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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1920
Page
4
Local newspaper page lists annual subscription price and advertising rates. Mentions owners and publishers A Davis and B Graham, with rates for display ads, local matter, and obituaries. Includes terminology like “per inch” and “per line” for various notice types.
In Mandalay Burma a new pagoda crown or thi was placed atop the summit over 300 feet high. Buddhists from Indo China Tumalayas Laos Chen and Siam attended the ceremony. Warriors from Katschin and sorcerers from Mot joined a bustling festival with diverse stalls and free birds. The gilded crown weighed hundreds of pounds and was hoisted along bamboo scaffolding by a carved inclined plane before being fixed in place after six days of ascent and one to fasten.
Sponge gathering is centered on Greece Syria and parts of the Adriatic with Tunisian and Tripoli seashores also active. Divers from boats reach 10 to 25 meters to pull sponges from rocks sometimes using a trident, though diving bells and corix jackets are used in better grounds. After harvest sponges are squeezed beaten washed and exposed to sulphuric acid to remove coatings and odors.
A Yale graduate in Philadelphia, now an electrician earning 80 dollars weekly, questions the value of a college education. An uneducated foreman urges him to quit and join the union at 60 dollars weekly, while a boss painter offers doubled pay at 60 dollars. The youth weighs whether college pays off.
The imperial war museum at the Crystal Palace in London is largely deserted with only a few visitors amid the glass roof displays. Among 200 to 300 guests in a day, only two were soldiers, who called the experience mournful and uninspiring. A war widow and her sixteen year old daughter shed tears at the Warspite exhibits before leaving, a poignant moment that drew attention but stood as an isolated incident.
The Husarany factories in Sweden save about 400 tons of coke annually by using surplus hydraulic power. An electric generator runs to heat 44,000 gallons of water in a large subterranean tank, circulating hot water to the shops during a 12 hour day. On very cold days the coal-fired plant provides auxiliary heat.
Clyde Herring, seeking the Iowa governorship, backs a civil administrative code replacing overlapping commissions with focused departments. He lists finance, agriculture, registration and education, labor, mines, public works and buildings, public welfare, public health, and trade and commerce to streamline state government and improve accountability.
Rufus, famed desert helper to pioneer Lou Westcott Beck, resides in a Pasadena dog sanatorium after years of life saving on scorching sands. Beck died in 1917. the government later funded the project with $100,000. Rufus will be cared for by a longtime veterinarian friend of Beck.
Clyde Herring, Iowa gubernatorial hopeful, shares a rise from a 40 acre farm to Des Moines business chief. After early moves to Jackson Michigan and Colorado health-led ranching, he returned to Iowa, built the Herring Motor Company, then led a political push promising a businesslike administration and tax cuts modeled on Lowden.
Clyde Herring, candidate for governor, proposes a State House Bureau of Marketing to advise farmers in Des Moines on market needs and conditions. He argues the farmer's work ends with harvest and urges year round state aid and a warm marketing service to secure better prices and orderly distribution without raising consumer costs.
Clyde Herring, Iowa gubernatorial candidate, argues that money aid for farmers is vital. He calls for cooperative marketing, road funding from federal aid to the state, and federal loan programs to convert tenants into farm owners.
The piece extols encouraging birds to nest as the best method to combat insect pests harming fruit grain and trees. It cites Andre Godard noting agricultural plagues follow birds disappearing and recounts Hungary forests saved by artificial nests attracting insect-eating birds. It adds most birds eat insects though some eat fruit, but fruit eaters typically feed on insects inside.
A Trench scientist has achieved motion pictures at about 15 000 frames per second using an aluminum reel driven at 8 000 rpm and film wound 164 feet per second. Images two inches high are captured ten thousand times per second, with a high tension spark light source at 50 000 cycles per second producing expose events and a concave reflector arranging the illumination.
Nippon honors its dead with a looming memorial near Port Arthur China. Unmarked trenches hold 22 000 Japanese soldiers and 16 000 Russian troops buried on the other hill. Siege of Port Arthur lasted years ending earlier. The city remains a Japanese stronghold and may stay so unless Japan loses it in war.
Four year old Wil lam Jason Tucker of Columbus, son of Dr. and Mrs. E. T. Tucker, rode with his parents and sister Sunday night. An unusually large number of fireflies lit the country roads as the family rode by. His sister asked what caused the fireflies. He answered with a flippant remark about headlights in stomachs, drawing a chuckle from onlookers and a nod to the odd rural humor cited by the Indianapolis News.
A fragment depicts a character with "implicit confidence in himself" and a moment of self praise as he claims to have brewed his own beer. The terse dialogue reflects a boastful tone and a sly sense of pride in personal craft.
James H. Harman files for divorce from Callie Harman in Mills County Iowa. Petition alleges desertion. Defendant must appear by noon on October term starting October 12 1920 at Glenwood or risk default and judgment. Dated September 6.
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