Looking Backward In the Leader's Files February 11 1909
Twenty five years ago notes from the Leader's Files detail visits and events around New Hampton. Mrs Helen Pagel and Miss Ida Rodloff stayed with the Zuelsdorfs. Donita Tuttle graduated from a business college in Waterloo. F D Kimball celebrated a birthday. Fred Rucker returned from Chicago. John Carl Schultz died February 4. Henry Bang and wife marked a golden anniversary with local attendees. Henry Jergens bought land north of town for 2500. Fitchs plan to move to Tripoli. Mrs August Barrett visited Minnesota. local market prices listed. Phillip Schlowitz died Friday.
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Helen Pagel
Ida Rodloff
New Hampton
Gus Zuelsdorf
Donita Tuttle
Shores Farm Remedy Company
Waterloo
Business College
F. D. Kimball
Fred Rucker
Chicago
Guy Jenks
L. W. Fettkether
Davenport
John Carl Schultz
Henry Bang
Dubuque
A. H. Bany
Fred Bany
Louis Bany
Ed Huebner
Ten Years Ago in Tripoli Frosted by Blizzard News
February 6 1934 note recalls Esther Kuhrt 15 died Feb 5 1924 of scarlet fever in Tripoli. Blizzard isolating city halted trains and traffic. L A Young leaves for Faribault Minn to take cashier job at Chicago Great Western depot. Alma Borchert recovering from appendicitis. Harold Elkema improving after illness. Mrs Herman Warner of Waterloo and Mrs Spencer Warner and son William of Pensacola visited Mrs Chas Franklin.
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Esther Kuhrt
Fred Kuhrt
Tripoli
L. A. Young
Faribault
Minn
Chicago Great Western
Alma Borchert
Harold
H. J. Elkema
Herman Warner
Waterloo
Spencer Warner
William
Pensacola
Florida
Chas. Franklin
Nellie Kelsey Dies of Pneumonia in City Home
Miss Nellie Kelsey aged 56 died Thursday January 31 at her city home from pneumonia. Mrs W G Fink departed Monday for Langdon North Dakota after several weeks visit with relatives. F C Schwem who has been hav
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Nellie Kelsey
W. G. Fink
Langdon
N. D
F. C. Schwem
Flu Struggles Homebound Leader Amid Illness
The article notes a prominent figure battling the flu and confined to home. Mrs. H. J. Frese travels to Des Moines to help care for her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Miller, who are listed among the sick. Market prices from five years prior are given for eggs, poultry, hogs, and calves, with hens, ducks, geese, and veal calves priced in the 11 to 9 dollar range for hogs and 6 to 12 dollars for veal.
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H. J. Frese
Des Moines
H. J. Miller
Infant Colic Causes and Home Remedies Explained
Dr William J Scoles explains infant colic causes including immature pancreatic function gas in the gut and swallowed air. He recommends peptonizing powder before feeds massage to move gas belching after feeds and addressing maternal rest diet and feeding adjustments to prevent colic.
They Are Times Joke Exchange About Salary Burden
A humorous quip appears as a light exchange about marriage and finances. The speaker jokes that he tells his wife secrets only when he needs to borrow part of his salary, reflecting domestic finance dynamics in a witty, period tone.
Tripoli Senior Declamatory Contest Sets Feb 12 Opera House
Tripoli High announces senior class declamatory contest at the opera house at 8:00. Nine contestants chosen to represent Tripoli in a triangular contest with Nashua and Fredericksburg on Feb 14. The top three in each class advance to Plainfield for the state preliminaries. Participants include Pearl Bathke Clifford Eichmann Willis Krueger Lawrence Shipp in the oratorical class Darlene Bull Lois Frese Phyllis Hankner Dahlia Krueger in the dramatic class Ruby Bathke Lillia Rohrs sen Lydia Skeries Florence Struckmeier in the humorous division. Mrs N C Halvorson of Cedar Falls will judge. Lawrence Bahlman placed second with 1 minute 10 seconds. Upcoming fun includes a Valentine party for first graders and a birthday party for Patricia Hale.
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Opera House
Tripoli
Nashua
Fredericksburg
Plainfield
Pearl Bathke
Clifford Eichmann
Willis Krueger
Lawrence Shipp
Darlene Bull
Lois Frese
Phyllis Hankner
Dahlia K
Tripoli Teams Hit Road For Key Games
The Tripoli basketball teams travel this week to Clarksville Tuesday and Denver Friday with strong records yet still facing remaining games. The high school squad has won eight straight and nine of 12 this season while the junior group has fared even better. A single home game remains against Clarksville on February 19. County tournament runs at Waverly February 16 and 17, followed by the state sectional at New Hampton March 1 to 3.
