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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1941
Page
1
A fragment reflects on repeated invasions of China and argues that invading powers often vanish into Chinese society. It questions whether Japan can resist absorption and notes some Japanese leaders doubt their arrangement with conquest. The piece likens Japan to a man gripping a bear's tail.
The Iowa legislature studies farm tenancy issues as 56 000 families yearly are forced from farms onto relief rolls. The eviction links to urban unemployment, affecting both rural and city communities. The piece urges legislators to find a viable solution to aid dispossessed tenant farmers.
The author laments Greece's peril as Axis forces close in and promises from powerful allies fade. Britain remains the sole steadfast friend, but even its aid may fail to save Greece from a conquest likened to Rome’s ancient triumph, though without glory or honor.
The piece laments U S planes for England while neglecting American air power, notes 1940 naturalization revenue rises, and criticizes European diplomacy. It cites Turkey’s shifting promises to Greece and widespread pact violat ions as realists view pacts as lies.
In Washington the Dewey amendment to the lease-lend bill gains traction as opponents worry over British holdings in South America and a potential trigger for US intervention. The piece also highlights the migrant labor crisis in defense centers, with millions seeking work and towns facing severe housing and sanitation strains amid the defense buildup.
A reader asks ten questions covering literature sports coinage astronomy presidents and authors. Quoth the Raven completion bees sting breath golf term tarpaulin head covering for sailors weather reaction sun and moon gravity which presidents share surnames 1910 Dewey nomination state population and author of A Blot on the Scutcheon.
In a humorous verse Edgar A Guest ridicules loud gossips in Pullman cars who insist they know Henry Ford. The poem contrasts their loud certainty with the more subdued truth of events.
A brief guide highlights a frequent mistakes in instruction letters. It notes the phrase Do not write in a letter and shows the corrected form Enclose ten dollars with proper spacing and punctuation.
In 1901 Atlantic faced a smallpox epidemic with Mayor J A McWard and council clashing with doctors over inspection fees. Doctors charged 3 dollars per visit, whether cases were present, and were paid about 1000 dollars for services. Other towns paid more for fewer cases. Dr Egan treated 102 Atlantic cases. Plans moved forward for the Trilby Hotel and a new Beech building.
County Agent Lester Soukup organizes a Young Married Farm Group in Cass County to help young couples discuss farming. One couple from each township is invited to the meeting Wednesday in the courthouse assembly room. thirty-two members will form a nucleus for the March 20 big meeting with James C. Green of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation assisting.
In New York a photographer Maurice Constant, famed for portraits of Roosevelt and others, visits a desk and sets up his own kit with home studio gear. He discusses his path from retouching negatives to sketching notable figures while noting urban stress and a city noise study.
Voiced outrage at Judge Goldstein for appointing six lawyers at public expense to defend two murderers on Fifth Avenue. The piece contrasts this with a critique of public cost and notes the cooperative market's operations, governance, and benefits to sellers and the community. It praises cooperative success and civic self-reliance while stressing the need for responsible leadership.
In Bethesda near Washington, a unique group, born from Depression era hardship, formed the Montgomery County Farm Women’s Market Incorporated. From 1932 nine teen women started selling produce, grew to 60 sellers, then 42 active with 80 on a waiting list, moving into a permanent 45 by 105 foot building on Wisconsin Avenue with ample parking.
Mr and Mrs Lloyd Miller relocate from northwest of Marne to the Hare Ris farm on route 2 north of Atlantic. The Harrises retire and buy the Reese home on East Fifth Street in Atlantic.
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