Ice ages, climate shifts, and youth in industry in Iowa
A reader cites meteorologist Charles D Reed on 1930s temperature, notes ice cap recession, and suggests a seven thousand year ice age timeline with a 60 degree latitude shift by 1000 years. The piece argues climate cycles mirror seasons, influenced by axial precession, and warns of future warming impacts. It ends with reflections on youth education and skilled trades versus white collar drift.
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Iowa
Charles D. Reed
Des Moines
Niagara Falls
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence River
Tribune
Uncertain Names And Jobs Theme From a Readable Fragment
A fragment discusses common surnames like Smith Brown Jones Johnson and Miller and notes varied origins. It retells a college graduate who earned four jobs by smartly pursuing both military and private posts, illustrating proactive effort over waiting for opportunities.
Self-made scholars prove schooling not required
A homely proverb meets Rudyard Kipling and Alfred E. Smith in a reflection on education. Kipling left school before sixteen to work on a paper in India and rose to global fame as a literary genius. Alfred E. Smith is noted as a leader who, despite only sixth grade schooling, became a respected public figure.
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Rudyard Kipling
India
New York
Alfred E. Smith
Character Over Books in Focus in Sing Sing Press
The essay argues character matters more than learning or skill. It cites Richard Whitney and a master engraver who lacked character, both facing prison for unethical actions. Education without character is warned as worse than none.
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Richard Whitney
Sing Sige
Tribune Born in Official County Paper
The notice records the Tribune as the official county city and school paper with annual subscription rates listed as 1.25 dollars outside the county and 1.50 dollars within. It notes postal service entry in Moulton Iowa and second class matter status from February 1884.
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YB Tribune
Moulton
Iowa
New Lights for Highways Turn Roads Safer
R R Eby describes two low cost highway lighting systems for rural roads to reduce night deaths. One embeds reflecting material in pavement to reveal obstructions, the other uses roadside reflectors on posts to project headlight beams forward. Each aims to cut fatalities as roads gain better lighting and glare reduction.
Pension growth and widows' pensions for veterans rise
The Jast Congress expanded pension laws to aid families of disabled veterans and increase veteran pensions, adding about 13 million dollars yearly. Current costs exceed 400 million, with 850,000 ex-service members and 250,000 widows on pensions. A Buffalo widow of an 1812 veteran died, illustrating long pensions.
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Jast Congress
Buffalo
Darious King
Federal policy debates and consumer economic concerns
A summary of public confusion over Federal Government policies. The text notes the traditional view that the central economic problem is the consumer and suggests uncertainty remains about policy approaches and practices. The excerpt emphasizes consumer-focused economic thinking in the era.
Consumers all share one label in a divided society
The speaker argues that all people are consumers and notes two groups: workers who buy their own food and non workers who rely on relief. Government purchases to raise farm prices raise costs for workers while aiding farmers, with non workers gaining none, leaving ordinary consumers paying higher prices.
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AAA
Budget Hearing Notice for Moulton ISD Board
The Board of Directors of Independent School District of Moulton Iowa will meet August 8 1988 at 8 pm at Mace's Store. Taxpayers may be heard for or against the estimate of expenditures at that time. 8. R. Mace District Secretary.
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Board of Directors of
Independent School District
Moulton
Appanoose County
Iowa
Mace’s
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