22 Dec 1939
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1939
Page
1
Iowa college officials plan to examine Tower high school graduates to determine best suited work and whether college training benefits them. They aim to cut college costs by screening students unlikely to profit, addressing waste in both public and private funding.
Town businessmen report stronger Christmas commerce and overall better business. They credit a good crop, recent soil conservation payments, an $80,000 Atlantic State Bank dividend, and a National Guard unit event as factors boosting income and sentiment.
A jittery London scene laments dull skies and uncertain times as global events unfold. The piece notes strained finances, political doubtfuls, and public concerns from dairy to defense, with references to money measures and media scrutiny amid wartime strain.
Washington reports accuse Representative Dies of attacking women by labeling consumer groups as communist. J B Matthews and George Sokolsky dinner ties to manufacturers are alleged to show bias. The piece also notes Santa letter aid and Prague alarm amid Czech unrest and political chatter on Roosevelt and Wallace.
A humorous verse urges readers to retreat from social clamor to a quiet forest lair to avoid harming others with a sour mood. The poet muses on pretension and the conflict between outward gentleness and inward savagery while noting the piece is a 1939 copyright work.
Carl Nelson, who has spent two weeks with relatives in Elk Horn Iowa, returned Thursday to his home in Canada after a family visit. The departure marks the end of a holiday stay with his parents and kin.
The advisory urges preparing in advance from this office to prevent supply exhaustion and cautions drivers to be careful on the road.
The narrator visits Greenville in a travelogue tone, meeting Ed Fleming a bricklayer known for integrity and eloquence. The piece highlights Fleming’s modest background, religious and Bible-influenced language, and friendly exchange with local editors and publishers.
The speaker notes a successful journey and personal acquaintance with a genuine American, praising his friendships, home, wife, and spirit. A salute is directed to Greenville, mentioning Ed Fleming the bricklayer as a local highlight.
A set of seven trivia prompts asks about continents Madeira river naval uses Scapa Flow ethnology questions naturalized citizenship for children of naturalized fathers queen of a country pronunciation allopathic largest US cemetery rods in a chain title for the wife of an earl and the capital of Ceylon.
Paris reports the French chamber of deputies approved aid to Finland by acclamation after a Daladier speech. The vote followed unanimous passage of an extraordinary war budget for early 1940 totaling 58 billion francs, with 900000 men recalled to munitions work until spring.
Col Charles A Lindbergh plans to devote energy to pursuits beyond aeronautics and not a political career, per assurances from his mother in law Senator Barbour of New Jersey. His resignation from the national advisory committee for aeronautics fueled speculation he may seek Barbour's Senate seat, with Barbour's term ending in 1941. Griswold reads: Dave ONeill of Mitchell South Dakota, winner of first in sheep shearing at the South Dakota contest and second in Chicago, is a well known local figure who has long worked as a shearer in the area.
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