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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1933
Page
6
A long list of local goings on fills the page. Birthday celebrations, marriages, and visits mark social ties, with residents such as Henry Kasemeier, Leona Moulton, Vir ginia Kingsley, and families like the Drostes and Rathe clan noted. Church and public notices also appear alongside travel moves and professional postings.
A simple four person dinner plan priced at one dollar includes Sliced Canned Corned Beef peas potato salad tomatoes stuffed with cottage cheese bread and butter prune tapioca and demi tasse. The pea and potato salad blends peas potatoes onion pimiento French dressing walnuts and mayonnaise. prune tapioca uses milk tapioca prunes egg white and cream served chilled in glasses.
Bankers in Cache County Utah launched a farm accounting contest to enroll at least five farmers per bank. Winners receive cash prizes totaling 75 dollars plus certificates. scoring covers records accuracy operations summary appearance and livestock. Contest runs through December 31 1933 with judges from the County Agent the County Key Banker the Clearing House and the Extension Division.
Carl Beebe led three horses near his Pinetree home when lightning struck. The two outer horses were killed. Beebe was dazed and a hole burned through the watch in his pocket, while the center horse was unharmed.
Terrell Smith, resident of Macon Georgia for 62 years, tends a rose bush in his yard claimed to be at least 81 years old. The plant is so aged that slips from it fail to take root and have not for 40 years.
A participant states five flies were killed, identifying three females and two males. The remark notes their positions: three on the mirror and two on the table, indicating observers counted and categorized the insects by sex.
A Montreal Herald note describes cockroach racing in Juan-les-Pins where bookmakers take large bets. Light triggers the roaches to race along glass tracks toward a dark box at the finish, with the first to enter the darkness declared the winner.
The redbud or Judas tree is connected to fishing lore with tales that large fish spawn when it blossoms and luck comes to anglers when the dogwood flowers. The tree, also called redbud, grows from Canada near Lake Erie and Ontario through New York to Michigan and south to the Gulf states, with Indiana specimens recorded at a 2 ft 9 in trunk circumference and a 54 ft height.
Rayon is artificial silk made from cellulose. It imitates real silk by processing short cotton staples or spruce pulp into pure cellulose solution pressed through a fine orifice and hardened in a liquid bath.
A New Jersey man arrested for stealing a hearse and joyriding ends in a wreck. The Springfield Mass Republican recalls a 19th century Eastern league fan who drove a hearse for a New Haven undertaker and parked by right field to watch a game, earning Yale's “undertaker” nickname.
A Prague plan seeks to force nomadic Gypsies to stay on reservations and register them, with penalties for leaving, aiming to protect settled peasants from Gypsy practices. Critics warn such laws repeat past failures as abuse and beatings have not deterred mobility and Gypsy communities.
Turkey Egypt and Syria ban displaying a poster advertising the annual British industries fair near London. The poster shows Britannia with a beckoning finger, which officials fear could be misinterpreted in the three countries and possibly in India.
Cottonwood California in Shasta county hosts the largest live bee shipping center in the world. Officials said virtually all of California’s 50,000 tons of live bees shipped last year departed from Cottonwood.
Schell Bros Circus comes to Waverly on Saturday July 29 featuring Baby Bob the dwarf elephant, two herds of performing and dancing elephants, four rings, and a large parade. The act promises new features and a clean, pleasing performance. reserved seats on circus day are half-price at twenty-five cents.
Legal transfers prepared by Bremer County Abstract Co recap July 21 1933. Ethel Wynhoff to Annie Knapp sells lots 1 2 block 49 Harmon LeValleys addition to Waverly for $1. Frank Pitzenberger to Newton Stallman sells lots 12 13 and west half of lot 14 block 36 Harmon LeValleys addition to Waverly for $1. L S Cass to C D Cass buys lands in sections 12 13 14 township 93 range 11 for $1. Soren J Heiberg Co to Herbert Brewing Co parts of lot 3 subdivision w% in section 35 92 14 for $1. John Poorman to Addie Poorman sells half of lot 1 2 block 6 J J Smiths addition to Waverly for $1.
A dated suggestion outlines seven better breakfast ideas for a week, then offers a Sunday menu including whole wheat toast replaced by a breakfast sweet. The recipe details a hot breakfast sandwich with roasted tomato, poached eggs, and a cheese sauce, serving four.
Bremer county Iowa requires all real estate mortgage related assignments sales and transfers to be reported to the county auditor within 30 days of the action unless recorded. If assignments occurred before July 5 1933 reporting must occur by August 5 1933. Nonresidents must report to their county of residence. Patronize home merchants and save money.
Paris report says the Monterau express ran two thirds of a mile with no one at the throttle. The engineer and fireman were dead in the cab fire. The fireman jumped to the tracks and was killed by an oncoming train. The conductor pulled the emergency cord to stop the train near Chaenton outskirts of Paris.
A conscience driven woman returned a table cloth stolen 19 years ago from the Landon hotel in San Angelo. The package left at the Naylor hotel, successor to the Landon, included a note explaining the theft.
A calf born at the Lemoine Stineman farm near Wabash Indiana on the day beer 3.2 alcohol limits became legal was named Beer by its owners The naming marks the occasion of Indiana adopting the new beverage law and the farm’s local celebration of the change.
John Moore, a farmer near Grand Junction Colorado, shot a Mexican eagle weighing over 25 pounds after it swooped into his yard and seized a 25 pound pig trapped by a heavy steel trap. The eagle crashed into a tree during its rise.
In Wabash Indiana Tibert Wigner pretended to eat worms as a prank on friends. A worm slipped from his fingers and was swallowed, horrifying the boy and onlookers.
Charles Noel, a city councilman in Yreka California, discovered gold while digging a septic tank pit. He panned enough gold from the dirt to cover the cost of digging the hole and installing the tank.
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