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Newspaper

Mills County Tribune

Location

Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 21, 1909

Page

2

Government Timber Land Schemes Offer Quick Title Deals

A Utah firm advertises U S Government land certificates from 1893 era, claiming nonresidents can obtain title to timber or agricultural lands nationwide without residence. Certificates come in 80 or 120 acre pieces with formal approval, usable in Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho and beyond. A July 1 1908 Interior report notes 30 million acres unappropriated in the West. The ad invites inquiries with Tribune reference and includes a Mills County laborer ad.

Department of the Interior Oregon Washington California Idaho The Tribune

Does Your Stationery Reflect Your Business Quality

The piece urges readers to judge a firm by its stationery and requests evaluating letterheads envelopes and advertising literature. It advises choosing a printer that treats small orders with same care as large ones and promises honorable job printing.

John Jones the Tribune

Tribune Wants Readers Lets Tell Your Wants Cheaply

The column invites readers to submit inexpensive notices of what they seek or offer. It promises a simple process to reach a wide audience, encouraging participation in every issue.

Tribune

Kick or Be Gentle in Life’s Deliberate Fight

A columnist discusses weighing the choice to kick for what one wants versus waiting and patience. He notes individuality, temperament, and the value of timing in standing up to injustice while warning against blundering or excessive gentleness. He also covers a shift in dramatic theater where curtain calls for authors have been curtailed, reducing audience encouragement at European stages.

Mr. MacQuilliinbee Frankfort Lessing Berlin

Playgrounds Sought for Upper West Side NY City

Twelve vacant lots in Manhattan's upper West Side are secured by New York women for playgrounds. The Riverside branch of the New York Municipal League petitions city aldermen. Mrs. Clarence Burns pushes for a Little Mothers' Aid Society playground. It is noted that many arrests involve children playing on streets or in forbidden areas.

New York Upper West Side City Riverside New York Municipal League Clarence Burns Little Mothers’ Aid Society Burns

American Woman Praised By Claire Ducreux

Claire Ducreux, traveler and writer, told Alliance Francaise members that the American woman, with her unformed type, is a major factor in the new civilization America is offering the world. Her independence and support of man determine the civilization’s strength or weakness.

Mile Claire Ducreux Alliance Francaise America

Obvious Reasons and Blobbs Debate Biones Life

The excerpt shows Blobs arguing with Stobbs about Biones. Biones declares life is not worth living while Stobbs notes the man has taken up cigarettes and chafing that land. The dialogue hints at distress and social habits.

Blobbs Biones

The Bread and Pipe Baker An Odd 18th Century Tale

A lecturer in a cooking school recalls an anecdote about an 18th century baker who was also a pipe-cleaner. In those days coffee houses provided clay pipes, and a waiter delivered his master’s pipes to a bakery each morning for cleaning and drying, yielding sweet white results.

Pooking

Writing a New Original Play in the Herald

A New York Herald item quotes a speaker exclaiming at a writing table crowded with novels epigrams proverbs and anecdotes. The person asserts they are writing a new and original play.

Scott New York Herald

Old Union Soldiers Hold 1870s Homestead Claims Like Gold

Westward veterans who filed 40 80 or 120 acre homesteads before June 22 1874 may have government claims even if they did not prove up Their rights are assignable per Supreme Court ruling Judge R H Peale Salt Lake City offers to perfect titles and buy these claims The widow or heirs may sell if the soldier has died. no entry means no claim Mention The Tribune.

Union Kansas Nebraska Supreme Court R. H. Peale Judge Building Salt Lake City Utah The Tribune

Sleepwalking excuse surfaces in quarrel tale

A wife accuses her husband of drinking, demanding denials at 7 a.m. He retorts he merely walked in his sleep and planned to sleep upright, in a facetious house-illustration style. The vignette captures domestic humor and a wife-husband exchange with a sleepwalking twist.

Flere

First Visitor Says Universal Chin Notion Grows

In a brisk exchange, the first visitor remarks on a singular chin of the old boy, sparking a playful debate as the second visitor counters with a quip about pluralizing the term and referencing the London Tatler.

London

A Chance for All Land Investment in the Great West

A Utah based firm, H B Sanders & Co of Judge Building Salt Lake City, offers lands in Nevada and other western states at 2.95 per acre. They claim access to over 250 000 acres including irrigated and fruit lands near towns and rivers. Catalogues are free upon request and the Tribune is mentioned in promotion of investments in western lands.

H. B. Sanders & Co Judge Building Salt Lake City Utah Nevada H. B Sanders & Co California Green River Valley Land and Water Co United States The Tribune

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