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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1920
Page
6
The State Parole Yard will go to the Anamosa reformitory on December 6 to hear petitions for parole. About forty five long term inmates and possibly lifers will be considered. The plan is to release them as jobs are found. The News-Telegraph advertises engraved Christmas cards.
Robert OCallaghan formerly a Des Moines pool hall proprietor and five gamblers are held after a fatal shooting in Chicago over a collision between cars. Dr F L McClenahan, La Salle hotel physician, is gravely injured but alive. OCallaghan claims self defense, saying the doctor advanced with a hammer. Bonds set while physician’s condition is assessed.
Senator Harding declined President Wilsons offer to place the presidential yacht Mayflower at his disposal for a rail trip to Washington. He said in a radio message to Secretary Daniels that he should travel by rail, not by the boat, when he arrives at Norfolk.
An investment not a luxury laundry queen electric washer transfers to Hansen and Lowe.ור
Lynn Aven Deviniss, SLD. of the Public Health Service, appointed director of the division of child hygiene by the Kansas State Board of Health. She aims to recruit women doctors into public health roles, locating women physicians and assisting their placement in health service positions.
Aid workers report widespread blindness in Turkey and surrounding regions from trachoma. Volunteers, including Greek orphans in Anatolia, are housed in consino-triaple facilities and orphanages as relief efforts expand. Medical teams address infections while supporting displaced children through hospitals and charities.
A brown dog saved a woman from drowning after she fell into a near two foot deep pool following an attack by a white assailant. The dog stayed by her side, keeping her head above water until help arrived, before the woman was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
An Agriculture Department plan outlines a wireless market news service to extend nationwide. Ten stations with 250 mile reach will relay conditions and prices from major centers to farmers via leased telegraph links to Washington. Twice daily summaries and 23 local reports, plus crop and weather items, would be distributed to licensed operators for broad dissemination.
A Democratic paper analyzing Florida’s official presidential election figures notes the Republican vote in Florida grew about four percent, illustrating a shift as the party makes inroads into the traditional solid south.
Fragmentary notes mention Cain and voting, with references to strong sentiment and curious hand drawn frames for pictorial depiction. The text suggests an election atmosphere and potential imagery concerns but lacks clear facts or context.
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