Tripoli Leader Issue December 14 1955
The Tripoli Leader reports local events in Tripoli Iowa with community updates, notices, and brief items reflecting town life on December 14 1955.
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Tripoli
Iowa
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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1955
Page
6
Santa as the queen bee in Christmas imagery
An editorial compares Santa to a queen bee with helpers as workers. Children see Santa in two stores, illustrating crowds around the queen. The piece links summer savings for Christmas gifts and bees storing honey for winter, urging imaginative parallels.
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Santa
Trudy Nerge
Betty Plum Senior Glimpses Profile
Betty Plum is an 18 year old, 5'5" senior weighing 125 pounds with blue green eyes and brown hair. She seeks ambitious, energetic company but not overly noisy. She plans to work about a year before entering nursing training. In her spare time she enjoys reading and volleyball.
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Betty Plum
Betty
Betty's Journey From Io Wa Falls to Tripoli Nurs e Career
Betty arrived in Tripoli from Io Wa Falls as a sophomore and joined music and pop club. We wish her luck as she pursues a nursing career.
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Betty
Tripoli
Iowa Falls
TV season previews offer festive Christmas pageants and specials
This season on CBS and other networks features a shower of holiday programming. December 22 presents A Christmas Carol with Frederic March and Basil Rathbone, December 24 offers My Best Scrooge by Lionel Barrymore, and Bing Crosby hosts Sing with Bing. The piece also notes a joke about pay TV and mentions Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief, a suspenseful jewel theft tale starring Cary Grant.
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Cbs-Tv
Frederic March
Basil Rathbone
My Best Scrooge
Lionel Barrymore
Dicken
Bing
Bing Crosby
Tellevision
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant
Robs Review Santa Wish Poll Results
A small poll of ten people asked which book Santa should bring for Christmas. The most readable result shows Miss Yoshinaga choosing Gone With the Wind.
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Santa
Miss Yoshinaga
Student personalities and school scrapbook banquet notes
Listings show student book tastes and favorite authors alongside a school scrapbooks project. It reports a senior faculty banquet with Christmas season decor and a dinner of minute steak and sides.
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Home Economics I
Elsie Timm Chooses Teaching After Grade School
Elsie Timm decided to teach while in grade school in New Hampton Iowa. She worked in Chicago Illinois in the Office of the Interior before joining Oliver Corporation in Charles City. She later taught at Tripoli Independent School and studied at Upper Iowa University in Fayette with further correspondence from the State University of Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie
New Hampton
Timm
Office of the Interior
Chicago
Ill
Oliver Corporation
Charles City
Tripoli Independent School
Upper Iowa University
Fayette
State University of Iowa
Tripoli High Welcomes Freshman Eloise Ratliff
Tripoli High adds freshman Eloise Ratliff from Nashua to its student body. The new arrival joins classmates in ongoing classroom chatter about the transition as the school year progresses.
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Tripoli High
Eloise
E-Lois) Ratliff
Nashua
Bench Warmer at THS Hints at Big Basketball Year
From observation, THS may have a strong season as Coach Ted Olmstead lists seven potential starters. The bench players show promise despite limited height, signaling a hopeful outlook for the team. Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year are wished by Shirley and Marv Gatch.
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THS
Ted Olmstead
Shirley
Marv
Marv Gatch
Christmas Tree Origin and U S Demand
The Christmas tree stems from northern Europe and has Pagan and Christian roots. In America the spruce is favored though firs pines and cedars are used. demand is high and trees are farmed with 28 million cut last year for Christmas festivities.
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Bethlehem
Rhine
Danube
America
Diamond emerges in THS junior class
Rose HUNemuller claims a new diamond prize at THS marking a notable junior achievement. The discovery highlights student talent within the school’s social scene and signals rising achievement among underclassmen.
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THS
Rose Hunemuller
Church notes and holiday programs at multiple congregations
Church notices detail services, choirs, Sunday school, and Christmas events for Lester E. Gatch, St. Peter s Evangelical and Reform ed, and St. Paul s Lutheran in Waverly including choir rehearsals, youth groups, and Christmas program rehearsals with guest speakers and special services scheduled through December 24 and into January.
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Lester E. Gatch
Robert Schmidt
Howard van Brocklin
ST. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed
Ewald F. Puhlmann
Christ
Women’s Guild
R. J. Bunger
Ewald Kleiss
Carl Buenger
Howard Tegtmeier
House of God
Luther League
Children of Light
Karl T. Schmidt
Christian Crusaders
WMT
Lutheranism Speaks
WCAL
Wartburg
The
Brotherhood
Grace Hall
ST. Paul’s EV
Lutheran Waverly
Artesian
QO. H. Moll
Winter Fashion Returns With Snowshoe Trend
Winter arrives bringing snow and new fads. Girls wear leather fur lined snow shoes and knee high socks. The piece notes nostalgia for earlier times and mentions Bill Welsh from Guttenberg and employed at the John Deere plant in Dubuque.
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Bill Welsh
Bill
Guttenberg
John Deere
Dubuque
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Carl Carlsen
N. R. Ambrose Oil Co
Wm. Ambrose Auto Co
American Savings Bank
Dr. C. R. Barry Bergmann Hatchery Block's
Block & Klemp
Bock’s Plumbing
Buhr Chevrolet Co
Bull Standard Service
Butler-Bremer Mutual Tele Phone Co
Colburn Feed Mill
Crittenden Produce & Hatchery
Dreyer Drug the Farmers Store Farmers Produce Co
Fred's Body Shop
Hasbrouck-Voetmann Lumber Co
the Hub Interstate Power Co
Juel’s
Briardale
Kramer Produce
Kuhrt Bros. Kuhrt Insurance Agency
Michael's Food Market
Panzer Produce
Rettig Furniture Store
Sommer & Bockhaus
Tegtmeier Oil Co
Tripoli Cafe
Tripoli Creamery Co
Tripoli Hardware
Tripoli Implement Co
Tripoli Leader
Tripoli Mercantile Co
Tripoli Sales Co
Warner's
Wayside Inn
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