26 Jul 1947
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1947
Page
1
In 1863 the newspaper states changes to delivery by the office and carrier. It mentions notices about delivery alterations and contact for the delivery service.
The article argues that record national income and employment rise from wartime savings and backlog demand. It warns that continued prosperity depends on sustaining savings and foreign demand, noting Europe’s imports and potential import restraint. If home demand falters, prosperity may fade in two to three years.
The piece analyzes Czechoslovak attitudes toward being a Soviet satellite, detailing changes under nationalized industries and the workers' role in a “not unhappy family.” It notes limited enthusiasm for Russia, cites the memory of Western alliances, and argues such ties are accepted only when Western powers would not defend them against Moscow.
The piece notes ongoing calls for a special legislative session to extend Iowa income tax at 50 percent, despite lawmakers’ lukewarm reception. It criticizes rushed bills passing congress and warns of insufficient scrutiny. It also cites Atlantic city complaints about vacant houses downtown, street signs, and signage issues needing attention for residents and visitors.
A veteran observer judges the 80th Congress as dominated by lobbyists with little public gain. The piece outlines failures across housing, rent, real estate, monopoly curbs, education pay, flood control, and labor finance, while noting limited progress on mine safety and public records.
A poetic fragment portrays a fisher as a bishop and man on a line, bending rod and tautly swishing the hook, then notes the ice lice moment of explanation.
A fragment from Edgar A. Guest contemplates vacationers and the shacks they own or inhabit. The poem hints at leisure and retreat settings as a possible verse focal point.
A fragment mentions a Poe Siaces and a brother Arthur, all of Carson, in a family context.
Mrs. Walter Gourley reports to Deputy Zeph Morgan that 75 Rhode Island Reds at her farm were disturbed by a noise. She believed the sound to be caused by a rat, not a break in.
A jumble of reader letters and reminiscences recounting family names, locations, and events. References include Captain Dahn, Maryland cargoes, Iowa and Kansas correspondents, and praise for Charles Lindbergh. Editor Jay House and Richard L. Evans are noted along with humorous remarks on a Reid car dubbed the speed boat.
Griswold H Turner has leased three farms to new renters. Donald Ackerman moves from Turners near Millett to the farm north of Griswold on Highway 48, with Raymond Smith taking Ackerman's former spot. Vern on Rush purchases Albert Smith farm nearby as others relocate.
Farmers busy with late corn plowing haying small grain cutting and threshing. Local readers share fish tales from Spirit Lake and a bluegill catching stunt at a trap between a lake and stream. The column thanks contributors and promises to compile the best fish stories next year.
Elk Horn resident World War II veteran Elk Horn-George Sorensen was taken to the Des Moines Veterans hospital after a Friday fall at his farm home caused back injuries. He had undergone prior back operations earlier this year and was improving until the accident.
Pocahontas area reports an 18 year old Humboldt man, Looney, killed when a cream truck crushed him between the vehicle and the creamery building after a ventilator cover broke from a wheel, causing the truck to collapse the wall.
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