Semester Tests Loom Over Local High School
Editor Lowell Engle and staff report students eager for semester tests in general mathematics geometry world history and English while biology class continues essential nutrition topics. teachers praise decor volunteers and faculty treats as seniors prep for a long English unit test and business classes wrap up chapters for next semester. Eldon Hoppenworth recovers from mumps after appendectomy, and Jacksonian Democracy unit is highlighted in history.
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Yoshinaga
Eldon Hoppenworth
Eldon
Editorial Promise for New School Year and Sports
The editorial notes vacation has ended and the staff aims to improve in the new year. It expresses hope for a successful basketball season and tournament run. Readers are invited to contact staff members with changes or additions and assurance of prompt, quality publishing.
Senior Harold Laubie Changes Plans After Graduation
Senior Harold Laubie is 5 feet 11 inches with dark brown hair and serves as a basketball forward. He enjoys movies and roller skating, lives in the country, and works at home in spare time while attending Tri poli school for three years and riding bus No. 1. He favors bookkeeping as his easy subject and looks forward to postgrad work, though he dislikes the 12:30 lunch period.
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Harold Laubie
Harold
Tripoli
Casey
Mr. Casey
Harmony music class under Mr Frese listed
Music Notes reports a Harmony class by Mr Frese teaching treble and bass clefs. Major and minor scales likely included. One regular credit awarded for the course.
Tripoli Boys reach fifth win of season over Dunkerton
Tripoli's varsity wins 57-45 over Dunkerton as four players score 10 to 15 points. The junior varsity and junior high teams also posted victories, with Tripoli junior high routing Denver 61-27 and the second team defeating Denver 53-14. Pantherettes lose to Elgin 60-47 in a Jan. 2 game, with a 27-17 preliminary score.
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Tripoli
Dunkerton
Junior High
Denver
Pantherettes
Tripoli Pantheretes
Elgin
Back to School Rhythm at High School Chatter
Sophomores return to classwork after a brief vacation with chatter about teachers and routine. The mood blends relief and the pull of assignments as students settle into the fall term.
Chevrolet 1953 Trucks Expand to 74 Models on 11 Wheelbases
The 1953 Chevrolet truck line grows to 74 models on 11 wheelbases, offering broader hauling options from 115 inch sedan delivery to 212 inch bus chassis. Improvements include Loadmaster and Thriftmaster engines with enhanced power, stronger frames and brakes, wider color range, and Torque Action braking across most models for safer stops.
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Chevrolet
Reflections in Study Hall a Soft Sin of Homework
A playful feature piece on study hall customs and classroom life contrasts. It contrasts teachers from English to Biology and Gym with students longing for comfort, certainty, and better odds of escaping extra work. The poemish commentary hints at withheld author anonymity.
Song Titles and School Items in Ayrshire Notice
A list pairs song titles with school activities at Tripoli high school and notes classroom and sports references. It also includes calf housing guidance for winter and a voter warning. In Great Oak township near Ayrshire a proposal to annex ten more sections to Ayrshire Consolidated school was defeated by one vote.
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Great Oak
Ayrshire
Car Purchases in County Increase During December
Bremer county treasurer records show 69 new cars and trucks registered in December 1952, a county high for the year. The list includes owners and makes across towns Tripoli, Frederika, Fairbank, Janesville, Plainfield, and more, with Ford, Chevrolet, Plymouth, Lincoln, Pontiac, and International brands represented.
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Bremer County
Waverly
Ray Wedemeier
Plymouth
Yardho Motor Co
Hudson
J. W. Westmeyer
Ford
Farmers Implement Co
Donald Steinbronn
Oldsmobile
E. H Lohmann
Emil Ackman
Louie Everding
Wayne Ingersoll
C. R Baker
Mercury
Delbert Williams
Chevrolet
George R. Dewey
Joe Egli
W. C. Wedemeier
Ritchie
Pontiac Co
Pontiac
Brooks FE
Mellecker
Studebaker
Glen V. Yarger
Mildred Knight
Loreng Buchholz
Marvin Wente
John Hooper
de Soto
Conrad Stumme
Vernon Konarske
Clarence J. Iserman
Sam Kellum
International Truck
Lester McInroy
Wrights’ Greenhouse
Arch J
Poultry housing touted as safeguard against cannibalism
A list of names and brands appears before a closing line urging proper housing and management as the best safeguards against cannibalism in poultry. The fragment reads as a trade or social notice with numerous car and equipment brands interspersed among individual names.
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Lillian Fuchs
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Mark Wilharm
Dale Drape
Mary Droste
Eugene Ostrogge
Ruth Weidler
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Elaine Hartman
Verlaine Hartman
Patsy Goebel
Alice Kuethe
Barbara Dreyer
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Tripoli High School
Missouri
Harry Truman
T.H.S
Robert Ambrose
Paul Schaefer
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L. J. Magnall
Emanuel Fuchs
Keith Scott
Lincoln
H. L. Pries
W. O. Moeller
William Ambrose
Frederika Arlie Rausch
C. H. Walker
Fairbank
Donald Duffy
Otto Schmidt
Janesville
Marvin Benzine
Forrest Bloker
Plainfield
Floyd Bridges
Bert van den Brand
Elmer Bossom
Ralph C. Rohrsson
Theo. Bergmann
Read
Pooch
Chevrolet Co
Florence Froning
Wilbert Huebner
Sumner Leo Nacke
Herbert Bergmann
Carl Reuter
C. M. Ehlert
Arthur Robinson
Ralph Samec
Lyle Yungtum
Frederick Sell Ford
Reisner Sand & Gravel Co
Ee Aha
H. H. Buhr Chevrolet CO
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