How Long to Read Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry

How Long Does it Take to Read Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 13 minutes to read Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry by Melanie K. Alexander

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Mississippi River town of Muscatine produced billions of pearl buttons. By 1905, Muscatine made 37 percent of the world's buttons and earned the title of "Pearl Button Capital of the World." The rise and fall of the pearl button occurred over a period of 75 years. John Frederick Boepple, a German immigrant button maker, launched the industry in 1891. The button and clamming industries started small but quickly overwhelmed the town. Clamming became the Mississippi River's gold rush while large automated factories and shell-cutting shops employed nearly half the local workforce. Entire families--men, women, and children--contributed to the industry, giving weight to the popular local saying "No Muscatine resident can enter Heaven without evidence of previous servitude in the button industry." Although the industry peaked in 1916, several decades passed before the American-made pearl button buckled under the pressure of foreign competition, changing fashion, limited availability of shell, and the development and refinement of plastic buttons.

How long is Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry?

Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry by Melanie K. Alexander is 132 pages long, and a total of 33,264 words.

This makes it 45% the length of the average book. It also has 41% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 1 minute to read Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry aloud.

What Reading Level is Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry?

Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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