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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1900
Page
4
A ballroom scene shows the society queen glowing beneath lights while her dressmaker toils long hours. The piece links luxury and social strain to nervous prostration and exhaustion, urging Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy to restore strength and happiness.
A collage of stray items notes and quotes from Omaha Neb showing wartime trade pitches and political gossip. An unsigned cabinet clerk remarks on officials seeking favors rather than public business. A caricature of self interest echoes through conversations about governance and patronage.
The official report on non lunacy in Ireland notes increasing mental disorders with hospitals housing the highest patient totals on record while the population remains low. Deaths from tuberculosis and consumption are unsettled, and a proverb about will and dissimulation appears amid the discussion.
At afton Iowa a headend collision on the Burlington main line killed engineer Pete McAloon fireman Teelman Sprowl and an unknown trainman. Fifteen cattle perished and both engines were demolished. Monetary loss about five thousand dollars.
Washington town notes E E Engelsund named postmaster at Terroid in Worth county replacing Ole Tenold. Rural delivery expands Oct 1 at Cedar Hills Black Hawk county with three carriers over 72 miles serving 180 families. Other posts updated include Friedsville supplied by carrier and Marathon Stuart becoming international money order offices. Banking updates include Pocahontas Savings Bank capital 25000 and reserve agents named for Burlington bank. Two Iowa clerks promoted to 1600. A kleptomania case in Osage features Chester McCullough confessing to thefts. Col D B Ellsworth dies at 90, former Eldora postmaster. endowment announced by D F Deming to Tabor College.
Des Moines reports relay letters from Mrs E H Conger and Miss Mary Pierce wives of the American minister to China Edwin H Conger describing the siege of Pekin in June and July. The letters read like diaries full of courage humor and family bonds amid starvation and looming danger as troops approach on August 10 and again on August 14. Mrs Conger notes illness weight loss and the relief of impending relief and reflects on faith and solidarity among besieged foreigners and their Chinese hosts.
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