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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1956
Page
6
A classroom note block covers American slang terms and usages such as bats in your belfry and coffin nail. It discusses difficulties foreigners have with expressions and gives examples from daily speech and a lesson context. The piece also lists seventh and eighth grade activities including field trips, dental cards, birthdays, and student projects.
Betty Lou Nerge, a Tripoli high school senior, names biology as her favorite science and plays guard on the girls basketball team. She enjoys television and needlework, cooks fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy, works part time as a clerk at Farmers’ Store, and plans to attend the Personnel Training School in Omaha Nebraska before seeking employment.
Fifth grade reports completion of the Junior Crusader project with all sign slips returned and seven more dental cards needed for full dental checks. They finished a unit on Man's Best Friend and started Wild Life with deer reports presented in class. Birthdays brought candy and treats, Easter art decorates the room, and students praised for ballet and piano talents. A roller skating party was held March 16 with multiple chaperones.
Local item from the April 4 1956 issue of the Tripoli Leader in Tripoli Iowa. Details are partial OCR and describe routine news from the area without explicit events or names available.
Congregational notes list Sunday school at 9 15 and worship at 10 30 with choirs and guild meetings. April 9 10 and 29 are dates for religious education events and a mother daughter banquet. Mozarteum orchestra and Wings Over Jordan are slated for Wartburg college and Grace Lutheran with community access.
Em Fuchs pastor leads at John’s Lutheran Crane Creek with Sunday school at 9 30 a m worship at 10 30 a m and Luther League meeting Thursday at 6 p m
A local church outlines its week with a 9 a.m. church school hour and 10 a.m. divine worship. The 1956 confirmation class will have a 7 p.m. dinner reception on Thursday, April 12. Brotherhood gathers at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11. The church plans worship at 9:30 a.m. and study at 10:30 a.m. with classes for all, led by Pastor Cyril Jandrey.
Sunday school at 9 45 worship at 11 99 and 10 15 church activities include a Cedar Falls teachers institute 2 4 pm Reinbeck choral union 4 pm Friday April 6 L W M S rally at Denver April 9 teacher business study April 9 L L L meeting in Waterloo April 10 voters meeting 8 15 pm April 12 junior ladies 10 am choir rehearsal 8 15 pm
A list shows twelve pairs of brothers in the Chariton National Guard company, totaling 24 individuals on the roster. The arrangement highlights family ties within the unit.
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