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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1916
Page
6
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A classroom moment shows Willie misanswering six plus four as eleven then twelve and thirteen before correcting himself. The teacher guides him through the simple sum, noting that five and five make ten, while Willie insists his logic proves otherwise.
C G Ferrel announces candidacy for the office of sheriff subject to Democratic voters in the June 5 primary. He urges support from party members and outlines campaign aims.
The wedding of Miss Jane Helper and Mr Newton Lord drew laughter after a newspaper ran a wedding notice titled S Lord Helper. The groom reacted angrily to the misprint, highlighting a humorous misreading of the couple's names.
A terse exchange between a body and an old soldier questions courage in combat. The veteran replies he shivered, indicating that true calm under fire is a matter of perspective and honesty.
Blair Tuttle plans a costume role for the senior play at Truxdale while his sister Maud seethes at a raspberry sundae hat. Clarice Miggins shares in millinery dreams, and Blair proposes marriage to secure support as he departs for a new job. The hat becomes a conduit for romantic and social maneuvering in a tightknit college town.
Savannah's Pulaski hotel basement houses bricked cells used to hold enslaved people prior to northern markets. Once underground prisons, the spaces now harbor cats that are going blind in the daylight, linking the modern South to its antebellum past.
Delegates at the Ohio Retail Shoe Dealers association claim feet reflect character. Cleveland dealer C. K. Dorn says feet reveal states of mind, with descriptions of foot positions signaling calm, restlessness, anger, and nervousness, noting detectives use this for confessions. Also includes biographical note on Francis Alliston Channing and a WWI trench-life vignette by James Norman Hall.
Gudmundur Kamban Iceland's first dramatist arrives to publish works in English. Born in Reykjavik twenty seven years ago he began writing at eighteen with the play Hadda Padda. He studied at Copenhagen University learned Danish and had his drama translated and staged in Copenhagen in 1912 then shown in fifty theaters across Scandinavia.
An English traveler in America recalls a sleeping car incident where a man in the lower berth warned him to look out and he promptly regretted what he saw. The anecdote highlights cross cultural humor and the uneasy tension of unfamiliar travel.
An irritable patient protests an exorbitant bill to the doctor, insisting no payment due due to not following advice. The physician retorts that the patient is no better for ignoring guidance, prompting a sharp exchange.
A society reporter asks a private bow occupant for her name. The woman proclaims Mrs. Archibald Jo Neeve, and after a light mishearing the name is humorously clarified as Jo Neeze spelled Jones Jo Neeze.
An old ad states backache relief through Chamberlain's Liniment to be applied two or three times daily. Sold by A. J. Howe.
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