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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
2
A wartime memory verse voices aging Civil War veterans ready to answer if the nation calls. The speaker notes the line of survivors dwindling yet pledges to enlist to defend the flag again. The poem frames loyalty, sacrifice, and eras in Collier's Weekly through Wallace Irwin’s perspective.
A four daguerreotype of a young man and a girl from the Civil War era, taken from a dead Union soldier at Chancellorsville, is returned to Mrs. T. W. Stowe of Milford Connecticut after a 33 year search led by Edgar Whittenour a Paterson New Jersey miner water manufacturer with Hawthorne ties. The case named John Batyson and Nellie Augusta Nettleton. the back held needle thread and a hair lock. Mrs Stowe confirms missing John Rawson after Chancellorsville and thanks Mr Whittenour for restoring a memory after forty five years.
A boy barred from enlisting in the Union Army rode out to pasture with lunch, left for three years in the war, and returned unharmed to drive the same cows home at cow time, as if never away.
A Monticello Kentucky resident recalls how residents greeted Federal troops advancing on Monticello during the Civil War. An elderly woman reported she threw her bonnet on the ground and stomped on it as she saw the old flag approaching.
Paul Condon guards the dock and rejects Jim Trent from boarding the Robert G. as Trent tries to flee with Kate Pyfrom. A bank visit and hidden money surface, Trent is captured by Constable Crosby, and Kate confesses her realization that Paul is her true suitor. They plan a true honeymoon voyage aboard the next steamer.
The Liverpool Mercury surveys laughter types from contagious frank humor to sneering and secretive laughs. It warns that mirth aimed at others wounds the subject, while genuine good humor benefits both laugher and listeners.
A King’s son in Tsingkiangpu led a wild life causing “loss of face” for his parents. To shield the family from disgrace they wrapped a rope around the youth’s neck and, with relatives pulling, executed him near graves as punishment. The North China Herald reports this drastic communal remedy.
A university professor argues with a charity expert over philanthropy. The expert cites a case where aid saved an entire family, while the professor concedes occasional good but mocks a west side Mrs Malaprop who misuses language after church in a rainstorm.
In a rural town with a grandly useless hotel and two banker dynasties the amateur theatre clubs stage Romeo and Juliet. Mrs Skilligan and Mrs Winkle vie for Juliet, scheming through fashion and wit. A chaotic performance ends with social rivalries and a final moral about men quitting first.
A hatter laments that hats from French and German makers wear out twice as quickly as American hats because politeness raises the brim to salute both men and women, increasing labor. The Tribune prints Mills County almanacks twice weekly as it reports news.
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