Tripoli School News Debaters Travel to Cedar Falls Meet
Tripoli High School sent a debate squad to Cedar Falls with members James Bennett Herbert Blume Orval Harmening Howard Rebholz. Competing teams included Vinton Cedar Falls Oelwein Fort Dodge and Tripoli as the squad prepares for state questions and upcoming contests.
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Tripoli
Cedar Falls
Vinton
Oelwein
Fort Dodge
James Bennett
Herbert Blume
Orval Harmening
Howard Rebholz
Ted Frese
Clifford Eichmann
Oscar Gerlach
Erwin Gaede
Lorraine Schwein
Harry Neilson
United States
Congress
Junior High Declamatory Elimination for Tripoli and Plainfield
The school house hosted a two day junior high declamatory contest with ten entrants per class. Four students from each class earned spots progressing to a December 20 contest against Plainfield, with eight finalists named across dramatic and humorous divisions. This marks the first intertown competition for Tripoli junior high students.
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Tripoli
Plainfield
Zatha Kroll
Shirley Hale
Dorothy Hankner
Lee Lou Morf
Bruce Borchert
Kathryn Klein
Iris Omelik
Violet Shipp
Duty and Responsibility of a Town for Sanitation
Ralph Drewis urges the town to curb alley garbage dumping and junk cars, require fences and paint around junk yards, remove oil barrels and stop oil runoff into adjacent land. Sewage and car wash runoff should be piped and screened to avoid ditch pollution and odors from the shredder pile.
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Canning Factory
Ralph Drewis
Miss Milroy Reflects On Santa Letters From Second Grade
A second grade class shares four best letters written to Santa Claus. Students describe being good and express wishes, revealing classroom activity as part of the school news segment.
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Santa Claus
LeeLou
Miss Milroy
New Hampton
Jeanette Morf
P. S
Tripoli
Iowa
Fourth Grade Preferences From Local Class Poems
Fourth grade students describe their favorite activities in short verses. Marion Harmening enjoys ice skating Christmas making things and washing dishes and hearing pigs. Roy Brad lists roller skating swimming running and shooting a bee bee gun. The fragment reflects classroom writing exercises led by Miss Chesebro.
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Marion Harmening
Roy Bradfield
I Like to Ride and Feel Close to Animals
A collection of light verse lines from multiple authors describing playful desires. The speakers express affection for pets such as dogs and a Shetland pony, with mentions of skating, trains, rabbits, and holiday imagery.
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Kenneth Shipp
Wendell Rieck
Florence Boeckmann
Schwemm’s
Little Pony
Virgil Borchert
Jeannine Krueger
Desert Studies and Health Club In Fifth Grade
Miss Conklin's class explores Egypt Arabia and Palestine in geography and desert life in nature study. They plan a desert scene with wise men shepherds star and Christ Child. A good health club forms with weekly committees and health mottos. Several students achieved 100 in spelling last week.
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Egypt
Arabia
Palestine
Zenovia
Lenora
Lucille Everding
Mercede Hesse
Ruth Sassman
Christmas Class Activities And Decorations Planned
The class lists savings bank arithmetic, spelling booklets for the month, and a Christmas poster project. Students mention candles in Christmas colors, room decoration, and a Christmas tree. Names Vivian Everding and Evonne Kuhrt are noted.
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Vivian Everding
Evonne Kuhrt
Seventh Grade Studies Norway Sweden And Christmas Plans
In English class we study nouns and pronouns while geography covers Europe focusing on Norway and Sweden. Students drew names for Christmas and plan a class tree. Reading notes include a declamation about a dog on trial and a poem praising a loyal horse named Old Jim.
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Europe
Norway
Sweden
Jim
Eighth Grade Reading Study of A Christmas Carol
A class discusses Dickens story about a stingy man, focusing on themes of generosity and transformation as they begin a new chapter.
