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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1929
Page
2
A playful but flawed marketing blurb shows a window shade maker touting superior quality and value. The unconventional phrasing raises questions about clarity, branding, and consumer appeal while demonstrating the risks of offbeat slogans in advertising.
The Faithful 4 H Workers of Union township met at Rosemary Sheawer's home Saturday afternoon with six members and two visitors. The club plans a pantry sale at Behrend & Pinned store in Cumberland all day Saturday and Danek. The date for the next meetup is undecided.
A German train disaster report notes fatalities among a group of airmen and several wounded as a smoke-filled wreck is described after a tense railway incident in wartime.
County officials approve a $1,500,000 road bond plan to fund state highway improvements across the county. Ballots will be distributed with a light vote forecast. past bonds have carried by large margins.
A Newton prominent citizen and former mayor died today at age unspecified after weeks since his two daughters returned from New York. The death came as physicians believed it could occur within hours. His son Maytag, a Newton resident, and friends noted the halted journey by air from Chicago due to weather. sisters completed the trip by rail. Hazella Wood, 54, long a high school teacher in Newton, also died today after prolonged illness.
A collage of notes reports Marvin Mether in Oregon pleaded guilty to narcotics charges. fined 810,000, jail ten months. Lightning injured teamsters near Bluffs. Rice blinded briefly, recovered to guide his team. Denison court upholds twenty eight year sentence. gambling devices seized and to be sold for public treasury.
A fragmentary report notes an honor student recognized in a ceremony. Names, dates, and places are unreadable, but the item indicates an achievement event with a school or local group presenting an award.
Readable fragments indicate a local sale action at Algnander's Lewgraph venue. The notice names a seller and a date, with limited context on items described as shales. Further details are obscured in the OCR, but the event involves a sale at a specific place and time.
Assena News reports on residents traveling for graduations with Mae Sipe Slocum, family visits in Omaha, and attendance at Iowa State Teachers College. It notes Oliver Wagner returning from Buena Vista, Lela South at Simpson College, Edwin Spicer at Simpson, Ed Hill and Ronald Hill’s Memorial Day trip, and family visits around Indianola and Waterloo. Also mentions Masons gathering in Atlantic for Brother John Durford’s funeral service.
Alumni of Wiota High School gathered Friday evening in the school building for a banquet in a hall decorated in school colors. Mrs. Clay Hent led devotions before a three course meal served by students. President Barnhalt gave a welcome address, Louise McGovern spoke for the class of 1929, and Alfred C. Wirehman selected the musical program. The event marked the first alumni banquet and a vote to hold it again next year.
Iowa patent list shows Cael and A O Wage of Worth county granted a motorized corn harvester patent. T J Cocks of Des Moines receives a related patent. Other Iowa grants include shaving soap dispenser turbine for tumblers and a fuel-rest for tumblers. Additional inventors from Council Bluffs and Des Moines receive automotive litter machines printer’s lamp and miner’s lamp holders.
A partial historical OCR line lists names such as Misa, Lesth, Stevensoy, and phrases like Duis and Dengares, suggesting a sequence or roster. The text is incomplete, offering few recoverable facts beyond the named individuals and stray terms.
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