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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1919
Page
2
The editorial voice urges strength for a righteous cause while preserving peace and cautioning against naive policy. It recalls lessons from history and war, endorsing a ready stance to protect the nation, and contrasts American resolve with British reactions to a recent transatlantic flight. It praises British sportsmanship and character.
M C A Secretary Par Bone spoke at the Presbyterian church urging disarmament and universal brotherly love. He claimed preparedness is useless and warned that such millennial thinking invites war, citing past German aggression and the Lusitania sinking as consequences of lax security.
The Red Oak electric plant fans critique of its parent company for serving too many towns, while Atlantic's municipally owned plant is praised for reliable, cheap service and profits funding city debt. The piece questions the old belief that saloons boost business, citing Atlantic as thriving after closure and noting cities like Omaha and Seattle advancing without liquor.
Nelson and McCaustland of Atlantic completed a major real estate deal by purchasing Hans Frederickson’s 400 acre Hamlin area farm for 300000. The property, near Hamlin, includes 21 buildings and a modern house, known as the Stanley homestead, with strong prospects for further growth.
London June 2 The NC-4 Atlantic crossing crew arrived at Paddington to a warm reception as American sailors carried Lt Cmdr Read aloft for a parade. Harry Hawker was among the first to greet Read, with British aviator Hawker and Mrs Hawker later cheered by the crowd.
Former president William Howard Taft traveled as a private citizen from Omaha to Des Moines, passing Atlantic last evening with little fanfare. He was at the station briefly amid a small crowd, accompanied by Harmilton Holt and other League to Enforce Peace advocates who spoke in Des Moines today.
An appeal to the supreme court has been filed by the plaintiff in the case of Dr. F Sisler vs A C Goch anour over the location of a line fence between properties in Benton township. Judge Rockwellow ruled for the defendant after evidence was heard.
Louis Lecocq, noted Des Moines former driver, died in the Indianapolis auto race last Saturday with his mechanic Bob Bandini after a fatal blaze. Howdy Wilcox, who had raced in Omaha years ago, reportedly attended the event. he won the 50 mile race in five hours and fifty five minutes. A cash guarantee with LUCKY TIGER, Leach's Barber Shop.
Samuel Bateman discovered J. Reade, a prominent retired citizen, bleeding in a haymow. He was rushed to Mercy hospital after attempting suicide by cutting the wrist and leg. Reade, about 66, faced marital trouble and separation.
A bronze table in the assembly room honors six Atlantic High School students who died in World War I: Cecil M. Conley, Fred D. Turner, James P. McCourt, Max L. Hubbell, Irwin O. McConnelee, Clyde J. Harris. Their loss is mirrored by 151 service stars on the school service flag. Read A. Hospe Co. ad.
Funeral services were held yesterday at 2 p.m. for Fred A. Lilienthal Sr a young farmer who died at his farm home near Larah after a week's pneumonia illness. The Rev A Dettmann conducted the services and burial was in Atlantic cemetery.
Five thousand Omahans gathered at the Auditorium in the afternoon to protest persecution of Jews in Poland Romania and Alicia. They received assurances from former President Taft and Senator Hitchcock that the peace treaty and the league of nations covenant would guarantee religious freedom worldwide.
A fire in the operator's cabinet sparked a panic at a moving picture house in Val sur Rhone. More than thirty people died and about one hundred were injured as four thousand spectators surged for the exits while children were trampled in the rush.
A heavy wet snow hit Denver on June 2 breaking the city’s June low temperature record at minus 82. Snow and rain spread across northern and eastern Colorado and Wyoming with killing frosts reported on the western slope near Grand Canatising and Santa Fe New Mexico. Rail lines including the Chicago Burlington Denver and Rio Grande and Union Pacific faced weather-related delays per Denver Union Station reports.
In Des Moines on June 2, William Howard Taft argued that the German peace treaty cannot be enforced without the League of Nations covenant machinery. About three hundred attendees from outside towns joined the Iowa convention of the League to Enforce Peace.
Winnipeg June 2 Hon Gideon Robertson dominion minister of labour said the promoters of the general strike in Winnipeg sit on the ashes of folly. He added sympathetic strikes must always fail and that the Winnipeg strike is the first rehearsal of the play written at Calgary where the big union movement was launched last March.
Weather forecast issued by the U S Weather Bureau for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri regions. Temperature expected below normal in the first half and near or normal in the second half of the week with generally fair conditions prevailing.
Rachel Dougherty transfers property to Solomon Corranaes in Griswold block 9, lot 26, area 9, valued at 660 dollars. Fred C. Saemisch and wife transfer to Rose Rhody a 60.60 feet of a 100 foot wide block 1 in the Ce Mv addition Atlantic Deep City.
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