12 Aug 1921
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1921
Page
1
The Siiutiyews Telegraph lists publication details for Dante M. Pierce and shows subscription rates by carrier and mail, including monthly, semiannual, and yearly terms within the U S Canada and foreign options. It also notes Associated Press membership and rights to republication of AP dispatches and local news.
Atlantic subscribers who do not receive their papers in the evening may have replacements delivered by calling before seven o clock. Call Red 403 to arrange. This number is not for the News Telegraph.
Southwest Iowa has not yet pursued a state park under a law from the Thirty eighth general assembly. Several counties already have parks, including Delaware, Winnebago, Boone, Van Buren and Hardin. Public spirited citizens of Atlantic and Cass county should explore acquiring a park near Cass county under the law.
The Atlantic News Telegraph invites readers to submit news items from reliable sources and welcomes visitors with no admission fee. The paper aims to serve civic organizations and provide fair coverage without factional bias, inviting criticism to improve service.
A fragmentary verse by Walt Mason satirizes prohibition era poison laws. The speaker complains about buying poison to deter bears and rats, noting drab legal risks and easier access to firearms across the street, while lampooning the idea of strict poison regulations.
A fragmentary poem depicts a narrator visiting a gun shop crowded with youths and men, buying a rifle and cartridges, then being shot in the back as he hobbles toward a shack. The piece, credited to George Matthew Adams, blends violent imagery with street life.
Hamilton Holt urges Harding supporters to withhold judgment until a detailed association plan is shown. He says the choice is between pro leaguers in Harding's cabinet and bitter enders in the Senate, warning the world faces revolution and pestilence if the United States delays action.
In Honolulu Professor G. Muko, a leading Japanese educator, criticizes Japanese officials and militarists for misreading the Japanese people. He urges a shift in approach to the Far East, favors returning Shantung to China, and notes a movement toward replacing ideographs with Roman letters. He was en route home from the United States.
Seattle hosts October 11 to 14 as officials and waterway men from the United States and Canada attend the American Association of Port Authorities tenth annual convention. Upon adjournment delegates may join a four flag Pacific Coast Association of Port Authorities meeting at Vancouver British Columbia.
A survey of Sunday offerings across churches in Ak Am Oe and Lacona Iowa notes Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning sermons at 11 a.m. for several denominations. Upcoming events include a mission festival budget distribution on Aug 21, a L M S meeting Aug 18, and a pastor election Aug 21. The presbytery and various pastors from Presbyterian, Baptist, Lutheran, Church of Christ, Methodist, and Methodist Protestant churches are listed with service times and special music plans.
In Shenandoah Miss Annie M. Wells leaves for Van-couver with four missionaries for West China, sailing August 18. In Algona Sheriff Hackman captures Richard Teichart of Fort Dodge for auto theft involving August Henze’s car near Bancroft around July 25. Yorktown grandma Bening plans to distribute eighteen orange trees grown from seed. Sigourney notes Keota hosts eight Chicago children for a four week summer vacation, funded by locals and arranged by United Charities of Chicago with Miss Kate’s help.
A Ringsted effort seeks to provide eight children with not only good food and care but also their biggest playtime. Coroner's jury in St Paul exonerates Rev. John Coole of culpability in the May Hee incident in Chicago. Story City notes Kentuckian Raymond Welch injured when truck driven by L. Q. Sinn of Lafayette Township ran him down. Welch is expected to recover at Story City hospital. If a crime action against Sinn occurs, Boone County will prosecute, as the incident happened there. County Attorney J. W. Harpie says the Boone grand jury will hear the case in September.
Des Moines Aug. 12 In July Iowa led states in corn condition and most crops, with Iowa corn at 102 percent of normal. Acreage was 8 percent of 1920, totaling 10,197 nerves. The 102 percent level is 88 percent of the ten year average, with an estimated yield of 42,059,000 bushels, down 31,701 from December 1920 forecast.
Fragmentary OCR notes show rankings in crops such as winter wheat oats barley flax seed potatoes rye hay clover and alfalfa with mid to late July comparisons. Mentions a decrease in corn acreage and natatoge and a reference to a 91 percent figure in 1820.
Anita Stewart and her company spent three weeks in the snow bound Truckee region to secure the frozen north scene for her latest Louis B Mayer production. The rugged set is intended to portray a dramatic northern landscape for the film.
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