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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1934
Page
6
The article lists burying jars full of fruit with sugar to preserve flavor, stating buried fruit remains tastier than other methods. It also describes storing fall tomatoes by packing ripe tomatoes in a stone jar, pouring cooled melted lard over them, and keeping in a cool place for winter use.
American Red Cross reports 103 disasters in the year ending June 30 1934. Tornadoes hurricanes floods and fires caused most events with 21 tropical storms setting a new record. Chicago stockyards fire prompted rapid relief for about 1000. Floods epidemics and a school bus wreck also noted. Staff training manuals and disaster institutes supported future emergencies. Roll calls fund Red Cross disaster work annually from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day.
The junior class presents a three act comedy That's the Ticket on Friday at 8 in the Tripoli high school auditorium. The plot follows John Betterly who hides race track bets but must reveal a $550 000 stake when a missing winning ticket defies him. Nick Barnes Peggy and others chase the ticket amid mischief with Godiva the maid. Cast includes John Betterly Myrtle Debel Peggy Struckmeier Nick Barnes and Godiva among others.
The second football game of the season is to be played at Waverly on Thursday October 25. The team aims to win again and bring home the laurels. The lineup includes Bennett left end M Bunger left tackle Debel left guard Gebert center Kowalsky right guard Byers right tackle Holmes right end Eichman quarterback Krueger left halfback Gehrke right halfback Gerlach fullback. Also notes Senior high kitten ball team lost to Frederika 19 to 0 citing hitting and errors as reasons and praising the opposition’s play.
The State Teachers Meeting will be held in Des Moines next week creating a short school week. The inspirational meeting at Waverly was not provided this year so the county superintendent advised teachers to attend one of the state meetings.
Five pumpkins are in the room. Tuesday will be spent making jack o lanterns. Yesterday involved elephant rhythm as everyone pretended to be elephants and followed the music. Today the group will be bears.
Last Friday two dramatizations were given for our Story and Poem hour. The third group of children will present "The Bremen Musicians" this Friday. Children prepare their own dramatizations, marking the start of our creative dramatic program. Reading shows much improvement. Fifth and sixth grades cover poems, scale drawings of sports facilities, and a stanza of What Do We Plant When We Plant a Tree. Art includes Halloween decorations with cats, bats, and jack-o-lanterns. Geography visits New England States with maps and features.
The eighth grade covers profit and loss in arithmetic and examines relative and interrogative pronouns in English. It notes ongoing practice with these topics and progress in understanding the differences between pronoun types.
Violet Shipp and Iola Kuker discuss colonial roles in the French and Indian War while exploring poetry in reading class. The brief note highlights historical context and literary connections as part of the curriculum.
The lesson notes that air consists of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide as the primary components. It emphasizes understanding verbs and tenses and the structure and chemical changes of air in general science.
In English we began advancing in compositions and oral presentation. We analyzed the importance of oral compositions and delivered oral submissions before the class. In geometry we studied theorems and completed a test reflecting the unit. Monday's class reviewed the test results.
The lesson links American revolutionary causes to England’s acts, then shifts to gravity and gravitation. It notes gravity’s pull between bodies, the negligible force, and confirms its existence, explains why weight differs at the poles and equator, and mentions upcoming study of the falling body.
Bremer families gathered for a Sunday family dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Christopher. Attendees included Robert and Hazel Christopher of Janesville, Oscar Pierce of Waterloo, Irving Arns and family, Carl Duker and daughters Phyllis and Eleanor visiting Mason City, and Rev Henry Brunemeiere, Emil Pries and Anna visiting the Aug Flegge home north of Waverly. Ed Leitha and wife visited Mrs. Leitha’s mother in Charles City along with C R Scoles.
A pair of quick bantering lines plays between a couple and a doctor. A man asks about his chances, the doctor cautions against reading ahead, and the exchange ends with playful admonition about continued stories.
Instructions describe salting cabbage and onions in layers, draining liquor, and spiced vinegar soaking overnight, then boiling and packing. Includes a fig cake recipe with sugar, butter, milk, flour, leavening, spices, figs, molasses, and baking instructions plus meringue topping and serving directions.
Red Cross issued first aid certificates last year to 130,972 people who completed its course through chapters. Among them were more than 70,000 foremen, time clerks and other key Federal Civil Works employees. Government endorsement appears in ongoing projects where Red Cross chapters teach in CCC camps and, at the Army engineers' request, to key personnel on water conservancy and flood control works.
Last year American Red Cross chapters aided nearly 400000 veterans and families. Rising veteran numbers and aging impose greater duties on Red Cross workers, with new needs for care and sympathetic treatment. The Red Cross also acted as liaison with military services, aiding 6979 service members in the army navy and marine corps.
Red Cross volunteers reported a busy year producing nearly five million garments and 3,678,831 surgical dressings. They prepared 342,366 pages of braille, 16,132 Christmas bags, and 18,476 layettes, along with many other community services across chapters.
A quirky London Answers item features a nurse urging Willie to take a powder, and Willie proposing to dab it on his face like a mummy in a comic exchange.
The American Lutheran church convention votes to move Wartburg College from Clinton Iowa to its Waverly property and close the junior college at St Paul Minnesota effective July 1 1935 The body also endorses a full time secretary for the national young peoples organization while keeping the Bron Bron Bron hers Bron Bron.
Sandusky Ohio and San Antonio Texas sent delegates to the 1936 Convention. The session left in the day to elect a General President and the Board of Trustees. Missionaries Carew Oberdorf from Gudur Madras India and Paul Fliehler from Madang District New Guinea were mentioned, with Arie on furlough through freetings.
A scattered report from Tripoli and nearby farms notes multiple family visits and farm tasks. Geog. Heidemanny Win Schumacher assisted with shredding at the Andrew Ca home. Irwin Gaede helped Schmidt with shredding Thursday. Families including Gaede, Kuker, Meyer, and Schumacher attended Sunday dinners and birthday observances. The Leader prints sale bills.
The notice promotes Bayer Aspirin as the fastest relief for headaches neuralgia and rheumatic pains. It emphasizes genuine Bayer Aspirin starts taking hold in minutes and urges consumers to choose the real product over substitutes during Bargain Day.
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