16 Aug 1939
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1939
Page
1
Notice to Atlantic subscribers offers evening delivery if they call before 7 PM. Includes contact numbers, subscription rates, and guidance to notify the office for address changes or delivery notices.
A social survey in Alton shows no juvenile delinquency within 1500 feet of a local playground, justifying the cost as a deterrent to crime. The piece argues playgrounds save money by keeping youth out of trouble and urges continued support despite budget pressures.
A roundup of notes on swimming splashes and Salem witchcraft, Thanksgiving politics, oil prices, 1940 car headlights, grasshopper diets, rainfall forecasts, night driving reflections, life lessons, corn contests, and Page County rivalry with Shenandoah and Cass. Friday’s tall corn contest looms as a potential record.
Washington rumors swirl around Cardinal Mundelein and the Mac Annenberg grand jury probe. The prelate reportedly met with President Roosevelt and Attorney General Murphy amid talk of cleaning up Chicago politics and Annenberg’s influence.
Comic verse about romantic vows and city life as a husband endures endless chores after marriage. A humorous narrator notes exaggerated promises of devotion. The piece ends with caution to brides plans to wed.
A brief item notes notary service offered at 25 cents by The News Telegraph. The snippet emphasizes correct usage of the word avocation versus vocation in everyday language. The short notice reflects common newspaper reader tips alongside local service pricing.
A columnist sketches summer scenes in New York including doormen on Park Avenue, casual conversations with subway builders Sam Rosoff and financier John Raskob, and a Chicago-like culture club mishap at the World’s Fair. The piece notes Gardens on Parade, the British pavilion, and a pocket book by Gelett Burgess, ending with a vendorless boy collecting sugar lumps labeled The English Battery.
A portrait of Juan T. Trippe, 40, Pan American Airways president, shown at home on East Seventy-second Street and at his Chrysler Building office. The article notes his low public profile while guiding the Atlantic air service and keeping track of every ship hourly.
Reflections on a Buick magazine reprint of Dvorak Humoresque written in Spillville Iowa and notes on Sam Rayburn Garner support and Roosevelt liberal shift. Obituary tribute to Clyde Savery a New York life insurance executive and community figure who died at 37.
A memorial note honors a woman as a devoted friend wife and mother, while a letter from C R Graham recalls local business ties to New York Life Insurance. The writer rails against The Grapes of Wrath and denounces obscene content, contrasting nature’s awe with political and cultural debates of 1940.
The questions cover geography science language and history. They ask state location of Abraham Lincoln National Park celestial science nomenclature fag meaning British possession near Spain youngest US president Attache pronunciation Horse Latitudes sport Don Meade Lent first day vice president of the Confederate States of America.
The commerce department reports retail trade for January through June 1939 rose by 1 billion dollars from the same period in 1938. The six month total reached 17.9 billion, up six percent, with automobile sales up forty percent. Drive carefully life is precious.
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