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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1931
Page
4
The Tripoli Leader, established in 1894, is the official Bremer County paper. Subscription rates are yearly in advance two dollars, six months one dollar, and three months fifty cents.
Editor Lee D. Peacock argues recent bank failures harm the regional economy and stresses public confidence as essential. He notes banks rely on deposits to fund loans and warns distrust could stall business and daily life, urging readers to support financial institutions.
Today more people focus on merchants ads as paying attention to printed figures. Shoppers spend wisely because each penny counts, and price telling campaigns keep mail order houses and large chains from losses in this low mood. Newspapers remain the medium where they expect to find store news and attractive prices.
A booklet names 1204 Iowa residents as rum traffic suspects in a 1931 sheriffs and police chiefs report. The piece argues enforcement is inadequate and that prohibition is unenforceable under current conditions, criticizing enforcement as political theater.
Dr. L. E. Barton, a prominent Baptist leader, declares that rural churches are growing and improving. He rejects fears of decline, calling the rural church not weak but strong and a gold mine of opportunity. He praises rural faith, simple living, and alert scriptural understanding as priceless assets.
Those large double wheeled trucks with trailers resemble trains off course as they speed along. They dominate lanes and impede any car that slows them. Questions arise about whether this heavy traffic wears pavement beyond its years and when taxpayers can use roads without being forced off by buses and trucks.
Washington debates the Hoover plan to postpone war debts and reparations as costs of government rise. Critics blame the tax burden for swollen payrolls while economists warn of prolonged low business mood. The pending moratorium risks political fallout, with a possible autumn special session to secure debt relief legislation.
Washington snapshots report that fourteen Census bureau employees including several young women were dismissed for smoking outside the building. Smoking inside the office was forbidden in war time structures. The chief clerk said others had been warned and that the bureau must reduce 5,800 temporary staff within a year, using the dismissals to help meet the target.
Yellowstone National Park attracts a growing number of travelers as better roads and park facilities draw Missourians and the Middle West. The article recounts the first white explorers John Colter and Jim Bridger who opened knowledge of the region, with Colter credited as the initial sightseer in 1807 and Bridger guiding later government expeditions, leading to the park's 1872 designation and rising popularity.
The Wallace Farmer warns Iowa farmers to beware radical Farm Union promoters pushing insurance and life policies for commissions. It cites unpaid checks from a Council Bluffs shipping association and a letter from a German farmer detailing alleged graft, urging farmers to reject mushroom organizations and ballots that exploit low prices.
Walter Champaigne NAME OHOWLS faced a fine for contempt after applauding a Kansas jury that acquitted a bottlegger. The Lyons family of Lyons Kansas now numbers six. Notes include marriages Navy Blue to Blanche Chocolate in Dillon South Carolina, divorces Hazel Trott from Fred Trott in Columbus Ohio, a Cincinnati mechanic signing shop tickets, Karl Parker selling Fords in East Pittsburg Pennsylvania, Green Oats and his brother Shell Oats in Kentucky and Indiana, and a grocer named Worm in Way side Wisconsin.
The body contains about one to one and a quarter gallons of blood, roughly eight pounds per gallon. Total blood volume is near one twentieth of body weight, varying with size and overall condition.
The historian Pliny notes 600 years of bathing as Rome's medicine but the public baths degenerated into a lazy paradise. The Roman handler became a dawdler and a victim for conquerors, illustrating a decline in a once celebrated custom.
A Norwalk policeman stopped a motor car and asked the small driver his age. The driver, self described as a midget, replied I am 25 and married. The incident adds a curious note to a routine traffic stop.
A brief reflection on gossip as entertainment and peril in local reporting, noting how gossip can shape perception and news value within communities.
A reflection on finding comfort not by altering circumstances but by shifting outlook. The idea emphasizes mindset over events and encourages resilience through perspective.
Warns that streets are for vehicles not children. Encourages using playgrounds or vacant lots with legal protection. Urges kids to play off street to avoid breaking laws while advocating safe, designated play spaces.
