14 Jul 1921
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1921
Page
1
The News Telegraph owners Chas F Chase E P Chase announce their departure and praise Mr Pierce, defending the paper’s service to Atlantic, Iowa. They urge critics to move on, affirming commitment to progress and community advocacy, despite detractors.
Atlantic subscribers who do not receive their evening papers may arrange delivery by calling before seven oclock. Call telephone Red 4032. This number is not the News Telegraph office.
The News-Telegraph will transfer to Dante M. Pierce on August 1 under a deal that dissolves News Publishing Company by September 1. Pierce, paying a price, plans to raise display ads from 20 to 25 cents an inch and preserve the paper’s live local coverage and community-focused policies. The paper will become Pierce’s sole property, with no ties to Pierre farm publications.
The Emblem of the National Association of Cleaners and Dyers is for members only and signals a modern cleaning plant. About 200000 cleaning operations exist in the United States, with roughly 50000 eligible for NJ ALG membership. Have your cleaning done by a Master Cleaner to ensure the proper method is used.
The speaker laments dreary attire forced by age and convention. He imagines bright colors and bold styles but worries peers would mock his gray head and baldness. His wife’s stern eyes reinforce restraint as society marks aging with somber dress and frugal living.
Richmond Ind July 14 What are the present activities of the Quakers has been asked recently. The Friends of America number about 115000 and are spread coast to coast. Atlantic coast yearly meetings include New England New York Philadelphia Baltimore and North Carolina. Pacific coast yearly meetings cover California and Oregon extending into Washington and Idaho. Inland states with strong Quaker presence include Chile Indiana Iowa and Kansas. American Quakerism has two capital cities the older more conservative one and the newer.
The American Friends' Service Committee operates from Philadelphia with a vast relief network. National Quaker bodies in Richmond coordinate peace efforts and foreign missions across Japan, India, Africa, and the Americas. Quakers support ten colleges and hold a summer Young Friends conference at Earlham College.
Vancouver news notes a postdecimation seal herd recovery with hopeful catches in Alaskan and British Columbian waters. Indians on Vancouver Island are expected to take 2,000 fur seals this year, pushing total catches near 100,000, up from 1,200 along Washington shores last year. The Alaska fur seal story follows the U.S. purchase of Alaska.
Damaged text notes pelagic sealing, indiscriminate slaughter, and waste leading to near disappearance of seals. It mentions illegal capture, industry decline, and limited recovery with a 125,000 estimate by 1911. Pups starved on shores as the herd fell, though seals later multiplied after closed seasons were set for protection.
The joint congressional commission on executive reorganization reportedly plans to recommend merging the war and navy departments into a single Department of National Defense. A House measure condemns the Columbia Sentinel editor’s residence at the Senate Office Building. Representative Green urged tariff revisions with emphasis on farm credit to avert market gluts. Maurice McAuliffe testified for Kansas Farmers' Union on farm conditions. Representative Strong proposed a federal rural credit system.
SAPULPA July 14 Lil Ladien Wright a judge arrested and released on 10000 bond amid bribery allegations tied to a decision in the Tommy Atkins oil land suit. Prosecutor Freeling says Wright took ten thousand dollars for a ruling affecting a 1900000 matter. Baseball notes list ABGs vs Noble at Atlantic Centre fair grounds with a Sunday schedule and a three o clock start.
President calls on Laddie Boy to sit, snaps fingers, and the dog obeys promptly. The moment prompts a light remark about attention to the Administration as visitors applaud.
Five young women form this year’s Atlantic hospital training school graduating class were guests at a seven o’clock dinner last evening at 1011 Chestnut street hosted by Mrs Mike R W Graham. The table featured pink and silver grey colors with a reflector centerpiece, pink flowers, and streamers. Attending were Misses Evaline Baier Florence Laure n Anna Gude Matilda Gunderson Emma Herman and Miss Ely assistant superintendent at the hospital.
Cumberland Iowa July 14 special report says J A Read his wife and daughter Jeanette leave for Fairbury Nebraska to visit Winland and relatives for several weeks. Read owns land near Fairbury and the trip is by automobile.
The eighth annual Congress of the International New Thought Alliance opens in Denver on Sunday with debates on mental causation and its many aspects. Delegates from England, Canada, Australia, and numerous points in the United States attend. The convention runs July 17 to July 24. On opening day three sessions include the president’s address by James A. Edgerton and a progress report.
In Belfast on July 14 an arson attempt targeted Mount Castle near Dundalk, an ancient fortified site linked to the legend of Cuchulainn the Hound. Archaeological Society members, visiting the ruins used as a museum, fled the blaze. military units were rumored to be deployed there soon, spurring the incident.
Earl Brattain, a farmer near Griswold Iowa, reports a wheat yield of forty four bushels to the acre from seventeen acres, indicating a strong harvest in the area.
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