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Charles Dickens
School notes on arithmetic and gifts for classmates
LeeLou Morf writes about speed arithmetic tests in addition subtraction multiplication and division of whole numbers. The class studies national government and drew names to buy gifts for the person drawn. They plan to decorate the classroom for Christmas.
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LeeLou Morf
Community Socials Across Spring Fountain and Surrounding Homes
In Spring Fountain area gatherings, Schwerin and Meyer families hosted and visited in multiple homes including Lorenz Schwerin, Myron Chapin, Earl Meyer, August Kaker, John Bock, and others during Sunday and Friday visits. A Crane Creek church wedding united Carl Struck and Loretta Dohrmann, with attendees from nearby families. Also notes Waverly and Oelwein visits and local callers. A fur trade item explains fur seal pelts being plucked to reveal woolly under fur, dyed, shaved, and finished for color depth and sheen.
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Louie Schwerin
Lorenz Schwerin
Dalton Meyer
Myron Chapin
Elda Schneider
Near Grove Hill
Fred Meyer
Earl Meyer
Louie Meyer
Verla
August Kaker
August Steege
Burnida
John Bock
Ford Meyer
Laura
Alberta
Herbert Bodermann
Paul Schroeder
Charley Hagemann
Denver
Florence Kuker
Leo
Harry Meyer
John Struck
Ferd Meyer
Fred Bodermann
Sumner
Carl Struck
Loretta Dohrmann
Crane Creek Church
Walter Thompson
Charles Thompson
Alvin Sommer
Ernie Meyer
Leviathan Ship Shuttled Veterans to France and Home
The Leviathan carried over 200000 Americans to France during the war and served as the transport used by General Pershing and staff on their return. Its cabins echoed with war songs as it also carried veterans to the American Legion convention in France.
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France
General Pershing
American Legion
Kimberling name roots and meaning traced
Kimberling is a British family name derived from the occupation of combing wool. It originates from the Middle English verb kemben meaning to comb, with the suffix ling indicating possession as in little son of.
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Kemben
Policing Half Acre in Piccadilly Costs £50,000 a Year
A patch under half an acre in central London costs the city 50,000 pounds annually to police. Piccadilly Circus, the West End hub after dark, is described as Britain’s brightest spot at night.
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London
Piccadilly Circus
West End
Britain
The Golden Horn Inlet and Subtropical Snowfall Reported
The Golden Horn is the inlet to the Bosporous forming the harbor of Constantinople, Turkey. Snow has fallen in South Africa within seven miles of the equator.
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Constantinople
Turkey
South Africa
Equator
Community Social Note from Waterloo and Surrounds
A sequence of visits and gatherings names multiple Waterloo area residents including the Siegel and Gerlach families, the Moeller and Grebien households, and others at homes of Ladage Biermann Bergmann and Quade. Richard Brandt of Denver celebrated. Will Behrens resigns from Siegel Creamery to join a LaThorpe creamery. Carl Schwemm and spouse listed as ill with physician care.
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C. G. Gerlach
Henry Moeller
W. H. Grebien
Geneva
Carl Boeckmann
Arion
Henry Wolf
Waterloo
Chas. Ladage
Henry Drape Home
Conrad Myer
Richard Brandt
Denver
Henry Korte
Fred Biermann
Gustave Schwemm
Ernst Quade
Carl Mershock
Louie Bergmann
Alwin Bergmann
Frank Bremer
Ernes Hoppenworth
Erwin Hoppenworth
Marvin
Will Behrens
Siegel Creamery
LaThorpe
Ill
Carl Schwemm
Crowhurst Village Lacks Essentials Near London
Crowhurst in Surrey, 25 miles from London, has no gas or electric lights nor trains or omnibuses. It also lacks a public house or shops and the nearest cinema is five miles away.
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Crowhurst
Surrey
London
Global sulfur production dominated by three nations
The United States produces about five sixths of the world's sulfur, with Italy and Japan contributing the remaining one sixth.
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United States
Italy
Japan
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