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Tripoli
Clarksville
Denver
Waverly
New Hampton
Valentine Party Plans Shared By Two Grades
Last week we decorated large blue covers with orange designs for our weekly newspaper. First graders received invitations from the second grade for a Valentine party Friday afternoon, a pleasant surprise as plans were made in another room. The note ends with Miss Oleson praising the secrecy of the second graders.
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Miss Oleson
Classroom News From Friday Spelling and Library Plans
In spelling most reach one hundred with one student left behind. Students study The Raggedy Man in literature, their twenty-fifth poem, and finish poem booklets. Manual training builds a bookcase for catalogued library loans run by Marie Hanff and assistant Mary Jean Buechele. Weekly readers cover Chicago to the Pacific Coast trains, lighter by oil, burning oil, and possibly faster.
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Raggedy Man
Marie Hanff
Mary Jean Buechele
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Miss Boyle
Lindbergh Returns from Long Plane Journey
Fourth grade reports describe Lindbergh as a leading pilot who traveled 30,000 miles in a monoplane. He carried a radio and rubber boat, and his aircraft weighs about five thousand pounds. Crowds gathered in New York City to view the museum display of the plane.
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Lindbergh Lindbergh
Lindbergh
New York City
Owen Hankner
Second Grade Speed Test Results Noted
Last week we conducted a speed test covering 50 addition and subtraction combinations. Jeanette Morf finished first with a time of 1 minute and a strong lead.
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Jeanette Morf
Monoplane and Biplane Definitions by Harmening
Marion Harmening explains aviation terms including pellet fuselage pontoons and engine. The text clarifies that a monoplane has one wing while a biplane has two wings and notes Lindbergh’s ocean flight in a monoplane.
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Lindbergh
Ocean
Marion Harmening
Boat Ride to Hades Recited In Class Story
Friday in English featured a lesson on poetry pictures and memorized stanzas. In reading, students discussed Aristophanes story The Boat Ride to Hades with Bacchus Charon and a frog chorus as they performed parts and chanted.
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Hades
Aristophanes
Bacchus
Styx
Charon
Brekeke-keh
Ko-Ash
The Red Man Eloquent Oration by a Chootak Indian
A classroom notes summary recalls last week's study of The Red Man Eloquent an address by a Chootak Indian at the end of a government agent speech urging westward relocation. The eight paragraph speech was divided among students for relay delivery. Also reviewed are whole numbers fractions and a history test on A Better Govern Needed.
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Eunice Fink
Lois Uls
Seventh Grade Declamation Contest Prompted by Lincoln
Seventh grade students memorized a defamation titled Abraham Lincoln and will present the best rendition at the upcoming program. Betty Bergmann visited school Monday as the class reports finishing the current book and moving forward.
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Abraham Lincoln
Betty Bergmann
Friday Afternoon Reading Meeting Plans
The group notes they will start a new book this Friday after finishing the review of parts of speech. The upcoming session will focus on studying some peculiar verbs.
Lincoln's Eyes declared at grade program
Eighth graders practiced a declamation titled Lincoln's Eyes with a best speaker chosen for a program. The class studied heat and clothing in physiology, safe money-handling in arithmetic, punctuation in English, and National Ideals in citizenship. A six weeks test covered all material.
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Lincoln
Gretchen Hanff
Measles Epidemic Forecast Warns of Rising Cases
State health records show measles outbreaks in 1924 262 deaths 1927 over ten thousand cases 230 deaths 1930 nearly ten thousand cases 199 deaths. With new infant arrivals susceptible communities report outbreaks and an imminent widespread epidemic is feared. Parents urged to report illness cooperate with authorities and seek medical advice promptly.
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State Department of Health
Daughter at College Takes Up Tennis
A letter from a college daughter to her mother notes awareness of parental support and her resolve to learn. She adds she is taking up tennis, signaling active steps toward self-improvement while staying in school. Source: Province Vancouver.
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Vancouver
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Phillip Schlowitz
Dr Miles
Miles
William J. Scoles
Tripoli School News
Lawrence Bahlman
Patricia Hale
Warren Nolting
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