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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1920
Page
5
Atlanta subscriptions of more than $6,000,000 were received as subscription books closed on capital stock of the Federal International Banking company. The cooperative firm will operate under the Edge law to finance and export southern products.
An open meeting is announced for Monday night with an invitation to bring friends. The alate manager will be present. By order of C. C. Early buyers are urged to visit Christmas cards at the new location beside Marshall's, Fred Alexanders.
Neighbors and visitors are listed in Atlantic city briefs with names like Henry, Bisse, Maseena, Comer, Hosfield, Porter, Shultz, Leonard Anderson, Mabel Herrick, Mickel, King, Elliott, Jones, Needles, Burwell, Highley, Bennett, and Charitable groups noting Red Cross activity. Local moves, illnesses, and social events fill daily items. weather report shows 64F high and 33F low. Christmas mail rush begins as Cantata plans emerge. sheriff, jail, and tax offices busy with licenses and notices as editors report health and business updates.
Local clubs outline December meetings with hostesses and programs. Harmony and Browning clubs convene mid December with poetry readings and social arrangements. Pi Phi Alpha hosts Cliff Butzloff. P. E. O. plans a Christmas poetic program. Ladies’ Literary, Civic, Mothers, Royal Neighbors, Priscilla clubs announce dates, hosts, and Christmas charity, plus a DAR Christmas party at Mrs. Alexander’s home December 15.
Washington December 11. Debate in the house over Johnson bill amendments to shrink the two year U S immigration ban to fourteen months. Mann amendment passed 87 to 25, reducing embargo to one year and exempting the Philippines. Opponents argued lax enforcement, radicalism, and denial of asylum to oppressed peoples.
Washington string of notes reports no postponement of December 16 taxes despite calls to raise 1.229 billion by January 1. Finance committee members McCumber Smoot and Simmons urge immediate action as the bill’s fate remains unsettled. Local ads tout engraved Christmas cards ear corn tablets and Fred Alexander’s new shop location as winter purchases rise.
In Kansas City last night, whiskey thieves abducted a drug store clerk from his home and forced him to open the downtown shop. They stole four cases of whiskey and $500. Police pursue suspects as details unfold.
Miss Mary Dingman, secretary in charge of YWCA work in France, reports over 10 000 members formed since the war. Twenty five gymnasiums and numerous cafeterias feed hundreds daily in Paris as American YWCA secretaries establish centers across fifteen towns.
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