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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1925
Page
6
A Scotchman who came to the United States in 1865 and was a fighter for citizenship learned he was not a citizen when appearing in court for assisting another man to obtain naturalization papers. He pursued his own naturalization and won, gaining American citizenship.
Transfer of traction properties totaling 10 million dollars from the Oskaloosa Traction and Light Company the Oskaloosa Light and Fuel Company and the Oskaloosa and Buxi Railway Company to the Des Moines Electric Light Company was recorded by county auditor Dave B Hawkins. Seven documents worth nearly 40 000 words were written at a recording cost of 39 60. The change signals consolidation trends as stamps show a 30500 in Revenge stamps. See Hansen and Lowe for coal.
A new nationwide craze replaces crosswords with number grids. Groups of digits combine to sum 18 horizontally or vertically as in a clueless puzzle. The form mirrors cross words with squares and rearranged digits to fit lines, creating a fresh brain teaser.
Fragmentary OCR note references Seo Hensen and Lowe and a wood related legal matter. It hints at service or availability and a law context but lacks clear event details. No concrete names, dates, or places are extractable beyond the two firms and a general legal phrasing.
Funeral services for Dr J Nichols pioneer of the city and county who died in California were held today at the Congregational church with Rev E S Hill officiating. Interment followed at Atlantic cemetery. Also notes on fair grounds funding and war decorations. Multiple local items include deaths and local events.
Readable text lists auction dates and sellers including Chas Hully Ray Grant Braden Mic Kloppenburg Dale Smith Thoos Anderson Ed A Bourek Wi Alex Forsyth Hehelman Bros Henry Rabe and Reinig Jones with multiple February entries. The fragment implies a clerical schedule of sales rather than a narrative.
Iowa reports 81 900 pupils in consolidated schools across 90 counties with 388 schools offering four year high school programs. In spring 1923, 2 432 graduates from the senior high course moved on to colleges 1 033 to college 874 to farms and 825 to other work.
Des Moines reports an improvement in Iowa teacher qualifications from 1922 23 to 1923 24. First grade county certificates rose from 5 154 holders to 76 898 while second and third grade certificates declined, indicating higher standards for first grade certification among teachers.
Waterloo Iowa January 28 Farmers from surrounding counties will attend the annual Waterloo Congress to be held February 25 26 27 and 28. The event offers $1000 in cash prizes for exhibits and displays.
Wormacists claim Joint-Ease succeeds where other remedies fail for painful inflamed rheumatic joints. It is described as clean and penetrating with quick results and costs sixty cents a tube at druggists everywhere. Joint-Edge is said to cut short joint agony.
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