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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1932
Page
8
Leader's Large Correspondent Staff gathers brief notes on local people and happenings. Items cover community work, social visits, hobbies, small events, and everyday actions in concise, plain reporting style.
Local residents and visitors share weekend travels and gatherings in and around Fredericksburg Iowa. Names include Miss Marguerite Segebarth teaching near Fredericksburg and appearances by Mr. and Mrs. Sherman of California Mrs. Gray and Miss Pennell visiting Rudd relatives.
Oelwein and Frederika visitors, birthday reminders, and family gatherings fill a weekend. Local households hosted relatives and friends for dinners and games, with Louie Boderman’s party and a 14 to 8 Spring Fountain win over Klinger noted. Subscriptions asked for.
Style reports from fashion centers describe autumn dress silhouettes favoring the cigarette line. The full dolman sleeve, a matured shirted puff, narrows bodice lines to create a straight front and back and emphasize the cigarette silhouette in Miss America of 1932.
Nighttime robbery at Harold Pothast's pool hall and restaurant yielded four dollars in cash. Entrance gained by removing door glass. nothing else appears stolen. Community notes follow with school opening, farewells, and local visits including Miss Virginia Turner heading to Garfield hospital for nursing training.
Readlyn residents celebrated anniversaries and birthdays with relatives and friends including the Schweers Widdels and Meyershoff families. Local leagues met at St Paul Lutheran church while a mission festival prompted postponement. A birthday party for Darlys Meyerhoff and a hospital discharge for Ernest Judisch were noted along with community visits and a quip from Boston on husbands.
North America is larger than South America with about 8,000,000 square miles versus 6,800,000. The note compares the two landmasses' sizes in square miles, highlighting North America as bigger.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Pries and family and Mrs Delia Pries were visitors in Waverly last Saturday evening. A baby boy weighing 6 pounds 13 ounces was born to Mr and Mrs Henry Ehlert of Bremer on Wednesday of last week. Numerous local families visited relatives in Readlyn Tripoli and Bremer over the weekend and several attendees went to a funeral in Waverly Monday. Reverend Wunderlich of Bremer spent Sunday with Rev L O Walper in Waverly.
A historical note recalls that before the 1800s many viewed the tomato as poisonous and that World War I troops met French peasants warning of deadly berries. It also mentions a 1709 Portuguese friar subsidized by the king to perform flight experiments.
Mrs. Lovie Dorn and daughter Helen and sons Louis and Edwin left Wednesday for Krem North Dakota to visit Rev Henry Dorn and wife. Several locals attended Wm Milius funeral in Denver Friday. Mrs Henry Thieman and Mr and Mrs Ernest Harms and children from Fort Morgan Colorado came Thursday night for Wm Milius funeral and visited relatives, returning Monday. Mr and Mrs F F Moeller spent Sunday at P W Schaefer funeral of Mrs Clausing at Waverly Monday. Mr and Mrs Clarence Beisner hosted relatives and friends Sunday and Wednesday. Beisner birthday was Wednesday. A number from here attended the Milius Thieman reunion at Waverly tourist park Sunday.
Notice to Bremer county Republican central committee members. Meeting set at Legion hall Tripoli at 8 p m Thursday September 15. All committeemen and committeewomen urged to attend along with interested party members. L H Racker president L J Hertlein secretary.
The council presided by Cumber noted minutes approved as read. Claims read and allowed include Railroad freight 88.00 Labor payments to Meier Waterman Kimbal Debel Wendt and others, supplies from Matt Parrott Tripoli Leader and Buechele Lumber, power from Central States, hose and gravel costs, salaries for Mirick and Debel, and various utility and supply charges. Adjournment followed with A W Buechele as town clerk.
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