29 Dec 1939
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1939
Page
1
A garbled Des Moines billing fragment lists circulation and rate figures. Names include Frank Nye Jr and Washington News Service representative Spenial News. The data shows multiple prices and numbers confusingly arranged, tied to the News Association in a Shope Building address.
The year begins with tax plans, Finland's debt appeal, and a mixed political budget mood. Readers encounter holiday reflections, a pioneer obituary, and notes on safety measures while weathering varied global tensions and local quirks.
Wash. by Drew Pearson and Robert Allen. Backstage whispers hint at a possible alliance to push a peace process with Soviet Russia, with Goering and others in Germany favoring a conference led by Roosevelt. Goering group hopes Britain Germany and Rome back a political religious peace drive against Soviet Russia, while Britain debates communism and peace with Hitler. Myron Taylor's Rome mission could shape the outcome.
A libel suit for 3500 dollars was filed in Cerro Gordo district court against Frank A Kehm Mason City real estate dealer. Alice Winter claims Kehm falsely accused her of taking Townsend club funds to finance a California Townsend convention and of organizing a Townsend club in Manley Iowa and misusing those funds.
A terse notice notes a spouse leaving home for days after a divorce hint in Arctic regions. The wife responds by departing as well, and the pair remain apart.
A holiday diary entry recalls a large party at home with Captain Kidd the dog greeting family and guests after a long trip. Notable attendees include Doctor Cyrus Wicker, Louis Levand, Count Gesta Morner, Geraldine Fitch, Jack Glenn, Althea, and many writers and editors from New York, Boston, and beyond. The gathering celebrates friendship, art, and Christmas cheer amid lively anecdotes of canine excitement and reunion.
A reader panel asks about primogeniture the Colombian president Sangre de Cristo range location Old Folks at Home composer Jean Bauer sports link how many girls in a gallon Roosevelt party Roman numeral 1989 birthright citizenship for a child with American mother alien father and Juneau capital of Alaska Territory.
Des Moines Iowa December 28. Leopold Stokowski will form an all American youth orchestra this winter through the NYA with 109 musicians to tour South and Central America. Auditions will be held via the 51 NYA state offices with regional contests likely in February and March.
Funeral services were arranged today for Monroe Johnson 78 a piano tuner who died of a fractured skull from a car accident near Mallard Iowa. His son’s car skidded on an icy pavement and overturned. Notary fee 38 cents at The News Telegraph.
A reader notes a historic misprint about an initial play being interesting and well received. The item comments on grammar mistakes and urges careful driving as a prudent precaution.
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