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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1920
Page
1
Glenwood items record visitors leaving for Chicago Detroit Prescott and Denver with numerous hometowns and a kidnapping rumor on Vine Street. The Rex Theatre showcases The Canadian mounted police film Phey clone with a stunt crash through three floors ending in a cellar.
An observation about seeking two flowers or facets that are exactly alike or perfectly matched. It notes that few individuals or specimens exhibit perfect health or normal conditions without defects or variances.
The Wright school in Lions township under teacher AMills Nelle Gedsey introduces a segregation seat for pupils with dirty nails teeth or necks and ears. The plan includes a Halloween for Honor Roll students, and a current “better English week” with each child tagged for weekly errors discarded terms Mr Seen and Ain't.
A compact Glenwood newspaper classified page lists ads for readers with contact details, items for sale including a large touring car and a Ford touring car, lost items such as baby echoes and an auto plate, trades and farm listings, cigars made in Glenwood, and a hair work business. Other entries note a corn husker, Duroc Jersey stock, seven-to-eleven acre farms, and various services. Local phone numbers and addresses are provided for each offering.
Shirley Lewis of Omaha greeted friends in town Sunday. Hastings visitors Henry Clark and John Hockabout looked after auto matters in Glenwood. Dan Buffon and family visited Mrs. Lt. Hevern and others, took their daughter to college in Lincoln. Essex car owned by Leonard Patterson burned Friday night marking a second loss for Patterson. Mr. and Mrs. Smouse and Doris, and Mrs. Pike visited Lincoln for a niece’s wedding. Miss Roxzella Peterson wed Percy Carney. Mr. and Mrs. Widows visited from Omaha. she stayed to assist F. G. Day. J. W. Wedmore plans to move to Hot Springs after purchasing the Home Hotel at El Springs, S. C. Rail incident delayed No. 4 after a derailment near the Cheyney subway. Cosmopolitan Study Class plans first meeting at 7:30 p.m. at Glenwood High School on rept events and social. Mrs. Fathke and Miss Bourt visited Red Oak to inspect the National Sunday School. discussed Worman’s Chile district meeting in Glenwood. Mr. and Mrs. T. Jackson hosted about fifty relatives honoring Mrs. Everett Agler of New Point Mo. Miss Molen Hester, University Place teacher, spent weekend with her parents in Glenwood and returned to University Place for school duties.
Notice warns against hunting on the W. Mc Manigal farm north of Glenwood. Violators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
The Methodist ladies announce a rummage sale in the church basement on Friday and Saturday October 22 and 23. Helpers are urged to call Wed to contribute articles.
RAM patterns a satirical column on advertising paying, farm life versus city traders, price cuts by Henry Ford, population shifts, tea politics for women, labor cuts, and a quip on Edison talking with the dead. It blends humor with wartime market observations and rural-urban contrasts.
On Thursday morning last Dan Allen a rural free delivery carrier on Glenwood Route One, discovered his car on fire near the Ed Wright place. He escaped safely, removed the nail, and with dust and other devices, extinguished the flames. He went to the Hampton home for help, but when he returned the car had burned beyond repair, possibly from crossed wires or an air chamber explosion.
The women of the Wright School district organized a Parent-Teacher cooperative group on Friday. Arrangements include an ice cream social at the Wright school house Thursday night October 14 at 7:46 to raise funds for domestic science equipment.
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