Time Table for Tabor and Northern Arrivals and Departures
The Tribune publishes a timetable showing arrivals and departures for the Tabor and Northern line. It lists Malvern with 9.00 am and 2.00 pm, 6.00 pm. Yebor 7.15 pm. BWan 8.80 pm.
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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1908
Page
2
The Tribune publishes a timetable showing arrivals and departures for the Tabor and Northern line. It lists Malvern with 9.00 am and 2.00 pm, 6.00 pm. Yebor 7.15 pm. BWan 8.80 pm.
Philadelphia unveils a 225th anniversary program with 15 parades a historic pageant a naval display and a massive citywide effort. Events run Oct 4 to Oct 10 featuring German and Philadelphia history themes a grand opera style production and extensive decorative plans across the city for national and international attention.
The Italian ambassador presents an outline for Milan 1913 to honor Verdi's centennial. The exposition spans theater and productions, music and interpretation, and actors and theater literature, with sections for ancient to modern playhouses, instruments, writings, and memorabilia.
The British Admiralty is building a wall at Spithead costing nearly 2 million sterling. Night torpedo attacks show stealthy craft can approach the harbor, so the wall directs navigation through a single channel protected by searchlights. Concrete blocks, each weighing tons, are laid at intervals along the shore near the forts.
A fragmentary poem stanza set from McLandburgh Wilson in New York Sup hints at birds and flight. The speaker derisively addresses bee hawk and eagle, claiming knowledge of flight and superiority in a brief spoken verse.
Secretary Loeb explains the garden party event as Roosevelt backs a nationwide push for family centered clubs modeled on German Danish and Swedish systems. The aim is to unite entire families in clubs to improve home life, reduce divorce, and provide common entertainment venues across rural and urban areas.
The American Museum of Natural History and the Canadian geological department collaborate to assemble an immense dataset on Eskimo life and environment through coordinated field and archival work.
The dinner conversation with Orville Wright prompted a debate on airships as war weapons. A sergeant argued shells cannot be launched from airships due to centrifugal force, while Wright noted wind effects and potential 150 pound mounts for a gun. The discussion covered dropping explosive shells on ships and the aeroplane's vulnerability.
Judge John T. Sims offered sixteen year old James Higgins $190 if he gives up revolvers and yellow back novels until he is twenty one. Higgins turned in a 32 caliber revolver and a pile of dime novels including Tip Top Weekly and Nick Carter Weekly. The judge urged reading better material though acknowledging some reading is not always bad.
A terse promotional line urges self improvement with a bold nuture twist, telling readers to quit reading such things and stop carrying a gun. It promises a $100 prize to those who heed the call and make themselves manly.
Daniel Frohman, the theatrical manager, sparked laughter at a Theater Managers Association meeting in the Hotel Astor New York as discussion focused on Ros tand’s new play Ghanticller. When a manager asked what language the birds speak Frohman quipped All French except the chanticleer and he speaks cockney.
Arthur Chapman in the Denver Republican argues for broader uplifts to city life from attic to cellar. He suggests penalties for noisy neighbors, loud voices at dawn, persistent milkmen, crowing roosters, and raucous sports boosters, aiming to reduce urban disturbances.
The Tombstone Epitaph notes a surreal scene where a baldheaded man, after hours of file skipping, devises a strange plan involving a sheet labeled tanglefoot over his head and listening to a death song. The piece ends by asserting bright spots exist, including this odd moment.
A Connecticut peach grower shares a homely joke about a hot day. He tells his driver Joe that on such a day he would owe a man a hot day, and wonders how to pay him if the man would not take this one. The tale reflects rural humor from the region and hints at his Georgia orchards.
A courtroom exchange ends with a prisoner refusing to utter a statement, citing contempt fears as the judge presses for remarks. The scene is contrasted with a rural philosopher quipping about law as a “heap” like a colt. An offbeat New York office sign is described in old John Street lore.
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