Spring on the Farm Ballad of a Hard Year
A milk producer laments a year of backbreaking labor with chores, milking cows, feeding pigs, and barn work. Despite full days and summer toil, cash never improves, and spring brings another chance as hardships persist. The verse humorously contrasts rural toil with stubborn poverty and resilience.
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Seymour man keeps a twenty five year old hen thriving
Henry Thomas of Seymour reports his hen, now twenty five years old, still lays a daily dozen eggs. He jokes that one day the hen may be boiled for stew and the age question will be easily satisfied.
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Henry Thomas
Seymour
Stock to feed and past ure notice after March 20
Cleo Elliott of Centerville announces stock for feed and pasture after March 20. Also a sale date to be arranged.
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Cleo Elliott
Centerville
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Labor of Love and the Worker’s Duty
The piece argues that hard work driven by greed yields misfortune, while true fulfillment comes from labor of love. It extols a life with a cherished dear one guiding purpose, suggesting happiness rests in caring for others rather than hoarding wealth. Wealth brings no lasting joy without love.
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Local Post Office Entry at Moulton Iowa
The notice records that a document was entered at the post office in Moulton Iowa as second class matter in February 1884 marking its filing for archival mailing purposes.
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Moulton
Iowa
Local Sports, Road Work, and Civic Notes
Centerville won first in class A and Exline first in class B at the sectional basketball tourney held in Centerville. The Morrow Shoe Store launches a major sale with stock priced to save, while street work crews improve drainage. The Tribune notes address changes, LA Iowa picnic crowds, spring signs, Majestic Range demos, and an orchestra recital with plans to install a broadcasting station at the Moulton church. The board backs a south road project, and Tribune introduces Autocaster for weekly pictorial reviews and ads.
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Exline
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Moulton
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