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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1961
Page
6
Tripoli Community School announces homecoming events with Oct 6 football at Janesville and Oct 13 football at Dunkerton. Oct 10 is a no school day. Parent teacher meetings listed around these dates.
The medium menu lists Maidrites, pickles, corn, cake, cherry topping and milk for Wednesday.
Pinhook social notes list weekend guests from Waterloo and area, birthday celebrations, dinners, and visitors to the Fagenbaum and Grahlman households. Attendees include the O’Connells, Meyers, Spechts, Pals, Jacobs, Rieck, and many others from Waterloo, Nashua, Denison, and Fredericksburg. A funeral in Frederika and a 25th wedding anniversary in New Hampton are also noted.
A weekly wrap recounts life in 1906 with notes on cement work, travels to North Dakota, local marriages in Tripoli and Readlyn, a funeral in Tripoli, and farm markets. It notes a man recovering from illness, a large catch by a fisherman, school lunch program start at Frederika, and community events in Bremer County. Includes wedding vows, church services, and local civic notices.
Paul F. Johnston reports that during the 1960 61 school year Town public and private schools received nearly 4 750 tons of government food valued at about 3 000 000, averaging 34 pounds per participant. Distributions included fruits vegetables meats dairy and staples through the school lunch program.
Six distribution centers in Cambridge Cedar Rapids Charles City Council Bluffs Fairfield and Sioux City coordinate uniform school transport charges. The first shipments arrive late August to early September, including beans rice lard dry milk butter lamb carcasses and flour. USDA purchases cheese canned apricots cornmeal peanut butter peas and chickens and may buy turkeys peaches tomatoes and whole kernel corn for allocation. Child labor rules under the Fair Labor Standards Act restrict miners under 16 during school hours with limited farm family exceptions. Records of minors must be kept for three years and inspected by the Labor Department. guidance is available from Regional Director Robert M. Kelley in Kansas City Missouri.
Fragmentary note references a calf on the farm linked to rabies after a laboratory case and mentions Esau's death and Arnold Ht's recent passing. Crude phrasing notes smell and physical effects, with unclear attributions and dates.
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