Shriners Parade Lights Up Los Angeles Pageantry
A Tribune reader recalls the May National Shriners Conclave in Los Angeles with fifty thousand attendees. The city hosted lavish parades and floral displays, including ornate autos bedecked in roses and carnations, a half million spectators along streets, and incursions from San Diego Shriners showcasing Pacific coast missions.
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Tribune
Los Angeles
Mystic Shriners
Shriners
San Diego
Mills County
Omaha
Railway Killings and Injuries Rise in 1911 Records
The interstate commerce commission reports that 10,283 people were killed and 163,920 injured on railroads in 1911, the first year with government rules for compiling data making year-to-year comparison unreliable. Rail employees injured numbered 127,828, with 6,591 nonemployees killed and 10,405 injured, most victims being trespassers or passengers. Safety factors include careless individuals and inadequately protected crossings. The text compares rail disasters to Titanic-scale losses, underscoring railroad dangers.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Mills County memories pull years of local events
Mil ls County notes from 1902 to 1911 recount a fire at W H Wicker Isham farm, a mild peach crop loss after an early warm spell, cadet camp at Glenwood, crop acreage shifts, May 20 frost and snow, marriages and births, high school graduates, a Des Moines league baseball link, and community events in Glenwood including a church cornerstone, Decoration Day program, and local society elections.
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W H Wicker- Isham
Maha High School
Glenwood
Mills County
Charles Woodruff
Mabel Will
Aurora
Ill
R Lorton
Glenwoon
Jhivgh School
Silver City
Della Hammonds
Barbara Avan
Michael Swarts
Mac Plumer
Mae Swarts
Clark Reeve
Trenderson High School
Mae Morris
Agnes Hockenberry Silva Maxwell
Harry Paul
Leonard Harbert
George Houser
Dallas McGrew
Clifford Plum
Gwynn Harover
Abor
American Some Winding Association
BK Gray
Ad Fussell
OM Powell
Shirley Gilliland
A H Winkler
Wustis Williams
Jim Burkett
Wot Mull
Jake Sherfey
Frank Logan
Irvin Bebliman
Cedar Lapids
Glen Wilkins
Des Moines
Davis & Anderson
Pacific Junction
Sheriff Sale Notice of Mills County Iowa Property
A sheriff sale is held for Lot 2, Section 14, Township 72, Range 43 in Mills County Iowa. The sale, to satisfy a 1912 judgment in favor of Mrs. A. T. Hale against L. G. Johnson and Nancy Johnson, will occur at the west door of the Glenwood Court House on June 24, 1912, between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., with bidding starting at 10:00 a.m. The notice compels attendance and mentions registered costs and accruing costs.
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District Court
Mills County
Iowa
A. T. Hale
L. G. Johnson
Nancy Johnson
Towa
Glenwood
Th. W. Bushnell
A. S. Edwards
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Mills County Tribune
F. Hill Guy P. Leavitt Publishers
Glenwoop
F. M. Shriver
OWA
Dyar Block
Northwest Corner Square
T. A. Pearson
Mills County 9
Opera House Block
Town
Chas
W. Rathke
Pera House Block
North Side
Squar Glenwood
J. B. Winkler
Real Estate Farm Loans Fire Insurance Office
Lamb Block
Glenwand, Iowa
Carl Buch
North Side Aquare
Lowa
Amos Dean
Carpenter & Contractor
The
Advo Collection Agency
Noman
Expert Service
Missouri
Sui
Utemark Bros
Bell
Luther
Old Stone Quarry
Jim Harmer
Brestling
Lusuriate
A. H. Culver
Bell ‘Telephons
Pacifig Junclion
City of Angels
N. T. Bradway
California
Passadena
Tire Department
Arizona
Burlington
Vroom Tribune
A Tipton
Thvan
Fo Donclan
Wioni
Will Anderson
Arnold
Robert Stilli Jcorn
T L Smouse
Iphigenia
Jephthah
Clappe
Adah
Miss Waynick
Naomi
Kienn
Grace Nike
Sikillicorn
Wahl
Hua Babbitt
Gertrude Gillistand
May Powell
Drue Jollett
Orta Burkett
Dora
Gene Sartelle
Jennie
Annie Yarviss
Laura Waynick
Grace Pike
Miss Vennis
IY M Brayton
F J Donelan
WG Wooldraw
TL Strouse
SH Babbitt
WG Osborn
George Wanler
TE A French
W Hi Gaston
Victor Cox
WK Patrick
John Stone
Robert Skillicorn
Mills
Fremont County Union of Christian Endeaver Societies
Emma Williamis
S © Jiunter
Malvern
Vicw
Ray Telle
Valter
Delle Graham
Emerson
Walter Obsarn
Pullman
Connelly
Battery
Waber
Weatherhead
Cobb
J W Murphy
Christian Church
Court House Park
the Tribune
Scientific American
Pansina Canal
Iowa Telephone Co
Lexington
Mickelwait Garage
J. M
J. C. Mickelwait
Glenwood, Ilowa
Cres Island
Badger and Avery
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