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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1920
Page
2
A verse extols thrift and warns against spendthrift ways urging readers to save at the FARMERS SAVINGS BANK at 4 percent. The narrator laments loss from luxuries and urges monetary prudence, ending with a plug for starting the New Year saving here.
Sunday last, Dr. and A. B. Shideley marked twenty five years together with a happy family dinner and gifts of silver. Friends recalled childhood days in Bear Grove township in 1869, while G. Stanard and C. Reed visited from Lincoln, Nebraska, sharing memories of early prairie life and local county development.
Harlan residents Mr and Mrs Leonard Hoisington and child arrive Monday to visit Elder and Mrs GA Hoisington before holidays then plan to travel to Lamoni where Leonard will enter L D S school preparing for ministry in L D S church. Also listed are Eastern Star officers for the coming year and church notes about Rev James Lund invitation to join the Lutheran church. Local court and business items follow with real estate dispute and sale of a photograph gallery to J D Wilcox of Waverly Missouri set for March 1.
Fragmented text reports future travel plans for a family, visits at Colorado Springs with Mr and Mrs Walter Easton, a Hebron store proprietor L D Zink, and an arrest of an unnamed man by Sheriff Sprague on a gambling charge. Also mentions a December 22 wedding anniversary and social hours, with a Christmas card order reminder from the News-Telegraph office.
George E. Young of Shanghai reports China is expanding walnut growing and exports. with $1,887,491 worth shipped to the United States, Chinese farmers use efficient methods, bat face superstitions and logistical challenges. The article notes walnuts, after introduction by American missionaries, support hundreds of Chinese villages and are valued for confectionery and fuel uses.
New York December 22 Prices fell on the stock market with new lows as heavy selling and a $100,000,000 reduction in bills discounted were reported by the Federal Reserve. The reserve ratio rose to 45.6 percent, the year's high, suggesting the banking situation is improving and liquidation is spreading to bank loans. Atlantic barber shops will close Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, staying open until 8 p.m. on prior evenings.
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss quick cold remedies and warnings against snow. The garbled lines mention curing a cold, avoiding snow, and unclear tips possibly referencing a TM product. No identifiable persons or organizations are present.
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