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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1922
Page
6
Mrs McAuley, appointed to complete her late husband’s term, faces raids and arrests with three male deputies. She rejects a permanent bid for re election, pledging presence at arrests and aiming to prove a woman can fill the sheriff role despite critics. The community watches as her office adapts to new duties.
Atlantic City officials report a Mohawk descendant, 42, known as Mrs. Doe, mother of 28 children, with a husband earning $15 weekly. The case recounts tribal marriage customs, repeated twin births, and multiple relocations as children were raised among Mohawks in Canada and Philadelphia connections.
A fragmentary report notes possible pirate activity near Mexico with ships reportedly boarded and valuables seized. Details are unclear due to damaged text, but authorities may be reviewing maritime security concerns and recent seaborne incidents.
Gene Cohn reports in San Francisco on Betty Ford a 10 year old prodigy who has not attended school yet reads 140 books and writes hundreds of poems. She names 12 birds, solves puzzles, types on a typewriter, and has an 18 000 word vocabulary. Professor Lewis Terman is studying her under a $20 000 Commonwealth Fund project.
Fragments show farm loan notes and equipment offers from Gal and Becus, Wood and Savery in Atlantic, Towa, plus references to New Century and P. & U. cultivators and DeLaval separators. Also mentions Hansen & Lowe and new ecards tally cards and nut cups.
A devotional verse pleads to the divine as Master of Fire Air Water and Ground. The speaker seeks blessing from God the Father for personal happiness and growth like flourishing trees. The invocation blends elements of nature with spiritual supplication.
A nervous man sought the governor, claiming to need protection from an imagined line of electricity from Canada. Mrs Blaise said such visitors are common at the state house, harmless, and depart after brief meetings.
Benjamin Franklin Leavitt sails from New York to search off Ireland for the Lusitania and Arabic treasure, aiming to salvage about 11 million dollars. His diving armor and equipment, prototype suit weight 850 pounds, include a 800 candlepower glass lamp and a 5000 foot depth limit. expedition costs run to 250000 dollars with stockholders backing the effort.
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