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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1933
Page
8
The column notes canned peas' popularity, citing how shoppers routinely add multiple cans to weekly buys and praising canning for flavor versus fresh peas in transit. It also records a social weekend in Fayette with visits among Lindfield Maurer Legge Rice Young Barker and Dease families in Tripoli Waterloo and Fredericksburg.
Frederika and surrounding town residents share visits and milestones. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. Roy Aubrey and others from Sumner, Clarion, Tripoli and Williamstown. A six and a half pound son born to Mr. and Mrs. Theron Carroll on Friday morning, November 10. Card club reorganized by Mrs. A. T. Gray. high score Miss Leona Bremer. Several families spent Sunday with relatives in Frederika and nearby towns.
Medical men claim constipation can be overcome by regulating with a suitable liquid laxative. Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is promoted as a safe, non habit forming option that regularizes bowels in weeks, with clear label ingredients and suitability for mothers and children.
Readlyn residents report a string of social gatherings. Herman Thran hosted guests for his birthday with Westgate visitors Ernest Thran and family attending. Leona Judisch entertained 14 guests for her birthday with a post event lunch, and Minnie Staack was a Sunday dinner guest. St Matthew's Luther League marked Dr Martin Luther's 450th birthday anniversary with a lunch by Eleanor Strottman and Margaret Wehling. Frank Eichmann hosted relatives and friends for his birthday, with guests from Tripoli and nearby towns, and a November 23 youth meeting at the St Matthew's German schoolhouse was announced.
Local families hosted events and visits across Bremer Tripoli Waterloo Cedar Falls and Readlyn with birthday anniversaries weddings post nuptial showers and church society meetings. Notable items include Erwin Wedemeier and Elnora Bahlman wed in Tripoli attendants Clarence Wedemeier and Ida Luhring, and Rev Wunderlichs birthday observed by Evangelical Lutheran groups.
Bremer county American Legion Auxiliary units staged a program for World War II veterans at Marshalltown hospital on Monday November 13. The monthly birthday party featured vocal and musical numbers by local performers, a cake for November birthdays, and a treat box for each veteran. About 150 benefit boxes were provided by Bremer county with six for Tripoli. Hospital tours followed the program, led by chaplain Rev. C. H. Van Meter, with attendees from Tri poli Sumner Waverly Janesville Plainfield and other towns.
Birthday and anniversary acknowledgments from Artesian communities listed events at various homes on Sunday. Families honored include Traeton, Herrs, Moeller, Steinbraun, and Meier, with gatherings in Waverly, Crane Creek, and near Readlyn. A Thanksgiving program and ice cream social are planned at Warren school No 7 on Friday November 17.
Local notes report hunting season readiness and travel to Hayfield amid windstorms. Families, visits, and illnesses appear, including Nashua homecoming win and a Mercy hospital appendectomy. Chronology centers on residents, birthday celebrations, weddings, and community fundraisers.
The Red Cross calls for memberships during Armistice Day to Thanksgiving. Local chapters will call on homes and businesses to collect one dollar or more, with half going to the national organization and the rest staying locally. Volunteers donate their time, and contributions are framed as an investment in local aid.
Kenniston Hill aged 26 of New Hampton died at St. Joseph’s hospital from a shotgun wound suffered Friday when removing a gun from a car before hunting. The accident occurred as a door closed on the hammer, the shell exploded, and the charge struck him in the right armpit. He was born May 1, 1908, son of Alfred and Mrs. Hill, and had run the family farm the past two years. Services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in New Hampton, with interment at Graceland Cemetery. He was a nephew of Mrs. J. H. Franklin.
A donor who gave 10000 dollars to a new school building project is praised as making an investment in future manhood and womanhood. The board president and superintendent thanked him, noting the value lies in improved citizens, not cash returns. The speaker links charity to spiritual dividends and ends with Ready Lets Go.
A brief exchange shows a man proposing theater or dance outing while a woman laments lacking attire. The light dialogue hints at social plans and wardrobe concerns without further details.
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