Bygones: 40 years ago, 5.6% of Duluth’s students dropped out of school

Information Tribune, April 8, 1983

• Preliminary figures point out that Minnesota will get an extra $13.6 million in group improvement funds quickly due to the federal jobs invoice lately handed by Congress. Duluth can have $827,000 added to its present allocation of $2.9 million.
• The Minnesota Division of Training reported yesterday that 4.2% of the state’s 253,702 college students in grades 9 by way of 12 dropped out final yr. Duluth had a 5.6% price, with 290 of town’s 5,213 highschool college students leaving college prematurely.

Information Tribune, April 8, 1923

• Seventy-eight cities in the USA can have a inhabitants of 100,000 or extra on July 1 of this yr, based on estimates of the U.S. Census Bureau. Duluth is ranked because the seventieth metropolis, with a inhabitants of 106,230.
• The Kelley-Duluth Firm this week celebrates 50 years of rising into one of many largest retail {hardware} institutions within the area. The corporate was the primary in Duluth to inventory vehicle tires and equipment and the primary to subject an vehicle catalog.

Bygones is researched and written by David Ouse, retired reference librarian from the Duluth Public Library. He may be contacted at djouse49@gmail.com.