23 Dec 1920
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
1
The Atlantic Iowa Telegraph announces its publishing schedule and office details. It lists advertising rates and subscription prices for carrier and mail options, including international rates. It notes Associated Press membership and rights for news dispatches.
Atlantic subscribers to the News Telegraph may arrange evening delivery by calling before seven o clock at telephone Red 403. This number is not the News Telegraph’s line.
Federal Judge Landis condemned President Wilson for commuting and pardoning Dorsey, a rich criminal who sold diseased cattle, prompting Landis to halt sentencing of others for lesser offenses. He argued executive leniency undermines courts and the rule of law during Christmas.
Fragmentary lines accuse Wil sons and Bakers of turning law into a farce while Palmers and pacificis are mocked. Socialists appear among half wits, with prayers that the agony will end and the situation improve.
A 1920 Atlantic News-Telegraph letter-styled piece rails at 18th Amendment enforcement and urges practical religion in daily life. It questions prohibition zeal, cites a California Florida contrast, and critiques political selections while endorsing European relief and farm aid through the Farm Bureau and cooperative finance.
Editor notes the drainage project to straighten the Botna River from Sarah to Atlantic. He explains the historical difficulties, citing 1879 county surveyor Samuel Harlan who reported an eight foot drop near a water power site and a dam built to test head pressure, highlighting engineering challenges and past findings.
The article argues for a farmers cooperative bank to cut loan rates, offer 6 percent loans, and provide fair profits to producers. It criticizes steel, farm machinery, and large packers for inflating prices and profits while calling for organized farmer action to secure a square deal and cost-based production returns.
A lyric reflection by George Matthew Adams on wasted youth and reckless living. The speaker laments health decline, lost strength, and the consequences of heedless choices as younger generations chase nightlife, urging them to walk a narrow path to avoid future regrets.
Several thousand fishermen have fled Newfoundland towns following a fishery collapse, leaving coastal communities depleted and economies strained. Authorities brace for continued migration as seas fail to yield expected catches.
The fishery along the island and Labrador coast yielded an estimated 1,800,000 quintals of 112 lb, up from 1,700,000 last year, while prices fell from 12 to 10 dollars per quintal for Newfoundland fish and from 10 to 8 for Labrador. Output declines across food oil, lobsters, and salmon, plus iron mine cutbacks, push emigration as pulp and paper mills reduce wood use, narrowing job absorption this winter.
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