29 Jul 1921
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1921
Page
1
Atlantic Iowa newspaper notices its publisher details, offices, and advertising rates, listing officers and directors including Chas F Chase and Lydia R Otto. It notes Associated Press membership and republication rights, with subscription prices by carrier and mail to U S and abroad.
Atlantic subscribers who miss evening papers can arrange home delivery by calling before seven. This notice reflects on the paper's change in management after eighteen years, noting the challenges and gratitude toward patrons while acknowledging the routine pressure of publishing a daily.
The piece lauds loyal readers and staff who sustained the News-Telegraph under old management. It argues critics failed to grasp the value of a strong newspaper, celebrates friendship and charity, and urges continued community support, wholesome youth pursuits, and Atlantic’s continued preeminence through shared enjoyments and business vitality.
Carl Wanderer gains another reprieve as Chicago hosts the Pageant of Progress opening tomorrow in Washington. The city, despite corruption, touts a spectacular growth, expecting two million visitors, while a street dance with Carson's band drew hundreds of youths with no breaches of peace.
In Walt Mason verse a jailed tough guy reappears quickly after sentencing, prompting anger at lenient justice. The poem mocks parole cycles as cops risk life pursuing a man who returns armed and undeterred, turning crime into a local carnival and eroding faith in punishment.
In Cincinnati on July 29, residents led by shoe maker Albert Krippendorf sought a temporary injunction against Holy Angels Church to stop its bells from ringing before dawn. The petition claimed the chimes disturbed sleep, prompting a church proposal to replace the bell with a quieter option, as locals visited a bell foundry to compare prototypes from mammoth to cow bells.
Col Simon Ross struck a 700 pound bell with a sledge hammer prompting a church dispute. Rev Father Eugene Davis noted the ceremonial value of bells. Foundry agreed to cast two or three lighter bells with copper alloy to dampen tone. Installation should take ten days while injunction stands.
President Harding will trigger the Pageant of Progress Exposition in Chicago from Washington at 10 am Chicago time. Nearly a thousand firms exhibit products from paper goods to automobiles, with an extensive automotive section and a fashion pageant in the pier’s auditorium. Mayor Thompson heads the event, naval militia will perform, and two million visitors are expected, aided by motor club tours and a Queen of the Pageant crown.
In northern Arizona Hopi will hold their snake dances next month in Walpi and Mishongnovi. Tourists flock yearly, but sculptor Emry Kopta argues the ceremony is an ancestral worship rite rather than a rain dance. He has lived in Walpi village for years.
Meet Me at the Big Brown Tent promises a wonderful program at Chautauqua with Warwick male quartet grand concert. Tom Corwine presents polyphonic artistry. Ken Hur singers perform new songs sketches and monologues. Charles L Picklin lectures Li Men of Tomorrow. Ron Hur entertainers recreate impressions and dramatic readings.
A local music series presents two quintets, the Girvie and Cirvin, performing a varied program of popular and refined works. Lectures by Richard V. Waghes on The Quest of Trappiness and Richard DB Mughes on As We See Europe and Europe Sees Us accompany the concert, with Eve.ng and Sasshe providing selections.
Afternoon features the Cieigs Licht Opera company with a select singer ensemble led by a renowned conductor. An evening pageant showcases a children's conservation revue, followed by a Gilbert and Sullivan operatic spectacle The Pirates of Penzance with elaborate costumes and cast.
The program features Liberati and the Seciral Power company with virtuoso cornet solos, sketches, and readings. M. AL Jackson lectures on Shamrocks and Treather, followed by another lecture on Squeaks. A grand concert highlights the cornet arch and a duo of merit among the entertainers.
In Atlantic Iowa August festivities the Hopi snake dance is described with August dates and rain rites. Dancers stamp a plank over a pit to signal the ceremony to the dead, with 8100 to 150 snakes needed. A tale of a Hopi youth who found a California maiden leads to expulsion and return, linking to rain and crops until the snake children reappear.
A writer extols Green Arrow Soap blending olive oil and naphtha, claiming it cleans fabrics, preserves clothes, and leaves no roughness or color loss. The letter contrasts it with water glass fillers and urges readers to try the new product, praising its whitening effect and gentleness on hands.
An eight page photogravure spreads Earl Caddock a champion wrestler with his wife and two children at home. The Des Moines Register promises an unusually interesting page in next Sunday’s edition. Order your copy today from your local carrier or dealer.
Dr. Earl C Montgomery announces his return to Atlantic after months of specialty work in eye ear nose and throat. Newly equipped offices in the Quansky building will open August 1, 2921. Dr H K Williams dentist located in Fulton Building Fifth and Chestnut Streets.
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