A Brockton judge rules permanent waves are a luxury. A Coventry area colony of 300 bachelors and women-haters rents huts for 1.50 weekly, with female visitors barred. Alfonso pays 30 an hour for hotel stays in Paris, while two English girls sign contracts to walk 12 miles daily to rest up. Garden peas termed oldest common vegetable.
The report names a gun club meeting at Slaughter's Undertaking Parlors and highlights Detective Keen of Cincinnati praised for catching burglars. It mentions I. O. Dyne in Flat Rock Kentucky, Owen indicted for robbery in Louisville, doctors Pultz and Paine in Grand Lodge Michigan, Claude Barrier at a cemetery, R. Careful in a Wisconsin sanitarium, Mildred Telling’s divorce in Los Angeles, counterfeiters arrested on Crook Street in Clifton New Jersey, and The Pathfinder publication.
The text recalls how ancestors tried to avoid seasickness on long voyages. It lists a cordial mixture of sirup of clove, gillyflowers, toasted cherries, barrage and mint waters, mount ford water, cinnamon water, and other ingredients. A spoonful was taken at sea to ease discomfort.
A large beehive shaped basket granary used by Pacific coast Indians to store acorns is shown at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. It is formed by twisting willow with leaves on into a rope-like coil and capped with a mouth cover. The granary sits on a raised platform of poles to deter rodents.
Echoing the treaty of Paris in 1763 Great Britain did not send a minister promptly to the United States. The first minister arrived eight years after the war ended. Jorge Hammond arrived in Philadelphia in 1791 and became the first British minister to be received by an American President.
The Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture says hogs can live without mud and will be healthier and produce more wholesome meat on clean dry concrete pig pens rather than mud and filth. The report opposes mud wallows as unnecessary.
An aunt admires a photo on Mary Jane’s desk and calls the girl pretty. Mary Jane explains the picture is not real beauty but retouched, revealing a recent quarrel with the little girl.
The tale centers on the future King William IV who quips to the Admiralty Secretary that he will not be the secretary once king. The secretary replies with a formal, “God save the king,” showing wit and allegiance.
The San Antonio Express notes that fiction remains cheaper in the book market while truth retains its value at the same high price. Critics discuss market dynamics and reader demand as publishers balance affordability with credibility.
Church notes announce Sabbath school for all ages at 9:00 AM and morning worship at 10:00 AM with sermon on His Workmans hip. Evening service at 8:00 PM features orchestra rehearsal, lay evening activities, and choir practice. Leader Elizabeth and Heatherers welcome friends and thank attendees for strong past Sundays.
St John’s invites worshipers to attend Sunday school at 9:09 and morning service at 10:00, plus a choir practice on Thursday at 7:30. Come join us in worship and fellowship.
Sunday school starts at 9:00 followed by Divine service at 10:00. You are invited to worship with us. Pastor K. K. Koehler leads the congregation.
Brown placed an ad offering his car for sale. At 8 p.m. a man rang the doorbell to view the vehicle, but Brown claimed it was there. The man found no car, and Brown had misled him with a vague, improvised message about a “gift” and a “first 4.”
Coroner’s inquest in Port Talbot Wales heard how 36 year old Thomas J Richards hired by Penybont council to trim elm branches fell 40 feet to the road and died after a branch snapped. A lineman had been killed cutting branches from the same tree in similar circumstances. The tree, nearly 50 feet high, is known among woodsmen as a witch tree.
The article traces engraving from ancient times to the first authentic dated engraving of St. Christopher in 1423. It notes Baron de Reiffenberg’s claim of an earlier 1418 piece and a mid eighteenth century manuscript suggesting 1306 England, but contemns prior- to-St. Christopher claims as controversial.
A humorous collection of Scottish stereotypes features a Scot who coins tail-light saving time a Scot who penned his own epitaph and offered it to Ripley a Scot with six children who bought a dashhound for shared petting and a Scotsman who runs a seaside resort with nickel in the slot shutters to view the ocean.
Two centuries ago the Pamunkey Indians began presenting a deer to the Virginia governor and in return received use of their reservation without taxation, establishing a tax exemption tradition tied to their land.
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