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Newspaper
Moulton Weekly Tribune
Location
Moulton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
1
The writer recalls youth, comparing aging to a battlefield as he reflects on choosing law for a lifelong fight. He notes three percent of lawyers reach seventy in the profession, recalls a tough clash with Lawyer Chris Fogle, and urges fighting a good fight to the death while valuing law as a noble calling.
Ex president Herbert Hoover attracts attention as a potential influence in the upcoming campaign while a newly named dam across the Colorado River shifts from Boulder to Hoover Dam. The piece also reflects on lumber use in early America and the ongoing building boom driving demand for wood.
The fragment presents the Tribune masthead with price info and publication scope. It notes a 8 column width? and annual rate structure: $1.25 within the state, $1.50 outside, and marks it as the Official County City School paper with post office entry in Moulton, Iowa, February 1884.
The aging publisher S. S. McClure, famed for McClure's Magazine, is described as 82 and thriving. He rose from a penniless Indiana farm lad to founder of a popular syndicate, faced bankruptcy by 1914, and now enjoys renewed support for a comeback with a new venture and a younger generation backing him.
Monterey vicinity residents and relatives visited or hosted multiple households over several days. Names include Lawson Brad bury Stober Graves Horn Horns Brunk Arnold Brunk, with Lorena and Verna Horn visiting Moulton and various family gatherings noted in Monday Thursday Friday events.
The Hilltown area celebrates welcome rains that revive vegetation. Residents from Moulton including Mrs. Lottie Spurgeon and family visit relatives such as Mrs. Laura Gorman and R. L. Stites. Other local families like the Corders, Higenbothams, and the Gorman, Stites, Stevens, and Kirby households share meals and Sunday visits, with calls from Centerville’s George Bever.
The Appanoose County Board met in adjourned session with all members present. It authorized a duplicate tax deed for Lots 7 8 and 9 Block 3 Original Town of Moulton and appointed J P McCann as Justice of the Peace in Pleasant Township. It released a mortgage on Permanent School Fund No 418 and conducted public auctions of Mystic property with deeds to be executed by the County Auditor. The board adjourned to June 5 1939. The Henderson Reunion will be held at Centerville City Park next Sunday with a basket dinner at noon.
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