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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1931
Page
4
The Independent School District of Tripoli will hold a June 2 election to decide a $40,000 bond for a new or relocated school building. Voters will also choose site location and consider maintaining the current site. The paper argues the town needs better facilities as enrollment grows and notes building costs are currently lower.
The passage argues that crime and court actions become public through newspaper coverage. It notes relatives may plead for obscurity, but news outlets must report happenings, since readers pay for stock and trade. The author shifts blame from papers to miscreants for seeking privacy.
A columnist blends political undercurrents in Washington with human interest tales. He recalls teenager Bryan Untiect and celebrates Dorothy Marie Johnson who faced deadly poison, then meets Emmett Dalton in Kansas City. Dalton, once an outlaw, speaks on crime not paying, stressing law's supremacy. The piece ends noting that this is all the political news in Washington today.
President Hoover argues the plan to abandon 20 to 30 army posts will boost military efficiency by concentrating forces. Hoover also noted staff demand for a stronger, more centralized army. Hoover Jr. and family will summer in Palo Alto, health improving. Hastings to White House staff replaces Strother. Leiva beaten in legation burglary. Stimson pledges probe. Senator King and Republican independents push higher income taxes to balance the budget.
Alan wrestles with duty and affection as Inspector Haskell pressures him to quit the Mounted for a Victoria job. Bill Hardsock brings news of a deadly raid on the Midnight Sun that killed Jimmy Montgomery and robbed the crew, forcing Alan to plan immediate pursuit while Elizabeth confronts pressures from both men and the looming threat of Haskell’s jealousy. Joyce remains a potential danger as bandits head toward MacMillan’s post.
The Trinity church tract, about 62 acres known as Kingsfay ukes’ farm and the Queen’s farm, passed from Van Twiller to Roelof Jans in 1636, then to Anneke, and via Cornelius Bopraryus to a tray port instrument in 1670. Col Francis Lovelace oversaw incorporation in 1697 and Queen Anne formally presented the tract to Trinity in 1705. The article then shifts to speculative notes on perpetual daylight driven by invention and modern traffic, mentioning Pat Pending and a Sunday afternoon items service.
Sim V. Norman the Receiver of the Bank of Frederika and Charles Golding will sell at public auction at the Courthouse in Waverly Bremer County Iowa on May 29 1931 at 10 00 a m all remaining assets unable to be collected or converted to cash including book accounts and notes listed in the application for order to sell filed with the Bremer County District Court Clerk. Dated Tripoli Iowa May 20 1931.
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