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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1928
Page
1
The Atlantic News-Telegraph lists evening publication by E P Chase and R C A Chase and outlines carrier, mail subscription options, with notices about delivery timing and a customer service phone number to call before 7 oclock for late papers. The notice clarifies this is not the paper’s own contact number.
John B Hammond, a Des Moines enforcement advocate and former New York Civic League agent, returns home after eight months in Washington. He defended the Walstead Act claim that prohibition worsened drinking by moving it into homes and urged tighter enforcement and a new bill by Rep W H Sprey to restore penalties for home liquor manufacture while warning the public against his view of increased drunkenness since Prohibition.
A Holmdel New Jersey telephone operator Mary Elizabeth Algoy aided a caller needing eye medicine by coordinating neighbors and callers to locate the correct address and relay urgent information. Her swift, resourceful actions saved time and potentially eyesight, earning a silver medal and 250 reward from the Bell Telephone Company.
The article analyzes ongoing and anticipated mergers in the U S auto sector including talks of a Jordan and Pierce Arrow consolidation and notes how General Motors success drives consolidation. It argues mergers could raise efficiency and lower production costs benefiting buyers while praising industry contributions to public welfare.
The Republican National Committee struggles with contested seats as Hoover forces and administration members align. Delegates from Texas and Tennessee boost commerce secretary Hoover, shaping the convention map and intensifying a possible nomination contest amid reports the party fractures locally.
A chorus of editorials argues that the 1930s party system fails farmers and others, calling for a new party if redress from dominant parties does not come. Editors note distrust of conventions and preference for decisive, reform-minded candidates.
In a Council Bluffs Nonpareil editorial the writer laments a strange agitation against Herbert Hoover centered on inland waterway development. The piece links New York opposition to Hoover with midwestern economic interests fearing canal and canal rail traffic shifts. It notes letters from Montana New York and Oklahoma and ponders organized influence behind anti-Hoover sentiment.
The piece notes anti Hooverites favor a candidate who will push river and shipping improvements for Chicago and the Missouri Mississippi rivers. It reports a Kansas City rally by about 300 supporters led by Mike fbitt of Ween and likens the scene to a mounted Don Quixote charging windmills as the parade begins.
Fragmented OCR of a Douglas Malloch poem. The readable parts mention a happy wife a waiting kiss a table round the board a son a girl like you and a life beyond wife and kid. It reflects longing for something more than material comfort and routine.
A poem by Walt Mason lampoons Bitter Springs health fads and waters that burn or sicken visitors. It recalls grim scenes of sick travelers and grieving families as investors push quota plans and keep wary watch over their “infirnal still” style cures.
Readable fragments describe a judge hearing a dispute over an animal shelter in Des Moines and ailing former agriculture secretary Edwin Meredith. The text blends health concerns with odd phrases, noting a protest against a dangerous local nuisance and unclear outcomes for Meredith's condition.
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