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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1939
Page
1
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The article argues that prosperity and private success are increasingly respected again, with honest industry valued without harming the poor. It asserts that recognizing both property rights and human rights fosters social harmony and reduces poverty faster than class warfare.
A newspaper column warns that subsidies including the agricultural corn loan face eventual end. It argues the nation must prepare for subsidy withdrawal, noting the injustice of ending corn support while preserving other subsidies for miners, manufacturers, and cotton growers.
The article argues that dictatorships emerge when balance in a nation erodes. It insists that maintaining equilibrium among poverty and wealth personal liberty and law and distribution of political power limits dictatorship risk. Strong leaders arise when balance collapses, threatening civil rights.
The piece critiques the president's policy influence on hunger, argues for change to avoid starvation, praises fingerprinting for crime solving citing the Dreher case, and condemns communists in labor unions while urging purging radicals to preserve union usefulness for workers.
Chicago federal grand juries hear Moses Annenberg stakes in America's racing empire. Investigators probe his monopoly on race results and communications with bookmakers, while links to the Kelly–Nash machine and Roosevelt era politics unfold.
In New York a lunch with Wilfred Funk highlights debates on dictionary pronunciations like cavalry versus calvary. The piece reflects on urban life from Hell's Kitchen to Herald Square, noting social ostracism among children and city changes including the Herald building’s vacancy and Moses park plans.
Welcome note from Albert Payson Terhune notes he avoids the hot city this summer and rests under trees at his Sunnybank estate in New Jersey. At 66, Terhune is hailed as a prolific writer famed for dog books and a large output across non dog works.
Poem reflects on end of summer as storms and winter loom. The speaker contrasts summer warmth with coming snow and cold, preferring heat over freezing, noting August offers relief before frosty days return.
A prompt or note criticizes how to phrase actions such as making a fire on the beach instead of saying built a fire. The fragmentary text hints at guidance for everyday speech and authorship choices. No clear event, date, or person is specified.
Skunks hibernate briefly in cold weather and awaken when conditions moderate. They seek burrows or holes in the ground and may live under out-buildings or in hollow logs while foraging for food.
A Letter from a correspondent laments park damage after a band concert and urges parental guidance to protect shrubs and flowers. The piece also notes locals adopting slack suits for summer, a custodian losing then finding his lower plate, and a tale of a family with intertwined marriages to siblings and in-laws.
A series of ten trivia prompts asks viewers to answer questions about kings, time zones, canals, land purchases, class rings, golf titles, arboretums, labor initials, pronunciation, and rhinoceroses.
In May 1839 the venerable Abner Kneeland arrived by steamboat at Fort Madison en route to Salubria in Van Buren County. Kneeland, born 1774 in Gardner Massachusetts, became a Universalist preacher and later a free thinker whose career included leading religious magazines and controversial denials of Christ's story.
The article recounts William Kneeland, branded atheist by enemies yet a pantheist in belief, jailed in 1838 for sixty days. After release he moved to Salubria in Van Buren County Iowa to join a free inquiry community that barred ministers, where he lived in a two story house and wrote letters about the Territory of Jews. He died August 27, 1844.
In Cedar Rapids an overdose of sleeping powders was listed as the cause of death for Carl H. Zimmerman 41 of Amana Iowa. He was found unconscious in a Cedar Rapids hotel room and died after being taken to a hospital. Zimmerman had been superintendent of the Amana woolen mills until 1932.
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