center, with germination strong and early fields showing good cultivation progress. Oats, spring wheat, barley, and grain are doing well across the state, fruit prospects are good, and frost damage has been light.
An old time belief that consumption is incurable is challenged. Shiloh's Cough and Consumption Cure is advertised as effective in early stages. One bottle is claimed to prove more than arguments, with a guaranteed product priced at 25 cents, 50 cents, or $1.00.
Prof J C Pickett named local manager of a Kharas Magnetic Infirmaries branch in Glenwood. The firm operates twelve hospitals delivering non medicinal cures for chronic diseases without surgery. Pickett will consult free for a short time while based at Hubbell House parlor.
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