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Newspaper
Moulton Weekly Tribune
Location
Moulton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1921
Page
4
News of the Week reports Frederick J. Wright of Boston as sole U S entrant defeated by Bernard Darwin at Hoylake ending the American challenge in six rounds.
The 1910 to 1920 census reports lower illiteracy across Alabama Arkansas Delaware and District of Columbia with Alabama dropping from 22.0 to 1d percent and Arkansas from 12.6 to Qt percent Delawares rate falls to 60 percent and DC to 2.8 percent. The piece notes continued progress aided by education laws and limited funds, with a focus on literacy among Negroes and state efforts. A separate item from Marton Ky describes Sunday school plans disrupted by a track meet, with services moved to Blackford and full attendance recorded.
Agnes Stafford, blind since infancy, displays rare color sense in weaving at the New York Lighthouse for the Blind. With President Yarding as honorary chairman and Miss Winifred Holt as director, the committee for light houses for the blind pushes expansion of weaving sewing and handcraft programs as daily work continues in the lighthouse rooms.
A National Geographic bulletin reports rent troubles were common in ancient Babylonia as early as 4,000 years ago. It notes clay tablets from Babylon and Nippur show renting of houses was a flourishing business and evictions or penalties accompanied leases long before modern times.
Helsingfors reports reveal Bolshevik leaders use a two faced approach to appease peasants and city workers. Lenin warns peasants may swing toward bourgeois or monarchist outcomes while village press urges peasants to back soviet rule or risk the return of the Whites. A corn tax replacement and free commerce are noted easing peasant relief.
A long list of Iowa news items notes Sigma Nu purchasing the J J Holtz homestead for $12000 in Iowa City. Other notes include a fatal truck crash in Chicago. Keosauqua resident S V Whitaker holding a state record. ouster proceedings against Sheriff Jones of Sioux City. a drowning near Oskaloosa. legal actions in Plover, Maxwell, Osage, Muscatine, and Davenport. a bankruptcy filing in Maxwell. a fire loss at an Osage farm. and various court and crime items across the state.
New York. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler scored a darting average of only 1 of -ten in a special test by Columbia University's engineering society at Tener had dinner. He identified only bay rum among ten substances, concluding the sense of smell is the least intellectual of the senses.
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