30 Jul 1920
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1920
Page
1
A fragment shows a 19th century newspaper masthead listing editors, managers, and directors. Subscription rates are given for mail and carrier delivery, with annual and six month options, plus international rates. The piece notes Associated Press membership and republication rights for dispatches.
Atlantic subscribers who do not get their papers in the evening may have some delivered if they call before seven o clock. Call telephone Red 403. This is not the number of the News Telegraph.
A compact note presents Walt Mason's verse collection titled Rippling Rhymes with a 4 percent figure noted, suggesting a price or discount context for readers familiar with period paratext.
A fragmented venting verse describes illness and death during the flu, imagining a man’s failing journey and debts haunting his widow. It portrays dire scenes of poverty as the widow scrubs and tows the burden of unpaid bills, with bleak humor about death’s impact on daily life.
Fragmentary verse sample appears with garbled phrases and stylized spelling. It invokes crossing Styx, financial fortunes, and claims copyright attribution to George Mathew Adtenis.
The column notes Professor Brinkerhoff moving to Extra with his family and Mr Gray, an engineer on a local drapeh project, falling ill with cholera morbus. Arch Coffman, a farmer near Avoca, shot John K Main in a dispute over discharge and heat in a hay field. Coffman jailed in Council Bluffs. Fifteen Years Ago Today July 30 1905 Sanday no paper.
A concise roll of dates with brief notes: 1818 Emily Bronte born. 1821 Queen Caroline ill at Drury Lane. 1860 Edward VII visits Halifax. 1870 Australia suspends concordat over papal infallibility. 1883 James Carey assassinated. 1883 Kagsala garrison surrenders. 1898 McKinley French envoy terms for peace with Spain. 1916 Northern Ontario forest fires claim 184 lives.
A stream of updates from Anita, Cumberland, and nearby areas covers family moves, marriages, illnesses, travels, and employment. Several residents plan trips east for work or health, including a grand son entering a Bell company role and others attending schools in Des Moines and Omaha. Local births, recoveries, and household improvements highlight community ties and upcoming events through late summer.
Town residents prepare for Saturday action to close out belongings as they plan a move to Fort Dodge. Griswold figures show John Milne and Joseph McGinnis head to Excelsior Springs Missouri seeking renewed health. H N Ballenger Griswold superintendent returns from Des Moines summer studies. Dr R B Chisholm Griswold heads to California to join family for September visit. Dr Wryatt oversees practice while Mrs H W Sunderman Griswold resident visits elsewhere.
Texas committee on classification approves a two year experiment at Amarillo to run three four month terms for a 12 month school year. Students select eight months of attendance with four months vacation and teaching staff reduced. Committee includes high school and college representatives and mandates nine month terms for first and second class high schools to retain affiliations.
F H Seeley a renowned rupture specialist from Chicago and Philadelphia will visit the Park Hotel in Atlantic Monday August 2. He promotes the Spermatic Shield claiming it seals rupture areas and contracts openings within 10 days in most cases, with awards in England and Spain and government inspection documents cited. All charity cases considered. demonstrations offered at no charge.
Garbled local notice items recount a long list of deceased or injured individuals and various personal events. The fragmentary text mentions Guthrie Geurerrybing, Selden, and Bereaved families, with reports of a man injured in a shower accident and a marriage sold stake, but details are unclear and names are misread.
Coal operators of the central field were summoned to Chicago on July 30 to discuss the situation and potential negotiations with United Mine Workers representatives. The call came from Thomas Brewster, chairman of the operators scale committee.
Fragmented notice mentions an office action linked to Z Pallender and unclear terms like hoDR and Uguat. The readable text is sparse and lacks concrete dates or jurisdictions. This brief record preserves the known names while noting the fragmentary nature of the source.
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