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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1934
Page
6
Tripoli's football team defeated Waverly's second team 6 to 0 as Gehrke broke through in the last quarter for the sole touchdown. Extra point failed. A Saturday November 10 game with Sumner may be under lights. Also notes a talk on Water and Its Uses and progress in algebra parentheses.
In a physics lab, three throws per student tested who could throw highest. Researchers timed rise and fall with a stopwatch and calculated height via freely falling equations. Gehrke won, with Heichel close behind, as students explored projectile range, cliff heights, and fall velocities.
Ramona Stoffregen shares a lighthearted note about a pumpkin family including Joyce Ackmann, a baby girl, a little boy, mother and father jack o lanterns. On Friday they made crinkly jack pumpkin heads with jumpy arms and legs and funny hats that make them laugh.
Last Friday we counted test scores then discussed parental winter preparations. Students read about families canning and storing produce and wood. We plan a winter party by drying apples at school then making applesauce for the event.
In My Weekly Reader a group of fishermen wrecked on a tiny island forms an SOS in the sand outlined with white shells for rescuers. The note shares school arithmetic about multiplying two-figure numbers and hints at a Halloween party Wednesday afternoon with a game committee and students bringing popcorn and apples from home.
Fifth graders study Canada with geography, beaver tale, and fraction work led by Roy Brandsfield. Sixth graders map New England, write travel stories, and role play pioneer life, log cabins, and block houses. Seventh grade party at the Ambro ses home on Oct 23 with games and ice cream hosted by Frederick Ambrose and Jack Frese.
Students describe a week of class activities including three minute speeches on familiar subjects two days of directions practice focusing on clarity, jokes with cracker line delivery, animal training and simple game talks, and a health chapter on Eyes and Ears.
Monday of this week each member of the class received a personal note of thanks from Miss Sturch. A week ago we mailed her a handkerchief and a letter which she appreciated. We wish her a speedy recovery and hope she can soon join us. We have been working on our class play and are discussing land labor and capital as the three factors of production. Land provides standing room natural forces fertility and natural treasures.
A discussion notes Macbeth as one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies inviting suspense as the plot signals unfolding doom. The student adds Revolutionary War study provides insight into colonial struggles and early American contentions in winning independence.
The piece notes tensions in Washington as Roosevelt pushes business recovery with tighter NRA form under the Industrial Emergency Committee while Byrnes widens campaign finance probes into Pennsylvania and other states. It mentions Guffey Reed race, Lindemood fire issue, and Nebraska Senate special election with Hunter Kemp candidates.
The article lists Democrat and former representatives Robert G. Simmons as contestants for the regular term, with one of seven to take the toga after election. It notes Nebraska Mrs. Daniel O'Day as a candidate for large from New York and mentions stump speaking by Mrs. Franklin welt and a War indorsement. It references political endorsements, Roose, and a quoted domestic dispute about a wife and town.
Washington snapshot notes that relief relief programs grow as unemployment rises, challenging stigma and urging bankers to renew faith in the people and cooperate with government credit agencies. Jesse Jones warns private banks must lead recovery or government lending expands. J. F. T. OConnor invites closer banker cooperation to preserve private savings banking amid the crisis.
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