Iowa school bond rule under fire in Fort Madison case
A Fort Madison court questions the Iowa 60 percent approval requirement for school bond issues and notes the legislature could change it to a simple majority. The ruling hinges on equal voting weight and the broader issue of top heavy majorities. The case may reach the Iowa Supreme Court as lawmakers prepare to reconvene.
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Iowa
W. L. Huiskamp
Fort Madison
Iowa Supreme Court
High Court
No More Vietnams Lessons Span U.S. Policy Debate
Roscoe and Geoffrey Drummond argue the nation must lucidly extract lessons from Vietnam. They warn against flat forecasts or commitments without broad support, noting Congress approved actions in 1964 and urging careful questions: Was defending South Vietnam right in principle, could limited force win, and were the costs worth it.
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Roscoe
Geoffrey Drummond
Washington
Vietnam
Nixon Administration
Asia
United States
Japan
Red China
William Rogers
Senate
Congress
Trith
Southeast Asia
The Measuring Stick over the purchasing power of the dollar
The Labor Department notes in its Handbook of Labor Statistics how five dollars bought many goods in 1913, shrinking to two pounds of steak and two pounds of cheese by 1968, while work time fell from over 22 hours to 1 hour 40 minutes to earn the same five dollars.
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Labor Department
New Handbook of Labor Statistics
SMALL SERVINGS AT WEDDING FEEDING THE FEW
The bride told her mother she followed the recipe exactly yet meat was scarce. Grandmother’s faded handwriting began with Get hour 60 cents worth of TUMP roast as noted in the Minneapolis Star.
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Minneapolis Star
Reading Beards as Signals in a Computer Age
In a Los Angeles piece Jenkin Lloyd Jones muses on how beards reveal self-image and social signals. He proposes psychology students classify beard styles, interview 5,000 wearers, and feed data to a computer to map what facial hair says about politics, values, and aspirations.
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Los Angeles
20Th Century-Fox
Raquel Welch
Myra Breckinridge
Rotary Club
Cedar Rapids
Full Spade
van Dyke
Square
Franz Josef
Fu Manchu
Mephistopheles
Col. Sanders
Dundreary
Mottom Chop
What is cholesterol in the body and why it matters
Dear Dr Thosteson explains cholesterol is a necessary, intricate compound found with blood lipids that fuels hormones and nerves. Too much in blood may relate to arterial hardening and heart risk, but causation is debated. He urges balanced precautions, not cholesterol fear, and promotes a booklet available for 25 cents.
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Dr. Thosteson
R.K
Traveling man contemplates gender labels around the world
A traveling man recounts his confusion with labels for men and women and various cultural terms. He jokes about doors marked with names from opera, myth, and history, and laments the overcomplication of gendered terms in travel settings. The piece blends humor with a travelogue of places from New Orleans to London.
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Hugh A. Mulligan
Doc
Rome
Germany
Herten
Damen
Pete
New Orleans
Hansel
Gretel
Cressida
Hilton
Cyprus
Kings Road
London
Damon
Pythias
Howe Cavern
Hats at Fred Tappe’s and area news round up
Our yesterdays recalls new ladies hats at Fred Tappe’s. Potatoes rise to 50 cents a bushel in Wapello. A man and his girlfriend visited Evans gallery for an “angry type” portrait. McBride and Cape’s drugstore offer fine perfumery. Rev E C Paget traveled to Washington by morning mail.
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Fred Tappe
Wapello
Evans Picture Gallery
McBride and
Cape's
E. C. Paget
Washington
Today in History: Key events of December 8, 1969
On December 8 1941 the United States and Britain declared war on Japan. Eli Whitney born 1765 in Westboro Massachusetts. Washington crossed the Delaware near Trenton in 1776. AFL founded 1886 in Columbus Ohio. Hitler's Mein Kampf published 1925. Nationalists moved to Formosa by 1949. Los Angeles became third largest city in 1953. Eisenhower visited Pakistan ten years earlier. Cuba labor minister Sanchez faced dismissal five years earlier. Coast Guard ship collision left 17 missing in the Mississippi River one year ago.
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Associated Press
United States
Britain
Japan
Eli Whitney
Westboro
Mass
George Washington
New Jersey
Delaware River
Trenton
Pennsylvania
American Federation of Labor
Columbus
Ohio
Adolf Hitler
China
Formosa
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pakistan
Cuba
Augusto Martinez Sanchez
Coast Guard
Mississippi River
Prayer counsel and gifts of righteousness and salvation
A religious invocation urges seekers to rely on divine gifts of righteousness and salvation through Christ, emphasizing heavenly blessings and the call to accept spiritual riches and clothed purity. The text blends biblical verse with a prayerful plea for God’s grace and guidance.
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Agnew
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San Diego
Ho Chi Minh
Che Guevara
Michelangelo
Moses
Brigham Young
George C. Thosteson, M. D
D.M.Y
Wilton
Wirth
J. Wirth
Evangelical Church
Scull
A. Rexroth
Lonetree
Lone Tree High School
Dorothy
Donald Greazel
Virginia
Dorothy Kessler
Fern
LaVerne Fountain
Donald Geazel
Ruth E. Rininsland
Sycamore St
Bruce Mt Rininsland
Berlin
Kgo A. Ernest Hoffman
Route 4
Muscatine
Bloomington Grange Hall
the Daily Prayer
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