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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1955
Page
6
Tripoli High highlights state tournament bids as the girls prep for Des Moines this Saturday and the boys look toward their upcoming state tournament. Intramural champions Buhr's Clippers and Drape's Drips are praised for the year. a missing ping pong paddle delays the next tournament.
Tim reports daily attendance noting many girls un tardy for six weeks, with named students praised. Dennis Miller joins first grade. Dennis Weidler chairs, Gary Jenzman and Laura Ragsdale help. Daniel Kumacher returns. Notes on art Batik, spring flowers, Washington program, lessons in reading fractions science and transportation. Seventh graders’ six weeks tests with many perfect scores. eighth grade updates and Civil War reference.
A fragmented feature contrasts phrases from 1900 and 1955 sample exchanges. It juxtaposes social engagements and casual refusals including requests to dance and mentions of headaches and bookings. The piece evokes era contrasts without a full narrative.
A playful exchange lists a sequence of dated lines about greeting dining pacing and leaving. It contrasts 1900 forms with 1955 slang and social cues reflecting changing manners and movements between two eras.
The Tri poli Boosters met February 9 at Mark Wikner’s home. President Allyn Buenger led the session with 17 members answering roll call. The group accepted the Low Circle Contract and reviewed daily member questionnaires before adjournment and lunch.
Cecil Jones of near Lineville discovered a possum and a raccoon feasting on three of his hens in a henhouse. The anecdote ends with an old saying about optimists seeing things as they should be, not as they are.
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